Juris Doctor/Master of Anthropology Joint Degree Program
The faculties of the College of Law and the Department of Anthropology of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have approved a joint degree program culminating in both a Juris Doctor degree, awarded by the College of Law, and a Master of Arts in Anthropology degree, awarded by the Department of Anthropology. Under the joint degree program, a student can obtain both degrees in less time than it would take to obtain the degrees if pursued independently. Essential criteria relating to the joint degree program are as follows:
1. Candidates for the program must meet the entrance requirements for and be accepted by both the College of Law and the Department of Anthropology. Applying students should inform both academic units at the time of application that they intend to pursue the joint degree program.
2. The joint degree program is not open to students who have already earned either a Masters degree in Anthropology or a J.D.
3. Admission to the second program is required no later than the end of the fourth consecutive semester after beginning one degree of the joint degree program. A summer term is counted as half a single semester. An exception to this requirement will be made for two semesters for the students in residence at the time the joint degree program is initiated. Students are encouraged to announce their intent to seek a joint degree as soon as possible.
4. Students in the joint degree program will receive both degrees simultaneously once they have satisfied the curriculum requirements for each degree as stated herein. For the Anthropology degree, students must meet the requirements of the interdisciplinary track M.A. program, as described in the Department's Programs and Policies Statement, and complete ANT 6275 Legal Anthropology and ANT 6276 Principles of Political Anthropology.
The Graduate Division of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will allow 9 credits of appropriate law courses to be credited toward the M.A. degree. The Anthropology Department's Director of the Program in Anthropology and Law upon the recommendation of the student's graduate supervisory committee must approve the 9 credits selected from the law curriculum. Reciprocally, law students may receive toward the satisfaction of the J.D. degree not more than 12 semester credits of courses taken in the graduate curriculum of the Anthropology Department. Two of these courses, not more than a total of 6 semester credits, will be treated as the two graduate courses ordinarily allowed to be taken outside of the College of Law for credit towards College of Law graduation.
5. A student enrolled in the joint degree program may spend the first year in either the College of Law or the Department of Anthropology. Students admitted to one academic unit but electing to spend the first academic year in the other academic unit under the joint degree program may enter the second academic unit thereafter without once again qualifying for admission so long as they have notified the second academic unit before the end of the first week of the first semester in the joint degree program and are in good academic standing when the studies commence in the second academic unit. Students must carry the minimum number of credits required by either academic unit.
6. Department of Anthropology courses which are to be credited toward the J.D. degree must carry a grade of "B" or higher and will not be counted in the College of Law grade point average. College of Law courses which are to be credited toward the M.A. degree must carry a grade of "C" or higher and will not be counted in the grade point average at the Department of Anthropology.
7. Students enrolled in the joint degree program must complete the College of Law's advanced writing requirement. An approved master's thesis in Anthropology will satisfy the advanced writing requirement of the College of Law if so certified by a law school faculty member. Non-Thesis students must still satisfy the College of Law's writing requirement.
8. Students enrolled in the joint degree program may receive one of the degrees separately provided they have satisfied all of the requirements for that degree as if they had not been a joint degree candidate.
9. Students who enroll in the joint degree program but do not complete the program may receive credit toward the College of Law degree under the graduate level course option for a maximum of two courses, not to exceed 6 semester credits, taken from the graduate curriculum of the Department of Anthropology. Although the grade is not computed in the student's grade point average, a grade of "B" or higher must be earned to receive credit hours for the course(s).
10. Students who enroll in the joint degree program but do not complete the program may receive credit toward the M.A. degree for a maximum of 9 semester credits taken from the graduate curriculum of the College of Law. Although the grade is not computed in the student's grade point average, a grade of "C" or higher must be earned to receive credit hours for the course(s).
11. Students in the joint program will be eligible for the graduate teaching assistantships and research assistantships in the Department of Anthropology on the same basis as other Anthropology graduate students, subject to the guidelines and restrictions set by the Department of Anthropology.
12. To facilitate student progress in the joint program, it is proposed that to the fullest extent possible given the availability and consent of appropriate law faculty, the student's graduate supervisory committee be comprised of two Anthropology graduate faculty members and one law faculty member. Theses will deal with a topic related to law.
13. For further information and advisement contact the Director of the Program in Anthropology and Law, Professor Faye Harrison: Ph. 352-392-1020 fayeharr@ufl.edu write to 1112 Turlington Hall, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611
