Courses

Introduces incoming first-year graduate students to the history and current state of scholarship in anthropology from across the subdisciplines, through introduction to the research of individual faculty in the department. Required of all incoming graduate students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Directed individual research based on a specific area of specialization. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

Same as ANTH 4930.

Investigates key problems facing museum institutions and studies the staging and representation of historical knowledge, the ethics of collecting and display, the changing nature and uses of historical evidence, and relations between curatorial practice, collecting, and field work. Critically examines different approaches to museums and museology in various disciplines, both past and present. Prereq., MUSM 5011 or instructor consent. Same as MUSM 6150, HIST 6150, and ARTH 6150. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Serves as an advanced introduction to the empirical and theoretical foundations of contemporary linguistic anthropology, with special emphasis on the ways in which culture and society emerge semiotically through language and discourse. Same as LING 6320. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Discusses current research and theoretical issues in the field of cultural anthropology. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Restricted to graduate students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Addresses current theoretical perspectives in cultural anthropology and controversies surrounding them. Discusses science, history, interpretation, and postmodernism. Includes the relationship between theory and method as well as the production of ethnography. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

In-depth discussion of selected topics in physical anthropology with emphasis on recent research. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Intensive examination of selected theoretical or methodological topics in archaeology. Topics vary with current research emphasis. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Considers archaeology of a specified area, either geographical or topical. Areas selected in accordance with current research interests. May be repeated upto 9 total credit hours.

May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

Explores how ethnographic writing has evolved over the past century to incorporate different forms of cross-cultural representation and to accommodate new theoretical paradigms. Includes ethnographic authority and reflexivity, as well as embedded theories and blurred genres of cultural research.

Research aimed at developing a solution to an originally conceived research problem. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

All doctoral students must register for no fewer than 30 hours of dissertation credit as part of the requirements for the degree. For a detailed discussion of doctoral dissertation credit, refer to the graduate school section.