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Degree Requirements

The program consists of 30 points of course work. These include: six points based on the two core courses (G6352 Museum Anthropology: History and Theory, and G6353 Exhibiting Culture: Politics and Practices of Museum Exhibitions) and six points of intensive internship (six at one museum or two three-point internships at different museums or related facilities). Most students will also take G4201 Principles and Applications of Sociocultural Anthropology. A thesis is also required. Twenty-one of the thirty credits must be taken in Anthropology but each student works out a unique program suited to his or her interests in consultation with the student’s advisors. Related courses in other departments (such as Art History and Archaeology or Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology) are encouraged. Among the museums at which internships may be conducted (depending on interests and availability) are: the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Museo del Barrio, the Museum for African Art, the Museum of Chinese in America, the Museum of the City of New York, the National Museum of the American Indian, New-York Historical Society and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Students can work toward the degree either full-time or part-time. An optimal full-time program would include two semesters of course work and a summer internship and M.A. thesis project. Part-time students must complete the degree within four years.