Anthropology (Urbanism), PhD

About This Program

The School of Human Evolution and Social Change is an excellent choice if you want to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy in the classic fields of anthropology: archaeology bioarcheology evolutionary anthropology sociocultural anthropology It's also an ideal environment if you want to combine these approaches and other disciplines when exploring specific issues or research questions within a transdisciplinary context. The flexible graduate curricula encourages you to design innovative plans of study to pursue your interests while receiving broad training in key areas. The anthropology faculty actively engage with faculty in other disciplines, including: applied mathematics chemistry economics environmental epidemiology formal modeling genetics sociology sustainability technology and society urban planning The training you receive in this program prepares you to become an expert scholar able to contribute not only to your chosen field but to finding solutions to humankind's greatest challenges. The concentration in urbanism leverages the varied interests in urbanism and helps you as you attempt to compare, contrast and take stock of urbanism. Working with faculty from across a range of departments and programs at ASU, you are able to capture the creative tensions that scholarship on urbanism has inspired in order to stimulate a provocative, constructive kind of inquiry. This degree program provides training in data analysis and research design within the context of human evolution, archaeology and the wider field of anthropology. In this program, through anthropological coursework, you learn how to ask important questions about the human species and employ statistics to analyze and extract meaning from data. You learn to appreciate your place in nature and the long history of human societal change that brought you to where you are today.

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