Anthropology

Dartmouth Alums With This Major

• Director of Historic Preservation, Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
  (California, Dartmouth '87)
• Director Arctic Studies Center, Curator, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution
  (Washington DC, Dartmouth '64)
• M.D. Emergency Medicine
  (Albany, NY)
• VP & Executive Producer, Curious Pictures NY
  (New York, Dartmouth '74)
• Russian Area Specialist, Library of Congress
  (Washington DC, Dartmouth '67)
• Architect, Smith & Vansant Architects
  (New Hampshire, Dartmouth '81)
• Attorney, Gaims Weil West & Epstein LLP
  (California, Dartmouth '93)
• Director, Technology Program Mgmt, American Stock Exchange
  (New Jersey, Dartmouth '85)
• Professor of Anthropology, University of Georgia
  (Georgia, Dartmouth '61)
• Nonprofit Organization President, Northern Forest Center
  (New Hampshire, Dartmouth '79)

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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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