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Hmmm Crash Course Cultural Anthropology has a nice ring to it...

This series is going to make me want to study everything isn’t it?

As an anthropology major in college, this is really awesome to introduce new people to the field. Thank you crash course for this

this might of just decided my major. i’ve always been interested in studying people that’s why i’m a psychology major but i always felt like i didn’t just want to focus on the human mind. i love studying languages and cultures. i just didn’t know if there was a major like psychology that was a bit broader. i’m like freaking out this is EXACTLY what i needed right now i’ve been so stressed about this

I graduated with anthropology on "accident"; only because I failed to pass my pre-med program, was closing in on my 5th year at uni, and needed to declare a major. I was reluctant at first but it became the most eye-opening and life-changing experience in my life to date. It didn't lead me to a job directly out of uni (I'm now studying architecture, where anthropology can also apply itself to!) but it gave me a unique perspective on things that has never left me and is something I leverage in my conversations and interviews all the time. I wish more and more people would take a few courses. People laugh at humanities degrees in favor of STEM, but if they only could see value in it like I eventually did...

I'm a senior undergrad who is getting a double degree in anthropology with a concentration in archaeology and Landscape Analysis. While this video could've been so helpful almost four years ago, I am so glad that this new channel will help both me in grad school and the incoming undergrads. Thank you, Study Hall team, for making education more accessible to everyone.

As a high schooler who has been interested in anthropology for a few years now, this video was actually really informative despite the fact that I have already done a lot of research. Edit: The job titles were extremely helpful as my doubt with studying anthropology has always been "Well, what would I even be able to work as??"

Thank you so much for mentioning possible job names. So many job boards and labor statistics are organized by industry instead of by what academic field their work actually resembles. The way we have failed to create fair and formal on-ramps from college to work is frankly criminal and discriminatory. So thank you also for mentioning the secret importance of cultivating professor relationships for getting started in a field. Having someone else the employer trusts vouch for you is the invisible requirement for every job (indeed it's often the only actual requirement).

Anth majors: if you're able to do a special problems/independent study course in anthropology, I'd recommend it! It's a great way to get some research experience while exploring topics and communities that matter to you. I'm doing a special problems course right now about D&D- a lot of my fieldwork is playing sessions of D&D and transcribing recordings of them. I'm hoping to get an undergrad research fellowship to continue this work, as well as branching out into related studies of fictional ethnographies in D&D sourcebooks and the concept of "dwelling" in fictional worlds.

As a current junior undergrad who’s majoring in Anthropology, I was very pleased with this video! To be honest, contrary to popular belief, there are so many opportunities where an Anthropology degree can be applicable. I’m currently in an Anthropology of Digital Media class, and we are using both cultural and linguistic analytical skills to analyze social media phenomena. All of it is really cool and applicable to today’s trends. To those who may be even a bit interested in anthropology, I highly suggest taking at least one class. Thank you, Crash Course :)

I majored in anthropology in undergrad and now getting a masters in human computer interaction to become a UX researcher! Anthropologists have a place in tech too! And you’ll make great money. UX Research jobs are one of the few positions that will ask for anthropology majors in the job description.

I was an environmental anthropology major who now works in politics, and I really love this explanation! I knew that the skills I developed in anthro courses and grant funded research really contributed to my career, but I've never seen them so clearly defined!

I just got accepted to my dream college about a week ago for Anthropology with a minor in Art History! My dream is to become a museum curator (specifically at an art museum) and hearing about how truly versatile an Anthropology degree is is very encouraging! Good luck to everyone pursuing this amazing major you got this!

So many fellow Anthropology majors here! As a junior, I wish this was here when I was starting college, but I'm glad its here now :)

My favorite class as an undergrad was cultural anthropology. It’s ultimately what made me decide to be an anthro major. Years later, I’ve found I am most fulfilled working in nonprofit/political organizations. Love that anthro is featured here!

I'm getting a degree in anthropology, Spanish, and Museum Studies - I use the things I learn all the time in communicating on the museum floor, exhibit design, politics I'm interested in, activist nonprofit work, and even making new friends. I'm on medical leave now, but I LOVE what I do, and I can't wait to get back, wrap up my last year, volunteer at a few more museums, and continue my activism work. Always always always ask, when interviewing for colleges, HOW anthropology is taught at THAT particular institution, whether it's a museum leaning, ethnic studies leaning, feminist studies leaning, or archaeology leaning department and institution. where their focuses are will help you decide which institution you want to attend and why.

Senior Undergraduate with a focus in forensic Anthropology, this video is great for those entering the field and for future endeavors!

What a great summary! I love how you also go into other possible paths, including how some skills are transferable and cases where those can be applicable.

As an anthropology and history major this video was fantastic! Hopefully we can see more helpful content like this and inspire the next generation of anthropologist. Regardless, I'm glad I can share this with other interested students as finish up my senior year and head into grad school for historical archeology.

Finally! Hank mentioned these on a podcast a few weeks back, I’m glad they’re finally out!

I will be following this series! Thank you!

This video is absolutely fantastic! This is exactly the the of stuff I've been looking into to! I'm a senior in high school and I very confused about all of the different information thrown at me when researching about these kinds of majors and careers. I've been debating between majoring in history, anthropology, archaeology, etc to do this kind of stuff and this video was so so so good for compiling all of that information and giving a guide to further research. I love this series already and can't wait to see more!!!!!

I’m considering going into anthropology because of the introductory anthropology course I’m taking, so this video is incredibly helpful and exciting!

this is honestly so helpful. i have no idea what exactly i want to be, but i do know that anthropology as a course of study excites me when thinking about college. seeing a positive end to the potential for jobs is taking such a weight off my back. thank you! - a stressed (but excited) highschool senior

Graduated with my BA in Anthropology 6 years ago. Wish I had this back then, I was so lost. This is so so so needed for us. Thank you! (Currently work in insurance underwriting)

this is such a great series about back-to-back subjects I'm interested in majoring in, it's so good I can't decide again!

Hi Study Hall team, I love this Fast Guides series, and hope philosophy and classics will be covered too. I'm writing with a couple of suggestions. First, how about adding in descriptions some texts students could read? These texts could be a curated sample of classics in the field that are recommended in the best universities, that give students a taste of what it's like to read that discipline. Obviously this isn't always possible for engineering, for instance. But at least for the humanities and social science majors, pointing towards the big names recommended in uni would help. Also, just want to let you know that Khan Academy, my other favorite online learning creator besides Study Hall/Crash Course, has a course on college applications, and another on post-college job search. But your Fast Guides fills the void between the two, giving students the foundation to make an informed choice about their major. So how about featuring this series on their site with additional reading resources linked in the KA blurbs or even a short article? Please do see the potential this has for transforming our global education landscape. Crash Course videos have already been featured on KA before, especially in history and science. So this would be an amazing new step towards amplifying the value of Fast Guides. And finally: Can we get a sneak peek at what majors will be covered? And who'll host? I'm curious if you'll invite Crash Course hosts like Mike Rugnetta, John Green, Nicole Sweeney, Dr. Shini Somara, Phil Plait, Thomas Frank, Jay Smooth, and others. And of course I'd love to see Sal Khan talk about polymathic study across disciplines, or even with his study wisdom here too!

thank you so much as a junior who is really interested in anthropology this is amazing

I am deciding my major now and anthro is in my top 3 so I am super excited for this video!!!

As a current anthro MA student wow I wish I had had this when I was first in undergrad! Great job

I majored in anthropology and am now working as a field scientist doing archaeology. Hoping to go back to grad school one day! And thank you for this being one of your first uploads. Anthropology is so important and encompasses the entire human existence, but is often drowned out by traditional STEM majors.

I started a RU-vid channel a couple years ago to do things like this. I wound up shifting what the channel did, but I understand just how necessary this type of content is. There was a hole for content like this. This channel will do well.

Doc B! I love your series Otherwords! Being an anthro major is fantastic and deeply rewarding

This is great! I'm a 4th year in university now but I hope you make one for music majors (or arts majors in general) as it's was super difficult to find information about options for a creative field in the beginning without having many individual conversations with my professors.

I studied linguistic anthropology and found a meaningful career in the insurance industry

I'm a three-time college dropout and I'm about to go back and try anthropology! Thank you for this! I may use the degree to fuel my RU-vid content.

What a well made video. I hope you guys continue to do these other social sciences/ degrees like Philosophy or Sociology or even something like Human rights. Can’t wait to see how this channel develops b/c I’m still in the midst of switching my major and would love to see how I can explore my actions ! This channel couldn’t have come at a better time!!

It might not be possible at every university, but I did anthropology and primarily focused on primates and evolution! It went well with my wildlife major as that's my field, but also the non-animal parts of the major were super interesting and I really liked archaeology

oo i loved this. super informative! please do the philosophy major! ❤️

this is very cool, I went to a year of community college with focus in anthropology, and I had to stop because I have to work full time to afford a roof etc and it was affecting my grades... I really hope to go back but I have no idea how I'm going to manage it. when I do though, I think I want to go into studying how people interact with the natural world and restoration ecology, I guess connecting anthropology to ecology and climate change

the practice of the escalator exists in Toronto, and in Lisbon but oposite sides

I’m an archaeologist and i have my degree in anthropology and this video is awesome. While contract archaeology (CRM archaeology) in the US is pretty broken, (don’t expect to make any money and expect to do hard physical labor) i wouldn’t trade my experience in anthropology or archaeology for the world. My anthro friends working in archives and museums and inclusivity for businesses also really enjoy their careers, its a good major.

I think all the academic fields and all cultural institutions with core beliefs (I'm sure there's a better word for that) are really interesting to learn about

please do agriculture, I’ll be a freshman in college this year and have no idea what I want to do…this series is so awesome

Mashup disciplines can be fascinating. In college, I took some classes in the field of ethnomusicology that were among my favorites. The bad news: I studied with one excellent teacher who had higher degrees in both Music and Anthropology and still had to work a basic secretarial office job in addition to his position as an adjunct instructor in order to make ends meet. I have since met many other highly-educated people in a similar fix-forced to take on part time adjunct roles while working a second job to pay the rent. In spite of all that, I would warn incoming students not to do what I did: Chase the latest trending “hot major” into a degree that is a poor fit.

Someone with a marketing degree did a great job with this video

If you guys could make one on the Art History major I would be so happy. As a senior undergrad gaining a degree in Art History and a Public History concentration, I would love for people to be informed that it's not just writing papers about paintings (don't get me wrong, that's a good chunk of it XD). There are so many ways that you can go that aren't often spoken about (like criminal investigation on stolen works of art, conservation and even working in the art market to name a few) Most see the degree for either working in an art gallery or being a educator, or just being a downright useless degree. Similarly to other humanities like Anthro, it gets a bad reputation.

5:31 that's very important... I happened to me but I don't regret studying Anthropology

I didn't think I was going to like the cultural areas, as a bio-anth major. Loved it all. But my favorites were the Fossil Humans practicum and Human Osteology practicum at SFSU. Shout out Mark Griffin. I ended up teaching elementary school science. All my interests were mya, so not a lot of interesting work in the Americas.

Hey :) I love these videos! Can you guys make a video about gender studies/women’s studies?

I majored in Communication. I attended the #1 university for my major, but because of that my major was impacted and the university set up specific rules to try to limit the number of students in that major. This resulted in an extremely difficult entrance exam ( that had a 3% passing rate) that had to be passed in order to take upper level courses and claim the major. This test, along with some courses only offered once a year resulted in many students being stuck at university for years and not being able to graduate. The university finally fixed this after I attended for 7 yrs by opening up a new major option that was more generalized and didn't require passing that test - and 800 students switched over to it that yr, and they had the largest graduating class ever!

Oh wow it's the bombshell from otherwords!

I think you should clarify the salary information. It would be great to do what you love, but most recent grads will be worried about paying for student loans.

Adding yet another "green channel" to my subscription :) thanks for making this happen hank and complexly peeps!

Hi can you do biology and chemistry next?!

I'd love to study anthropology

Please do Linguistics

Dr. Brozovsky from PBS/Otherwords/Storied!

Would you be able to do International Business? That’s my major and I’m currently a junior, but it would’ve been great to have someone explain more about it to me!

Please make such kind of video for zoology.

please do architecture 😵‍💫

Please do a video on a political science major.

English major video PLSS!! Creative writing/ screen writing Major video!! Please make vids

A lot of us are waiting for CC Anthropology...

Can I have some tips on studying Anthropology? Does Active recall and Spaced Repetition work??

Guys can you do the next video about international Realtions

Cant release these fast enough 😪 I want to see biology and physics.

All my friends in college seemed to know exactly what they were doing and why. How did they get grants and scholarships, or how did they know how many credits they needed? I'm 32 and still don't know how they did that. How did my best friend know that he wanted to synthesize proteins for pharmaceuticals when I didn't even know that was a job that existed?

When are you going to upload a crash course on anthropology

Can you do one on engineering

How did you know I just switched my major to anthro?

can you do biomedical engineering please? :)

Can you please speed down a lil bit.😘

Will study hall do physics?

I like anth but job prospects dont seem good.

I am currently in high school and I've thought of getting a degree in biology but I am confused about my major between genetics,genetic engineering, biochemistry, biotechnology and molecular biology, so can you please help me with differences between them and other prospects like future career options and research opportunities etc.?

Can you please speed down a lil bit.

Engagement for our algorithm overlords.

Ok ok, so its probably alphabetical.... Cant wait till Physics!

Oh! too quickly Please calmly

Here I sacrifice a chicken to the algorithm gods. May they be pleased with this offering, and give many blessings upon this channel and its followers: 🔪🐔🙏😭 John: 🍕👨🏻

Do not study pilosophy.it is a bad idea, especially if you havASD or NLD.

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