Graduate students with an archaeology emphasis must assume full responsibility for acquainting themselves with, and satisfying, all the requirements for the master's degree.

They are expected to read the Anthropology Department Graduate Student Handbook and DU Bulletin of Graduate Studies very carefully. They should consult with their Advisor and/or the department's Director of Graduate Studies to assure that they are meeting all degree requirements in the correct manner and order.

Philosophy

The MA degree in archaeology is designed to offer students training in both the "academic" (anthropological) and "applied" (e.g., cultural resource management) aspects of archaeology. These different aspects of our discipline are often thought to be either mutually exclusive or in conflict with each other. Our goal at DU is to provide training that can coherently integrate these two aspects. We seek to graduate individuals who can successfully move either straight into a PhD program in anthropology, or into the world of public, applied archaeology.