Anthropology

Dartmouth Alums With This Major

• Business Analyst, Cargill, Inc. (commodity trading)
  (MN, Dartmouth '00)
• Health Scientist, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
  (Dartmouth '01)
• Military, Center for Nonproliferation Studies
  (Dartmouth '01)
• Policy Specialist, Vermont Medical Society
  (VT, Dartmouth '02)
• Managing Director, Repulse Bay Capital, LTD
  (MACAO, Dartmouth '03)
• Associate, World Resources Institute
  (DC, Dartmouth '03)
• Senior Marketing Research Analyst, A. C. Nielson Company
  (ENGLAND, Dartmouth '04)
• Media Buyer & Account Executive, Microsoft Corporation
  (CANADA, Dartmouth '04)
• Director of Sales, Hawaii 5-0
  (HI, Dartmouth '06)
• Senior Brand Planner, Arnold Worldwide
  (MA, Dartmouth '06)
• Rehabilitation Specialist, Center for Urban and Community Services
  (NY, Dartmouth '05)
• Cancer Researcher, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  (MA, Dartmouth '09)

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Major Description

The department offers students a four-field program of study: sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, and linguistic anthropology.

Skills Acquired

What is this?

• Critical and Analytical Thinking
• Written Communication
• Oral Communication
• Understanding culturally varied values, ethics, and practices
• Professional ethics and integrity
• Independence personal initiative and self management

Possible Career Paths

• Medicine
• Business
• Law
• Education
• Government
• Non-Governmental Organizations
• Museums
• Public Health
• Communications
• Archaeology

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