Graduate programs
The Department’s graduate programs are intended for students thinking of a career in research, post-secondary teaching or fieldwork.
Our programs
Interdisciplinary program
Job outlook
In addition to teaching and research at the university level, anthropologists can aspire to a variety of other positions:
- Project officer (CLSC, community or governmental organization)
- Research officer (community, governmental or parapublic organization, governmental or institutional research centre)
- Co-ordinator with an activist organization
- Social project co-ordinator (community or humanitarian organization)
- Museum curator (head of collections and exhibitions)
- Recruitment co-ordinator (research centre, business, hospital)
- Community director (CLSC, community association)
- Front-line worker (social work, community association)
- Scientific research project assistant or co-ordinator (archaeological and paleontological digs)
- Interpretation planner (museum)
- Professional researcher (government or university research centre)
- Policy analyst (national or international political body - UN, NATO, etc.)
- Liaison officer (government or university research centre, CLSC)
- Project manager (written and electronic media for professional associations)
- Support network co-ordinator (community organization)
- Research and social and political intervention expert (NGO)
The humanist, versatile and multidisciplinary dimensions of anthropologists' intellectual training, combined with the scientific aspects of the discipline, make a good combination for working in a variety of sectors with a mixed clientele.
See the section on careers in anthropology for more information.
