A graduate degree in anthropology at PSU allows you to dig deep into anthropology and pursue one of the subfields: biological anthropology, archaeology, or sociocultural anthropology. or develop a project that cross-cuts the subfields.
Students have the option of choosing either the thesis track, the internship track, or the skills-based track (courses + comprehensive exams).
Our curriculum includes over 60 courses for students who want to learn more about the field. Our courses address a huge range of topics and emphasize writing, critical thinking, research methods, and ethics. We offer:
- lecture-type classes
- online courses
- small seminar-discussion classes
- lab-based classes (zooarchaeology, artifact/feature analysis, human osteology, paleoanthropology)
- training in ethnographic methods including ethics and protocols for working with human subjects
- field-based courses, such as the Fort Vancouver Archaeological Field School and the Primatology Field School at the Myakka City Lemur Reserve in western Florida
PSU offers a Bachelor's + Master's Program in Anthropology. Undergraduate Anthropology students may be admitted directly into the parallel Anthropology master's program (i.e., BA students for the MA, and BS students for the MS) and share up to 20 graduate-level credits (five 4-credit courses) between their bachelor's and master's degrees.