What Universities Offer Anthropology Degrees Online?

University of North Texas

• The University of North Texas offers an online master's degree in applied anthropology. The program takes three years to complete. Students generally take two classes each fall and winter semester. All courses are online, but you must visit the campus for a two-day orientation and to present your final project. Required courses include anthropological thought and praxis, quantitative methods, and ethnographic and qualitative methods. Each class combines readings, real-time and asynchronous discussion groups, teleconferences, and group and individual projects.

  University of North Texas
  1155 Union Circle #311277
  Denton, Texas
  76203-5017
  940-565-2000
  anthropology.unt.edu/grad-online.php

Charter Oak State College

• Charter Oak State College offers an online option for completing a bachelor's degree in anthropology through a combination of online and video classes. Courses run in five-, eight- and 15-week sections. You can complete the degree without visiting Charter Oak State College in person. Video classes, however, sometimes require proctored exams, which can be arranged near your home. As orientation to the online format, you must take an online demonstration course before starting actual classes. Students can log in to their classes at any time. To graduate, you must complete a three-credit anthropological final project that demonstrates mastery of the subject matter.

  Charter Oak State College
  55 Paul Manafort Dr.
  New Britain, CT 06053
  860-832-3800
  charteroak.edu

Athabasca University

• Canada's Athabasca University offers online undergraduate degrees in anthropology. Its distance learning program allows you to attend class on your schedule, and use a variety of technologies including multi-media online formats, e-mail, and audio-video conferencing. Courses have individualized study or group study formats. Individualized study classes begin on the first day of the month and can be three credit-hours, or six months long, or six credit-hours, or 12 months long. Tutors give individualized online instruction. Group study courses, led by instructors, begin in May, September and January. Three-credit courses last 13 weeks and six-credit courses 26 weeks. Course options include anthropology and gender, primate behavior, community-based research methods, urban anthropology and medical anthropology.

  Athabasca University
  1 University Drive
  Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3
  Canada
  800-788-9041
  athabascau.ca/