These assistantships may take the form of assisting a professor by preparing and grading exams, helping with laboratory exercises, giving occasional lectures, etc. Advanced students may teach a section of a course independently. Students wishing assistantships should apply early. Only students who are unconditionally admitted to the program and who are not currently on probation may hold teaching assistantships. Two methods courses must also be taken.
Students take one course in ethnological methods.
A choice may be made between archaeological methods and bioanthropological methods. Estimating age, sex, race, stature, pathology, cause of death, and time since death from human remains. The role of skeletal biology and physical anthropology in criminal investigation. Case studies will be used to demonstrate application of the methods studies. This course is a critical examination of major theoretical trends in ethnological theory, from mid-19th century to the present.