Department Archaeology and Art History

Q:  Which General Education classes should I take?

Model of an Israelite Iron Age Four Room House made by Emily ('12) for the ARCH 320 Daily Life in Biblical Times class.

To fulfill your General Education requirements, you must take one math and two science courses from the approved list. One of the science courses must have a lab and one of the science courses must be in physics, chemistry, or biology. These courses require a great deal of your time, so plan to take them when you can devote a good part of your schedule to them. One way to do this is by taking them as summer courses at UE or somewhere else. If you take them somewhere other than UE, you must arrange to transfer the credit BEFORE you take them.

The following courses assume you have little prior knowledge of the subject:
a) MATH 101.
b) Science lab courses: CHEM 101 and BIOL 101 Fundamentals of Biology.
c) Non-lab science courses: We recommend ID 111 Structures and materials of World Cultures, which covers the basics of structural engineering for non-majors.  The instructor is fabulous and the course will hellp you understand ancient architecture.  Other options include:  ASTR 100 or 101, COGS 111, ES 103, GEOG 230, ID 111, PHYS 100.

If you want to go into conservation work after graduation take the following courses:
a) MATH 101.
b) CHEN 118 (lab course, prerequisite 2 semesters of high school chemistry). Later on you should try to take CHEM 240 Organic Chemistry I and, if you can fit it in your schedule, CHEM 341 Organic Chemistry II.
c) Whichever non-lab course sounds most interesting to you.

If you want to go on to graduate work in archaeology take the following course:
a) QM 227 Introduction to Statistics (you need to have some algebra as a pre-requisite to this course). You could also take SOC 344 Introduction to Behavioral Statistics, either in addition to or instead of QM 227, but it does not fulfill a General Education requirement.
b) Whichever lab course sounds most interesting to you.
c) Whichever non-lab course sounds most interesting to you.

 

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