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General Description / Special Programs
The department integrates anthropology, geography, and sociology for an innovative, interdisciplinary social science program. We are thus able to provide discipline-based training while simultaneously allowing students to transcend disciplinary boundaries and benefit from cross-disciplinary exchanges. Our degree programs offer students rigorous training in transdisciplinary social theory and research methods, including quantitative and qualitative analysis, ethnography, and GIS. Our faculty is recognized for its research and teaching in: political ecology; migrations and diasporas; globalization and transnationalism; medical anthropology; and critical studies of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. Faculty have regional expertise in North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and East Asia.
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Degrees
Degrees Offered Global & Sociocultural Studies PhD, MA; Sociology/Anthropology BA, Geography BA
Highest Degree Offered PhD
Certificate Field Areas
GIS
BA/BS Field Areas
Cultural Anthropology
BA/BS Requirements
120 credit hours
MA/MS Field Areas
Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Medical Anthropology
MA/MS
MA/ MS Requirements 36 credit hours of course work.
PhD Field Areas
Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Medical Anthropology
Phd
Phd Requirements 75 credit hours including a minimum 24 hours of dissertation. In addition to the common core curriculum, students choose a track in either sociocultural anthropology, human geography, or comparative sociology.
Phd Specializations Sociocultural Anthropology, Human Geography, Comparative Sociology
Internship / Grants / Funding
Internships Available 0
Internship Required 0
Support Opportunities Graduate teaching assistantships with an annualized stipend of $19,194.00, tuition and out-of-state fee waivers. FIU Presidential Fellowship with an annualized stipend of $25,000. Also available are Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research on the Caribbean; McKnight Doctoral Fellowships; FIU Presidential Enhanced Assistantships; FIU Dissertation Year Fellowships (DYF); FIU Doctoral Evidence Acquisition (DEA) Fellowships.
Program Details
Research Facilities GIS/data analysis lab and two language labs. The Latin American Collection, the Cuban Research Institute, the Center for Labor Research and Studies, the African & African Diaspora Studies Program, the Center for Women's and Gender Studies, and the Asian Studies Program.
Certs Offered 1
Contacts
Online Courses
Online Courses: 1
Online Course Info: Many undergraduate offerings.
Club / Honor Society
Anthropology Club: 1
Anthropology Club Info: The Global & Sociocultural Studies Undergraduate Student Club, and the Sociology, Anthropology, & Geography Graduate Student Association (SAGGSA)
Lambda Alpha Chapter: 1