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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with ARCN Pertinent · returned 16 results
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ARCN 111 Archaeology of the Americas 6 credits
This class will examine how archaeologists know the past, focusing on North and South America. The course is organized by themes including migration (first peopling of the Americas, trans-Atlantic slave trade), early cities (Caral in South America, Teotihuacan in Central America, Cahokia in North America), and the environment (domestication, over hunting). Remember–the past is not something natural and static that waits to be “discovered.” The past changes depending on who gets to tell the story–it is not neutral! Whose past is legitimate? Which voices get heard or ignored? In this course, you will find out!
- Spring 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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ARCN 111.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 11:10am-12:20pm
- M, WAnderson Hall 122 11:10am-12:20pm
- FAnderson Hall 121 12:00pm-1:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 122 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARCN 222 Experimental Archaeology and Experiential History 6 credits
This course offers an experiential approach to crafts, technologies, and other material practices in premodern societies. Through hands-on activities and collaborations with local craftspeople, farmers, and other experts, this course will examine and test a variety of hypotheses about how people in the past lived their lives. How did prehistoric people produce stone tools, pottery, and metal? How did ancient Greeks and Romans feed and clothe themselves? How did medieval Europeans build their homes and bury their dead? Students will answer these questions and more by actively participating in a range of experimental archaeology and experiential history projects. Lab required.
- Spring 2024
- Science with Lab
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One previous Archaeology pertinent course
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ARCN 222.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 1:50pm-3:00pm
- THAnderson Hall 122 1:15pm-5:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 121 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARCN 251 Greece at a Crossroads: History, Landscape, and Material Culture Program: Digital Archaeology and Virtual Reality 6 credits
Archaeological methodology has been changing at a revolutionary pace throughout the last decade. Today old ways of recording and interpreting archaeological data are being replaced by digital and computational methods, and virtual reality has become a key component of archaeological projects and cultural heritage management alike. The main aim of this course is for the student to develop a comprehensive understanding of the new possibilities offered by the most recent tools and methods in analyzing the past, as well as to acquire a practical skill set, which will be useful in both archaeological fieldwork and cultural heritage management projects.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Greece at a Crossroads: History, Landscape, and Material Culture
- Spring 2024
- Science with Lab Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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Participation in Greece at a Crossroads: History, Landscape, and Material Culture OCS Program
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ARTH 101 Introduction to Art History I 6 credits
An introduction to the art and architecture of various geographical areas around the world from antiquity through the “Middle Ages.” The course will provide foundational skills (tools of analysis and interpretation) as well as general, historical understanding. It will focus on a select number of major developments in a range of media and cultures, emphasizing the way that works of art function both as aesthetic and material objects and as cultural artifacts and forces. Issues include, for example, sacred spaces, images of the gods, imperial portraiture, and domestic decoration.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 101.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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CLAS 124 Roman Archaeology and Art 6 credits
The material worlds of the ancient Romans loom large in our cultural imagination. From the architecture of the state to visual narratives of propaganda, Roman influence is ubiquitous in monuments across the West. But what were the origins of these artistic trends? What makes a monument characteristically ‘Roman’? And how has this material culture been interpreted and understood over time? This course explores the art, architecture, and archaeology of the ancient Romans both in the city of Rome and across the Empire, and considers the ways in which Roman trends have also influenced modern cultures.
- Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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CLAS 124.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CLAS 200 Greece at a Crossroads: History, Landscape, and Material Culture 6 credits
This course provides a long-term view of the history, landscape, and material culture of Greece, from prehistory to the present day. While the monuments of ancient Greece are cultural touchstones, Greece has a remarkably diverse past, occupying a borderland between continents, empires, and cultures, both ancient and modern. Classroom study and on-site learning examine the wide range of sources that inform us about the Greek past (texts, archaeology, the environment), and focus especially on the stories told by places and things. Site visits in Athens and on trips throughout Greece highlight the importance of local and regional contexts in the “big histories” of the eastern Mediterranean.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Greece at a Crossroads: History, Landscape, and Material Culture
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Participation in Greece at a Crossroads OCS programs
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DGAH 210 Spatial Humanities 6 credits
Spatial analysis is central to the digital humanities and a valuable methodology within history, literature, archaeology, anthropology, and many other disciplines. This course provides an introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the key concepts, debates, and technologies behind digital mapping in the humanities and social sciences. We will learn technical GIS skills that include visualizing, analyzing, and managing various types of spatial data, digitizing historical maps, interactive web mapping, and basic cartographic design. This course is open to all students, regardless of prior experience, and covers the fundamental skills needed to produce spatial humanities projects within any discipline.
- Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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DGAH 210.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THCMC 110 10:10am-11:55am
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DGAH 264 Visualizing the Ancient City 6 credits
What makes a city, well, a city? This course examines urban society across different regions of the ancient world from the 2nd millennium BCE to 1st millennium CE. Taking a comparative approach to examples from the Mediterranean, Near East, Mesoamerica and China, we will reconstruct social, political, and topographic histories of urban space from a kaleidoscope of sources that include archaeological excavations, art & architecture, inscriptions, and literature. We will approach this source material using digital methods such as 3D modeling, GIS mapping, and digital storytelling to reconstruct both the physical environments and lived experiences of past cities.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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DGAH 264.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THCMC 110 10:10am-11:55am
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ENTS 120 Introduction to Geospatial Analysis & Lab 6 credits
Spatial data analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, global positioning, and related technologies are increasingly important for understanding and analyzing a wide range of biophysical, social, and economic phenomena. This course serves as an overview and introduction to the concepts, algorithms, issues, and methods in describing, analyzing, and modeling geospatial data over a range of application areas.
- Fall 2023, Spring 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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ENTS 120.52 Spring 2024
- Faculty:John Berini 🏫 👤
- Size:19
- M, WHulings 316 11:10am-12:20pm
- TCMC 110 1:00pm-5:00pm
- FHulings 316 12:00pm-1:00pm
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Sophomore priority
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ENTS 120.53 Spring 2024
- Faculty:John Berini 🏫 👤
- Size:11
- M, WHulings 316 11:10am-12:20pm
- WCMC 110 1:00pm-5:00pm
- FHulings 316 12:00pm-1:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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GEOL 110 Introduction to Geology and Lab 6 credits
An introduction to the fundamental and wondrous processes that shape the Earth. We approach learning through outdoor and laboratory problems, which are often complicated and messy, like the planet itself. Topics may include the formation of rocks, minerals, and mountains, the water cycle, plate tectonics, climate change, volcanoes, and earthquakes. One all-day weekend field trip is typically required. No previous outdoor experience or gear is needed.
Sophomore Priority. Note: Movement between sections is not possible, if sections fill during registration, seats that open are filled from that waitlist first.
- Fall 2023, Spring 2024
- Science with Lab
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Not open to students who have taken another 100-level Geology course
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GEOL 110.51 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Bereket Haileab 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WAnderson Hall 129 9:50am-11:00am
- FAnderson Hall 129 9:40am-10:40am
- MAnderson Hall 129 2:00pm-6:00pm
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Held for new first year students
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GEOL 110.52 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Bereket Haileab 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WAnderson Hall 129 9:50am-11:00am
- FAnderson Hall 129 9:40am-10:40am
- TAnderson Hall 129 1:00pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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GEOL 110.54 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sarah Titus 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- T, THAnderson Hall 129 10:10am-11:55am
- THAnderson Hall 129 1:00pm-5:00pm
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Held for first year students. Extra time Note: Movement between sections is not possible, if sections fill during registration, seats that open are filled from that waitlist
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GEOL 110.53 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sarah Titus 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- T, THAnderson Hall 129 10:10am-11:55am
- WAnderson Hall 129 2:00pm-6:00pm
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Sophomore priority Extra time Note: Movement between sections is not possible, if sections fill during registration, seats that open are filled from that waitlist
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GEOL 125 Introduction to Field Geology and Lab 6 credits
This course introduces fundamental principles of geology and geological reasoning using the geology of southern Minnesota as a guide. Weather permitting, much of the classroom and lab time will be spent outdoors at nearby sites of geological interest. Using field observations, descriptions, data-gathering and interpretation, supplemented by lab work and critical reading, students will piece together the most important elements of the long and complex geologic history of southern Minnesota. Field trips, including one or two all-day weekend trips, and laboratories included.
First year priority. Extra time, weekend field trips.
- Fall 2023
- Science with Lab Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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Not open to students who have taken another 100-level Geology course
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GEOL 125.54 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Cameron Davidson 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- T, THAnderson Hall 129 10:10am-11:55am
- THAnderson Hall 129 1:00pm-5:00pm
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First year priority Extra time, weekend field trips
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GEOL 210 Geomorphology and Lab 6 credits
A lab and field-focused introduction to water resources–the processes driving the water cycle, the methods used to quantify and understand the flow of water, and the relationship between humans and water. Weekly field trips to nearby locations such as streams, wellfields, caves, and water infrastructure to develop skills including streamflow measurements, water quality monitoring, pump tests, and measuring soil properties. No previous outdoor experience required.
- Fall 2023
- Science with Lab Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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100 level Geology course
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GEOL 210.53 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Chloé Fandel 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WAnderson Hall 123 11:10am-12:20pm
- WAnderson Hall 123 2:00pm-6:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 123 12:00pm-1:00pm
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GEOL 210.52 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Chloé Fandel 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WAnderson Hall 123 11:10am-12:20pm
- TAnderson Hall 123 2:00pm-6:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 123 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 238 The Viking World 6 credits
In the popular imagination, Vikings are horn-helmeted, blood-thirsty pirates who raped and pillaged their way across medieval Europe. But the Norse did much more than loot, rape, and pillage; they cowed kings and fought for emperors, explored uncharted waters and settled the North Atlantic, and established new trade routes that revived European urban life. In this course, we will separate fact from fiction by critically examining primary source documents alongside archaeological, linguistic and place-name evidence. Students will share their insights with each other and the world through two major collaborative digital humanities projects over the course of the term.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 238.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Austin Mason 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 278 The Aztecs and Their World 6 credits
Come explore the world of feathered serpents, smoking mirrors, flower songs, and water mountains! This course examines from multiple disciplinary perspectives the Nahuatl-speaking people of central Mexico under both Aztec and early Spanish rule (spanning approximately the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries). Students will gain experience working with a range of sources produced by Nahua authors, scribes, and artists, including ritual calendars, imperial tribute records, dynastic annals, and translated documents. The College’s rich collection of Mesoamerican codex facsimiles will play a prominent role in our investigation. No prior knowledge is required or expected.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 278.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Andrew Fisher 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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LTAM 220 Eating the Americas: 5,000 Years of Food 6 credits
Food is both a biological necessity and a cultural symbol. We eat to survive, we “are what we eat,” and delicious foods are “to die for.” What does this all mean in the context of Latin America, which gave us the origins of peanut butter (peanuts), spaghetti sauce (tomatoes), avocado toast (avocados), french fries (potatoes), and power bowls (quinoa)? In this class, we will explore the long history humans have had with food in Latin America, drawing from archaeology, ethnohistory, and anthropology to explore the relationship between food, culture, power, identity, gender, and ethnicity.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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LTAM 220.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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SOAN 110 Introduction to Anthropology 6 credits
Anthropology is the study of all human beings in all their diversity, an exploration of what it means to be human throughout the globe. This course helps us to see ourselves, and others, from a new perspective. By examining specific analytic concepts—such as culture—and research methods—such as participant observation—we learn how anthropologists seek to understand, document, and explain the stunning variety of human cultures and ways of organizing society. This course encourages you to consider how looking behind cultural assumptions helps anthropologists solve real world dilemmas.
Sophomore Priority.
- Fall 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement