Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Admission and exit profile

Admission profile

The entry profile is the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the students entering the degree. Practicing Social and Cultural Anthropology involves maintaining ongoing personal relationships in different settings and at different levels, while also paying special attention to the cultural diversity characteristic of the discipline. Therefore, it is desirable to have the ability to socialize and interact with people, to work in teams, and to accept diversity.

This degree is recommended for individuals who are curious, open-minded, creative, and communicative, with a critical attitude and a motivation for social intervention, communication with people, and the observation of spaces and situations. It is also aimed at those who are particularly sensitive to social reality and have interests related to the field of anthropology. Specifically, those who show an interest in:

  • Social reality and the processes that occur within it.
  • Social and cultural diversity in its multiple political, economic, religious, legal, heritage, aesthetic, etc. expressions.
  • The phenomena of interculturality and multiculturalism inherent to contemporary societies (migration, urban, gender, labor, education, etc.), and the new situations of coexistence and/or conflict to which these phenomena give rise.
  • Achieve a critical, competent, and committed perspective on the new social realities of the present and future.

Although the regulations allow access to the qualification from any baccalaureate option and from a significant number of vocational training cycles, the knowledge acquired in the Bachelor of Social Sciences and Humanities They are the most appropriate for the subjects that will be studied in the degree, which will contribute to a better understanding and facilitate student progress.

Graduation profile

The graduate profile is the skills, knowledge, and abilities that students must have acquired upon completion of the degree. This information is collected in the graduate profile section. competencies/learning outcomes defined for the title.

Students who have successfully completed the Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology must have acquired the knowledge and skills necessary to carry out the basic professional profiles tailored to the unique discipline of Social and Cultural Anthropology, as indicated below:

Profile 1. Intercultural relations and cultural diversity

  • Intercultural mediation.
  • Intercultural relations and cultural diversity specialists. They participate in anti-racism awareness campaigns and directly intervene at the municipal level. They are experts in resolving problems arising from multiculturalism, racism, and religious conflicts.
  • Multicultural and intercultural education technicians. Intercultural relations and cultural diversity technicians.
  • Multicultural support for healthcare and social services personnel to achieve better care and adapt it to different cultural values. 

Profile 2. Ethnological heritage

  • Curators of ethnological heritage and museologists who are experts in ethnology.
  • Technicians of ethnological and social museums.
  • Development of museum projects, heritage management centers, and exhibitions.
  • Ethnological heritage technicians. Inventory documentation of ethnological heritage. Conservation actions.
  • Cultural tourism specialists. Tourism promotion, cultural tourism development plans based on ethnological cultural heritage.
  • Preparation of reports on cultural heritage and local and regional cultural policies.
  • Agents of local revitalization and development.
  • Local knowledge management: research on local issues as a catalyst for sociocultural revitalization. – Technicians in cultural services companies.
  • Cultural facilitators based on ethnological heritage (knowledge and organization of festivals, intangible cultural heritage, etc.). Sociocultural facilitators.

Profile 3. Territorial development and international cooperation

  • Agents and technicians in local development and social revitalization.
  • Local and territorial development advisors.
  • Development of local strategic plans.
  • Program management and activity scheduling.
  • Experts in local knowledge.
  • Preparation and development of local Agenda 21.
  • Analysis of social and cultural conditions for development.
  • International cooperation. Aid and development agencies. Intercultural mediators. Experts on indigenous societies. Development project evaluators.

Profile 4. Cultural promotion and management.

  • Technicians in cultural promotion and management.
  • Advice on cultural policy programs.
  • Training of sociocultural agents.
  • Cultural services.
  • Tourism promotion, cultural tourism development plans.

Profile 5. Consulting and social intervention

  • Collaboration in media and publishing.
  • Social and Cultural Anthropology provides a perspective and a set of tools for social analysis that can be applied to the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of public policies.