In addition to the four required classes, Master's students must take a Seminar in Ethnological Theory, a Seminar in Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology, and an ethnographic area course. Three additional classes from an approved list are required without a thesis, and one more class is required if a thesis is written. Doctoral students must take Foundations of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Seminar in Ethnography and Cultural Theory, and the department's Seminar on Prospectus and Grant Writing, plus dissertation work. Two additional classes are taken from an approved list of classes when a thesis is being written. Students who do not do a thesis are required to do 2 courses specified by the subdiscipline.
Doctoral students take four graduate level classes in addition to their doctoral work.
In addition, students must take three graduate core courses, one from each of the three subdisciplines. Core courses must be taken during the first two semesters in residence unless permission to delay the courses is granted by the Graduate Committee. No core class may be delayed more than one year, and no student may be exempt from taking any of the core classes except under highly unusual circumstances. Evaluation of Graduate Students Instructors evaluate students enrolled in their classes or who assist them in teaching. These statements are used as a basis for discussion of each student's progress during an end of year evaluation by the department faculty.