Bachelor of Arts (Archaeology Extended) University of Southern Queensland

Overview

• The Bachelor of Arts (Archaeology Extended) program at the University of Southern Queensland include opportunities to practice key methods of ethnography, undertake specialised courses in religion, medical anthropology, and food and culture; and the opportunity to experience hands on and applied work in museum and heritage studies.  
• Archaeologists examine the physical evidence of human societies from across all ages - from hundreds of thousands of years ago, to very recent history. 
• Archaeology can shed light on some of the most intriguing issues regarding our human past; issues such as the colonisation of the New World, migration out of Africa, Old World globalisation and human-environment interaction.

Careers

• Graduates with an extended major in anthropology and archaeology will be equipped to work in a diverse range of workplaces.

• In Australia anthropologists commonly work with Aboriginal people with regard to native title claims, land and heritage management, and policy work.

• Anthropologists also work for governments and NGOs in social and cultural policy and planning, community development, overseas aid and development, health advocacy, and education; and in museums, cultural heritage and land management agencies. Archaeologists work as professional archaeological consultants, museum curators and educators, and in the conservation and heritage management sector.

• Potential employers are archaeological and heritage management consulting firms, museums, university archaeological departments, Indigenous land councils, heritage agencies, local government, and resource exploration companies, to name a few.

• Combining anthropology and archaeology will broaden you workplace opportunities.