Careers

Develop Your Knowledge and Skills

At Laurier, develop these competencies through both curricular and co-curricular opportunities to help you achieve your goals for the future.

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrate a holistic understanding of societal and cultural processes.
• Situate past and present cultural issues both at the local and global levels.
• Identify, contrast and compare theoretical positions in anthropology, recognizing the provisional status of knowledge, and build connections between anthropological schools of thought and other disciplinary perspectives.
• Employ a cross-cultural approach to social, political, economic and religious issues and advocate for cultural diversity and indigenous knowledge.
• Identify and explain the role of power and social inequities in shaping people’s lives.
• Manage cross-cultural sensitivity in creating bridges between societies or different social groups who do not share similar worldviews, while being mindful of the limits of one’s agency.
• Identify, evaluate and employ appropriate qualitative research methodologies such as participant observation and in-depth open-ended interviews.
• Design, develop and undertake individual ethnographic research projects with human participants.
• Assess and implement ethical practices in human research and professional contexts.
• Discover how information is sourced, valued and used in creating new knowledge.

Collaboration & Teamwork 

• Demonstrate self-awareness and appropriate interpersonal skills in cross-cultural settings, in and out of anthropological research contexts.
• Work effectively as part of a team by identifying your role and contributing, leading, teaching, motivating and/or encouraging others for team success.
• Oversee, lead and/or contribute to a project including determining goals, planning details, making decisions and completing tasks.
• Demonstrate professional behaviour and an understanding of individual perspectives and diversity.

Communication

• Explain information, ideas and opinions effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Probe for information by asking questions and listening, and engage in constructive conversations.
• Prepare interesting and informative reports and presentations for diverse audiences using current technology.

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

• Demonstrate analytical and critical thinking skills in a range of social and cultural contexts.
• Assess, prioritize, and strategically apply anthropological skills and knowledge in diverse life situations.
• Set priorities, meet deadlines and manage time, data and resources.
• Make well-reasoned decisions, think creatively, identify and consider all sides of an issue.
• Analyze and evaluate data to discuss, support and/or question ideas, opinions, reports, theories and proposals.