Through hands-on experience, students will be trained in different methods and techniques for conducting all phases of archaeological field and laboratory work, including surface survey, remote sensing, excavation, data and material recovery, recording, processing, and analysis. Students also will learn how different archaeological methods and techniques have changed over time. Non traditional format: Lectures will be supplemented with hands-on field and lab experiences.

When this course is taught as a split level, additional requirements for graduate students: Graduate students will be required to supervise the field and lab work of undergraduate students to develop leadership skills. Non traditional format: Lectures will be supplemented with hands-on field and lab experiences.

The role of disease in the human experience. Students will draw on information from medical anthropology, epidemiology, human adaptation, disease ecology, and evolutionary biology to examine how diseases have been shaped by human-environmental interactions, culture, individual behavior, and social and economic processes.

When this course is taught as a split level, additional requirements for graduate students: Students who register for graduate credit will complete an annotated bibliography and research paper on a topic to be determined by agreement between the student and professor. This will consist of both a written and oral class presentation on the selected topic.

Focusing on forced human displacements, this course explores the underlying causes of displacement, like conflict, persecution, political turmoil, and consequences of climate change, and organizations that provide essential services to asylum seekers in the U.S., Thailand, Austria, and Greece, like UNHCR, IRC, local non-profits, intentional communities, and student groups.

Introduces students to the field of archaeology. Students will gain a basic understanding of the history of archaeology as a discipline, the nature of archaeological data, the core concepts and various methodologies used by archaeologists, and how archaeologists use anthropological theories and approaches to interpret the past.