The minor in archaeology provides students with the opportunity to explore archaeological techniques and the evidence for human societies in different locations, from the deep past to more recent periods. Courses cover a wide range of regional cultural sequences and archaeological and interdisciplinary methodologies for understanding and investigating past people's worlds.
Learning Outcomes
- use archaeological evidence to identify cross-cultural patterns and variation in the human past to address critical questions about human society and development;
- describe the long-term cultural changes in different parts of the world to explain the nature of ancient and historic life and cultural transformations;
- critically evaluate archaeological evidence to reconstruct cultural and environmental systems, chronologies, and patterns of interaction; and
- draw on a range of archaeological and interdisciplinary interpretative, laboratory and field methods to identify, record, and critically analyse data about past people and their ways of life.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
The Archaeology Minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:
A maximum of 12 units from the completion of courses from the following list:
ANTH1002 - Culture and Human Diversity: Introducing Anthropology (6 units)
ARCH1001 - Uncovering the Past (6 units)
A minimum of 12 and a maximum of 24 units from the completion of courses from the following list:
ARCH2004 Australian Archaeology (6 units)
ARCH2005 Archaeology of the Pacific Islanders (6 units)
ARCH2007 Archaeological Laboratory Methods (6 units)
ARCH2030 Angkor: Power and Glory (6 units)
ARCH2037 From Empire to Invasions: the Archaeology of Europe from the Romans to the Vikings (6 units)
ARCH2041 Introduction to Environmental Archaeology (6 units)
ARCH2050 Archaeology of Southeast Asia (6 units)
ARCH2052 Archaeology in Film and Fiction (6 units)
ARCH2055 Archaeological Fieldschools and Fieldwork Practice (6 units)
ARCH2058 European Prehistory from Cultivation to the Celts (6 units)
ARCH2061 Archaeological Field Methods (6 units)
ARCH3006 Professional Archaeology (6 units)
ARCH3023 Thinking Through the Past: Archaeological Theory from 1950 (6 units)
ARCH3026 History of Archaeology: Discovering the Past (6 units)
ARCH3030 Archaeology of Ritual and Religion (6 units)
ARCH3042 Scientific Dating in Archaeology and Palaeoenvironmental Studies (6 units)
ARCH3043 Analysis of Vertebrate Remains (6 units)
ARCH3108 Animal and Plant Domestication (6 units)
ASIA2018 Maps and Mapping in Asia and the Pacific (6 units)
ASIA2130 The Archaeology of Rock Art in Asia, Pacific and Australia (6 units)
ASIA2203 Archaeology of China (6 units)
ASIA3220 Asia-Pacific In-Country Learning (6 units)
ENVS3029 Palaeo-Environmental Reconstruction (6 units)
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