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UCSD Anthropology
The Hadza of Tanzania are nomadic, moving every three months and constructing grass huts which can house up to five family members. Here, women and children share a mid-day meal of roasted tubers. (c) Alyssa N. Crittenden

Graduate Programs

Brief Overview

The Department of Anthropology offers doctoral training anthropology designed to provide the theoretical background and the methodological skills necessary for a career in professional research and teaching anthropology at the university level, and for the application of anthropological knowledge to contemporary problems.

There are slightly different course requirements for:

Despite the small variations in requirements, the only degree title is "Anthropology," and we assume all students will become familiar with a very wide range of anthropological issues and methods. Of course, any department has interests and strengths which are not captured in a list of its requirements. Prospective students are urged to review the page on our faculty and its research interests reached from the Faculty & Staff link. Titles of completed Ph.D. dissertations over the years are available on the Graduate Students & Alumni link. (Our biological and archaeological specializations are new, and not yet well reflected in that list.)