| ARCH 110-01 |
Archaeology and World Prehistory
Instructor: Matthew Biwer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ANTH 110-01. Archaeology is the primary means by which we decipher human prehistory. Using archaeology as a guide we will start with the origins of culture from its rudimentary beginnings nearly 4 million years ago, follow the migrations of hunters and gatherers, explore the first farming villages and eventually survey the complex urban civilizations of the Old and New Worlds. We will examine the development of technology, economic and social organization through the lens of archaeological techniques and discoveries throughout the world.
This course is cross-listed as ANTH 110.
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08:30 AM-09:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 313 |
| ARCH 210-01 |
Epics and Empires: Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean Bronze Age
Instructor: Andrew Dufton
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ANTH 245-01. The Mediterranean Bronze Age (3300-1200 BCE) was a time of intense connectivity and interaction. Long-distance trade connected the eastern Mediterranean to Africa and Asia, diplomatic alliances shaped regional politics, early writing facilitated the beginnings of epic literature, and vast empires emerged around capital cities, ruled by royal households and powerful religious figures. After 2000 years of innovation and prosperity, this complex world fell apart in just a few decadesa drastic collapse still fiercely debated by archaeologists. This course considers the archaeology of an interconnected Bronze Age, including the cultures of ancient Egypt, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, the Levant, and the Aegean. A comparative approach highlights the shared characteristics of these early empires and the important exchange of objects and ideas between some of the most well-known cultures of the ancient world.
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11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 103 |
| ARCH 218-01 |
Geographic Information Systems
Instructor: Amina Naliaka
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENST 218-01, GEOS 218-01 and GISP 218-01. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a powerful technology for managing, analyzing, and visualizing spatial data and geographically-referenced information. It is used in a wide variety of fields including archaeology, agriculture, business, defense and intelligence, education, government, health care, natural resource management, public safety, transportation, and utility management. This course provides a fundamental foundation of theoretical and applied skills in GIS technology that will enable students to investigate and make reasoned decisions regarding spatial issues. Utilizing GIS software applications from Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), students work on a progression of tasks and assignments focused on GIS data collection, manipulation, analysis, output, and presentation. The course will culminate in a final, independent project in which the students design and prepare a GIS analysis application of their own choosing. Three hours per week. This course is cross-listed as ENST 218 , GEOS 218 and GISP 218.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, M
LIBRY DSRL |
| ARCH 260-01 |
Environmental Archaeology
Instructor: Matthew Biwer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ANTH 260-01. The study of the human past requires knowledge of the biological and geophysical systems in which cultures developed and changed. This course explores past environments and the methods and evidence used to reconstruct them. Emphasis is on the integration of geological, botanical, zoological, and bioarchaeological data used to reconstruct Quaternary climates and environments.
This course is cross-listed as ANTH 260. Offered every two years.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 304 |
| ARCH 318-01 |
Advanced Applications in GIS
Instructor: Amina Naliaka
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENST 318-01, GEOS 318-01 and GISP 318-01. The course is intended as a continuation of the introductory course on Geographic Information Systems, 218, and will concentrate on more advanced discussions and techniques related to spatial analysis and GIS project design. The main focus of the course will be on using higher-level GIS methods to investigate and analyze spatial problems of varying complexity; however, the specific project and topical applications will vary depending on student interests. Students will be required to develop and complete an individual spatial analysis project that incorporates advanced GIS techniques.
Prerequisite: 218 or ENST 218 or GEOS 21 8 or GISP 218 or equivalent GIS experience. Three hours of classroom per week. This course is cross-listed as ENST 318, GEOS 318 & GISP 318. Offered every two years.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
LIBRY DSRL
01:30 PM-04:30 PM, F
LIBRY DSRL |
| ARCH 331-01 |
Human Evolution
Instructor: Karen Weinstein
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ANTH 331-01. This course offers an intensive examination of the evolution of the human family, from our earliest ancestors to the origin and dispersal of modern humans. We use skeletal biology, geology, and archaeology to understand the human evolutionary record.
Prerequisite: Any of the following: ANTH 100, 101, 110, 225, 227, 229, or BIOL 100-level course Offered every spring.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 115 |
| ARCH 345-01 |
Stuff! The Material World of Global Inequality
Instructor: Andrew Dufton
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ANTH 345-01. A social system dividing haves and have-nots, those with the power to acquire more 'stuff' and those without, is not a modern phenomenon. As a
discipline dedicated both to the study of materials and understanding long-term cultural change, archaeology makes a unique contribution to these debates. This class considers social injustice across time and on a global scale, examining the ways in which the material world of objects, buildings, landscapes, and resources is created by-and creates-social divisions.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 211 |
| ARCH 345-02 |
Life in the Anthropocene
Instructor: James Ellison
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ANTH 345-02. Increased attention to human influences on Earth's climates and geology has given rise to a much-discussed Anthropocene epoch. Whether we locate the start of the epoch thousands of years ago with the origins of agriculture, with the industrial revolution, or more recently with nuclear bomb technologies, we can understand the label through rapid successions of record high temperatures and severe weather events, polar ice melts and rising sea levels, and astonishing numbers of extinctions, all of which play out in disparate ways across the globe. These changes call for new ways to understand how humans live in the world. In this course we examine what it means to be human in these times, and how people live in mutual and dynamic relationships with technologies, environments, and other species in ways that shape these processes and that are shaped by them. Our organizing frame will be ethnography, with examples drawn from throughout the world. Sustainability will be a persistent question during the semester.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 303 |