What is an Anthropology major expected to be good at?
Many of the skills developed by anthropology majors are similar to the skills developed by other liberal arts majors (reading, critical thinking, communication skills). In addition to these basic academic abilities, many anthropology classes require that you have a good memory for detail (for instance, in remembering the characteristics of the skeleton of a hominid ancestor in biological anthropology or the archaeological artifacts attributed to a particular past culture). Other skills may include preparation and analysis of skeletal material, analysis of uncommonly taught languages, the excavation of archaeological sites, and the conducting of interviews and the analysis of the subsequent field notes. Although it is good to learn as many specialized skills as possible, successful anthropology students must emphasize the following: Reading Anthropology classes are characterized by a rather large reading load. Students who learn to read quickly, and learn to identify the most important
