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  • AFH 5934: Topics in African History (3) Selected topics of medieval history.
  • ANG 5126: Zooarchaeology (3) Human use of animal resources, emphasizing prehistoric hunting and fishing practices. Origins of animal domestication.
  • ANG 5172: Historical Archaeology (3) Methods and theoretical foundations of historical archeology as it relates to the disciplines of anthropology, history, historic preservation, and conservation. Introduction to pertinent aspects of material culture during the historic period.
  • ANG 5184: Principles of Archaeology (3) Foundational principles of methods and practice in contemporary anthropological archaeology including field research, interpretation of archaeological materials, temporal and spatial scales, and archaeological ethics.
  • ANG 5525: Human Osteology and Osteometry (3) Human skeletal identification for the physical anthropologist and archeologist. Techniques for estimating age at death, race, and sex from human skeletal remains. Measurement of human skeleton for comparative purposes.
  • ANG 5824L: Field Sessions in Archaeology (6) Excavating archeological sites, recording data, laboratory handling and analysis of specimens, and studying theoretical principles that underlie field methods and artifact analysis. Not open to students who have taken ANT 4124 or equivalent.
  • ANG 6110: Archaeological Theory (3) Survey of the theoretical and methodological tenets of anthropological archeology; critical review of archeological theories, past and present; relation of archeology to anthropology.
  • ANG 6120C: Environmental Archaeology (3) Theory and case studies integrating zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, and geoarchaeology to interpret past human interactions with the natural environment.
  • ANG 6122: Archaeological Ceramics (3) Technofunctional analysis and interpretation of archaeological ceramics. Emphasizes the life cycle of pottery.
  • ANG 6186: Seminar in Archaeology (3) Selected topics
  • ANG 6741: Archaeology of Death (3) Archaeological literature on mortuary data. History, cultural anthropology, and ethnography offer insights into the origin of religion, the nature of society, and the structure of ritual.
  • ANG 6905: Individual Work (3) Guided readings on research in archaeology based on library, laboratory, or field work.
  • EUH 5195: The Archaeology of the Middle Ages (3). Introduction to the analytical methods, the history of the discipline, and its current application to the understanding of the Middle Ages.
  • EUH 5934: The Empire and the barbarians (3). Examines the history of the relations between the Roman Empire and the barbarian groups living beyond its borders or later moving into the empire.
  • EUH 5934: East Central Europe in the Middle Ages (3). This course will focus upon the history of this dramatic transformation, more specifically, upon the key elements of its implementation and effects taking place between ca. 1000 and ca. 1300 in East Central Europe. to medieval archaeology as a historical discipline and an inquiry into various approaches to the interpretation of material culture.
  • EUH 6126: Readings in Medieval History (3) Major themes; readings combine classic studies that shaped the field with current work exploring issues like gender, textuality and historical memory, and popular religion.
  • EUH 6174: Conversion in the Middle Ages (3) Examines the religious experience of the middle ages through reading and discussion of concepts such as conversion, martyrdom, sainthood, gender, and power.
  • EUH 6175: Ethnicity in the Middle Ages (3) Ethnicity as a form of social and political mobilization in the middle ages. Focuses on issues such as migration, ethnogenesis, medieval law, language and ethnic identity, kingdoms, and ethnic communities.
  • EUH 6176: Villages and Peasants in the Middle Ages (3) In-depth examination of such key concepts as manorialism, corvee, manumission, and using written and archaeological sources.
  • EUH 6177: Economy and Society in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (3). In-depth examination of the economic transformations during the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Focuses on issues of agricultural production, trade, and social change.
    GEO 6160: Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Geographers (3). 
    Working knowledge of statistical and quantitative techniques used by geographers. Focuses on spatial analysis.
  • GEO 6161: Intermediate Quantitative Methods for Geographers (3). Statistical techniques used in the spatial and social sciences. Regression analysis for cross-sectional, qualitative, time-series, and geocoded data.
  • GIS 5107C: Geographic Information Systems in Research (4). Geographic technology for creating, modifying, displaying, and analyzing spatial information. Geographic analysis and reasoning, computer software and hardware technology, and research applications of GIS. Geographic databases.
  • HIS 6905: Individual Study in History (4) Guided readings on research in medieval history.