Archaeology Minor
The minor in archaeology draws on a number of disciplines and departments—principally anthropology, classics, and art—in the study of the ancient world, the reconstruction of past lifeways, and the interpretation of ancient social, political, and economic systems.
The minor helps prepare students for graduate study in anthropological archaeology, classical archaeology, cultural resource management, and historical preservation. It also provides any student with a strong intellectual interest in archaeology with a structured introduction to this field. Students interested in the minor in archaeology may contact the director of undergraduate studies and consult the website.
Requirements
In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must:
- take at least nine hours of their minor "core" requirements at UNC–Chapel Hill
- earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 in the minor core requirements. Some programs may require higher standards for minor or specific courses.
For more information, please consult the degree requirements section of the catalog.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Requirements | ||
| Five courses from at least two departments from the following list (no more than one of which is a field school): 1, 2, 3 | 15-18 | |
 First-Year Seminar: Skeletons in the Closet | ||
| First-Year Seminar: The Indians' New Worlds: Southeastern Histories from 1200 to 1800 | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Public Archaeology in Bronzeville, Chicago's Black Metropolis | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Humans and Animals: Anthropological Perspectives | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Archaeology and Popular Culture | ||
| Ancient Cities of the Americas | ||
| Habitat and Humanity | ||
| Archaeology and the Media | ||
| Introduction to World Prehistory | ||
| Human Origins | ||
| Great Discoveries in Archaeology | ||
| Anthropological Perspectives on Food and Culture | ||
| Principles of Archaeology | ||
| Prehistoric Art | ||
| Ancestral Maya Civilizations H | ||
| Archaeology of Ancient Turkey | ||
| Origins of Civilization: Archaeology of the British Museum | ||
| Archaeology of North America H | ||
| Archaeology of Food | ||
| Gender and Culture | ||
| Archaeological Theory and Practice | ||
| Native Languages of the Americas | ||
| Histories of Violence | ||
| Curating Things | ||
| The Identification and Analysis of Historical Artifacts | ||
| Laboratory Methods in Archaeology H | ||
| Paleoanthropology | ||
| Laboratory Methods: Archaeobotany and Archaeobotany Lab | ||
| Laboratory Methods: Human Osteology and Human Osteology Lab | ||
| Laboratory Methods: Zooarchaeology and Zooarchaeology Lab | ||
| Bioarchaeology | ||
| Laboratory Methods: Lithic Seminar and Lithic Analysis Lab | ||
| Laboratory Methods: Ceramic Analysis | ||
| Anthropological Application of GIS | ||
| Public Archaeology | ||
| Archaeological Geology | ||
| Written in Bone: CSI and the Science of Death Investigation from Skeletal Remains | ||
| Public Archaeology Practicum | ||
| Field School in North American Archaeology 1, H | ||
| Field School in South American Archaeology 1, H | ||
| The Archaeology of African Diasporas | ||
| Archaeology and Ethnography of Small-Scale Societies | ||
| Perspectives in Historical Archaeology | ||
| Archaeology of Sex and Gender | ||
| Historical Ecology | ||
| State Formation | ||
| The Archaeology of Health and Well-Being | ||
| Archaeology of the American South | ||
| Origins of Agriculture in the Ancient World | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Art in the Ancient City H | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Bandits, Barbarians, and Rebels in the Ancient Mediterranean | ||
| The Archaeology of Palestine in the New Testament Period | ||
| Ancient Mediterranean, Egyptian, and Near Eastern Archaeology H | ||
| Art and Fashion from Rome to Timbuktu | ||
| The Archaeology of Warfare in the Ancient World | ||
| Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East | ||
| Egyptian Art and Archaeology | ||
| Minoans and Mycenaeans: The Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece | ||
| Greek Art and Archaeology | ||
| Roman Art and Archaeology | ||
| Who Owns the Past?: Archaeology, Ethics, and Politics H | ||
| Hellenistic Art and Archaeology (350-31 BCE) | ||
| Quantifying the Past: Big Data and Big Questions in Classical Archaeology | ||
| Archaeology of Cult | ||
| Life and Art in Ancient Pompeii | ||
| Independent Study in Classical Archaeology | ||
| Method and Theory in Classical Archaeology | ||
| Greek Sculpture | ||
| Greek Architecture | ||
| Roman Architecture | ||
| Roman Sculpture | ||
| Provinces and Frontiers of the Roman Empire | ||
| Roman Painting | ||
| Egypt after the Pharaohs | ||
| Art and Archaeology of Achaemenid Persia | ||
| The Archaeology of Early Greece (1200-500 BCE) | ||
| Archaeology of Greek Sanctuaries | ||
| Ancient Synagogues | ||
| Field School in Classical Archaeology 1 | ||
| Ancient Mayan Hieroglyphs | ||
| Mesoamerican Languages and Linguistics | ||
| Native Languages of the Americas | ||
| First-Year Seminar: The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls | ||
| Total Hours | 15-18 | |
| H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
- 1
No more than one field school course may be used for the minor.
- 2
Three of the courses must be numbered 200 or above.
- 3
Courses must come from at least two different departments.
See program page here for special opportunities.
Chair
Jon Marcoux
