Master of Arts - Anthropology (Thesis-Based) (MA.ANTH)

Program Description

In Anthropology at Trent University, students will have the opportunity to undertake fascinating fieldwork around the world, and advance the understanding of the human past and present.  

At Trent University, students experience will be based on the Anthropology graduate program’s more than 40-years track record of educational excellence, and inspired by real-life learning. Three full-year courses and the research required for the completion of a thesis will see students explore the complexities of human biology and culture. Consider topics of societal importance through archaeological, biological, ethnographic, or linguistic research. Faculty members and students before they have undertaken fieldwork across Canada, in the U.S. southwest, in Mesoamerica, the Mediterranean, South and Southeast Asia, and Papua New Guinea. Their investigations have focused on mortuary practices, forensics, settlement patterns, civilization collapse, art, religion, and much more.