For students not wishing to travel far for hands-on experience, Fort Lewis provides the perfect location for a variety of experiences. Nestled in the Four Corners region, Fort Lewis participates in yearly excavations as well as provides opportunities for sociocultural studies. Fort Lewis strives to maintain small class sizes that allow maximum professor student interaction. Each student is assigned an anthropology advisor who will assist them in their class choices as they work to achieve their academic and professional goals. Job Opportunities with a Degree in Anthropology Students who obtain a degree in Anthropology at Fort Lewis College are prepared to enter the work force in a plethora of professions in addition to the traditional anthropological career choices.
Many students elect to attend graduate school after completion of their bachelors.
Students from Fort Lewis find themselves attending Law School, Medical School, pursuing advanced degrees in forensics, business, psychology, music, art, or the hard sciences. Anthropology students entering the work force directly upon graduation can be found working for major corporations like IBM, GM, and Disney. Others work in the forest or park services, translator positions, travel services, public school systems, armed services and other government positions, become writers or become entrepreneurs. In short, people who have obtained anthropology degrees are found working in nearly every walk of life. Continuing anthropology training in graduate school opens careers in Linguistics, Sociocultural Anthropology, Corporate Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Archaeology, Primatology, Musicology, Forensics as well as many other fields.