2015-2016 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Department of Anthropology
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Effective January 1, 2016, the Department of Anthropology has moved from the College of Public Affairs and Community Service to the College of Arts and Sciences.
Main Office
Chilton Hall, Room 330
Mailing address:
1155 Union Circle #310409
Denton, TX 76203-5017
940-565-2290
Web site: anthropology.unt.edu
Lisa Henry, Chair
Faculty
The Department of Anthropology offers both on-campus and online graduate programs leading to the Master of Arts and the Master of Science, both with a major in applied anthropology.
In cooperation with the UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth, on-campus students may also earn a dual master’s degree in anthropology and public health.
The master’s degree in applied anthropology is grounded in the theory and methods of anthropology, and is designed primarily to prepare students for employment outside academia. Students will be prepared to apply anthropological knowledge in private and public sectors, foundations, and businesses in local, regional, and international areas. Knowledge is to be applied to our most compelling social problems and to the operation and administration of agencies charged with addressing these problems. The central goal of our program in applied anthropology is to provide the knowledge necessary for its graduates to undertake informed and thoughtful action as street-level practitioners, administrators, agency-based researchers and program evaluators.
Research
Faculty have expertise in migration, border studies, race and ethnicity, technology and cyberspace, organizational anthropology, globalization, marketing, consumer behavior, product design, medical anthropology, public health, sociocultural impact analysis, directed change and development, urban centers, sustainable communities, bilingual education, and ecological and environmental anthropology.
Recent research focuses on leadership and organizational culture in self-managed work teams, colonies on the border, Hispanic migrant women in North Texas, volunteer teaching of English in Hispanic communities, integration of Mexican migrants into public policy and urban planning, outreach and educational attainment of Latinos, bilingual education and identity, virtual communication and collaboration in the workplace, design anthropology, risk behavior and the spread of HIV, violence and refugees, culture change and the reconstruction of indigenous healing systems, the acculturation of allied health students to biomedicine, physician assistants and rural health care, the culture of sleep, quality of life with rheumatoid arthritis, conservation and environmental justice, sustainable development, food and culture, South Asian religions and ecology, and visual and media anthropology.
Funding
Each term/semester the department is able to provide a limited number of teaching assistant/grader positions for graduate students. If interested, the student should fill out an application and turn it in to the department before the beginning of the new term/semester.
The Department of Anthropology has a limited number of scholarships. The graduate committee will decide on scholarship nominees based on first year status and academic achievement; the faculty will then vote. On-campus students must take a minimum of 9 hours. Online students must take a minimum of 6 hours.
ProgramsMaster’s DegreeDual ProgramCoursesAnthropology
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