Universidad del Magdalena

1. To train anthropologists who, with a social and ethical sense, contribute to the social, cultural and sustainable development of the region and the country while, for their respect and appreciation of the regional and national identity processes, articulate the development of the community with the national projection and the different discourses of anthropology.
2. To provide students with a comprehensive understanding of society and culture, of ethnic, social, and cultural diversity, and the symbolic, political and economic processes of ancestral and contemporary communities, taking into account the contextual, historical and spatial approach of reality.
3. Train professionals able to solve anthropological and social problems, whether theoretical, methodological or applied to the social and community context.
4. Prepare leading anthropologists, entrepreneurs, responsible, critical, ethical, active members of the anthropological community.
5. To train anthropologists able to access more advanced levels of education in the area of ??social sciences and anthropology.

The anthropologist of the University of Magdalena may practice as:

1.  Cultural translator who provides advice to public and private entities.
2. Analyst of local contexts of long duration developing consultancy in works of analysis of cultural consumption, marketing, public policies, heritage.
3. Advisor to indigenous people, black communities and social movements participating as social and political auditor in social processes.
4. Social and cultural researcher and archaeologist in both NGOs and universities, research institutes and interdisciplinary teams for high social impact projects.

The anthropologists of the University of Magdalena during their formation develop skills and competences in knowing, knowing/doing, being/feeling, which allows them to:

• Apply the anthropological and methodological theories of the discipline in the universal, national and local context.
• Be competent in the handling of anthropological observation, reading and description of social facts and cultural behaviors while interpreting them in political and economic contexts and designing work methodologies and intercultural communication.
• Stand out by their critical sense, respect and appreciation of cultural and ethnic diversity independent of the social context in which they perform, while esteeming their cultural roots and can decentralize their own.