| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
The University of Manitoba's Master of Arts in Anthropology program provides research-focused training in socio-cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology. Students tailor their programs to their interests, working closely with faculty advisors. The program includes coursework, a mandatory professional development course, and a thesis requirement. Sample courses cover topics such as the anthropology of religion, ethnographic research methods, and human skeletal biology.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Anthropology department at the University of Manitoba offers a Master of Arts in Anthropology with a focus on research training and tailoring programs to the interests and strengths of individual students in close cooperation with faculty advisors for graduate studies.
Outline:
Content:
- Socio-cultural anthropology
- Biological anthropology
- Archaeology
Structure:
- Combination of coursework and a research component
- Minimum of 12 credit hours of coursework at the 7000 level
- Mandatory pass/fail ANTH 7000 Professional Development in Anthropology Course
- Acceptable thesis and successful thesis oral examination
Course Schedule:
- Sample courses include:
- Seminar in the Anthropology of Religion
- Seminar in Ethnography of Power Systems
- Scientific Methods and Applications in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology
- Ethnographic Research Methods
- Prehistoric Human Ecology
- Advanced Topics in Human Skeletal Biology
- Archaeological Theory
- Seminar in Human Adaptability
- Growth, Development & Plasticity in Human
- Cultural Resource Management
Individual Modules with Descriptions:
Socio-cultural Anthropology:
- Applied and public anthropology
- Anti-colonialism
- Conflict
- Environmental anthropology and political ecology
- Food
- Gender, development and wellbeing
- Global political economy
- Media
- Migration
- Race and ethnicity
- Relatedness
- Repatriation
- Sexuality
- Social movements
- Youth culture
Archaeology:
- Analytic methods
- Ceramics
- Domestication
- Environmental archaeology
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Historical archaeology
- Hunter/fisher/gatherers
- Settlement patterns
- Theory
- Zooarchaeology
Biological Anthropology:
- Bioarchaeology
- Colonialism and health
- Demography
- Dental anthropology
- Gender and health
- Growth and development
- Historical epidemiology
- Infectious disease
- Medical anthropology
- Palaeodemography
- Proteomics
- Palaeopathology
- Skeletal biology
- 3D imaging and microscopy
