• Students desiring an interdisciplinary program may elect a minor or distributed minor, under Plan I or II, subject to the prior approval of an advisor in the appropriate area. A terminal master’s program in is also offered for students who want specific training in a particular concentration.
  • There are no general departmental technical skills or foreign language requirements for the M.A. or M.S. degrees. However, students intending to pursue doctoral research should attempt to obtain such skills, whenever possible, during their master’s program.
  • All students are required to complete a master’s examination. For students who do not intend to continue in anthropology beyond the master’s degree, the examination will focus on the content of their course work and its relations to anthropology as a whole. 
  • For students wishing to enter the doctoral program in anthropology, this examination will also serve as a Ph.D. qualifying exam; its form and content will depend upon the anthropological concentration (archaeology, evolutionary anthropology, ethnology/linguistic anthropology) appropriate to the student's research interests. Further details about the master’s examination can be obtained from the department office.