Anthropology

The Anthropology program focuses on the systematic study of human beings, their antecedents and related primates, and their cultural behavior and institutions, in comparative perspective. Includes instruction in biological/physical anthropology, primatology, human paleontology and prehistoric archeology, hominid evolution, anthropological linguistics, ethnography, ethnology, ethnohistory, socio-cultural anthropology, psychological anthropology, research methods, and applications to areas such as medicine, forensic pathology, museum studies, and international affairs.

Please consult the UMW Undergraduate Catalog for specific and up-to-date major requirements.

Thinking About This Major?

The Center for Career & Professional Development has many tools and resources available to help you choose your major. Below are three of them:

Focus 2: A series of reliable, intuitive, career and education decision-making assessments to help students select a major, explore occupations, make informed career decisions, and take action in their career development.

Skills developed as an Anthropology major (via Focus2): Problem solving, science, teaching, writing and authoring

What Can I Do With This Major: Learn more about what you can do as an Anthropology major! Some areas of career options are education, museums and archives, government, non-profit, business.

Handshake: UMW’s online career management platform that includes the latest jobs from employers hiring at your school. You can search for organizations based on major, location, job type, and many other categories.

Anthropology – Current Job Opportunities

Note: Job & Internship opportunities are pulled from UMW’s online job and internship database, Handshake, and update every 12 hours. Log into your UMW Handshake account to find hundreds of other opportunities and events.

Marketing & Administrative Coordinator

Associate, Client Service, San Francisco, 2024

Associate, Client Service, New York, 2024

Associate, Client Service, US/Asia Transfer, Hindi Speaker, 2024

Associate, Client Service, Asia International Team, Hindi Speaker, 2024

Anthropology Graduate Data

Note: Undergraduate outcome data is collected by the UMW Career Center each year. The data is then broken down by major in order to determine how many graduates in each major are employed, attending graduate school, or pursuing a different path within 6 months of graduation.

• “knowledge rate” defines the percent of graduates for which the institution has reasonable and verifiable information concerning the graduates’ post-graduation career activities
  
• “career outcome rate”  is the number of graduates who have landed in any of the employment categories (full-time, part-time, internship) in addition to service, military, and continuing education divided by the total number of students for whom an outcome is known.

Anthropology Alumni (2018-2022)

Total graduates: 43
Knowledge Rate: 92%

Career Outcome Rate: 89%

• Employed Full-time: 41%
• Employed Part-time: 23%
• Grad School: 8%
• Volunteer or Service: 15%
• Seeking Employment: 8%
• Waiting on Grad School: 5%

Where do our alumni land?

 

 

 

 

Alumni Success Stories

UMW alumni are excited to help current students and other alumni succeed in their fields. Below are stories from alumni about their experiences at UMW and after.

Anthropology Alumni Bios: Visit the Anthropology Department’s Alumni Graduates Career page to read more about our successful alums in Anthropology!

Professional Associations