Anthropology, M.A.

Master of Arts

Of the 30 credits required for the degree, students working toward the M.A. degree are expected to complete 24 credits of graded coursework, including ANTH 7010 (History of Anthropological Theory I) and one course in each of two fields among archaeological, linguistic and socio-cultural anthropology.

Students are expected to demonstrate competency in a second language by providing evidence of satisfactory completion of two years of undergraduate coursework in that language, passing a test administered by the appropriate language department at the University of Virginia, or by presenting evidence of comparable proficiency to a person acknowledged by the department to be capable of evaluating competence in that language. Students whose first language is not English may use proficiency in English to satisfy this requirement. Students may obtain approval from their advisors and the Director of Graduate Studies to substitute statistics for their second language and pass an advanced graduate statistics course.

Students are expected to complete a comprehensive examination or one Critical Review Essay relevant to their academic interests.