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Anthropology B.A.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to identify how we differ from and are similar to each other, non-human primates, and non-primates from biological, behavioral, and cultural perspectives.

2. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to describe the biogeographic and environmental contexts in which modern humans and our living (and fossil) primate relatives originated, adapted, evolved, and live today.

3. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to recognize how biology, cognition, society, and technology has changed and is changing over space and time in the human lineage.

4. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to explain interconnections between social and biological (including environmental) systems and processes in past and present times and describe how anthropologists evaluate these relationships.

5. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to describe primate (including humans; living and extinct) evolutionary relationships and their behavioral and anatomical connections with their environments.

6. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to apply anthropological method & theory to analyze and contextualize interactions between groups of people (past or present, on global or local scales).

7. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to identify connections that anthropologists make between their research and current environmental, economic, and social issues.

8. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to locate and assemble prior research on anthropological topics from different sources and evaluate accessed information for factual accuracy and relevance to evolutionary, historical, and contemporary anthropological issues.

9. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to describe methods that anthropologists use to acquire new data to analyze biological and social phenomena, and/or select data and methods appropriate to investigating a research question.

10. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to analyze data using quantitative and/or qualitative approaches to address specific anthropological questions, interpret analytical results, and apply them to larger issues.

11. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to discuss the ethical responsibilities of anthropologists to the human and nonhuman individuals and populations whose lives and material remains they document, as well as those who may be affected by research activities, findings, and their implications.

12. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to author a multi-page paper consistent with academic standards in Anthropology.

13. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to deliver an oral presentation consistent with academic standards in Anthropology.

CAREERS ANTHROPOLOGY B.A. GRADUATES PURSUE

  • Archaeological Field Specialist
  • Cultural ambassador
  • Cultural Resource Manager
  • Freelance Contributor
  • Market Research Analyst
  • Museum Administrator
  • Primatologist
  • Social worker
  • Teacher / Professor
  • Urban Planner

SUCCESS RATES

77.3%

6-year graduation rate

4.76

Avg. years to degree

MEDIAN EARNINGS

$68,922

10 years after graduation

$51,972

5 years after graduation

$26,582

1 year after graduation

PLACEMENT2 years after graduation

70.0%

Working in New York

37.0%

Continuing Education

Notes

Graduation rates: the percent of students entering in the selected major as first-time, full-time students in a fall term and graduating by August 31 six years later. Average of three most recent reporting years (2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24) Years to degree: the average number of years it takes a student to complete the selected major if they entered as a freshman. Average of the three most recent completion years (2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23) Earnings: the median annual earnings of graduates in the selected major based on the 4-digit CIP code at 1, 5 and 10 years after graduation. U.S. Census, Postsecondary Enrollment Outcomes Explorer. Degree completers from 2001-2018 in 2020 dollars.  Working in NY State: the percent of graduates working in New York State two years after graduation. SUNY Wages Dashboard, includes graduates from 2015-18.  Continuing education: the percent of students enrolled in a U.S. postsecondary institution, 2 years following graduation. National Student Clearinghouse, includes graduates from 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-2022)