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What this all means for you: University of Toronto • • • • • • • Diversity University Canada’s •largest university is comprised of the St. George • Toronto campus downtown Toronto, and the beautiful, green campuses • Resources of Mississauga and Scarborough • Library • Most holdings Our total population is about 83,000 students and 11,500 • Comprehensive e-resources faculty members • Amazing archives There are• almost Labs 16,000 graduate students. One in eight of • In the department these are international. • Around campus (GIS, Geology, Ranked #1 Canada and #20 in the world according to the • in People latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings • Extraordinary faculty • Extraordinary 95% of graduate students students are at St. George campus • Money UofT ranks #2• inMany thesources worldofinfinancial total output support of scholarly publications after Harvard • Tri-council • University • Department • Reputation Department of Anthropology • Officially established at the University of Toronto in 1936. Since that time, more than 330 Ph.D. degrees and 600 Masters degrees have been conferred in the Department. • Currently we have over 170 graduate students registered in graduate programs Department of Anthropology • Over half of all our Ph.D. graduates, are employed in tenurestream or tenured positions in universities in Canada, United States, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, South Africa, Great Britain, Japan, Philippines, Italy, Malaysia, and Australia. About a quarter of our Ph.D. graduates are employed in museums, government agencies, or research and consulting groups in Canada and abroad. • For virtual tour of the department see: http://goo.gl/mFrfbx Graduate Programs Master of Arts and Master of Science • The Department offers a Master of Arts degree program in the five sub-fields of Anthropology and a Master of Science degree program, normally in archaeology, medical anthropology, and evolutionary anthropology. • M.A. is usually 12 months and M.Sc. is usually 24 months of fulltime study Graduate Programs Doctor of Philosophy • Usually four to five years • Program requirements: at least six half course credits, language requirement and thesis proposal defense which are typically completed in one to two years. • PhD research starts upon enrolment in the program and culminates in the submission of a thesis and final oral examination • Direct entry to Ph.D. program from undergraduate degree is offered to excellent students. Financial Support All graduate students admitted to a graduate program and in good academic standing are supported through a combination of research assistantships, teaching assistantships, University of Toronto Fellowships in combination with external awards. • Master’s students are assured the minimum funding for one year • PhD students are assured of funding for four years Financial Support Minimum funding: $15,000 plus tuition (including incidental fees and health insurance if applicable). Additional top ups provided for external award winners (eg. CIHR, NSERC, OGS, SSHRC). Students pay their own fees from the funding that they receive from the department and or external awards. Follow the money? Follow the vision? Not always the same thing! Admissions Deadlines: December 7, 2015 - Ph.D. program: complete application and supporting documents January 18, 2016 - Master’s programs: complete application and supporting documents Admission requirements Admission to a Master’s Program • an appropriate Bachelor's degree, with a final year average of at least B+ or its equivalent from a recognized university. • students must have at least five full-year Anthropology courses (or equivalent) with a minimum average of B+ • the department also welcomes applications from students with competence in related fields. Basic admission requirements Admission to the Doctoral Program • a Master's degree in anthropology (or a cognate subject) • grades averaging the equivalent of a University of Toronto A- or better in their last full year of study. Direct Admission to the Doctoral Program • a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with a concentration in anthropology • A 3.85 GPA Collaborative Programs The Department of Anthropology offers graduate studies in collaboration with the programs listed below. For collaborative programs, students must first be admitted to a graduate program in the Department. Many Collaborative Program requirements fulfill Anthropology degree requirements, e.g., as elective courses. Courses in a Collaborative Program may, however, exceed minimum degree requirements in Anthropology and there may be scheduling conflicts regarding required courses. Collaborative Programs Aboriginal Health Addiction Studies Aging, Palliative and Supportive Care Across the Life Course Asia-Pacific Studies Diaspora and Transnational Studies Dynamics of Global Change Environmental Studies Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Global Health Jewish Studies Sexual Diversity Studies South Asian Studies Women's Health Women & Gender Studies Further details available at: http://anthropology.utoronto.ca/graduate/copy_of_collaborative-programs Topics of current graduate students (grant applications this year) Indigenous women and self-harm Global health as professional practice Indigenous urbanness Vulnerability assessment of coastal Inuvialult sites Contested public spaces and female piety in Israel/Palestine Aid paradox: Development and emergent forms of stigma Sovereignty, Survival and the politics of everyday struggle Reclaiming, Reformulating, and Reconstituting the Material Culture of the Métis The effects of habitat fragmentation on dispersal behaviour and subsequent gene flow in the Endangered Mexican black howler monkey The Ideologies of Cotton: Economic Change and Political Mobilization in Pakistan's Cotton Belt A Study of Bone Following "Cardio-Pulmonary Death" as a Means of Distinguishing Perimortem Trauma & Postmortem Damage People, environment and early Iroquoian social organization Free expressions and sociocultural relations in Canada A different interpretation of post-traumatic stress disorder based on the lived experience of Canadian soldiers and veterans An ethnographic inquiry into labour and mobility in Dar es Salaam The origin of agriculture in Shangshan culture, China Young indigenous women and cultural resurgence in Canada and New Zealand Governmentality, family and civil society in Japan’s Ikumen movement Change and continuity of women’s roles in arctic skin clothing production Framing the sex crisis in Iran Precarious lives and intentional communities in Toronto A spatial and archeological analysis of Buddhist terrace structures at Angkor Thom, Cambodia Immortalization and repair of damaged DNA Being Queer, becoming Old: an ethnographic exploration of possibilities Developing a 3D forensic technique of determining the sex and ancestry of unidentified human remains The infrastructure of Coca in the ancient Andes Social dominance and the alpha woman Understanding the Evolutionary Importance of Early Eurasian Catarrhine Primates Growth and development of a late Miocene ape using Synchrotron radiation histology