Requirements For Admission to Classified Standing

Minimum requirements for admission to the Graduate Division are outlined in the Admissions section of this catalog. The university-level graduate application is separate from the application you sent to the department. You will need to separately apply to the university to obtain approval for university-level admission and to the department to obtain approval for admission into the Applied Anthropology program. Minimum requirements for the program are a bachelor’s degree in anthropology or a core of introductory cultural, and physical or archaeological anthropology, upper division method in ethnography, or archaeology or osteology, upper division anthropological theory and six elective units in upper division anthropology (approximately 18 units); a 3.0 grade point average (B or better) in the last 60 semester units of undergraduate work and a 3.5 grade point average in anthropology. Information on dates and the program can be obtained at the department website:

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/anthropology.

Requirement for Admission to Candidacy for the
     MA in Applied Anthropology

General university requirements for admission to candidacy for the MA degree include the satisfactory completion of the English Writing Competency Requirements are outlined in detail in the Academic Regulations section of this catalog. After the completion of 18 units in the graduate program and the completion of a project or thesis proposal the students’ work will be evaluated by the department’s graduate committee. If the performance of the student is satisfactory and the student is considered to be a potentially competent and mature practitioner, he or she will be advanced to candidacy. Students who fail to meet the expected standards will be terminated from the program.

Specific Requirements for the MA in Applied Anthropology

Each student is expected to successfully complete a project proposal after 18 units of course work. Students are required to demonstrate their competency with regard to writing skills as a requirement for candidacy by completing a project proposal. Students are expected to conduct original research and write a thesis or conduct an applications project and write a project report. All research or professional activity must conform to the ethical standards of the discipline of anthropology as outlined by the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Applied Anthropology and the requirements of the university’s Institutional Review Board.

Each program of study must include 36 semester units. Fifteen of the units are in the Applied Anthropology Core and 3 units of quantitative methods. Six units of upper division or graduate anthropology depth courses will be taken with the permission of the student’s advisor and 6 units of upper division or graduate classes outside of anthropology emphasizing the area of application will be taken. Six additional units will reflect research or professional internships and thesis or project report preparation.
 

ANTH 230 Advanced Theory, 3 units
ANTH 231 Applications Core, 3 units
ANTH 232 Applications Core, 3 units
ANTH 233 Fields of Application, 3 units
ANTH 234 Advanced Research Methods, 3 units
ANTH 235 Quantitative Methods, 3 units OR
   SCWK242 or GEOG 195 or GEOG 279 or SOCI 200B or HS 267

Two 3 unit upper division anthropology courses approved by faculty advisors

Two 3 unit upper division SJSU courses approved by faculty advisors (Courses may be from any appropriate academic department at SJSU depending upon individual student's requirements and goals).

ANTH 280 Internship/Structured Fieldwork. 3 units
ANTH 298 Project OR ANTH 299 Thesis, 3 units