• Anthropology teaches students to carefully examine our contemporary ways of life, as well as those of other societies and cultures, both past and present. Students will critically engage with concepts like race and ethnicity, social inequality and gender while exploring diverse topics including health and illness, death and mourning, media and culture, political transformations, belief systems, economic development, and climate change. 
  • Students will learn applied research, writing and analytical skills that prepare them well for both public and private sector careers, as well as those in applied and academic research fields. 
  • Students in the program will have opportunities to complete specialized fieldwork courses focusing on interviewing, ethnographic methodologies and archaeological excavation. 
  • Nipissing Anthropology students have had opportunities to present the results of their research at national and international conferences.