Course Work Requirements

Students should review all college-wide degree requirements summarized in the "College of Arts and Sciences" section of the current Graduate Bulletin.

Students must complete thirty-six (36) semester hours of graded course work and twenty-four (24) dissertation hours for a total of sixty (60) semester hours. Distribution of the thirty-six (36) semester of course work is as follows: 15 credit hours in required courses (see below) and 21 credit hours in elective courses. No more than six (6) hours of graded Directed Individual Study (DIS) may be taken for credit. There is a cap of twelve (12) hours of graded graduate level coursework outside the Department of Anthropology at FSU that may be applied as elective credit.

     

REQUIRED COURSEWORK (total of 36-hours of graded course work):

  • Breadth (all three courses are required) – 9 credits
    • ANG 5117: Core Seminar in Archaeology
    • ANG 5493: Core Seminar in Cultural Anthropology
    • ANG 5513: Core Seminar in Physical Anthropology
  • Theory - 3 credits
  • Methods (choose one) – 3 credits
    • ANG 5801: Field Methods in Cultural Anthropology
    • ANG 5074: Seminar in Geospatial Archaeology
    • ANG 5126: Zooarchaeology
    • ANG 5127. Advanced Zooarchaeology
    • ANG 6119. Geoarchaeology
    • ANG 5580 Biocultural Adaptation and Paleodemography
    • ANG 5581 Method and Theory in Human Biology
    • ANG 5824 Anthropological Fieldwork: Archaeology
    • ANG 5074 Seminar in Geospatial Archaeology
    • ANG 5194 Analysis and Interpretation of Archaeological Research
    • ANG 6484 Cultural Analysis
  • Electives (choose seven) –   21 credits
      • Electives are chosen from available graduate-level courses in Anthropology. There is a cap of 12 hours of approved graduate courses from another department at FSU that may be used to fulfill the electives requirement. No more than 6 credit hours can be from Directed Independent Studies. There will be no double counting classes as fulfilling both a theory or method and an elective, but additional theory or methods classes can be taken for elective credit.
      • See Graduate Program Director for a current list of possible elective courses.

 

DISSERTATION HOURS (24 hours):

A minimum of twenty-four dissertation hours is required for completion of the doctoral degree. Students can enroll in dissertation hours after successfully passing qualifying exams (also referred to as “preliminary examination” at FSU) and they must comply with College and University requirements.

 

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

  1. Qualifying Exams which evaluate whether a student is capable of completing dissertation research;
  2. Dissertation Defense to display a completed dissertation and show the ability to answer questions about it from the supervisory committee.
  3. Prior to the dissertation defense, doctoral students must have a valid supervisory committee consisting of 4 faculty members with GFS status, one of which must be from outside the department (University Representative).
  4. To meet the Scholarly Engagement requirement, doctoral students will have this assessed and confirmed by the supervisory committee.
  5. As per University policy, the doctoral degree must be completed within 5 calendar years from the time the student passed the qualifying exam and admitted to candidacy. Additionally, students must meet all the manuscript clearance requirements as articulated by the Graduate School.