Master of Arts in Anthropology - Colorado State

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Masters

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Anthropology | International Relations | Sociology

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Social Sciences

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English

About Program

Program Overview

The Master's in Anthropology with an International Development Specialization explores how local communities navigate global influences. It investigates how cultural beliefs, social structures, and development processes impact human welfare. Students can choose from two program plans, both requiring a thesis or independent study and offering a range of courses in anthropology, social sciences, technical sciences, and area studies.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Master of Arts in Anthropology, International Development Specialization examines how local societies respond to global influences and the extent to which cultural meanings, beliefs, institutions, structures of inequality, and social relations between genders and among kin are changing as a result. This specialization also explores how economic and community development processes can improve basic aspects of human welfare.

Outline:

The program requires a minimum of 32 credits to complete. There are two program plans: Plan A and Plan B.

Plan A:

Core Courses:
ANTH 500 Development of Anthropological Theory (3 credits)
ANTH 679/IE 679 Applications of International Development (3 credits)
ANTH 699 Thesis (5 credits)
Methods:
Select a minimum of 3 credits from a departmentally approved list of methods courses with approval of the advisor and committee.
Technical Sciences:
Select a minimum of 9 credits from one of the following groups:
Group A.
Water Resources:
CIVE 544 Water Resources Planning and Management
CIVE 578 Infrastructure and Utility Management
CIVE 622 Risk Analysis of Water/Environmental Systems
SOC 639 Technology Assessment and Social Forecasting
WR 510 Watershed Management in Developing Countries
Group B. Environmental/Water Quality:
CIVE 438 Fundamentals of Environmental Engr
CIVE 539 Water and Wastewater Analysis
CIVE 547/STAT 547 Statistics for Environmental Monitoring
FW 544 Ecotoxicology
SOC 639 Technology Assessment and Social Forecasting
Group C. Agricultural Development:
ANEQ 448 Livestock Manure Management and Environment
AREC 415 International Agricultural Trade
AREC 572 Social Benefit Cost Analysis
AREC 660 Development of Rural Resource-Based Economies
AREC 678 Agricultural and Resource Policy
BSPM 462/BZ 462/MIP 462 Parasitology and Vector Biology
RS 471 Rangeland Planning and Grazing Management
RS 531 World Grassland Ecogeography
Group D. Appropriate Technology:
CM 666/PHIL 666 Science and Ethics
HIST 463 Science and Technology in Modern History
Group E. Natural Resource Management:
FW 576 Wildlife Policy, Administration, and Law
HORT 466/F 466 Urban and Community Forestry
NR 515 Natural Resources Policy and Biodiversity
GR 420 Spatial Analysis with GIS
GR 503/NR 503 Remote Sensing and Image Analysis
LAND 520 Geographic Information Systems
Social Sciences:
Select a minimum of 6 credits from one of the following groups:
Group A. Cultures, Institutions, and Globalization:
ANTH 413 Indigenous Peoples Today
ANTH 422/SOC 422 Comparative Legal Systems
ANTH 438 Approaches to Community-Based Development
ANTH 439 Community Mobilization
ANTH 447 Gender Equity in Development
ANTH 448 Development and Empowerment
ANTH 449 Community Development from the Ground Up
ANTH 505 Resilience, Well-Being, and Social Justice
ANTH 521 Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
ANTH 529 Anthropology and Sustainable Development
ANTH 532 The Culture of Disaster
ANTH 535 Globalization and Culture Change
ANTH 539 Anthropology of Modernity
ANTH 617 Place, Space and Adaptation
AREC 566/SOC 566 Contemporary Issues in Developing Countries
GR 320 Cultural Geography
HIST 350 United States Foreign Relations Since 1914
IE 450/SOWK 450 International Social Welfare and Development
IE 470 Women and Development
IE 472 Education for Global Peace
IE 550/PHIL 550 Ethics and International Development
JTC 412 International Mass Communication
POLS 431 International Law
POLS 433 International Organization
POLS 541 Political Economy of Change and Development
SOC 661 Gender and Global Society
SOC 666 Globalization and Socioeconomic Restructuring
SOC 669 Global Inequality and Change
SOWK 400 Generalist Practice-Communities
SOWK 631 Advanced Community Practice
Group B.
Credit, Economy, and Development:
ANTH 414/ETST 414 Development in Indian Country
ANTH 528 Economic Anthropology
ANTH 551 Historical Archaeology
ECON 440 Economics of International Trade and Policy
ECON 442 Economics of International Finance and Policy
ECON 460 Economic Development
ECON 515 Financial Institutions-Structure/Regulation
ECON 640 International Trade Theory
FIN 475 International Business Finance
MGT 475 International Business Management
SOC 663 Sociology of Sustainable Development
Group C. Health, Culture, and Development:
ANTH 423 Cultural Psychiatry
ANTH 472 Human Biology
ANTH 501 Psychiatric Anthropology Laboratory
ANTH 503 Cognitive Anthropology Field Methods
ANTH 506 Anthropology of Happiness and the Good Life
ANTH 520 Women, Health, and Culture
ANTH 532 The Culture of Disaster
ANTH 538 Food, Hunger, and Culture
ANTH 540 Medical Anthropology
ANTH 545 Global Mental Health--Theory and Method
ANTH 546 Culture, Mind, and Cognitive Science
ANTH 547 Mind, Medicine, and Culture
ANTH 570 Contemporary Issues-Biological Anthropology
ANTH 571 Anthropology and Global Health
ERHS 430 Human Disease and the Environment
FSHN 508 International Nutrition and World Hunger
FSHN 561 International Nutrition Studies
IE 471 Children and Youth in Global Context
IE 517/PSY 517 Perspectives in Global Health
Group D. Conservation and Resource Management:
ANTH 415 Indigenous Ecologies and the Modern World
ANTH 450 Hunter-Gatherer Ecology
ANTH 478/HIST 478 Heritage Resource Management
ANTH 515 Culture and Environment
ANTH 530 Human-Environment Interactions
ANTH 650/ESS 650 Edge Effects--Place, Embodiment, Environment
AREC 540/ECON 540 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
AREC 541/ECON 541 Environmental Economics
AREC 542 Applied Advanced Water Resource Economics
GR 548 Biogeography
NRRT 442 Tourism Planning
NRRT 470 Tourism Impacts
NRRT 550 Ecotourism
POLS 670 Politics of Environment and Sustainability
SOC 461 Water and Social Justice
Area Studies:
Select a minimum of 3 credits from the following:
ANTH 310 Peoples and Cultures of Africa
ANTH 312 Modern Indian Culture and Society
ANTH 314 Southeast Asian Cultures and Societies
ANTH 411 Indians of South America
ANTH 412 Indians of North America
ANTH 446 New Orleans and the Caribbean
ANTH 451 Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
HIST 414 Revolutions in Latin America
HIST 422 Modern Africa
HIST 423 South African History
HIST 530 Reading Seminar: Africa
HIST 531 Reading Seminar: Latin America
HIST 532 Reading Seminar: Middle East
HIST 533 Reading Seminar: East Asia
HIST 534 Reading Seminar: South Asia
L Any upper division (300- to 400-level) or graduate language course
PHIL 455 Islamic Philosophy
POLS 444 Comparative African Politics
POLS 445 Comparative Asian Politics
POLS 446 Politics of South America
POLS 447 Politics in Mexico, Central America, Caribbean

Plan B:

Core Courses:
ANTH 500 Development of Anthropological Theory (3 credits)
ANTH 679/IE 679 Applications of International Development (3 credits)
ANTH 695 Independent Study (1-2 credits)
Methods:
Select a minimum of 3 credits from a departmentally approved list of methods courses with approval of the advisor and committee.
Technical Sciences:
Select a minimum of 9 credits from one of the following groups:
Group A.
Water Resources:
CIVE 544 Water Resources Planning and Management
CIVE 578 Infrastructure and Utility Management
CIVE 622 Risk Analysis of Water/Environmental Systems
SOC 639 Technology Assessment and Social Forecasting
WR 510 Watershed Management in Developing Countries
Group B. Environmental/Water Quality:
CIVE 438 Fundamentals of Environmental Engr
CIVE 539 Water and Wastewater Analysis
CIVE 547/STAT 547 Statistics for Environmental Monitoring
FW 544 Ecotoxicology
SOC 639 Technology Assessment and Social Forecasting
Group C. Agricultural Development:
ANEQ 448 Livestock Manure Management and Environment
AREC 415 International Agricultural Trade
AREC 572 Social Benefit Cost Analysis
AREC 660 Development of Rural Resource-Based Economies
AREC 678 Agricultural and Resource Policy
BSPM 462/BZ 462/MIP 462 Parasitology and Vector Biology
RS 471 Rangeland Planning and Grazing Management
RS 531 World Grassland Ecogeography
Group D. Appropriate Technology:
CM 666/PHIL 666 Science and Ethics
HIST 463 Science and Technology in Modern History
Group E. Natural Resource Management:
FW 576 Wildlife Policy, Administration, and Law (3 credits)
HORT 466/F 466 Urban and Community Forestry (3 credits)
NR 515 Natural Resources Policy and Biodiversity (3 credits)
GR 420 Spatial Analysis with GIS
GR 503/NR 503 Remote Sensing and Image Analysis
LAND 520 Geographic Information Systems
Social Science:
Select a minimum of 9 credits from one of the following groups:
Group A. Cultures, Institutions, and Globalization:
ANTH 413 Indigenous Peoples Today
ANTH 422/SOC 422 Comparative Legal Systems
ANTH 438 Approaches to Community-Based Development
ANTH 439 Community Mobilization
ANTH 447 Gender Equity in Development
ANTH 448 Development and Empowerment
ANTH 449 Community Development from the Ground Up
ANTH 505 Resilience, Well-Being, and Social Justice
ANTH 521 Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
ANTH 529 Anthropology and Sustainable Development
ANTH 532 The Culture of Disaster
ANTH 535 Globalization and Culture Change
ANTH 539 Anthropology of Modernity
ANTH 617 Place, Space and Adaptation
AREC 566/SOC 566 Contemporary Issues in Developing Countries
GR 320 Cultural Geography
HIST 350 United States Foreign Relations Since 1914
IE 450/SOWK 450 International Social Welfare and Development
IE 470 Women and Development
IE 550/PHIL 550 Ethics and International Development
JTC 412 International Mass Communication
POLS 431 International Law
POLS 433 International Organization
POLS 541 Political Economy of Change and Development
SOC 661 Gender and Global Society
SOC 666 Globalization and Socioeconomic Restructuring
SOC 669 Global Inequality and Change
SOWK 400 Generalist Practice-Communities
SOWK 631 Advanced Community Practice
Group B.
Credit, Economy, and Development:
ANTH 414/ETST 414 Development in Indian Country
ANTH 528 Economic Anthropology
ANTH 551 Historical Archaeology
ECON 440 Economics of International Trade and Policy
ECON 442 Economics of International Finance and Policy
ECON 460 Economic Development
ECON 515 Financial Institutions-Structure/Regulation
ECON 640 International Trade Theory
FIN 475 International Business Finance
MGT 475 International Business Management
SOC 663 Sociology of Sustainable Development
Group C. Health, Culture, and Development:
ANTH 423 Cultural Psychiatry
ANTH 472 Human Biology
ANTH 501 Psychiatric Anthropology Laboratory
ANTH 503 Cognitive Anthropology Field Methods
ANTH 506 Anthropology of Happiness and the Good Life
ANTH 520 Women, Health, and Culture
ANTH 532 The Culture of Disaster
ANTH 538 Food, Hunger, and Culture
ANTH 540 Medical Anthropology
ANTH 545 Global Mental Health--Theory and Method
ANTH 546 Culture, Mind, and Cognitive Science
ANTH 547 Mind, Medicine, and Culture
ANTH 570 Contemporary Issues-Biological Anthropology
ANTH 571 Anthropology and Global Health
ERHS 430 Human Disease and the Environment
FSHN 508 International Nutrition and World Hunger
FSHN 561 International Nutrition Studies
IE 471 Children and Youth in Global Context
IE 517/PSY 517 Perspectives in Global Health
Group D. Conservation and Resource Management:
ANTH 415 Indigenous Ecologies and the Modern World
ANTH 450 Hunter-Gatherer Ecology
ANTH 478/HIST 478 Heritage Resource Management
ANTH 515 Culture and Environment
ANTH 530 Human-Environment Interactions
ANTH 650/ESS 650 Edge Effects--Place, Embodiment, Environment
AREC 540/ECON 540 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
AREC 541/ECON 541 Environmental Economics
AREC 542 Applied Advanced Water Resource Economics
GR 548 Biogeography
NRRT 442 Tourism Planning
NRRT 470 Tourism Impacts
NRRT 550 Ecotourism
POLS 670 Politics of Environment and Sustainability
SOC 461 Water and Social Justice
Area Studies:
Select a minimum of 6 credits from the following:
ANTH 310 Peoples and Cultures of Africa
ANTH 312 Modern Indian Culture and Society
ANTH 314 Southeast Asian Cultures and Societies
ANTH 411 Indians of South America
ANTH 412 Indians of North America
ANTH 446 New Orleans and the Caribbean
ANTH 451 Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
HIST 414 Revolutions in Latin America
HIST 422 Modern Africa
HIST 423 South African History
HIST 530 Reading Seminar: Africa
HIST 531 Reading Seminar: Latin America
HIST 532 Reading Seminar: Middle East
HIST 533 Reading Seminar: East Asia
HIST 534 Reading Seminar: South Asia
L Any upper division (300- to 400-level) language course
PHIL 455 Islamic Philosophy
POLS 444 Comparative African Politics
POLS 445 Comparative Asian Politics
POLS 446 Politics of South America
POLS 447 Politics in Mexico, Central America, Caribbean

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