In addition to Faculty of Graduate Studies requirements and Faculty of Arts requirements, the Department requires:

a) Normally, 18 units in Archaeology.

b) For those without a Master of Arts degree, normally 24 units.

Note: The number of courses required of each student may vary according to each student's particular needs as determined by the supervisory committee.

c) Unless previously satisfied, course and one of the following: course course.

d) Two of: Archaeology course, course, course, course, course.

e) course or its equivalent.

Other courses will be required as determined by the student's evaluation committee.

f) A research proposal approved by a committee consisting minimally of three members of the student's supervisory committee, and by the Graduate Program Director. This must be submitted within twenty months of entering the program.

g) A reading ability in a foreign language acceptable to the Department. The student's supervisory committee will decide the manner of demonstrating this ability.

Requirements (a) through (g) must be completed before sitting the written and oral components of the candidacy examination.

h) Normally, two seasons of field work. However, students specializing in laboratory-based topics, like physical anthropology, may substitute an approved program of laboratory work for one of the field work seasons. Students specializing in laboratory-based topics, like physical anthropology, who started their field work between 2019 and 2021 may substitute one or more field work seasons with the approval of their supervisory committee.

During the first two weeks in program, each student will undergo an evaluation. This is not an examination but an assessment of academic background. The specific regulations and procedures covering evaluations and examinations are on file in the Department Office and are available to students. It is the responsibility of every student to become familiar with these regulations.

Field work may be counted towards fulfillment of the full-time study and research requirement.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Archaeology

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