Departmental Responsibilities

Coursework

Graduate students should consult with their advisor and other relevant faculty about courses to take. Although the department encourages students to take courses in other departments and disciplines as they see fit for their evolving projects, it recommends that first-year students take the majority of their courses in the department. Use MyUCSC to enroll in courses offered by UCSC. 

Department Meetings

Graduate students select a representative to attend Anthropology Department meetings, which are usually held on Wednesdays from 3:15-5:00pm.

Colloquia

The department sponsors a number of events, including the Cultural Colloquium, Arc-Bio Lunch Talks, and ARC Frontiers in Archaeology Lectures. These events feature talks and works-in-progress by invited scholars, UCSC faculty and graduate students, job candidates, and other visitors. All graduate students are strongly encouraged to attend these events as part of their intellectual and professional growth throughout their time in the department. 

First-year graduate students in the Cultural track are required to enroll all three quarters in our Colloquia Series (ANTH 292) and to attend the Cultural Colloquium. They are strongly encouraged to attend events in the other subfields and outside the department (e.g. CRES, Cultural Studies, Center for Creative Ecologies). Archaeology Track first-years are required to attend the Arch-Bio Lunch talks and ARC Frontiers in Archaeology lectures and are strongly encouraged to attend the Cultural Colloquium. Bio Track first- and second-years are required to attend at least 8 events per quarter in and outside the department (e.g. talks in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). Non-first-year graduate students may also sign up for ANTH 292.

Grad Lounge/Computer Lab

Graduate students are responsible for keeping the graduate lounge clean. This includes cleaning/defrosting the refrigerator, cleaning the microwave and coffee maker, and taking out the recycling bin.

Fellowship/Grant Proposals

The department understands grant-getting as a collaborative process, and graduate students are expected to share successful grant proposals by providing an electronic copy of the successful proposal to the Graduate Program Coordinator. The proposals will only be made available to UCSC Anthropology graduate students.

Students should also provide the award letter and funding information to the Graduate Program Coordinator for record-keeping.