MA/MS in Anthropology

This flexible online master's program serves students who want to work and minister where faith and culture meet. Graduates go into social services, cross-cultural mission, teaching and church ministry, and some continue to seminary or doctoral study in anthropology. A core of anthropology and theology courses can be tailored with electives in areas such as education, business, biblical studies, ethics, missiology, leadership, linguistics and spiritual formation. Full-time students finish in a year, and part-time students take longer. A thesis is part of the degree and can serve as a writing sample for doctoral applications, and new students may enter in January, May or August. Elective choices let students shape the degree toward their own vocational goals. The fully online format suits students who live far from campus or who work in ministry.