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Departmental Distinctions
 Student research spans the globe. Students work with faculty to explore the complexity of the social world by studying initation rites in a Maasai village in Kenya. Yuan artists' negotiating the politics of traditional and modern discourse in China, a cultural history of Mongol ethnicity in the United States, or the challenges presented by transsexuals to an annual feminist gathering.
Earlham's SOAN program is centered on the individual student as a producer of ideas and knowledge. Faculty and students work in the classroom, and through research projects, internships and field experiences to develop the analytical and methodological skills to pose questions and seek explanations about social life. For analysis fo data and work with digital video, audio, and/or photographic projects, students use our state-of-the-art Ethnographic Research Lab.
 Earlham's SOAN graduates have one of the highest rates in the nation for completing a doctorate in these fields. Our alumni are also well prepared for a myriad of professions that depend on understanding how systems work, how individual differences and perspectives relate to grouped behavior, and how problems in organizations and society can be addressed. Our graduates know how to analyze situations and seek solutions. They concentrate in such fields as public policy, law, health care, information sciences, human services, teaching, higher education aduministration, technology industries, management, and international development and trade.
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