Programs are to be arranged by the student in consultation with her adviser for the minor and should be submitted to the Faculty Advisory Committee by the advisor for review. Note certain specific requirements in the Archaeology section of the Smith Course Catalogue. Not more than two courses from a student's major may count toward the minor. Only 4 credits of a language course may count toward the Archaeology minor. Students interested in archaeology are encouraged to speak with any of the advisers in the Program. This information was last updated on August 27, 2008 .

ALWAYS check with the main Smith College Course Catalog and the home department/institution for the most accurate information.

FYS 153 Excavating Women
Susan Allen
T 9:00-10:20 am, M 7:00-08:30 pm
The interdisciplinary seminar will explore a little-known area in the history of archaeology: the participation and legacy of women from the time of Thomas Jefferson to today. Students will learn by analyzing the lives, achievements, and experiences of women who devoted themselves to this pursuit or advanced it through their support of those who did. The class involves students in the professor's innovative methodology, archival archaeology, and current area of research. Enrollment limited to 15. (E) (WI)

ARC 211 Introduction to Archaeology
Susan Allen
T 1:00-4:00
An interdisciplinary introduction to archaeological inquiry. Students learn about the history of the field and Smith's own pioneers. This class explores all aspects of archaeology. Students practice survey and illustration techniques and learn methods of excavation, analysis, and interpretation of artifacts, skeletal, and environmental remains. In addition, we investigate issues of archaeological ethics and the political uses of archaeology. How does archaeological theory and investigator's perspective affect our reconstruction of the past? Sites around the globe enrich our classroom. Enrollment limited to 30. 

ARH 212 Ancient Cities and Sanctuaries

CLS 227 Classical Mythology

CLS 235 Life and Literature in Ancient Rome

GRK 100y Elementary Greek**

GRK 310 Advanced Readings in Greek Literature (certain topics: check with faculty adviser)

LAT 100y Elementary Latin

GEO 111 Introduction to Earth Processes and History I (prereq to 221, 231, 232)

GEO 221 Mineralogy

GEO 231 Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleoecology

GEO 232 Sedimentology

GEO 311 Environmental Geophysics (special prerequisites)

HST 260 Colonial Latin America

REL 210 Introduction to the Bible I (Hebrew Scriptures)

See also: Department language courses in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Arabic

ARC 112/GEO 112 Archaeological Geology of Rock and Stone Artifacts
Bosiljka Glumac
T R 10:30 AM-11:50 AM
What makes a mineral or a rock particularly useful as a stone tool or attractive as a sculpture? Students in this course will explore this and other questions by applying geological approaches and techniques in studying various examples or rock art and stone artifacts to learn more about human behavior, ecology and cultures in the past. This exploration across traditional boundaries between archaeology and earth science will include background topics of mineral and rock formation, weathering processes, and age determination, as well as investigations of petroglyphs (carvings into stone surfaces), stone artifacts and other artifactual rocks (building stone and sculptures) described in the literature, displayed in museum collections, and found in the field locally. 

PRS 306 Beowulf and Archaeology
Craig R. Davis
The Old English poem Beowulf may be the most expressive document we possess for the cultural world of Europe from the 5th through 8th centuries AD, even though it survives in a single copy from c. 1000. Our interpretation of this poem has been enhanced by discoveries of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial in East Anglia, a huge 6th –century hall in Denmark, and other significant finds. This seminar will examine the way archaeological investigation, historical research and literary criticism all combine to create a more revealing, though still controversial “assemblage of texts” from this formative phase of early European society. Enrollment limited to 12 juniors and seniors. 

AMS 302 The Material Culture of New England, 1630-1860

CLS 215 Discovering Greece Through Material Culture

GRK 213 Homer, Iliad or Odyssey

REL 211 Wisdom and Other Books of the Bible

REL 215 Introduction to the Bible II

See also: Religion Department Language Courses in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Arabic

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ANT 236 Economy, Ecology and Society

ANT 230 Anthropology of Museums

ANT 342 Anthropology of Material Culture

FYS 1xx Making Sense of the Pre-Columbian

ARH 101 Scenes of Sacrifice

ARH 200 Gladiators and Actors in the Ancient Roman World

ARH 2xx Inca and Aztec: Visual Culture and Imperial Desire

ARH 204 Ancient America: Art, Architecture and Archaeology

ARH 206 Art of Ancient Egypt and the Aegean Bronze Age

ARH 208 The Art of Greece

ARH 210 Greek Sculpture

ARH 214 Etruscan Art

ARH 216 The Art of the Roman World

ARH 285 Great Cities: Pompeii

ARH 310 Sem: Studies in Greek Art

ARH 315 Sem: Studies in Roman Art

CLS 190 The Trojan War

CLS 230 The Historical Imagination

CLS 232 Paganism in the Greco-Roman World

FYS 234 Rites of Passage

LAT 215 Roman Historians

LAT 330 Advanced Readings in Latin Literature (certain topics: check with faculty adviser)

HST 200 History of Ancient Greece and Rome

HST 201 The Silk Road

HST 202 Ancient Greece

HST 203 Alexander the Great & the Hellenistic World

HST 204 The Roman Republic

HST 205 The Roman Empire

HST 206 Aspects of Ancient History

HST 211 The Emergence of China

HST 265 North America in an Age of Empires and Revolutions, 1400-1800

HST 268 Native American Indians, 1500-present

HST368 Topics in American Indian History

HSC 211 Perspectives in the History of Science

REL 213 Prophecy in Ancient Israel

REL 218j Exploring the Holy Land

REL 217 Archaeology at Qumran: The Dead Sea Scrolls, Judaism and Christianity

REL 219 Christian Origins: Archaeology and SocioHistorical Perspectives

REL 310 Seminar: Hebrew Bible (formerly 313)

REL 320 Seminar: Paul and the Dead Sea Scrolls

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UMass-Amherst Anthropology

ANT 271 Human Evolution

ANT 320 Research Techniques in Physical Anthropology

ANT 325 Analysis of Material Culture

ANT 369 North American Archeology

ANT 397V Archeology of Israel and Palestine

ANT 577 Theory and Method in Archeology

ANT 597A Archeological Ceramics

ANT 597J Hominid Paleontology

ANT 597 Plagues and Peoples

Hampshire College

NS 138 Archeology of Disease

NS 138 Archeology of Children