Careers in Anthropology: An Overview

 

Careers in Anthropology

A degree in Anthropology offers graduates wide scope in choosing a career. Below you will find some details about the kinds of career choices available to students in the different sub-fields of Anthropology. Talk to your Professors, who will be happy to explore these and other options available to you.

 

Sociocultural and Medical | Archaeology | Biological Anthropology | Linguistics

 

Careers in Sociocultural and Medical Anthropology

In Education
• teaching
• curriculum design and planning
• multiculturalism heritage curricular materials
• museum exhibitions & educational programs

In Health Care
• UNICEF
• disease control
• delivery of health knowledge
• rapid assessment of disease outbreaks
• disaster planning and intervention
• cross-cultural health research
• cultural sensitivity training and research in health care

In Development
• globalization issues
• environments issues
• NGOs, UN agencies

In Government
• foreign affairs (e.g. Foreign Service Officer)
• justice (e.g. expert witness)
• immigration
• First Nations affairs
• multiculturalism heritage policies
• social services
• CIDA and other foreign aid

In Business
• technical writing
• journalism (e.g. reporting, writing, editing)
• advertising (e.g. copywriting)
• publishing (e.g. copyediting)
• market research (e.g. international markets)
• human relations
• intercultural communications expert

In Academia
• anthropology
• cultural geography
• cultural studies
• health sciences
• social work

Sociocultural and Medical | Archaeology | Biological Anthropology | Linguistics

 

Careers in Archaeology

In Museums
• administration
• exhibition curation
• collection management
• artifact conservation
• archive management

In Government
• cultural resource management
• historic resource planning
• multiculturalism & heritage issues
• First Nation Affairs
• environmental impact assessment
• federal land management

In Business
• cultural resource management
• consulting
• public/salvage archaeology
    - for engineering firms
    - for environmental resource assessment firms
    - for cultural resource assessment firms
• journalism (e.g. reporting, writing, editing)
• technical writing

In Academia
• anthropology
• classical archaeology
• historical archaeology
• human geography

Sociocultural and Medical | Archaeology | Biological Anthropology | Linguistics

 

Careers in Biological or Physical Anthropology

In culture history museums
• outreach & educational programs
• exhibition curation
• collections management

In zoological gardens
• primate care and management
• primate conservation

In the public sector
• First Nation affairs
• policy making in the area of environmental
impact (re: primates)
• forensics – medico-legal investigations
- human rights investigations
• cultural resources management

In industry
• applied anthropometry
• human engineering
• biomechanics
• ergonomics
• scientific writing

In health related fields
• epidemiology
• human adaptation
• history of disease
• nutrition
• genetics counseling

In academia (research & teaching)
• anthropology (biological anthropology)
• Bioarchaeology
• evolutionary anthropology/human paleontology
• forensic anthropology
• kinesiology – biomechanics
• gross anatomy

Sociocultural and Medical | Archaeology | Biological Anthropology | Linguistics

 

Careers in Linguistics

In Education
• teaching, languages, tesol, literacy
• curriculum design and planning
• language and literacy policies
• museum exhibitions & educational programs

In Health Sciences
• speech pathology
• audiology
• speech analysis / forensic linguistics

In Computational Linguistics
• speech recognition programming
• multilingual programming & translation
• corpus linguistics (e.g. concordancing programs)
• computer-assisted linguistic analysis

In Government
• foreign affairs
• justice (e.g. courtroom interpreting)
• immigration
• First Nations affairs

In Publishing
• translation
• technical writing
• lexicography

In Business
• technical writing
• toy industry
• literacy in the workplace
• advertising
• telephone companies (Bell Canada)

In Academia
• anthropology (anthropological linguistics)
• computer science (computational linguistics)
• language departments
    - French, German, etc. linguistics
    - English (Old English, Middle English)
• psychology (psycholinguistics)
• writing

Sociocultural and Medical | Archaeology | Biological Anthropology | Linguistics

Also from this web page:

Information and News for Undergraduate Students

Important Dates and Deadlines

The link above will take you to a detailed summary of key sessional dates and deadlines.

Undergraduate Timetable

This link will take you to a PDF version of the undergrad timetable for Fall/Winter 2006-07.

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