Anthropology and Geography

An undergraduate degree in Anthropology and Geography can lead to many different career options. Graduates are immediately hirable in industries such as heritage tourism, Cultural Resource Management, GIS, environmental science, and museums. Locally, heritage tourism is growing rapidly, and visitors have opportunities to learn about cultures, history, archaeology, and landscapes, at places such as Brookgreen Gardens, historic Charleston, and the Gullah-Geechee Heritage Corridor. Practical skills such as GIS, landscape reconstruction, archaeological excavation, anthropological methods, and materials analysis, can provide a significant competitive advantage in finding lucrative employment after graduation. 

Recent graduates are working as archaeologists for Cultural Resource Management consulting firms, as museum specialists, and in education. Several of our alumni have gone on to graduate school, conducting research in Kenya, North Carolina, and Florida, and receiving master’s degrees from the University of North Carolina in Charlotte and the University of West Florida.  

Many of the career industries in Anthropology and Geography anticipate high growth within South Carolina and nationally. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Employment of anthropologists and archaeologists is expected to grow 19 percent from 2012 to 2022, faster than the average for all occupations.” Graduates able to combine complementary skills from both fields will be even more desirable, and earn more, by bringing a cultural perspective to geographic problems and physical geography skills to anthropology.

Anthropology and Geography, BA

• Anthropology Concentration
• Geography Concentration