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The Department of Anthropology at UTSA offers M.A. degrees specializing in archaeology, biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology. The department emphasizes a holistic approach to Master’s level training that focuses on methods and skills that have applications within the diverse array of careers in today’s academic and non-academic job market. Through formal coursework, internships, and independent thesis research, students learn contemporary theoretical approaches within the discipline as well as specific marketable skills in laboratory methods, geographic information systems (GIS), research design, grant writing, teaching, and primatological, ethnographic, and archaeological practices.

In addition to pursuing Ph.D.s in anthropology and related disciplines, M.A. graduates are prepared for careers in a variety of settings including: heritage management; museums, zoos and wildlife organizations; GIS technician/analyst; national and international NGOs focused on health and well-being; social justice, and conservation; conservation area management; medical and laboratory research; qualitative research consultancy for various industries; and teaching at K-12 and community-college levels.

Theoretical and applied emphases of the department’s faculty include: archaeology of the Maya lowlands and Andean South America; archaeology of Texas, the American Southwest, and Northwest Mexico; primate behavioral ecology; primate conservation ecology and genetics; community-based conservation practices and general conservation strategy; resource management and extraction; human-animal relations; indigenous peoples and politics; environmental politics; water scarcity, and ecological contamination; coastal political ecology and the making of environmental markets; applied anthropology; and medical anthropology. With faculty expertise in North, South and Central America, Africa, East Asia, and Island Pacific, our students work throughout the world.

Degree Requirements

The minimum number of semester credit hours required for this degree is 33 (with thesis).