Objectives
- Educate researchers so as to contribute to critical thinking and country´s social research, through the development and improvement of research competencies within theoretical and methodological orientations of contemporary anthropology.
- Introduce students to own debates of Masters Program research lines, as well as its methodological approximations.
- Provide analytical and critical capacities that enable alumni to perform their duties with theoretical and practical competence in the field of academic or applied research or choose to undergo doctorate studies.
Study Plan
Social Anthropology Program
| Semester |
Seminars |
Seminars |
Research |
| 1 |
Social Contemporary Theories (4 credits) |
Etnographic Representation and knowledge (4 credits) |
Research Design 1 (4 credits) |
| 2 |
Thematic Seminar 1 (4 credits) |
Thematic Seminar 2 (4 credits) |
Research Design 2 (4 credits) |
| 3 |
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Graduation Project Research (8 credits) |
| 4 |
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Graduation Project Research(8 credits) |
Archaeology and Biological Anthropology Program
| Semester |
Theory area in archaeology |
Theory area in biological anthropology |
Methodology and electives area |
Research area |
| 1 |
Archaeology Theory (4 credits) |
Biological anthropology theory (4 credts) |
Analysis scale (4 credits) |
Analysis scale (4 credits) |
| 2 |
Comparative archaeology of the intermediate area (4 credits) |
Comparative archaeology of the intermediate area (4 credits) |
Data analysis (4 credits) |
Research design(4 credits) |
| 3 |
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Field work (6 credits) |
| 4 |
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Thematic seminar (4 credits) |
Graduation Project (6 credits) |
The Masters Degree Program in Anthropology consists of two areas: Social Anthropology and Archaeology-Biological Anthropology. Due to the range of knowledge that characterizes the anthropological origins and tradition in Colombia, and with the objective of offering a program specialized enough to be able to guarantee an excellent education in the areas of greater development in the country, the Masters Degree Program defined both fields of knowledge. In this way, it offers students the possibility to make a concentration in one of the two specializations so as to respond to the main anthropological demands in Colombia.
Both concentrations offer research education that during two years it allows students to be in contact with diverse areas of specialization and multiple regional issues, and receive and in-depth social theory education. The program offers theoretic and methodological bases that enables to identify topics of interest and importance for the country and discipline, within a national and latinamerican context.
The Faculty consists of 14 professors that belong to six research groups in the areas of Historical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Archaeology, State, Citizenship and Conflict, Nature and Society, Morphosyntax, Linguistic Typology and Language Comparison.
Research or Concentration Areas
The work of professors within their research groups and lines, enables the Masters Degree Program in Anthropology to offer the following working areas to applicants:
Anthropology and Health:
Etnopsychiatry, pain, suffering, social medicine, public health, intervention models, mental illness and culture, alternative and supplementary medicines, genre, body studies, public health policies
Archaeology and Bioanthropology:
Complex societies (Central Andes, Cundi-boyacense Plateau, Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Alto Magdalena and Valle del río Cauca); archaeology of intermediate areas; space; territory and environment; archaeobotanic, zooarchaeology, ceramic analysis, subsistence and social-cultural change; preventive archaeology.
Amerindian languages:
Linguistics and etnology, indigenous education, intercultural processes, morphosyntax
Nature, space and territory:
Nature anthropology; political-environmental conflicts; developmental anthropology, urban anthropology; sciences, aesthetic and specialty; archaeology and environment; use and management of resources during the past.
Policies, history and culture:
Public and social policies (health, education, protection of cultural and archaeological patrimony, environment, development, childhood); intervention models in health; biopolitics, body and subjectivity; peasant movements; agricultural societies; violence and memory anthropology, history of archaeology, etnohistory, anthropology and history; regional history and culture.
Research groups:
Historical Anthropology
Medical Anthropology
State, Citizenship and Conflict.
Archaeology group
Morphosyntax, Linguistic typology, Language comparison
Nature and Society
Model Program
Model Program: Social Anthropology Research Emphasis
First Semester
| ANTR-4111 | Tradiciones Teóricas de la Antropológicas | 4 |
| ANTR-4102 | Seminar - Ethnographic Representation and Knowledge | 4 |
| ANTR-4135 | Métodos de Investigación Ciencias Sociales | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12 |
Second Semester
| ANTR-4105 | Geopolíticas de la Investigación | 3 |
| ANTR-4136 | Seminario Diseño de Investigación Maestría | 4 |
| ANTR-4112 | ANTR 4112 | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12 |
Third Semester
Model Program: Área Antropología Social, Modalidad Profundización
First Semester
| ANTR-4102 | Seminar - Ethnographic Representation and Knowledge | 4 |
| ANTR-4111 | Tradiciones Teóricas de la Antropológicas | 4 |
| ANTR-4135 | Métodos de Investigación Ciencias Sociales | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12 |
Second Semester
Third Semester
Model Program: Archaeology and Biological Anthropology
First Semester
| ANTR-4201 | Seminar on the Theory of Archeology | 4 |
| ANTR-4206 | ANTR 4206 | 4 |
| ANTR-4135 | Métodos de Investigación Ciencias Sociales | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12 |
Second Semester
Third Semester
Alumni Profile
Alumni from the Masters Degree Program in Anthropology are characterized by having specific research competencies that can be seen on their argumentative capacity that is nurtured by critical reading, as well as by skills and expertise necessary to collect, process and analyze information through methods and techniques pertinent to anthropology, archaeology and bio-anthropology. Likewise, they are capable of formulating applied or theoretic research projects as well as participating in programs on state, private and non-governmental spheres. Alumni may carry out their duties in the field of anthropology, archaeology and/or in the formulation of social impact projects or undergo doctorate studies.