Anthropology is the study of human
nature and cultural diversity it's a
very broad subject that encompasses the
arts humanities social and Natural
Sciences
I chose anthropology because I was
interested in politics and history and
the arts and I couldn't pick one so I
felt it sort of all brought all those
together in a way when I was searching
for degrees I was looking for a subject
that had everything and all my interest
in it and one day I came across
anthropology it had everything I could
ever want we teach through lectures
seminars and one-to-one supervision but
above all a defining feature of our
degrees is a strong emphasis on
practical skills and fieldwork we cover
social evolutionary and applied
anthropology that means that you can
choose to specialise in say biological
or in social anthropology or you can
choose to do a broad degree when I came
to Durham I found that anthropology
indeed was everything I expected but
also more I found that it's did combine
the sciences and the humanities but it
introduced new skills to me which I
didn't realise were important and that I
would enjoy as well such as stats the
use the use of maths but also critical
thinking and but at a level which was
like unknown to me beforehand one of the
Department's many strengths is in
medical anthropology also known as
Health and Human Sciences this is a key
area for bringing together biological
and social anthropology
you get to work hands-on with fossil
casts of our ancestors and with real
human and primate skeletons
for primatology students it's important
to be able to watch these animals in
action
the centerpiece of your practical
training in anthropology will be going
on one of our field schools which
currently includes Sri Lanka South
Africa the Hebrides and Greece so last
summer I was able to go to the South
Africa field center as part of the field
course which was really amazing because
it kind of tied together social and
biological anthropology which was really
nice as well as kind of being more
immersed within your subject and doing
actual fieldwork
that other real-life researchers kind of conduct
as well our students are valued by
employers across the board because they
offer so many different skills and
perspectives now that I'm in my third
year I'm looking at prospective jobs so
I'm doing an internship with the civil
service over the summer I'm looking to
work in the third sector afterwards so I
planned on going on to further study and
doing a PGCE and I want to train to
become a primary school teacher I
completed a BA in anthropology in Durham
finishing in 2012 and I focused on
Social Anthropology I now work as a
professional photographer and filmmaker
and anthropology continues to inform my
practice to this day you can find more
information about our programmes and
contact details on our website we look
forward to hearing from you
