Certificate Program in Medieval Archaeology
Courses
Note: Courses with “xxxx” instead of number are new courses for which the paperwork has just been submitted or new course proposals to be submitted in the immediate future
AFH 5934: Topics in African History (3) Selected topics of medieval history.
ANG 5126: Zooarchaeology (3) Human use of animal resources, emphasizing prehistoric hunting and fishing practices. Origins of animal domestication.
ANG 5172: Historical Archaeology (3) Methods
and theoretical foundations of historical archeology as it relates to
the disciplines of anthropology, history, historic preservation, and
conservation. Introduction to pertinent aspects of material culture
during the historic period.
ANG 5525: Human Osteology and Osteometry (3) Human
skeletal identification for the physical anthropologist and
archeologist. Techniques for estimating age at death, race, and sex
from human skeletal remains. Measurement of human skeleton for
comparative purposes.
ANG 5824L: Field Sessions in Archaeology (6) Excavating
archeological sites, recording data, laboratory handling and analysis
of specimens, and studying theoretical principles that underlie field
methods and artifact analysis. Not open to students who have taken ANT
4124 or equivalent.
ANG 6110: Archaeological Theory (3) Survey
of the theoretical and methodological tenets of anthropological
archeology; critical review of archeological theories, past and
present; relation of archeology to anthropology.
ANG 6112: Critical Archaeology of Time (3) Case-based
approach to problems at the intersection of measured time in
archaeology, and the practice and reckoning of time, in mostly
non-Western societies.
ANG 6113: Ideology and Symbolic Approaches in Archaeology (3) Critical
examination of the development of thought in archaeology extending
beyond a materialist interpretation of culture. Explores causality and
the role of mind and culture as mediators between the environment and
political, economic, and social structures.
ANG 6120C: Environmental Archaeology (3) Theory
and case studies integrating zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, and
geoarchaeology to interpret past human interactions with the natural
environment.
ANG 6122: Archaeological Ceramics (3) Technofunctional analysis and interpretation of archaeological ceramics. Emphasizes the life cycle of pottery.
ANG 6185: Ethnoarchaeology (3) Case studies examining theoretical and methodological approaches to ethnoarchaeology, with applications to field exercises.
ANG 6186: Seminar in Archaeology (3) Selected topics
ANG 6187: Experimental Archaeology (3) Principles
and applications of experimental archaeology. Draws on a broad range of
case studies to show the numerous experimental methods archaeologists
have used to solve analytic or interpretive problems.
ANG 6741: Archaeology of Death (3) Archaeological
literature on mortuary data. History, cultural anthropology, and
ethnography offer insights into the origin of religion, the nature of
society, and the structure of ritual.
ANG 6905: Individual Work (3) Guided readings on research in archaeology based on library, laboratory, or field work.
EUH 5934: Topics in European History (3) Selected topics of medieval history.
EUH 5934/4186: Medieval Archaeology Field Practicum (6):
An introduction to medieval archaeology as a historical discipline and
an inquiry into various approaches to the interpretation of material
culture.
EUH 6126: Readings in Medieval History (3) Major
themes; readings combine classic studies that shaped the field with
current work exploring issues like gender, textuality and historical
memory, and popular religion.
EUH 6174: Conversion in the Middle Ages (3) Examines
the religious experience of the middle ages through reading and
discussion of concepts such as conversion, martyrdom, sainthood,
gender, and power.
EUH 6175: Ethnicity in the Middle Ages (3) Ethnicity
as a form of social and political mobilization in the middle ages.
Focuses on issues such as migration, ethnogenesis, medieval law,
language and ethnic identity, kingdoms, and ethnic communities.
EUH 6176: Villages and Peasants in the Middle Ages (3) In-depth examination of such key concepts as manorialism, corvee, manumission, and using written and archaeological sources.
EUH 6177: Economy and Society in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (3).
In-depth examination of the economic transformations during the
transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Focuses on issues of
agricultural production, trade, and social change.
EUH 5195: The Archaeology of the Middle Ages (3).
Introduction to the analytical methods, the history of the discipline,
and its current application to the understanding of the Middle Ages.
GEO 6160: Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Geographers (3). Working knowledge of statistical and quantitative techniques used by geographers. Focuses on spatial analysis.
GEO 6161: Intermediate Quantitative Methods for Geographers (3). Statistical
techniques used in the spatial and social sciences. Regression analysis
for cross-sectional, qualitative, time-series, and geocoded data.
GIS 5107C: Geographic Information Systems in Research (4). Geographic
technology for creating, modifying, displaying, and analyzing spatial
information. Geographic analysis and reasoning, computer software and
hardware technology, and research applications of GIS. Geographic
databases.
HIS 6905: Individual Study in History (4) Guided readings on research in medieval history.
