PH.D. IN CULTURAL HERITAGE STUDIES & HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, STARTING WITH BA/BS DEGREE(60 cr)
Year 1: Autumn Semester (minimum 9cr)
Meet with advisor to develop graduate contract
**Select additional faculty to form Ph.D. committee
Take ANTH 500
*Take an ANTH graduate seminar
@Take remedial or elective classes
Year 1: Spring Semester (minimum 9cr)
Take two ANTH Graduate seminars
@Take remedial or elective classes
Year 2: Autumn Semester (minimum 9cr)
Take two ANTH graduate seminars
@Take elective classes
****$ File Application for Graduation with MA degree if desired
Year 2: Spring Semester (minimum 9cr)
Submit portfolio to Ph.D. committee for evaluation
Take ANTH 601
Take ANTH 597 (6cr)
Develop Dissertation Proposal
Year 3: Autumn Semester (minimum 6cr)
**Form dissertation committee
Take ANTH 600
Take ANTH 597 (3cr)
Work on Dissertation Research
Year 3: Spring Semester (minimum 6cr)
Take ANTH 602
Take ANTH 699 (3cr)
Work on Dissertation Research
Pass comprehensive evaluation administered by dissertation committee
Year 4: Autumn Semester (minimum 6cr)
Take ANTH 699: Dissertation (3cr)
*Take an ANTH graduate seminar
Start writing dissertation
****$ File Application for Graduation for Ph.D.
Year 4: Spring Semester (minimum 6cr)
Take ANTH 699 (3cr)
@Take elective classes
Finish writing dissertation
****Defend dissertation
****$ File final draft of dissertation with Graduate School
NOTES
* A graduate seminar is any ANTH class numbered between 500 and 589, 595, or 600-694.
** Ph.D. Committee is normally three anthropology faculty. Dissertation committee is five
UM faculty, one of whom is from a department other than anthropology.
*** Your committee must consist of three University of Montana faculty.
Your committee chair must be in the Anthropology Department. One of your
three members must be from a department other than Anthropology. Give
your selections to the Anthropology Administrative Assistant, who will forward
them to the Grad School.
**** This procedure requires submission of a form to the Graduate School.
This procedure will have a deadline each semester. Please check the
current course schedule or contact the Graduate School to find out about
these deadlines.
@ Remedial classes: one class in each of the four subfields
(archaeology, linguistics, physical, socio-cultural) and a class in
statistics are required prior to graduation if not taken during your
undergraduate career.
$ This form requires a fee to be paid to the Graduate School. Be sure to save your
receipt.
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