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  </title><body><center> <img alt="Archaeology Program"border=0 height=69 ismap naturalsizeflag=3 src=../APplainbanner2.jpg usemap=#banner-plainMap2 width=678> <map name=banner-plainMap2><area coords=544,50,579,65 href=../index.html><area coords=500,50,531,65 href=../Links/index.html><area coords=392,50,491,65 href=../Degrees/index.html><area coords=328,50,377,65 href=../Teaching/index.html><area coords=268,50,316,65 href=../Service/index.html><area coords=202,50,258,65 href=../Research/index.html><area coords=148,50,190,65 href=../People/index.html><area coords=87,50,138,65 href=../General/index.html></map> </center><center> <table cols=1 width=678><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p> <p><em> <font size=+2> Archaeology Major </font> </em></p> <hr width=678> <font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"size=-2> <div align=right>[ <a href=../index.htm> Home </a> ]  [ <a href=http://www.unc.edu/ugradbulletin/depts/arch.html> UG Bulletin </a> ]</div> </font> <p>The undergraduate degree in archaeology focuses on the systematic study of the human past through its material remains, by means of the excavation, recovery, and interpretation of artifacts and other associated evidence. Historical, environmental, and comparative components enable the examination of different culture systems through time and space, as well as the reconstruction of past lifeways and the interpretation of ancient social, political, and economic systems. The geographic scope of the program includes the Americas, Europe and the Mediterranean, Egypt, and the Near East. The educational goal of the program is to provide the student with a component of a liberal arts education that draws on both the social sciences and the humanities. It will also effectively prepare students for graduate study in anthropological archaeology, Mediterranean archaeology, museology, and historical preservation, or careers in contract archaeology and cultural resource management.</p> <p>The degree offered is a bachelor of arts with a major in archaeology. There is now an <a href=Major_honors.html target=_blank> honors </a> track in archaeology. The curriculum also offers a <a href=Minor.html target=_blank> minor </a> .</p> <p><b> Requirements (as of Spring 2014) </b></p> <p>Archaeology majors must complete all requirements of the General College.</p> <p>The archaeology major requires a minimum of 10 courses (30 hours) with at least 21 hours with a grade of C or better. Students must take one course in the logic of archaeological inference, two archaeological practice courses (a laboratory methods course and a field school), two comparative perspectives courses, one long-term history course, one topics in archaeology course, and three electives. One of the electives may be satisfied by offerings in any of these categories, selected according to the interests of the student. Independent research, directed readings, or honors thesis hours may be substituted for the elective chosen from the course offerings. The other two electives will be in related fields. Courses approved to meet these two electives are listed according to potential student interests. These categories are intended to help students select electives that are relevant to their interests within archaeology. Courses not listed above may be approved as electives by the advisor for the major. In choosing their comparative perspectives, long-term history, and topics in archaeology courses, students will be required to select courses from at least two of the participating departments.</p> <p>Students may count only three introductory-level courses (numbered below 200) toward their major. Subject to the approval of the advisor for the major, students may count graduate seminars towards fulfillment of their comparative perspectives, long-term history, and topics in archaeology or electives requirements. Also subject to the approval of the archaeology major advisor, field schools sponsored by study abroad or other universities may be used to fulfill the archaeological practice field experience requirement.</p> <p>For transfer students, at least half of the coursework in the major must be completed within the curriculum at UNC-CH.</p> <p><b> Additional Requirements </b></p> <p> In choosing their comparative perspectives, long-term history and topics in archaeology courses students are required to select courses from at least two of the participating departments (Art, Anthropology, Classics and Religious Studies) <br></p> <p> Of the 30 hours required for the major, at least 21 must be completed with a grade of C or higher. <br></p> <p> Students may count only three introductory-level courses (numbered below 200) toward their major. <br></p> <p><b> Course Requirements </b> ( <a href=../Teaching/Courses.html target=_blank> see course descriptions and prerequisites </a> )</p> <p> One course in the <em> Logic of Archaeological Inference </em> from the following list: <br></p> <p></p> <blockquote>ANTH 220 Principles of Archaeology <br> ANTH 291 Archaeological Theory and Practice <br> CLAR 411 Archaeological Field Methods <p></blockquote> <p> Two courses in <em> Archaeological Practice </em> from the following lists:</p> <p></p> <blockquote><p><i> one must be a lab course </i> <br> ANTH 411 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology <br> ANTH 413 Archaeobotany Lab Methods <br> ANTH 414 Laboratory Methods: Human Osteology <br> ANTH 415 Zooarchaeology <br> ANTH 416 Bioarchaeology <br> ANTH 417 Laboratory Methods: Lithic Seminar <br> ANTH 418 Laboratory Methods: Ceramic Analysis <br><p><i> and one must be a field school </i> <br> ANTH 451 Field School in North American Archaeology <br> ANTH 453 Field School in South American Archaeology <br> CLAR 650 Field School in Classical Archaeology <br></blockquote> <p></p> <p> One course in <em> Comparative Perspectives </em> from the following list:</p> <p></p> <blockquote>ANTH 121 Ancient Cities of the Americas <br> ANTH 123 Habitat and Humanity <br> ANTH 145 Introduction to World Prehistory <br> ANTH 222 Prehistoric Art <br> ANTH 456 Archaeology and Ethnography of Small-Scale Societies <br> ANTH 468 State Formation <br> CLAR 050 First Year Seminar: Art in the Ancient City <br> CLAR 120 Ancient Cities <br> CLAR 470 History and Archaeology of Bathing (500 BC to today) <br></blockquote> <p></p> <p> Two courses in <em> Long-Term History </em> from the following list:</p> <p></p> <blockquote>ANTH 148 Human Origins <br> ANTH 250 Archaeology of North America <br> ANTH 231 Archaeology of South America <br> ANTH 359 European Prehistory <br> CLAR 241 Archaeology of Ancient Near East <br> CLAR 242 Archaeology of Egypt <br> CLAR 244 Greek Archaeology <br> CLAR 245 Archaeology of Italy <br> CLAR 247 Roman Archaeology <br> CLAR 262 Art of Classical Greece (ART 262) <br> CLAR 263 Roman Art (ART 263) <br> CLAR 268 Hellenistic Art and Archaeology: 350-31 BC <br> CLAR 460 Greek Painting (ART 460) <br> CLAR 475 Rome and the Western Provinces <br> CLAR 561 Mosaics: The Art of Mosaic in Greece, Rome and Byzantium <br> RELI 110 The Archaeology of Palestine: New Testament Period (CLAR/JWST 110) <br></blockquote> <p></p> <p> One course in <em> Topics in Archaeology </em> from the following list:</p> <p></p> <blockquote>ANTH 054 First-year seminar. The Indians' New Worlds (AMST 054) <br> ANTH 232 Ancestral Maya Civilizations <br> ANTH 252 Prehistoric Foodways <br> ANTH 412 Paleoanthropology <br> ANTH 421 Archaeological Geology <br> ANTH 423 Written in Bone: CSI and the Science of Death Investigation <br> ANTH 454 The Archaeology of African Diasporas <br> ANTH 455 Ethnohistory (FOLK 455) <br> ANTH 458 Archaeology of Sex and Gender (WMST 458) <br> ANTH 460 Historical Ecology (ENST 460) <br> ANTH 538 Disease and Discrimination in Colonial Atlantic America <br> ANTH 550 Archaeology of the American South <br> ANTH 650 Reconstructing Life: Nutrition and Disease in Past Populations <br> CLAR 075 First-Year Seminar: The Archaeology of Death ... Ancient Mediterranean <br> CLAR 243 Minoans and Mycenaeans: The Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece <br> CLAR 375 The Archaeology of Cult: Material Culture of Greek Religion (RELI 375) <br> CLAR 448 Constantinople: The City and Its Art <br> CLAR 449 In Constantinople <br> CLAR 464 Greek Architecture (ART 464) <br> CLAR 465 Architecture of Etruria and Rome (ART 465) <br> CLAR 488 The Archaeology of the Near East in the Iron Age <br> CLAR 489 The Archaeology of Anatolia in the Bronze and Iron Ages <br> CLAR 490 The Archaeology of Early Greece: 1200-500 B.C. <br> RELI 063 First-Year Seminar. Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls <br> RELI 512 Ancient Synagogues (JWST/RELI 512) <br></blockquote> <p></p> <p> One elective course chosen from any of the courses listed above. Independent research, directed readings, or honors thesis hours may be substituted for the elective chosen from the course offerings.</p> <p> Two additional electives from related fields. See <a href=http://www.unc.edu/ugradbulletin/depts/arch.html> Undergraduate Bulletin </a> for a complete list of approved electives arranged by potential student interest. Any two may be used to fulfill the degree requirement.</p> <hr width=678></table> </center><br>  