ANTHROPOLOGY CHANGES ITS PH.D. REQUIREMENTS

This article explaining the changes in the Ph.D. requirements in Anthropology was written for the Crimson by Alfred M. Tozzer '00, professor of Anthropology.

In line with the movement in the Graduate School to allow greater freedom in the choice of subjects in which the Ph.D. degree may be offered. An thropology has widened the fields within the Division itself. Up to the present time the preliminary requirements for the general oral examination have been the same for all candidates.

Beginning next year each candidate, after passing the general minimum requirements, selects one of the following major fields within the Division: General Ethnography, Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Archaeology and Ethnology, or Physical Anthropology.

Examples

The field of Physical Anthropology, for example, has requirements in Zoology, heredity, vetebrate palaeontology, mammalian biology, comparative anatomy and statistics. Thus, a candidate primarily interested in Physical Anthropology has a far wider training in fields allied to this subject and is relieved of the necessity of mastering a mass of facts and theories on the social and religious life of aboriginal groups in all parts of the world. If a candidate wishes the latter information, he selects General Ethnography or Ethnology and Social Anthropology, in which he widens his approach by selecting specified courses in history, sociology and psychology.