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Anthropology
間眅埶AV Requirements
See 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’s 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.
間眅埶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
Orientation to university, professional development, and cohort building. Required course for the first year MA and PhD students in Sociology and Anthropology.
Presentations by faculty members, senior graduate students, and guest speakers. Required course for first year MA and PhD students in Sociology and Anthropology.
Examines contemporary approaches to qualitative methodology in Sociology and Anthropology including epistemological and ethical debates surrounding the practice of qualitative methodology in diverse contexts. Students will investigate qualitative research methods applicable to their graduate research projects. Required course for MA and PhD students in Sociology and Anthropology. Students from other departments and faculties may enrol with permission of instructor.
Guides students through the process of designing a prospectus for MA or PhD thesis research. Required course for MA and PhD students in Sociology and Anthropology. Students from other departments and faculties may enrol with permission of instructor. Offered each summer term. Prerequisite: SA 856 or permission of instructor.
Examines the dynamic relationship among conceptual aims, social relations in research, and the socio-political contexts of anthropological work through close study of selected works in anthropology since 1970. Required course for MA and PhD students in Anthropology. Students from other departments and faculties may enrol with permission of instructor. Offered each fall term.
Examines anthropology in its historical context. An examination of the political, cultural, and intellectual factors that shaped disciplinary discourse of a particular period, and continue to affect present practice. Emphasis may be on particular theorists, and/or particular schools of thought, and/or persistent guiding themes. The goal is to think about anthropology anthropologically, thus complementing the more contemporary focus of SA 870. Prerequisite: SA 870, or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
Course objective is to provide a framework and process for students and supervisors to work within to facilitate students' satisfactory preparation for qualifying examinations; and to complete qualifying examinations required for admission to doctoral candidate standing. Prerequisite: All PhD course requirements, with the exception of SA 857 must be completed before student may enrol in SA 897.
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In depth study of ethnographic methodology as practiced, theorized and debated by social and cultural anthropologists. Course will include anthropological analyses of multi- and interdisciplinary approaches to, and adaptations of, ethnographic methodology and methods. Elective course for MA and PhD students in Sociology and Anthropology. Students from other departments and faculties may enrol with permission of instructor. Course will be offered in response to student demand, dependent on availability of departmental resources.
Students may also choose a graduate course or graduate directed readings course in another 間眅埶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 (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.
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