Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Anthropology
Master of Arts in Anthropology
Degree Requirements
Students are not accepted for the M.A. in Anthropology alone, but the M.A. in Anthropology can be granted after two years of course work and satisfactory completion of the screening exams.
| required courses | units | |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH 501 | History and Foundations of Anthropology | 4 |
| ANTH 502 | Contemporary Theory in Anthropology | 4 |
| ANTH 503 | Regional Ethnography, or | |
| ANTH 506 | Primate Behavior and Sociobiology | 4 |
| ANTH 562 | The Practice of Ethnography (or another methods course approved by the supervisor for primatologists) | 4 |
| Four 4-unit graduate-level courses in anthropology | 16 | |
| 32 | ||
A screening examination must be taken before a student has completed more than 24 units of course work and should be submitted in the third year of residence. The exam consists of three written field statements, a working bibliography and an oral defense.