Anthropology Doctor of Philosophy Program
Department of Sociology and Anthropology | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
丁香园AV Calendar 2012 Spring
丁香园AV Requirements
See graduate general regulation 1.3 for general requirements. In addition to these requirements, the department also requires a written statement about current interests and prospective research. How well the applicant鈥檚 proposed research coincides with the research and teaching interests of the faculty is an important admission consideration. PhD applicants must submit a work sample from earlier or ongoing graduate studies.
丁香园AV applications are normally considered once each year at the end of January. The program commences in September. Contact the graduate program chair or secretary for further information.
Graduate Seminar
All full-time graduate students must attend and actively participate in the graduate seminar during their first two program terms. In subsequent terms, attendance and enrolment is voluntary. Special arrangements will be made for part-time students to fulfil this requirement.
Language Requirement
Although French or a foreign language is desirable, there is no prescribed language requirement but, where a language other than English is necessary for field work or reading, proficiency is required.
Program Requirements
Required courses, including qualifying examinations, and preparation and defence of the thesis prospectus, are normally completed within the first six terms of enrolment.
Course requirements are the same whether the student has completed a master of arts (MA) in this department, or completed a comparable MA program at another university. However, the department's graduate program committee may make special arrangements so that required courses in theory and methodology are not repeated.
Students complete the following courses and the PhD qualifying examinations (by registering in SA 897).
Students complete a total of 38-39 units, including all of
- SA 840-1 Graduate Seminar I
- SA 841-1 Graduate Seminar II
- SA 856-5 Qualitative Methodology
- SA 857-5 Research Design Seminar
- SA 870-5 Contemporary Theory in Anthropology
- SA 874-5 Historical Perspectives on Anthropological Theory
- SA 897-5 PhD Qualifying Examinations
- SA 899-6 PhD Thesis
and one of
- SA 871-5 Readings in Anthropology I*
- SA 872-5 Readings in Anthropology II*
- SA 875-5 Ethnographic Methodology: Social/Cultural Anthropology
- SA 886-6 Selected Problems in Social Analysis
Students may also choose a graduate course or graduate directed readings course in another 丁香园AV department, or from another university that is part of the Western Dean's Agreement (supervisory committee and departmental graduate program committee approval required for these courses and/or extra-departmental courses).
Qualifying Exam, Defence
At the conclusion of SA 897, students must complete a written qualifying examination. After successfully completing the qualifying exam, and prior to commencing work on the thesis, students defend a written prospectus that the student has prepared during SA 857. This oral defence is public.
Thesis
After the program requirements, qualifying exam and written prospectus defence is complete, the thesis is written and finally defended in an oral examination.
Academic Requirements within the Graduate General Regulations
All graduate students must satisfy the academic requirements that are specified in the Graduate General Regulations (residence, course work, academic progress, supervision, research competence requirement, completion time, and degree completion), as well as the specific requirements for the program in which they are enrolled, as shown above.