Anthropology, M.A.

I. Contact Information

Geoffrey Smith, Ph.D.,Graduate Program Director
geoffreys@unr.edu
(775) 682-7687

Mailing Address:
Department of Anthropology
1664 N. Virginia Street, Mail Stop 0096
Reno, NV 89557-0096

Department Website:
www.unr.edu/anthropology

II. Brief Introduction

The Anthropology Department offers courses leading to the Master of Arts. The department also administers the Historic Preservation Program and participates in the Master of Science degree in Land Use Planning Policy , described in the College of Science section of this catalog.

III. Program Objectives/Student Learning Outcomes

1. Students should be able to discuss the concepts that allow the intellectual integration of four sub-fields together into anthropology; and each sub-field’s major contributions to the scientific and humanistic study of our own species.
2. Students should be successful in finding professional employment in their specialty; or alternatively students should be able to apply successfully to doctoral programs at any university in the U.S.A.
3. Students who graduate with an M.A. in Anthropology from UNR will have skills and experience in original research.

IV. Admission Requirements

Students pursuing the Masters of Arts degree must satisfy all graduate school requirements and specific departmental requirements. Master’s students are admitted to the program only in the fall semester. The department deadline for application is January 15^th.

V. Program Requirements

18 of the 31 required units must be a the 700 level. A thesis is required. Optional emphases for the thesis include: environmental archaeology, historical archaeology, cultural anthropology and ethno linguistics.

• ANTH 701 - Individual Reading (1 to 6 units)
• ANTH 702 - Graduate Research (1 to 6 units)
• ANTH 703 - Graduate Seminar in Cultural Anthropology (3 units)
• ANTH 704 - Graduate Seminar in Physical Anthropology (3 units)
• ANTH 705 - Graduate Seminar in Archaeology and Prehistory (3 units)
• ANTH 706 - Seminar Anthropological Problems (3 units)
• ANTH 708 - Advanced Seminar in Quaternary Studies (3 units)
• ANTH 709 - Graduate Seminar in Anthropological Linguistics (3 units)
• ANTH 723 - Lithic Technological Organization (3 units)
• ANTH 740 - Great Basin Prehistory and Paleoecology (3 units)
• ANTH 741 - Peopling of the Americas (3 units)
• ANTH 760 - Internship (3 units)

• One unit of comprehensive examination (ANTH 795 ) is required, but does not count towards the number of 700 level units needed.

VI. Total Units (31 units)

VII. Notes

A limited number of teaching and research assistantships are offered on a competitive basis.