The Department of Anthropology offers a master's degree in applied anthropology. While our main goal is to prepare students for employment outside academia, they will also be well qualified for transfer to a doctoral program.
Students will be prepared to apply anthropological knowledge in private and public sectors, foundations, and businesses in local, regional, and international areas. The central goal of UNT's Master in Applied Anthropology program is to provide graduates with the knowledge they will need to undertake informed and thoughtful action, whether as street-level practitioners, administrators, agency-based researchers, or program evaluators.
Marketable skills for this degree include interpersonal, cognitive, and applied skill areas, that are valued by employers, and are primary or complementary to the major. The marketable skills goal was designed to help students articulate their skills to employers. UNT's marketable skills were faculty-developed and approved by employers or discipline-specific agencies, e. While students are not required to choose a specific track in the graduate program, the department offers several areas of interest.
Please view our faculty directory for more information about individual faculty members. It includes the areas of organizational analysis and change, teams, user-centered design, marketing, communication in the workplace, human-computer interaction, consumer behavior, diversity and globalization.
We work with both the private sector and the not-for-profit sector. The Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex offers opportunities for partnerships with a wide variety of organizations. Topics covered include the situations of migrants and refugees, religions and cultures of immigrant groups, and experiences of migrants to the United States. Crossing Borders: Migration, Religion, Identities includes the situations of migrants and refugees, religions and cultures of immigrant groups, and experiences of migrants to the United States.
In this field, students have local access to the people and issues typical of a border state like Texas. Urban Anthropology focuses on social phenomena in cities with an emphasis on the relationship between spatial, cultural, and political-economic structures and the everyday life of people. It has applications in the areas of policy, planning, social and health services, education, labor and migration, technology, business, ecology and community relations.
You must submit two separate applications to be considered for the program. One to the graduate school and one to the department. You will be asked to provide:. Adequate subject preparation in anthropology is a requirement for application. If accepted into the program with fewer than 12 credit hours in the subject, you will need to take an online prerequisite leveling course.
If you are pursuing the M. Both degrees require the completion of:. The M. Specific course requirements and descriptions are available at the catalog. The department funds a number of scholarships and tuition waivers to help you pursue your master's degree. The graduate committee recommends nominees based on their first-year status and academic achievements. On-campus students must take at least 9 credit hours, while online students must take at least 6 credit hours.
Visit the anthropology website for more information about financial assistance. You can also visit the financial aid site for additional information. Jara Carrington , Lecturer; Ph. Adam Dunstan, Assistant Professor; Ph. Environmental anthropology; religion; sacred space; the social construction of nature; Navajo; ethnography.
Medical anthropology; refugee and immigrant health; international and public health; demographic impacts of culture change; disaster relief; violence; culture of sleep disorders; Africa. Start Your Application. Visit Program Website. Request More Information. Program Mission The world is an increasingly interconnected, complex, and challenging place.
Program Faculty Faculty engage in a variety of research. Career Options Due to the research-based, thesis-only structure of the graduate anthropology M. Application Process. Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Application Deadlines. Deadlines U. Application Deadline This program has a firm deadline. Funding Information For scholarship, fellowship or assistantship consideration, applications must be completed by the deadline above. Decision Timeline This program reviews applications on a firm basis.
Application Requirements The items required for admission consideration are listed below. Application completed online application Review important information about the online application. GRE Scores official GRE general test only required with competitive scores in the verbal reasoning and quantitative reasoning sections Review important information about official test scores. If applicable, include any crossover areas of research from the other anthropological concentrations.
Additional Information Areas of Research Archaeology : hunter-gatherers, complex societies, iconography, ceramic and lithic analysis, Native American ethnohistory, paleoenvironment, geoarchaeology, experimental archaeology, and cultural resource management Biological anthropology : modern human skeletal variation, bioarchaeology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology, primate behavioral ecology and conservation Cultural anthropology : medical anthropology, anthropological theory, political economy, globalization, race and gender, Latino culture, linguistics, phonetics, sociolinguistics.
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