2012-2013

Anthropology - Applied, Master of Arts

Department of Anthropology

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

This graduate program is a practitioner-oriented internship plan devoted to helping students enter the expanding job market in applied anthropology. This plan includes completion of an internship that involves, for example, research, intervention, management, teaching, and advocacy in service to groups and organizations. It culminates in the writing and successful defense of a thesis. This action-oriented plan prepares students for professional employment within their specialty area or continued opportunities at the Ph.D. level.

  • Available Emphasis Areas:
  • Archaeology - Emphasis (ending Summer 2015)
  • Sociocultural - Emphasis (ending Summer 2015)
  • Linguistics - Emphasis (ending Summer 2015)
This plan will not be available to new students after Summer 2020

  • To receive a master’s degree at Northern Arizona University, you must complete a planned group of courses from one or more subject areas, consisting of at least 30 units of graduate-level courses. Many master’s degree programs require more than 30 units.

    You must additionally complete:

    • All requirements for your specific academic plan(s). This may include a thesis.
    • All graduate work with a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0.
    • All work toward the master's degree must be completed within six consecutive years. The six years begins with the semester and year of admission to the program.

    Read the full policy here.

In addition to University Requirements:

  • Core Coursework (4 units)
  • Applied Emphasis Coursework (39-40 units)

Minimum Units for Completion 43 - 44
Additional Admission Requirements

Individual program admission requirements over and above admission to NAU are required.
Emphasis, Minor, or Certificate Required

An emphasis, minor, or certificate is required for this major.
Thesis Thesis is required.
Oral Defense Oral Defense is required.

Additional Admission Requirements

  • Individual program admission requirements over and above admission to NAU are required.

Master's Requirements
  • Take the following 43 - 44 units:

    Core Coursework (4 units) Applied Emphasis Coursework (39-40 units)
    • ANT 603, ANT 607, and ANT 609 (9 units)
    • Fieldwork/Internship: ANT 608 (3 units)
    • Thesis: ANT 699 (3 units) (Students will write and successfully defend an internship thesis in their final term.)
    • Complete a focus area, as further described below (24-25 units):
      • Applied Archaeology Focus (24 units)
        • ANT 524, ANT 635, ANT 636 (9 units)
        • One ANT course offered outside the subfield of archaeology (3 units)
        • Archaeological theme (12 units):
          • With the relevant course work selected from departmental offerings and appropriate-level courses outside the department, and with your advisor's guidance.
          • Suggested themes include cultural-resource management, quantitative methods and/or computer analysis, materials analysis, environmental studies, diet and subsistence, Quaternary sciences, public archaeology, historic archaeology, and ethnography.
      • Applied Sociocultural Anthropology Focus (25 units)
        • Methods: ANT 568, ANT 569 (6 units)
        • One Topics Course, approved by your advisor (3 units)
        • ANT 639, ANT 698 (4 units)
        • Related coursework approved by your advisor, of which up to 6 units may be outside anthropology (12 units)

  • Be aware that some courses may have prerequisites that you must also successfully complete. For prerequisite information, click on the course or see your advisor.