The primary objectives of the Committee are to provide education for innovative careers in research and teaching, and to contribute to the interdisciplinary understanding of human behavior. Students in the Committee pursue careers in human development, psychology, anthropology, biology, sociology, and education.
Our department is on the cutting edge of new debates about globalization and diaspora, popular culture and mass media, nationalism and identity, race and sexuality, and the politics of tradition and modernity. We explore these issues through a range of theoretical orientations that include postcolonial and Marxist theory, feminist and critical race theory, psychoanalysis and psychology. Emory University Department of Anthropology has a graduate program in Anthropology that balances rigorous core courses with a tutorial approach to advanced subjects and is designed to be intense and demanding for students and faculty.
They encourage a diversity of doctoral research agendas across the entire range of cultural and biological anthropology, from the postmodern to the sociobiological. It is the exposure to alternative explanatory paradigms rather than a monolithic theoretical orientation that we think will prove both intellectually important and professionally successful in the anthropology of the future. The core program is a series of courses and seminars that gives advanced training in cultural and biological anthropology including a seminar team-taught by cultural and biological anthropologists.
As a whole, the educational program provides students with a graduate-level grounding in cultural and biological anthropology that is sophisticated and unique. Specialization within cultural or biological sub-fields is encouraged, as well as combinations and creative dialogues between them, including those that draw upon Medical Anthropology.
The program requires three years of full-time course work, followed by dissertation research and write-up. Graduate training is supported for research in all major world areas. Through the Social Studies of Medicine the institutional forms and economic and political processes that impact medicine are explored.
The social sciences inform the coordination of health and social policies. Medical Anthropology offers an understanding of how cultural, ethnic, class and gender differences shape the experience of illness and responses to care. Medical Ethics fosters a vital examination of the moral aspects of medical practice and medical technologies and calls for critical self-reflection as a routine aspect of medical education and care.
Through scholarship in the History of Medicine, a more sophisticated understanding of the wide array of questions and dilemmas in contemporary medicine is achieved. Researchers and graduate students investigate psychological, medical, and biosocial aspects of the human condition from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches.
Faculty research covers multiple interrelated areas, indicated below. They are seeking graduate students to train and with whom to pursue research. How do they understand themselves and others and their place in the world? How do they understand consciousness, the self, madness and normality? And what can we learn about human variety by considering these questions from an anthropological perspective? The MSc, which provides theoretical knowledge and practical research training, will be of particular relevance to people working in health, education, psychological and social policy sectors as well as to graduates with a human sciences or humanities background.
But anyone interested in the diversity of human nature will find much that is stimulating and challenging in this course as well as acquiring new analytical and interpretive skills of use in life and career. Under the guidance of faculty who have made major contributions to the field, students develop the knowledge of theory and methods needed to conduct their own research.
Students who have been trained in Psychological and Medical Anthropology at UCSD have gone on to teach and pursue research at colleges, universities, and research centers across the United States.
The program at UCSD is holistic, pursuing an understanding of the lives and experiences of persons based on the knowledge of society, culture, biology, and psychology. Training in psychological anthropology is integrated into the graduate program so that students can obtain a thorough-going and well-rounded training in social, cultural, linguistic, archeological, and biological anthropology.
Students have the opportunity to pursue research interests in the areas of ethnopsychology, cultural psychology, and psychoanalytic anthropology, psychiatric anthropology, and phenomenological anthropology.
The faculty teach students to develop a strong repertoire of research skills and theoretical concepts. The goal is to enable students to use anthropological concepts and methods to explore in depth the psychology of persons in culture and society. Toggle navigation.
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