Social Anthropology The University of the West Indies

Overview

Social Anthropology at The University of the West Indies is structured to allow interdisciplinary learning: students are encouraged to take classes from other Faculties as part of their Major.  

Even if you do not pursue anthropology as a career, it will add to your skill set and is well suited to a number of fields. Education, medicine, law, social work, international relations, psychology and forensics are other fields in which anthropological skills and approaches are useful. A Minor is also available in Social Anthropology.

Students at Social Anthropology at The University of the West Indies will:

• appreciate diversity, understand their and other cultures, and use the philosophy and research techniques of anthropology to help others.

• learn how in-depth knowledge of a people can be used to solve problems of concern to them and to wider society, and to do so without harming them or their way of life. 

• have research skills and abilities that appeal to a variety of potential employers, from the government sector to the (international) development sector to the corporate world.