CARS 4910 - Field Study in Mediterranean Archaeology

• Students will be able to demonstrate practical techniques in archaeological excavation, recording, and field analysis of finds.
• Students will be able to connect the archaeological material from different phases to the chronology of the site as a whole, and to compare material to other sites of the same period or culture.
• Students will be able to perform regularly, and communicate orally and extemporaneously, basic typological analysis on finds from the given region and period.
• Students will be able to apply different methods of archaeological recording, including daily maps, level heights, and cataloguing.
• Students will be able to apply material from one site to evaluate broader regional and chronological questions current in the discipline.
• Students will be able to connect material in the field to published archaeological reports and to analyze the quality of a given report based on that material.
• Students will be able to see and make connections across disciplines and perspectives–primarily between archaeology, history, and politics.
• Students will be able to communicate orally realtime analysis of excavated materials using the objects themselves as an aid in the analysis.
• Students will be able to demonstrate a developing sense of their strengths and opportunities for growth as a learner.
• Students will be able to use their experience working in an international context to articulate insights about their own cultural rules and biases.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an increased understanding of the complexity of elements important to Mediterranean cultures regarding history, values, and beliefs.
• Students will be able to interpret intercultural experience from their and others’ worldview and to act in a manner that recognizes the feelings of another cultural group.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication and to negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions of other cultures and to articulate answers to these questions in papers that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
• Students will be able to initiate and develop interactions with culturally different others while suspending judgment and valuing their interactions with culturally different others.