Established in 1986, the Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) Undergraduate Program in Social Anthropology is a study program that focuses on applying classical and contemporary anthropological theories, concepts, and methods.
Students are taught to have sensitivity and willingness to overcome anthropological problems in society, such as poverty, climate change, social conflict, and marginalized communities, with the assistance of exceptional lecturers who are highly educated and nationally certified. Graduates can pursue careers as ethnographers with specifications as young researchers, consultants, community developers, entrepreneurial activists, and cultural bureaucrats or inspirers of cultural promotion.
History
Vision & Mission
Vision
To become a study program with academic excellence in knowledge of the Sumatran society's local and hybrid cultures that can compete globally in 2021.
Mission
- Developing education to produce scholars who understand and can use classical and contemporary anthropological ideas, concepts, and methods to analyze traditional/national and modern sociocultural phenomena.
- Producing scholars who excel, have critical insight, and have the ability to understand classical and contemporary anthropological theories, concepts, and methods.
- Producing scholars who can use anthropological theories, concepts, and methods that can be applied in examining the socio-cultural phenomena of ethnicity in Sumatra and Southeast Asia in the process of globalization.
- Producing scholars with a professional spirit and universal human values in analyzing power relations between socio-cultural groups in society.
- Producing graduates who can develop their creativity and expertise in assisting and empowering civil society and commodifying culture.
- Carry out research with an anthropological approach on traditional/national, transnational, and contemporary societies and cultures in the Sumatra and Southeast Asia region for academic and practical purposes.
- Producing research with an anthropological approach sensitive to ethnicity, religion, aesthetics, local wisdom, ecology, organizational culture, tourism, gender (women and children), health, education, economy, law, and politics.
- Produce written and multi-media documentary research on traditional and contemporary ethnic life in Sumatra and Southeast Asia.
- Produce ethnographic research on ethnic communities in the context of globalization in various fields of contemporary society.
- Produce research papers and theoretical, and conceptual thoughts in reputable national and international journals.
- Carrying out community service with an anthropological approach to form and strengthen civil society in Indonesia.
- Produce scholars who are sensitive and willing to address issues related to poverty, environmental degradation, social conflict, minorities, and marginalized communities.
- Producing scholars with the willingness and willingness to be involved in organizing actions and mentoring to empower civil society.
- Collaborate with the community and related agencies and institutions to maintain, preserve, and develop wise traditional cultural heritage, both in the ideational, activity, and artifact fields in the Sumatra and Southeast Asia regions.
- Increase lecturer publications in reputable national and international journals.
Goals & Targets
Goals
- Producing excellent scholars with critical insight and the ability to understand classical and contemporary anthropological theories, concepts, and methods.
- Producing scholars who can use anthropological theories, concepts, and methods that can be applied in examining the socio-cultural phenomena of ethnicity in Sumatra and Southeast Asia in globalization.
- Producing scholars with a professional spirit and universal human values in analyzing power relations between socio-cultural groups in society.
- Producing graduates who can develop their creativity and expertise in assisting and empowering civil society and commodifying culture.
- Producing research with an anthropological approach sensitive to ethnicity, religion, aesthetics, local wisdom, ecology, organizational culture, tourism, gender (women and children), health, education, economy, law, and politics.
- Produce written and multi-media documentary research on traditional and contemporary ethnic life in Sumatra and Southeast Asia.
- Produce ethnographic research on ethnic communities in the context of globalization in various fields of contemporary society.
- Produce research papers and theoretical and conceptual thoughts in reputable national and international journals.
- Producing scholars with the sensitivity and willingness to address problems regarding poverty, environmental damage, social conflict, minorities, and marginalized communities.
- Producing graduates with the willingness and willingness to be involved in organizing actions and mentoring to empower civil society.
- Cooperating with the community and related agencies and institutions to maintain, preserve, and develop wise traditional cultural heritage in imagination, activities, and artifacts in the Sumatra and Southeast Asia regions.
- Publish the research results conducted by lecturers of the Department of Anthropology and partners (both domestic and foreign) in the Etnovisi Journal.
- Increasing institutional cooperation of study programs in the field of education at the national and international levels
- Increasing institutional cooperation of study programs in the field of research at the national and international levels
- Increasing institutional cooperation of study programs in the field of community service at the national and international levels
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