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From Bronze Age palaces to the Acropolis in Athens and on the trail of Alexander the Great, this course explores the ancient Greek world through archaeology--using art, architecture, and everyday objects to learn about ancient Greek society, from the mysterious to the mundane. It also considers how we experience ancient Greece today, including questions about archaeological practice, the antiquities trade, and cultural heritage. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Course Attributes: Liberal Learning Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Undergraduate Return to Previous New Search
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Examines the archaeology of the city of Jerusalem from David's conquest in ca. 1000 B.C.E. through the Crusaders' defeat in 1187 A.D. The contemporary literary sources as well as the more recent scholarly debates and discoveries help us understand the material remains of the relevant periods. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Course Attributes: Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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Interested students must register for JUDS 0080 S01 (CRN 25006). 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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Anyone who has ever watched 'Gladiator', 'Spartacus', 'Life of Brian' or 'Bugs Bunny: Roman Legion Hare' has some image of Rome, the Romans and their empire. This course, while exploring and assessing these influential popular preconceptions, introduces a more balanced view of Roman archaeology and art, examining not only the 'eternal city' of Rome, but its vast and diverse imperial domain. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Undergraduate Return to Previous New Search
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Interested students must register for HIAA 0380 S01 (CRN 14866). 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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This survey course will familiarize students with the art, architecture and literature of Rome during the early Imperial era (ca. 40 BC - AD 140), through investigation of significant sites, monuments and museum collections in Rome and southern Italy. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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An introduction to the relationship between Roman art and the art of emerging Christianity. The course begins with the Pantheon and ends with the Hagia Sophia. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course will survey the archaeology of the regions under the political authority of Muslim states from the seventh century AD until the rise of the Ottoman Empire. We will examine Muslim societies through the archaeological record of their cities, monuments, and artifacts. We will consider both the "core" Islamic lands of the Middle East and its "periphery" such as Muslim Spain, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, and the Indian sub-continent. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Undergraduate Return to Previous New Search
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This introduction to early Islamic civilization will examine the interrelationship between the emerging Islamic religious tradition and the development of specifically Muslim social institutions, the role of ethnic and religious minorities, and the flowering of Islamic thought and material culture. Students will study archaeology, political and social histories, visual arts, and textual traditions to explore the evolution and institutionalization of Islam from Spain to Central Asia. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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The pyramids and Stonehenge built by aliens? The power of the Mummy's Curse? These myths couldn't be true... or could they? Cult Archaeology examines popular and fantastic interpretations of archaeological remains presented in the press and popular media. This course finds the logical flaws in pseudoscientific explanations and the biases that underlie them. Discover the "truth" about archaeology! 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Course Attributes: Liberal Learning Return to Previous New Search
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Everybody eats - but patterns of eating (and drinking) vary dramatically from culture to culture. This course traces the mechanics of food production and consumption in the ancient Mediterranean world, considers how diet marked symbolic boundaries and gender differences, and in general explores the extent to which the ancient Greeks and Romans "were what they ate." 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course focuses on a single historical figure, Alexander the Great, using him as a point of departure for exploring a wide range of problems and approaches that typify the field of Classical Studies. How knowledge of Alexander has been used and abused provides a fascinating case study in the formation and continuous reinterpretation of the western Classical tradition. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Extra Credit Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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Interested students must register for CLAS 0810A S01 (CRN 14090). 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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Rome's first Emperor, Gaius Octavian Augustus, ruled an empire stretching from Spain to Syria, from Britain to Egypt. Students will explore the social, artistic, and political successes and failures of this "golden age" of Rome's past. The course will assess a broad range of topics -- such as the creation of empire, art as propaganda, and the role of women -- within the context of Augustan ideology and history. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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Pompeii is a dead city. Or is it? This course will explore what we can learn from Pompeii, and the neighboring communities also destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. We will look at art, architecture (public and domestic), and all the many remains of "daily life" so uniquely preserved in these buried, but not forgotten, places. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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Investigates urbanism in pre-industrial societies, contrasting several archaeological regions during different time periods. Discusses factors influencing evolution of and approaches to urbanism. Focuses on regions/ancient sites in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, the Aegean, Syria, Europe, China, and pre-Hispanic Mexico. Discusses their spatial organization, physical planning, and socio-economic complexities. Prerequisite: One from among AE 36, 37, 38, 39, EG 143, 144. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course will examine critically the collection of ancient objects. Through functional, historical, material and aesthetic lenses an analysis of the relationships between the cultural contexts of objects will be examined. Case studies, guest lectures and site visits (virtual and real) will be used to demonstrate evolving theory, practice, law and ethical implications of collecting archaeological objects. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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No description available. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Do not Schedule Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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Focuses on the Bronze Age background to the emergence of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Italy in the Iron Age. Emphasizes the results of recent excavations, the problems of contact between the Aegean and Tyrrhenian areas in the Bronze Age, Greek colonization, and the urban development of the Etruscan/Latian region. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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Pompeii is a dead city. Or is it? This course will explore what we can learn from Pompeii, and the neighboring communities also destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. We will look at art, architecture (public and domestic), and all the many remains of 'daily life' so uniquely preserved in these buried, but not forgotten, places. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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The archeology, art, and architecture of Iberia during the Roman presence from the Punic Wars to the beginning of the Arab conquest. The artifacts and monuments discussed will not only represent artistic production from Roman administrative expressions, but also a mixture of styles between indigenous art (such as Celtic) or expressions of syncretism or other cultural symbioses. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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Study of portraits from the ancient civilization of the Mediterranean and portraits that were inspired by or reacted to the ancient portrait from the 16th to the 20th century. Also investigates the style, iconography, function, physiognomy, and psychology with which one can look at portraits. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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Rome has been the scene of notable recent discoveries. This course will concentrate on the evidence for the so-called "regal period" but other topics, among them commemorative arches, the topography of the Campus Martius, and Christian basillicas, will also be taken up. A reading knowledge of Italian is highly recommended. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course will explore urbanization, formation of urban space, and architectural projects in relation to cult practices and commemorative ceremonies in the Ancient Near East. Investigating case studies from early cities of fourth millenium BC Mesopotamia to Iron Age Syria and Anatolia, we will study the processes of the making of urban and extra-urban landscapes in the socio-religious context of festivals. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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This course will survey the archaeology and history of the Arabs and Arabia from before their emergence in the historical record to the modern period. Our particular focus concerns their relationship with the rise of Islam as well as the imperial politics of the pre-Islamic Near East. A major issue that frames these inquires is the concept of ethnicity and its projection into the past. 1.000 Credit Hours 1.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Primary Meeting Undergraduate College College Inst for Arch and Anct World Department Return to Previous New Search
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