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Discover Anthropology: Master’s Degree Information Session

Monday, February 3, 2025

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm

Our master’s degree in anthropology can help you transform your passion for understanding culture into meaningful research and career opportunities.

Our program trains students to investigate issues of global relevance through culturally situated analysis, interpretive ethnographic methods, and archaeological approaches. This degree opens doors to careers in intercultural education, social justice advocacy, and cultural resource management.

Program Highlights:

• Personalized mentoring from research faculty
• Small class sizes and close-knit cohorts
• Competitive funding opportunities

Program Strengths:

• Medical anthropology
• Mesoamerican archaeology
• Critical race studies
• Climate change
• Migration studies
• Urban studies
• Gender and sexuality studies
• Labor studies
• Economic anthropology
• Food studies
• Visual anthropology

Career Paths:

• Archaeological research
• Higher education
• Nonprofit leadership
• Diversity and inclusion consulting
• Museum curation
• Cultural conservation

About CLASS Discovery Week
CLASS Discovery Week (Feb. 3-7, 2025) connects undergraduate students with humanities and social science research opportunities and graduate programs. Join interactive webinars, participating graduate programs’ Discovery Days, and the CLASS Undergraduate Research Showcase to advance your academic future with the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. 

Deborati Sen, Graduate Program Director dsen2@central.uh.edu