ARHA 571
Current exhibition design and interpretation practices. Students work both independently and collaboratively in creating exhibition designs and interpretive plans for galleries and museums. Questions of material and form; text and narrative; display and presentation; models of attention and perception, the relationship between language and vision; the role of description in interpretation; and what constitutes learning and meaning through visual and spatial experience. Students develop a design and interpretive practice through a series of workshops, exercises, site visits and critical discussions.
ARHA 590
Advanced language training related to the study of Anatolian Civilizations. Topics chosen by the faculty.
ARHA 695
Research is guided by a faculty member of the ARHA program.
LANG 515
This course introduces students to the Ottoman script. By the end of the first semester students should be able to read simple texts in printed Ottoman. Students continue to acquire reading and writing skills in printed Ottoman in the second semester.
LANG 526
Aims to teach to the beginners the Anatolian hieroglyphs and the basics of the Luwian grammar. Topics include the origins and development of the Anatolian hieroglyphs, the sign repertory of the Anatolian hieroglyphs, nominal and verbal structure of Luwian, some simple texts and excerpts from inscriptions.
ARHA 573
Explores the role and responsibilities of the curator in contemporary art. Recently this has expanded beyond galleries and museums to include an array of agencies in the creative, cultural, educational and industrial sectors and a diverse range of artistic and media forms. The course will review the methods and theories of curatorial practice and provide a critical framework for understanding and appreciating contemporary curatorial practice, its current issues and debates. Readings from architecture, art history, cultural criticism, heritage studies and critical theory will be discussed. Local, national and international case studies will be considered.
ARHA 610
Prepares Ph.D. students for researching and writing their doctoral dissertation and for their future careers. Topics include: managing a large research project, research methods, academic publishing, research and publication ethics, interviewing, presentation and teaching skills, preparing images for publications, and preparing materials for job and grant applications.
GREK 502
Topics of advanced grammar to be introduced through close reading of selected short authentic prose texts. Texts to include the Patria of Constantinople of Hesychius Illustrius and selections from the Ephesiaka of Xenophon of Ephesus, both illustrating aspects of history, mythology and social life. Concentration on building fluency and vocabulary acquisition. Attention to be paid to the morphology of the verb. Special focus on introducing problems of textual transmission, basic translation skills and the techniques of commentary.
LANG 525
Aims to teach to beginners the Hittite cuneiform writing system and the essentials of the grammar of the Hittite language. Topics include the emergence and development of the cuneiform writing system, the decipherment of the Hittite cuneiform writing, Hittite Language and its decipherment, the sign repertory of the Hittite cuneiform, exercises in cuneiform; writing and reading, phonetic peculiarities of the Hittite language, nominal structure of Hittite; inflection, substantives and adjectives, categories of pronouns, verbal structure of Hittite; conjugation, voices and tenses.
LANG 531
This course is a continuation of Arabic I. Attention will be given to the building of vocabulary, the use of derived verbal forms and to the accidence of the verb in its various moods. Reading passages will be given from printed media, literary texts and from other sources. The aim of the course will be to acquaint the student with the varieties of spoken and written Arabic, including some colloquial forms (Cairo dialect), providing a firm foundation for future study in the language and the use of written Arabic source material.
ARHA 572
This course takes as its starting assumption that the past is something we create today ? its structure and mediation impacting how we live in our shared world. This course will explore the intellectual history of archaeological thought and the development of heritage theory. While simultaneously exploring practical design skills, it will address inter-disciplinary practices between art, archaeology and heritage and contextualize these practices with readings from the disciplines of architecture, art history, critical theory, heritage studies.
ARHA 595
Students decide with their advisor about the topic of their thesis. In addition to researching and writing a thesis, graduate students in the program may continue to work as museum interns, or in archaeological excavations.
GREK 501
Introduction to the basic grammar of the Ancient Greek language. Alphabet and pronunciation. The active verb system. Passive and middle verb systems. Indicative, subjunctive and optative moods. Nouns of all three declensions. Adjectives and adverbs. Participles. Concentration on building basic prose reading vocabulary. Students to read simplified prose texts to increase fluency and to build background cultural knowledge.
LANG 516
This course introduces students to the Ottoman script. By the end of the first semester students should be able to read simple texts in printed Ottoman. Students continue to acquire reading and writing skills in printed Ottoman in the second semester.
LANG 530
The purpose of the course is to introduce students to the script and the basic structures of Classical Arabic in its Modern Standard form. The course will cover the verbal and nominal sentence, declension of nouns, sound and broken plurals, pronouns, verbs in the perfect and imperfect state. Attention will be paid to the manipulation of grammatical forms and the structures of the Arabic sentence. Short reading passages and oral practice will be given, enabling the student to function in the language competently at a simple level.
