Welcome to the Graduate School of Southern Methodist University
SMU is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution, and it provides more than 3,000 graduate students with a wide range of outstanding professional and non-professional programs. Students from all 50 states and more than 65 countries are pursuing masters and doctoral level studies in the University's six Graduate Schools. They are drawn to SMU by exceptional opportunities to participate in individually designed research projects, internships, and independent study and to learn from faculty who are committed to both teaching and research.
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Anthropology Graduate School
We offer two degree programs: the M.A. in Medical Anthropology, and the Ph.D. in Anthropology. In the Ph.D. program students can concentrate either in Cultural Anthropology or in Archaeology. Full details of each program are available in the Graduate Handbook.
Our programs are designed to produce scholars--creative, energetic, articulate, and literate scholars.
We endeavor to produce anthropologists whose research is sufficiently innovative to attract the notice of their peers, who will seek and receive research funding, and who will apply their training to the constructive help of the human groups with whom they work.
It is our aim to train students in specialized skills based upon the broad understanding of anthropology acquired before entering our programs. Besides developing the skills necessary to being an anthropologist, we will also try to impart a professional attitude and a desire to practice those skills with the drive and exactitude which characterize that scholarship upon which our (and your) professional reputation rests.
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