The objective of the MA in anthropology at the University of Louisville is to enhance student knowledge of and skills in dealing with contemporary social issues facing a globalizing community and world from an anthropological perspective and to be able to locate these in the long progression of human history and within the body of social science theory. We expect our graduates to enter professions as skilled administrators, researchers, and leaders. Although students may focus heavily on evolutionary anthropology, archaeology, or cultural anthropology, this is a general, comprehensive masters program. Anthropology is the queen of multidisciplinary work, and we see our students taking courses from and pursuing collaborations with colleagues in Humanities, Sociology, History, Women and Gender Studies, Pan-African Studies, Political Science, Art History, Biology, and the Kent School of Social Work. Students with little or no academic background in anthropology will be required to take some preparatory courses determined in consultation with the Anthropology Graduate Coordinator.

The goal of the program is to provide students with the intellectual and practical skills for productive engagement with fundamental questions of anthropology:
How and why are human groups similar to, different from, and related with one another?

Selected Course Offerings

• Anthropology of Identity and Subjectivity
• Community Food Security
• Human Evolution in Health and Disease
• Emergence of Culture
• Anthropology of Violence
• Human Impacts on Past Environments
• American Crossings
• Central Africa and the Politics of Development
• Black Cultural Traditions
• The Study of Folklore
• The Anthropology of NGOs
• Research Design in Archaeology/Socio-Cultural Anthropology/Biological Anthropology (choose one)

Admissions

Admission criteria include an undergraduate GPA of minimally 3.0 from an accredited college or university, a combined score of at least 1000 on the GRE verbal and quantitative sections. 

Applicants must complete/submit:

• online graduate application for admission
• a letter of application covering relevant experience and aspirations
• GRE scores
• official transcripts
• three letters of reference addressing the candidate's readiness for graduate school, academic abilities, and potential for success. One letter may be from an employer.

All admissions materials should be sent to:

Graduate Admissions
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292

Details concerning the application process can be viewed on the official webpage of the University of Louisville School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies.

Deadline for application submission is April 1st