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Interdisciplinary Studies with a Concentration in Anthropology (MAIS)

Overview

UT Rio Grande Valley offers interdisciplinary degree programs at the graduate level, including a Master of Arts in interdisciplinary studies. Graduate courses available in anthropology enable graduate students to:

  • Complete a Master of Arts degree in interdisciplinary studies with a concentration in anthropology.
  • Take graduate anthropology courses as electives within other graduate programs.

Students pursuing either option are expected to meet with the anthropology coordinator or other anthropology faculty in order to develop a program of study.

Admission Requirements

To be admitted to the graduate program with a concentration in anthropology, prospective candidates must first meet all requirements for graduate admission to UT Rio Grande Valley, as well as the other requirements listed below:

  1. Undergraduate GPA of at least 3.0 in the last 60 semester credit hours. If applicant does not meet the minimum undergraduate GPA criterion, a GRE general test is required for conditional admission.  GRE School Code: 6570.
  2. Statement of purpose and goals for pursuing the degree
  3. Resume
  4. Two letters of recommendation, at least one of them from an academic source.

Application for admission must be submitted prior to the published deadline. The application is available at www.utrgv.edu/gradapply.

Program Requirements

Required Courses - 18 Hours

Required:

ANTH 6345Anthropological Method and Theory

3

Choose five from the following:

ANTH 6303Forensic Anthropology

3
ANTH 6304Indians of North America

3
ANTH 6305Great Discoveries in Archaeology

3
ANTH 6306Anthropology of Borders

3
ANTH 6307Shipwrecks, Pirates and the Sea: An Introduction to Maritime Archaeology and History

3
ANTH 6309Anthropology of Sex and Gender

3
ANTH 6310Food and Culture

3
ANTH 6311Medical Anthropology

3
ANTH 6312Political and Legal Anthropology

3
ANTH 6314Environmental Anthropology

3
ANTH 6315Discovering the Rio Grande Valley

3
ANTH 6316Open Source GIS for Cultural Resources

3
ANTH 6317Field Experience of the Borderlands

3
ANTH 6321Human Skeletal Anatomy

3
ANTH 6322Ancient Diseases in Modern Bodies

3
ANTH 6320Anthropology of Conflict and Human Rights

3
ANTH 6323Mexican American Culture

3
ANTH 6348Peoples and Cultures of Mexico

3
ANTH 6350Mexican American Folk Medicine

3
ANTH 6351Global Health: Critical Perspectives

3
ANTH 6361Historical Archaeology

3
ANTH 6363Interpreting the Past: Theory and Method in Archaeology

3
ANTH 6365Archaeology of South America

3
ANTH 6366Ecuadorian Archaeology

3
ANTH 6369Archaeology of Mexico and Central America

3
ANTH 6370Texas Archaeology

3
ANTH 6374Archaeology of North America

3
ANTH 6377Global Cultural Heritage Issues and Debates

3
ANTH 6385Topics in Anthropology

3
ANTH 6390Directed Studies

3
ANTH 6395Fieldwork in Anthropology

3

ANTH 6395 may be taken twice when topic varies.

Non-thesis Option

Prescribed Electives – 18 Hours

Choose three courses from a 2nd discipline other than anthropology (three courses in one prefix, Certificate, or Program).

Choose three courses from a 3rd discipline other than anthropology and different from the 2nd discipline selected (three courses in another prefix, Certificate, or Program).

Thesis Option

Prescribed Electives – 12 Hours

Choose two courses from a 2nd discipline other than anthropology (two courses in one prefix, Certificate, or Program).

Choose two courses from a 3rd discipline other than anthropology and different from the 2nd discipline selected (two courses in another prefix, Certificate, or Program).

Thesis – 6 Hours

ANTH 7300Thesis I

3
ANTH 7301Thesis II

3

Total Credit Hours: 36