Students excavating a site in Peru.
Recent graduates of our anthropology program have found work in a wide variety of occupations -- as educators, museum staff, integrative health center coordinators, and archaeological project directors. Some serve with the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, or Teach for America. Others pursue graduate degrees in fields such as anthropology (including archaeology), law, public health, ecology, and gerontology.
The best way to learn about anthropology and archaeology, of course, is to do them. Our program requires a one-course minimum fieldwork component, but many students do more than that. Guided by a faculty member, you might join an archaeological dig in Peru or work locally at a Native American site up the lake from campus. Or perhaps you'll study howler monkeys and ecology in Nicaragua, HIV/AIDS in Africa, or tourism and native revitalization in Hawaii.
Our program has its own fully-equipped archaeology lab. Faculty also assist students in finding research positions and internships in such places as nursing homes, health clinics, museums, organic farms, public schools, and nonprofit organizations such as Cultural Survival in Boston.