The Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History includes nearly sixty faculty associates from History and Anthropology as well as anthropologists and historians employed in other departments, including African and Afroamerican Studies, Asian Languages & Cultures, Comparative Literature, Middle East Studies, Sociology, Women's Studies, as well as the professional schools. The Program builds on, and contributes uniquely to, a strong tradition of interdisciplinarity at the University of Michigan. The University supports and encourages interdisciplinary work in all areas of its intellectual life, providing grants to Program faculty and students to develop working groups, conference programs, and lectures that bring people and ideas together from across the disciplines. Graduate seminars in the two core departments attract a cross-section of students from a wide range of other departments. The Program's own year-long signature course, the Core Seminar in Anthropology and History, runs from January through December, encompasses a reading portion in the first segment and a research seminar in the second. A required course for students in the Program, the Core Seminar attracts graduate students from other departments who are admitted by permission of the instructors. The Program also offers an interdepartmental undergraduate course: Introduction to Anthropology and History. As well, faculty associated with the Program, including visiting faculty and post-doctoral teaching fellows, develop and offer other undergraduate courses that thicken the Program's ongoing support of critical interdisciplinary dialogue. Although all students in the program take a core set of classes together with students in the two affiliated departments, they combine the basic elements of their graduate training in a wide range of creative and innovative ways. Their research covers all geographical areas of the world and a variety of topical interests. In addition, each combines the disciplines of history and anthropology in unique ways. Some lean towards archaeology while others favor oral history. Some use anthropology to enrich their interpretations of archival sources. Others use archival research to add depth to extensive ethnographic research. Below are some of the formal requirements of the program that facilitate this easy movement between the disciplines of anthropology and history. More detailed information on the degree requirements can be obtained from the Program Student Handbook or from the Program Graduate Student Assistant. Students are expected to fulfill all requirements (coursework, languages, and prelims) and to move into the dissertation research stage of their studies by the end of the third year. The program requires courses in anthropology and in history, and courses in the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History. Students must take the two core ethnology classes that all ethnology students take, Anthropology 526 and 527 (Traditions I and II), which provide an overview of theoretical approaches in cultural anthropology. They also must take one core course from any of the other three sub-disciplines of anthropology (archaeology, linguistic anthropology, or biological anthropology). Program students take History 615 (An Introduction to History: Theories and Methods) and one 700-level history seminar that requires a term paper based on original research with primary source materials. Students in the program also take the required year-long Core Seminar in Anthropology and History, beginning in the second term of their graduate program, as well as participating in the Programs regular workshops and reading groups.