Anthropology

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Facilities for Graduate Work

Facilities available to graduate students in anthropology include the Center for American History, the Benson Latin American Collection, the Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, the Texas Memorial Museum, and the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory. The J. J. Pickle Research Campus and the Department of Anthropology offer facilities for research in antiquities conservation, radiocarbon dating, physical anthropology, archaeomagnetic research, and primate behavior (with several species of the Old World monkeys Cercopithecus). The department maintains research facilities in linguistic anthropology and archaeology.

Areas of Study

Graduate study in anthropology is offered in the areas of physical anthropology, archaeology, folklore, linguistic anthropology, and social anthropology, with emphasis on North, Central, and South America, Melanesia, South and Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on Graduate Studies Committees in the spring semester 1998-1999.

Claud Allen Bramblett
James Brow
Karl W. Butzer
James R. Denbow
Richard R. Flores
Robert A. Fernea
Douglas E. Foley
Maria Franklin
Edmund T. Gordon
Charles R. Hale
Thomas R. Hester
Deborah Kapchan
John Kappelman
Elizabeth L. Keating
Ward Keeler
Jose E. Limon
Martha Menchaca
James A. Neely
Deborah J. Overdorff
Henry A. Selby
Liza Shapiro
Joel Sherzer
Kathleen C. Stewart
Pauline Strong
Brian M. Stross
Melbourne Tapper
Silvia Tomaskova
Fred Valdez Jr.
Kamala Visweswaran
Sheila S. Walker
Samuel Wilson
Anthony C. Woodbury

Graduate Studies Committee in Folklore

Viet F. Erlmann
Richard F. Flores
Itzik N. Gottesman
Deborah Kapchan
Elizabeth L. Keating
Ward Keeler
Roger deV. Renwick
Joel Sherzer
Kathleen C. Stewart
Pauline Strong

Degree Requirements

Master of Arts

Students must complete either twenty-four semester hours of courses and seminars (including at least six hours outside anthropology) plus a thesis, or thirty semester hours of courses and seminars plus a report. Two courses are required from core courses representing the subfields of anthropology (archaeology, folklore, linguistics, social anthropology, and physical anthropology). Recommended minors include art history, botany, communication, comparative literature, computer sciences, economics, English, geography, geological sciences, government, history, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, statistics, zoology, Middle Eastern studies, Asian studies, Latin American studies, American studies, and ethnomusicology.

Doctor of Philosophy

A Master of Arts or an equivalent degree in anthropology or a closely related field is required for admission to the doctoral program. Each student is expected to acquire basic competence in at least four of the five subfields listed above through the completion of core courses. Students with an extensive background in a subfield may petition the Graduate Studies Committee for exemption from core courses in that area. The student must also fulfill a foreign language requirement; information about this requirement is available from the graduate adviser. A comprehensive examination is given in two areas of specialization. The topics are selected by the student in consultation with an examination committee from a departmental list of acceptable topics. With the approval of his or her committee, the student may instead take a comprehensive examination in one specialization and write a detailed prospectus on his or her dissertation research. After completion of the comprehensive examination(s), the student files an application for candidacy and writes the dissertation.

For More Information

Campus address: E. P. Schoch Building (EPS) 1.130, phone (512) 471-4206, fax (512) 471-6535

Mailing address: Graduate Program, Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1086

URL: http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/anthro/

Anthropology courses: ANT

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