Anthropology & Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary

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Anthropology Lecturer, Anthropology Professor, Archaeology Professor, Professor

What they do:
Teach courses in anthropology or archeology. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
On the job, you would:
  • Advise students on academic and vocational curricula, career issues, and laboratory and field research.
  • Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
  • Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as research methods, urban anthropology, and language and culture.

Knowledge

Math and Science

  • sociology and anthropology
  • geography

Arts and Humanities

  • history and archeology
  • English language

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Communications

  • multimedia

Skills

Basic Skills

  • talking to others
  • reading work related information

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Social

  • teaching people how to do something
  • understanding people's reactions

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • communicate by writing

Ideas and Logic

  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • order or arrange things

Memory

  • remember words, numbers, pictures, or steps

Attention

  • pay attention to something without being distracted

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Innovation
  • Social Orientation
  • Achievement Orientation
  • Intellectual Curiosity
  • Integrity
  • Dependability

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Geographic information system

  • ESRI ArcGIS software Hot Technology
  • Geographic information system GIS software

Word processing software

  • Google Docs Hot Technology
  • Microsoft Word Hot Technology

Computer based training software

  • Learning management system LMS In Demand
  • Sakai CLE

Education

Education: (rated 5 of 5)
doctoral degree or
master's degree
usually needed

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