香港中文大学

The undergraduate programme focuses on social and cultural anthropology, and archaeology. Course content covers the principles and methodology of anthropology, ethnographic studies of China, Hong Kong and the world, and contemporary issues. In the first and second years, students acquire a general training in anthropology, and in the third and fourth years, their knowledge and fieldwork skills are consolidated by a large number of elective courses, enabling students to pursue their own interests within the discipline, as well as with their own final-year project, in which they work closely with a professor to undertake an ethnographic project of their own choosing.

Expected Learning Outcomes

By the end of their studies, students will have learned the essentials of anthropology, including ethnographic examinations of different societies, anthropology's various subfields, including archeology, and also anthropological theory and research methods. On this basis they will be able to conduct their own research projects that apply anthropological ideas to understand a broad range of sociocultural phenomena.

Through their training in anthropology, students will:

• understand the world's cultural diversity and human universals;
• know anthropology's subfields, and be able to think using their ideas;
• know and be able to think using data and methods from archaeology;
• comprehend and be able to apply different theories explaining sociocultural phenomena;
• be able to design and carry out different projects using anthropological tools and perspectives; and
• be able, using anthropological modes of understanding, to think critically and perceptively about one's society and the world.

JOB PROSPECTS

Anthropology explores different aspects of human beings with comparative and broad perspectives. Our students become adept at critical and independent thinking, and are particularly skilled at adapting to a variety of different occupational and cultural circumstances.

Our graduates work in different fields, including:

• cultural heritage studies and preservation, museum professionals
• education (in particular liberal studies), academic research
• civil service, NGOs
• media, publishing, printing
• corporate research, marketing, public relations
• cross-border trading, business management

Graduates' work destinations include the Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Institute of Future Cities (CUHK), Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research (CUHK), Ming Pao, Price Waterhouse, Swire, etc.

Many of our students also continue their study of anthropology, entering the postgraduate programme at CUHK or studying overseas at universities such as Oxford (Great Britain), Pittsburgh (USA), and Sophia (Japan). Former students tell us that what they learned from anthropology, beyond factual knowledge, was how to understand and interact effectively with people from a variety of different backgrounds.