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Your search for courses · during 2025-26 · taught by skennedy2 · returned 5 results
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ARCN 101 The Human Story: Archaeology and the Anthropocene 6 credits
What are the origins of our species? How did our ancestors evolve in Africa and disperse to nearly every corner of the globe? How did people create tools and homes, transform landscapes, and build cities? What are the origins of art? Of agriculture? Of mass-transport and communication technologies? Writing is about 5000 years old, meaning over 99% of the human past (c. 4 million years) is documented only through the material record of fossils, artifacts, and environmental impacts. This course examines the material worlds of humanity, and how archaeology provides a unique, “big-picture” story of our shared past.
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ARCN 101.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARCN 246 Archaeological Methods & Lab 6 credits
As a field that is truly interdisciplinary, archaeology uses a wide range of methods to study the past. This course provides a hands-on introduction to the entire archaeological process through classroom, field, and laboratory components. Students will participate in background research concerning local places of historical or archaeological interest; landscape surveying and mapping in GIS; excavation; the recording, analysis, and interpretation of artifacts; and the publication of results. This course involves real archaeological fieldwork, and students will have an opportunity to contribute to the history of the local community while learning archaeological methods applicable all over the world.
During registration, students will register for both the lecture and a corresponding lab section, which will appear on the student's academic transcript in a single entry.
Sophomore priority
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ARCN 246.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- TAnderson Hall 121 10:10am-11:55am
- TAnderson Hall 122 10:10am-11:55am
- THAnderson Hall 121 1:15pm-3:00pm
- THAnderson Hall 122 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARCN 246.52 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- TAnderson Hall 121 1:00pm-5:00pm
- TAnderson Hall 122 1:00pm-5:00pm
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ARCN 246.59 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- THAnderson Hall 121 8:00am-12:00pm
- THAnderson Hall 122 8:00am-12:00pm
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ARCN 394 Directed Research in Archaeology 1 – 6 credits
Students work on a research project related to a faculty member's research interests, and directed by that faculty member. Student activities vary according to the field and stage of the project. The long-run goal of these projects normally includes dissemination to a scholarly community beyond Carleton. The faculty member will meet regularly with the student and actively direct the work of the student, who will submit an end-of-term product, typically a paper or presentation.
Register for this course by submitting the Directed Research form which requires approval from the project faculty supervisor and your adviser.
- Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026
- No Exploration
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LTAM 102 Unsettling Latin America: New Encounters 6 credits
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of Latin American Studies. Drawing from history, anthropology, literature, political science, and cultural studies, we explore Latin America as both a geographic region and a dynamic idea shaped by centuries of interaction, colonization, resistance, and migration. From ancient Indigenous cultures to the complexities of contemporary Latino/a/e/x labels, students will examine how identity, power, and culture intersect across borders. In the process, the goal of the class is to show the diversity of lived experiences, how multiple worlds can coexist, and the importance of understanding, and perhaps unsettling, how Latin American realities are produced and enacted.
- Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry
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LTAM 113 Archeology of Ancient Latin America 6 credits
This course examines ancient peoples of the large, geographically and culturally diverse region of Latin America. Focused on Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, we will examine the material culture of Indigenous peoples from c. 20,000 years ago to the time of European contact (1500 AD), including the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Moche, Inka, Taíno, and Rapa Nui peoples. Themes include migration, the environment, settlement, long-term social change, and daily life. We will also review current debates and ethical issues, with an emphasis on Indigenous perspectives and cross-disciplinary dialogues between archaeology and related fields.
- Spring 2026
- IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry
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LTAM 113.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 302 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 302 9:40am-10:40am