ANTH 5028 is also offered in Fall 2023
ANTH 5028 is also offered in Spring 2022
Fall 2020 | ANTH 5028 Section 001: Introduction to Historical Archaeology (34054)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Partially Online
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 317
UMTC, West Bank
UMN ONLINE-HYB
- Enrollment Status:
Open (13 of 14 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Emphasizes research approaches. Documentary research, oral history, probate inventories/acculturation, integration of documents/archaeological data, analysis of community patterning, social analysis of architecture, foodways, artifact identification, mean ceramic dating, industrial archaeology, estimation of social status with cemetery data, sampling, report writing.
- Class Notes:
- This course will be both in-person and online. On Wednesdays, students will meet in person at the scheduled time. The remainder of class is online in an asynchronous format.
- Class Description:
- In this course we will explore the theories and methods of historical archaeology. In particular we will consider what it is that distinguished historical archaeology from the broader discipline, and how those differences are parlayed into specific research strengths. This includes several themes: colonialism; the modern world and globalizing economies; social identities (race and ethnicity, class, sex and gender, religion, age); social memory and commemoration; landscapes and social space; citizenship and subjectivity. Although historical archaeology until recently has been restrictively defined as addressing the European-colonized New World, the discipline in the past ten years has significantly broadened its scope and impact on the practice of archaeology as a whole. Throughout the course we will discuss these developments, and what directions archaeology may take in the future as a result. Course work includes both reading/discussion and learning methods through practical exercises.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
20% Special Projects
20% Class Participation
20% Laboratory Evaluation
- Class Format:
- 50% Lecture
30% Discussion
20% Laboratory
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34054/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 24 October 2016
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