The Program in Classical Archaeology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Departments of Art and Classics offer concentrations in Ancient Art and Classical Archaeology respectively. The specific aim of the program in classical archaeology is to provide students with a broad training in classical archaeology, including an introduction to a variety of interpretive methods and approaches to material culture as well as a firm disciplinary basis in one of the two departments. Students take courses in both departments and conduct thesis and other research with appropriate faculty members; degree requirements differ somewhat in the two departments. As a whole, the program is designed to encourage students to work beyond departmental lines and to prepare them for teaching, research, and fieldwork in Prehistoric, Classical, and Byzantine art and archaeology. Opportunities are available for interdisciplinary studies, and course work is encouraged in the departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, History, and Religious Studies. Students are also encouraged to study abroad, at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens or the American Academy in Rome, or by becoming involved in excavation or survey work. Opportunities for field work exist at Gordion in Turkey, on Crete, in the Athenian Agora, at Corinth, and at Carthage in Tunisia, among other sites. Summer courses are also taught in Istanbul. In addition to memberships in the American School and the American Academy, UNC also holds membership in the American Research Institute in Turkey, the American Schools of Oriental Research, the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, the College Art Association, and the Society for the American Journal of Archaeology.
Graduate courses in Classical Archaeology regularly include Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology, Greek Architecture, Greek Sculpture (separate courses on Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic), Greek Painting, Athenian Topography, the Archaeology of Anatolia, Roman Architecture, Roman Sculpture, Roman Painting, and the Topography of Rome and topography of Constantinople. Seminars in Classical Archaeology and Ancient Art are normally scheduled each year. Directed studies (individual tutorials) have recently included Crete in the Classical Period and Greek Architectural Sculpture. Other courses of interest to students in Classics are offered by the Departments of Anthropology, Art, History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, and by the Curriculum in Linguistics. Yearly Annual seminars in Ancient Art and Classical Archaeology offer a variety of topics. Through the Department of Anthropology and the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, students may take courses in Archaeological Theory, Quantitative Methods, European Societies, Architecture and Culture, Osteology, and Ethnobotany.