University of Otago Bachelor of Arts (BA) Majoring in Anthropology
University of Otago

University of Otago

Bachelor of Arts (BA) Majoring in Anthropology

Dunedin, New Zealand

BA

3 years

English

Full time

On-Campus

Key Summary

    About : The Bachelor of Arts (BA) Majoring in Anthropology offers an in-depth exploration of human societies, cultures, and their development over time. This program typically includes core coursework in cultural anthropology, archaeology, and ethnography, along with opportunities for fieldwork. Students gain critical thinking and analytical skills essential for understanding complex social dynamics.
    Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue various careers, including roles in research, education, social work, cultural resource management, and public policy. Opportunities exist in both public and private sectors, sustaining a diverse range of job options for those with an anthropology background.

Bachelor of Arts (BA) Majoring in Anthropology

The Bachelor of Arts (BA) is Otago's most flexible undergraduate degree Program, enabling students to study from a selection of more than 40 arts and social science subjects, as well as papers offered elsewhere in the University. Academic breadth is complemented by in-depth knowledge gained through majoring in one or two subjects with the option of minors in one or two others.

Students are taught by research-active scholars, are expected to undertake a diverse range of learning tasks and are challenged to develop their intellectual independence. Graduates of the Program are well-informed, versatile, independent thinkers with the information literacy, communication, research and interpersonal skills necessary for a career or further academic study. The completed BA is an possible qualification for the PGDipArts in the major subject of the degree.

Anthropology

Social Anthropology explores the cultural grounding of social life. By studying people who are 'not like us' – from whichever group of people it is that &'we' as researchers might belong – anthropologists learn about the surprising differences in everyday living around the world.

Otago offers a range of interesting and challenging study options within Social Anthropology. Visit our webpage to see our courses in Pacific cultures, friendship, reproduction and kinship, the anthropology of money, rites of passage, death studies, health studies, sex, cultural politics, religion and the supernatural, and anthropological technique and theory.

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