Suitably qualified students can take a combined programme in archaeology and anthropology. Any two third-year semester units in anthropology. Admission to fourth-year honours or the graduate diploma is according to Faculty requirements and the department's judgement about the student's capabilities to undertake the course. For the coursework component, students are evaluated on their participation in discussions on assigned readings, and several essays. Students are expected to meet with their supervisor at least three times a semester.
Supervisors expect chapter drafts throughout the year.
The honours and graduate diploma year facilitates the transition of students from undergraduate studies, where the lecturer directs most of the student's work, to studies where the supervisor gives advice and help but students are ultimately responsible for their own work. The courses prepare students either to pursue postgraduate research for a higher degree or to begin work as practising anthropologists. The coursework component of the programme aims to introduce issues currently debated in world anthropology. The ways in which anthropological arguments are constructed in ethnographies, life histories and other genres are examined. Students' grasp of theoretical issues in anthropology is developed and their ability to discern rhetorical strategies or argumentation is enhanced.