Anthropology

at Northern Kentucky University

Archaeology Minor

These requirements apply to students enrolling at NKU in the Fall 1997 or after.

The minor in Archaeology consists of at least 21 semester hours and requires the completion of the following:

  1. Three core courses (9 semester hours):
    ____ ANT 100 Cultural Anthropology
    ____ ANT 110 Introduction to Archaeology
    ____ ANT 210 Introduction to Archaeological Method and Theory
  1. One of the following methods courses (3 or 4 semester hours):
    ____ ANT 215 Archaeological Field Methods
    ____ ANT 307 Museum Methods
    ____ ANT 355 Archaeological Laboratory Analysis
  1. Three of the following (9 to 11 semester hours):
    ____ ANT 215 Archaeological Field Methods (if not used as methods course)
    ____ ANT 307 Museum Methods (if not used as methods course)
    ____ ANT 308 Cultural Resource Management
    ____ ANT 318 Prehistoric Ecology
    ____ ANT 335 Advanced Archaeological Field Methods
    ____ ANT 336 Historical Archaeology
    ____ ANT 350 North American Archaeology
    ____ ANT 352 Archaeology of Mesoamerica
    ____ ANT 355 Archaeological Laboratory Analysis (if not used as methods course)
    ____ ANT 380 Origins of Civilization
    ____ ANT 392 Research Topics in Archaeology (up to 3 credit hours)
    ____ ANT 410 Archaeological Theory

Note: The minor in Archaeology is not open to students majoring in Anthropology since an archaeology focus is already available within the anthropology major.