Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology

Applications for the doctoral program may be obtained from the Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0032.

Degree Requirements

Required courses		Units
ANTH 475	Ethnographic Film Analysis	4
ANTH 501	Ethnological Theory I	4
ANTH 502	Ethnological Theory II	4
ANTH 503	Regional Ethnography	4
ANTH 510	Urban Anthropology	4
ANTH 562	Ethnographic Methods	4
ANTH 790	Research	8
	(minimum eight units required)
ANTH 794ab	Doctoral Dissertation	2-2
LING 500	Structure of Language	3
LING 510	Social and Cognitive Foundations of Language	3

The student must complete an additional 18 units of approved elective courses at USC, at least six units of which are for graduate credit.

Foreign Language Requirement

A reading knowledge of a scholarly language (normally chosen from among Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish) is required before admission to candidacy. If some other field language is required for the dissertation research to be successfully completed (for example, Maya, Hebrew, Javanese, etc.), this will be communicated to the student upon submission of the field project required for admission to candidacy.

The admissions committee will consider applicants for the Ph.D. degree who have not completed the M.A. in anthropology at USC only upon submission of a project reflecting training and experience in ethnographic field work equivalent to that of a completed M.A. in anthropology at USC.

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