Revision, May 2024.
The Honours Anthropology Program is for outstanding anthropology majors who want to deepen their engagement with anthropological topics and theories by taking an even wider range of anthropology classes and by writing an honours thesis. The honours thesis, written in the student鈥檚 last year at 澳客竞彩, may be based on library research, archival research or fieldwork. Each honours thesis is supervised individually by a member of the anthropology faculty. Thesis topics are chosen in consultation with the student鈥檚 supervisor. The thesis supervisor is usually someone the student has previously taken a class with and whose research interests align with their own.
Recent honours theses in anthropology have addressed a wide range of exciting topics including: student activism at 澳客竞彩, human-animal companionship among homeless in Montreal, art programs for psychiatric outpatients, an analysis of an 鈥渆thnographic鈥� novel, archaeological research on Food, Feasting, and Politics in the Wari Empire, Tourism, food, and heritage in Belize, and Moche metallurgy.
There are prerequisites to enter the honours program: A student must have a CGPA of 3.50 in all Anthropology courses in addition to an overall CGPA of 3.0. To graduate with honours in anthropology a student must take a total of 60 credits in anthropology including 6 credits of honours thesis work.
If you are interested in becoming an honours student in anthropology, make sure to talk to the honours advisor in anthropology by the end of U1. The honours advisor will answer your questions about your eligibility for the program and help you begi