Master of Arts in Anthropology

University of Victoria - Kaplan

This program centres on a research-based thesis. Your coursework will connect across the subfields of anthropology. Our department works within four innovative and integrative themes: Culture, Health and Inequality, Evolution and Ecology, Space, Place, Knowledge and PowerVisual Anthropology and MaterialityYou’ll take courses in relevant methods and your research area. Your independent thesis research project will incorporate fieldwork and/or lab work, which will allow you to make original contributions to the discipline and our communities of practice, while growing your expertise through experiential learning.Our department structures students’ learning experiences to reflect the content, values and skills of our dynamic contemporary discipline.Students in this program will:encounter anthropological ways of knowing from a multiplicity of sub disciplinary perspectivesexplore the current state of knowledge within the chosen topic/area, gain in-depth knowledge of particular peoples, processes, places and histories, contribute original research to a defined problem within the disciplineconduct fieldwork and/or work in the lab to generate valued knowledge informed by experiencearticulate a research proposal and communicate research results, learn project management skills including time management, data management and quality control