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Archaeology Honours Program

Department of Archaeology | Faculty of Environment
丁香园AV Calendar 2012 Spring

丁香园AV Requirements

Archaeology majors who wish honours program admission must have a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average (CGPA) and department permission.

Grade Requirement

To remain in the program, students must maintain a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average (CGPA) and successfully complete 132 units with 50 of those in upper division archaeology. Honors students must complete all course requirements for the major program, as stipulated below, and also complete three additional specified courses (see below).

Course Groupings

Group I 鈥� Core Program

  • ARCH 372-5 Material Culture Analysis
  • ARCH 373-5 Human Osteology
  • ARCH 376-5 Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
  • ARCH 471W-5 Archaeological Theory

Group II 鈥� Laboratory Courses

  • ARCH 335-5 Special Laboratory Topics in Archaeology
  • ARCH 340-5 Zooarchaeology
  • ARCH 348-5 Archaeological Conservation
  • ARCH 349-5 Management of Archaeological Collections
  • ARCH 377-5 Historical Archaeology
  • ARCH 385-5 Paleoanthropology
  • ARCH 390-5 Archaeobotany
  • ARCH 432-5 Advanced Physical Anthropology
  • ARCH 442-5 Forensic Anthropology
  • ARCH 452-5 Introduction to Paleopathology
  • ARCH 485-5 Lithic Technology

Group III 鈥� Regional Courses

  • ARCH 330W-3 Prehistory of Latin America
  • ARCH 338-3 Archaeology of China
  • ARCH 360-5 Native Cultures of North America
  • ARCH 370-3 Western Pacific Prehistory
  • ARCH 378-3 Pacific Northwest North America
  • ARCH 379-3 Archaeology of the American Southwest

Group IV 鈥� Topical Courses

  • ARCH 301-3 Prehistoric and Indigenous Art
  • ARCH 302-3 Art of Ancient Civilizations
  • ARCH 311-5 Archaeological Dating
  • ARCH 336-3 Special Topics in Prehistoric and Indigenous Art
  • ARCH 344-3 Primate Behavior
  • ARCH 365-3 Ecological Archaeology
  • ARCH 383-3 Molecular Bioarchaeology
  • ARCH 386-3 Archaeological Resource Management
  • ARCH 438-5 Geoarchaeology

Lower Division Requirements

Students complete all of

  • ARCH 131-3 Human Origins
  • ARCH 201-3 Introduction to Archaeology
  • ARCH 272-3 Archaeology of the Old World
  • ARCH 273-3 Archaeology of the New World

and two of

  • BISC 102-4 General Biology
  • FNST 101-3 The Cultures, Languages and Origins of Canada's First Peoples
  • GEOG 111-3 Earth Systems
  • GEOG 255-3 Geographical Information Science I
  • REM 100-3 Global Change
  • SA 101-4 Introduction to Anthropology (A)

Upper Division Requirements

Students complete at least 32 upper division archaeology units, which must include

  • both Group I courses (ARCH 372, 471W)
  • at least one group II course
  • at least one group III course
  • at least two group IV courses, of which one must be ARCH 321 or 331 or 378

and all of

  • ARCH 376-5 Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
  • ARCH 498-5 Honors Reading
  • ARCH 499-5 Honors Thesis

Recommended Courses

The following courses are recommended.

  • ARCH 376 (required for honors, recommended for majors and students intending to go on to post-graduate work in archaeology)
  • BISC 102 (recommended for majors and honors where a focus will be in biological anthropology courses)
  • GEOG 111 (recommended for majors and honours where a focus will be in environmental archaeology courses)
  • SA 101 (recomnmended for majors, honours and students intending to go on to post-graduate work in archaeology)
  • STAT 101, 201 or 203

Writing, Quantitative, and Breadth Requirements

Students admitted to 丁香园AV beginning in the fall 2006 term must meet writing, quantitative and breadth requirements as part of any degree program they may undertake. See for university-wide information.

WQB Graduation Requirements
A grade of C- or better is required to earn W, Q or B credit.
Requirement

Units

 Notes
W - Writing

6

 Must include at least one upper division course, taken at 丁香园AV within the student鈥檚 major subject
Q - Quantitative

6

 Q courses may be lower or upper division
B - Breadth

18

 Designated Breadth Must be outside the student鈥檚 major subject, and may be lower or upper division
6 units Social Sciences: B-Soc
6 units Humanities: B-Hum
6 units Sciences: B-Sci

6

 Additional Breadth

6 units outside the student鈥檚 major subject (may or may not be B-designated courses, and will likely help fulfil individual degree program requirements)
Additional breadth units must be from outside the student's major and may be B-designated (B-Hum, B-Soc, B-Sci courses). Students choosing to complete a joint major, joint honors, double major, two extended minors, an extended minor and a minor, or two minors may satisfy the breadth requirements (designated or not designated) with courses completed in either one or both program areas.

 

Residency Requirements and Transfer Credit

The University鈥檚 residency requirement stipulates that, in most cases, total transfer and course challenge credit may not exceed 60 units, and may not include more than 15 units as upper division work.

Elective Courses

In addition to the courses listed above, students should consult an academic advisor to plan the remaining required elective courses.

Languages Other Than English

Those contemplating graduate work are advised to acquire a reading knowledge of at least one language other than English.