AP/ANTH 4130 6.0 The Professional Anthropologist: Anthropologist as Practitioner 

“The Professional Anthropologist” is a placement/experiential education course designed to offer fourth year undergraduate students intensive engagement as an anthropologist in a practical working environment with an approved host organization. Students will engage in experiential learning via community-based research or research related activities, and will develop enhanced skills in the application of social research methods in a public, private, governmental, or non-governmental organization setting. Successful completion of this course includes the essential placement learning component along with a range of related seminar and assigned activities.

Prerequisites: Honours or Major student in Anthropology, completed (or in process of completing ANTH 3110: Research Methods, with permission) and permission of the course director.

In its first year, students in this course have pursued placements with:

TD bank – Design group
InWithForward – Qualitative research for social change
Idea Couture – a global strategic innovation and experience design firm
Partners in Health – An international NGO started by a medical anthropologist
PACT Urban Peace Program. 
Office of Ana Bailao, City of Toronto Councillor
Frontier College – Literacy/Numeracy support organization
Human Branding – an applied anthropology design company
Furniture Bank Etobicoke
Peel Family Services