Bachelor of Advocacy and Public Engagement

Public Anthropology affirms the role of students and scholars as active citizens, community leaders, and partners in empowerment. This program encourages student activism by offering a critical, cross-cultural perspective on major public issues, and demonstrates how to effect change by drawing on political forces outside the discipline.

The certificate program 30 credits provides intensive training in the required skills of applied anthropology:

• the ethics of advocacy and advocacy-based research;
• formulating advocacy-based research questions;
• the ethnographic/qualitative field methods to investigate these issues;
• and the public engagement skills by which critical interventions on the basis of that research may be made.