{"id":15497,"date":"2015-06-15T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=15497"},"modified":"2024-08-09T07:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:42:43","slug":"carleton-university-launches-new-minor-in-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2015\/carleton-university-launches-new-minor-in-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"杏吧原创 University Launches New Minor in Archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n 杏吧原创 University Launches New Minor in Archaeology\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Digging up the past to understand the present.
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\"Undergraduate
Undergraduate students excavate a human burial at Roman site in Italy.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2015, 杏吧原创 University will proudly launch a minor in Archaeology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minor in Archaeology is designed to train students in the recovery and understanding of the past through the interpretation of material remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minor facilitates a terrific opportunity for students to combine in-class learning with hands-on experience in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Housed in the Greek and Roman Studies Program within the College of the Humanities, the minor draws widely on the expertise of faculty across the university, in order to reflect the breadth of knowledge required to understand a past culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Archaeologists
Archaeologists study the geological composition of different artefacts to determine where they come from. This is a piece of pottery from the Aegean Sea seen with a petrographic microscope.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Some Quick Facts on the Minor in Archaeology:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
  • The minor combines resources from seven different departments within the university, allowing study in the Arts, Social Sciences and pure Sciences.<\/li>
  • Coursework can cover a vast range of time and scope \u2013 from the dinosaurs to the nineteenth century, and from art and architecture to digital mapping and remote sensing.<\/li>
  • Students are able to get academic credit for field work experience \u2013 excavating at an archaeological site anywhere around the globe.<\/li>
  • Students will also receive first-hand information from professional archaeologists and other experts who deliver guest lectures and discuss their careers and experiences.<\/li>
  • The minor seeks to guide students towards additional opportunities \u2013 local, national, and global \u2013 for further study and employment in the wide range of fields associated with archaeology.\n

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    \"Archaeologists
    Archaeologists do detailed studies of artifacts, like this assortment of Roman pottery in Tuscany<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Digging up the past to understand the present. In the fall of 2015, 杏吧原创 University will proudly launch a minor in Archaeology. The minor in Archaeology is designed to train students in the recovery and understanding of the past through the interpretation of material remains. The minor facilitates a terrific opportunity for students to combine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[77,27],"tags":[78,79],"class_list":["post-15497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archeology","category-news","tag-archeology","tag-new-minor"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34258,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497\/revisions\/34258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}