Placement Option MA
In certain instances a Candidate for the Masters degree may elect to complete a placement in order to fulfill course requirements.
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Department of Anthropology
Medical Anthropology Minor
One of the leading programs in Canada, Medical Anthropology provides an anthropological perspective on health and illness processes and the socio-cultural factors that shape the experience of illness, patterns of health and disease, and access to health care services.
Advocacy & Public Engagement Minor
The Advocacy & Public Engagement Minor offers training using anthropological perspectives connecting the academic and non-academic sectors. We place an emphasis upon high-impact experiential education, including ethnographic community-based research and a capstone work placement.
Graduate Program in Social Anthropology
Join a dynamic, intellectual community of scholars and faculty committed to theoretically informed, empirically grounded and socially relevant research. Engage in ethnographic fieldwork in places, communities and archives on topics of contemporary and historical relevance.
ANTH Program Specific Support
Anthropology Majors Students requiring program-specific support should send a request for an appointment to lapsanth@yorku.ca. A staff member will respond to arrange an appointment time.
Anthropology, Social Work, Sociology
Department of AnthropologySchool of Social WorkSOWKBSWSOCI
The Professional Anthropologist: The Anthropologist as Practitioner
This course combines analytical study with a part-time placement in a non-governmental partner agency. Students will complete around 176 hours of placement over 8 months.
Certificate in Culture, Medicine & Health
Medical Anthropology provides an anthropological perspective on health and illness processes. It also explores the socio-cultural factors shaping the experience of illness, patterns of health and disease and access to health care services.