Would you like to work with humans as social beings? Reflects you why we included in special social structures? Or what culture really is? And why we choose to express ourselves through such art, poetry, demonstrations, politics, power, TV in the community? Then Anthropology nearby to look at.

Anthropology is literally the science of mankind, from the very first tentative steps as cavemen to the advanced individuals we consider ourselves now. But the culture facilitate varnish stores we all at some identical behavioral traits as anthropology task to analyze and understand. Many of the values, actions, thoughts, attitudes and everything that makes us the unique individuals we consider ourselves as arise in the interaction between society and the individual. Your job as an anthropologist is to map these interactions in the light of the development of society and therefore you will be an expert in solving social issues such as integration and the like.

There are many documentaries interviewing anthropologists to figure out why we do what we do and where we come from.

It also frequently occurs that anthropologists will be brought in as experts to a discussion on the development of society or the backstory of why the Middle East conflict is still active.

Finally, you can consider anthropologists as a kind of future researchers will be able to point in the direction we are heading in our society.

You can choose the following programs:
Anthropology and Ethnography (optional) - Aarhus University
Anthropology - Aarhus University
Biological Anthropology (optional) - SDU Odense
Anthropology - University of Copenhagen

Job Opportunities

Teacher, researcher, development work, integration assistant, working with cultural projects, the dissemination of culture in the press and TV, assistant HRM functions.

Special admission requirements

Danish A, English B, History B or History of Ideas B or Contemporary History B.