Anthropology Master’s Degree

Degree Master of Anthropology
Level Magister
Duration Four (4) semesters
Number of credits 36
Class Schedule Afternoon: 5 to 8 p.m.
Modality On-Campus Learning
SNIES Code 13595

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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 Graduation Project Research (8 credits)
4 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 Field work (6 credits)
4 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.

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Model Program

Model Program: Social Anthropology Research Emphasis

First Semester

ANTR-4111Tradiciones Teoricas Antropologicas

4

ANTR-4102Seminario Representacion y Conocimiento Etnografico

4

ANTR-4135Métodos de Investigación Ciencias Sociales

4

Total Credit Hours:12

Second Semester

ANTR-4105Geopolíticas de la Investigación

4

ANTR-4136Seminario Diseño de Investigación Maestría

4

ANTR-4112Problemas Antropológicos Contemporáneos 1

4

Total Credit Hours:12

Third Semester

ANTR-4224Trabajo de Campo

6

ANTR-4225Trabajo de Grado

6

Total Credit Hours:12

Model Program: Área Antropología Social, Modalidad Profundización

First Semester

ANTR-4102Seminario Representacion y Conocimiento Etnografico

4

ANTR-4111Tradiciones Teoricas Antropologicas

4

ANTR-4135Métodos de Investigación Ciencias Sociales

4

Total Credit Hours:12

Second Semester

ANTR-4105Geopolíticas de la Investigación

4

ANTR-4137Lecturas Dirigidas 1

4

Total Credit Hours:12

Third Semester

ANTR-4138Lecturas Dirigidas 2

4

Total Credit Hours:12

Model Program: Archaeology and Biological Anthropology

First Semester

ANTR-4201Seminario Teoria en Arquelogia

4

ANTR-4206Seminario Teoria Antropologia Biologica

4

ANTR-4135Métodos de Investigación Ciencias Sociales

4

Total Credit Hours:12

Second Semester

ANTR-4202Seminario de Arqueologia Comparada del Area Intermedia

4

ANTR-4203Seminario Escalas de Analisis

4

ANTR-4136Seminario Diseño de Investigación Maestría

4

Total Credit Hours:12

Third Semester

ANTR-4224Trabajo de Campo

6

ANTR-4225Trabajo de Grado

6

Total Credit Hours:12

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.

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