G-ANHT-CER - Anthropology & History Certificate

Students must designate a mentor from the affiliated faculty of the certificate program. With their mentor, students must draw up a program of study that must include:

• Completion of a core graduate seminar:

  • with two-semester sequence beginning with required graduate-level History and Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology and History); and

  • concluding with—research seminar in which students prepare and present their own papers.

• Participation (while in residence) in an anthropology and history colloquium to be organized by the affiliated faculty and the students.

• One presentation of the student’s own work at the colloquium, usually during the writing phase of the dissertation.

• At least two other courses in the nondegree department.

• Capstone research paper (if in history, this may be a part of the student’s portfolio).

• Preliminary examination field in the nondegree discipline.

The director of graduate studies in each department, assisted by one member of the affiliated faculty from each department, will monitor the student’s progress and review their dossier at least once annually.