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COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE 

STUDIES 

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GE..ARcHAEOLOGY' 

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198. 

Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate 

Studies at its meeting of December 15, 1981 gives rise to the following 

motion: 

"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the 

Board of Governors, as set forth in S.82-S, changes 

in upper division requirements for Archaeology and 

changes in course requirements for Archaeology Honors 

students." 

CURRICULUM CHANGES 

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. Department of Archaeolpgy. 

p. 98 

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CHANGE OF REQUIREMENTS 

FROM: Upper Division Archaeology courses are 

divided into the following groups: 

GROUP I: 

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ARC. 371-5, 376-5, and either 

372-5 or 433-5. 

GROUP II: ARC. 340-3, 

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365-3, 373-5, 385-3, 

410-5, 411-5, 432-5, 438-3, 

440-3. 

GROUP III: ARC. 301-2, 330-3, 360-3, 370-3, 

439-3, 473-3, 474-3, 475-3, 

476-5. 

ARC. 223, 333, 335, and 480 may be substituted 

for any of the above group courses upon the 

written consent of the Department prior to 

registration. If ARC. 223 is approved as a 

substitute for a course from one of the 

groups, then students must still complete 

30 hours of Upper Division credit in addition 

to ARC. 223. 

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Upper Division Archaeology courses are 

divided into the following groups: 

GROUP I: 

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ARC. 371-5 Archaeological Theory 

ARC. 376-5 Quantitative Methods In 

Archaeology 

and either 

ARC. 372-5 Archaeology Laboratory? 

Techniques 

or

ARC. 433-5 Techniques of Inquiry 

GROUP II: ARC. 

ARC. 

ARC. 

ARC. 

ARC. 

ARC. 

ARC. 

ARC. 

ARC. 

ARC. 

ARC. 

340-3 Introductory Zooarchae- 

ology 

365-3 Ecological Archaeology 

373-5 Human Osteology 

385-3 Fossil Man 

410-5 Advanced Archeometry 

411-5 Archaeological Dating 

432-5 Advanced Physical 

Anthropology 

438-3 Geoarchaeology 

440-3 Advanced Zooarchaeology 

442-5 Forensic Anthropology 

485-5 Lithlc Technology 

GROUP NI: ARC. 301-2 Prehistoric and Primitiv 

Art

ARC. 330-3 Prehistory of Latin? 

America 

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ARC. 360-3 Indian Cultures of 

North America 

ARC. 370-3 Western Pacific Pre- 

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history 

ARC. 374-3 Prehistory of South and 

East Asia 

ARC. 439-3 Early Man and Environ- 

ments in North America 

ARC. 473-3 Africa 

ARC. 474-3 North America - Southwest 

ARC. 475-3 North America - Arctic 

ARC. 476-5 North America - North- 

west Pacific 

Special Topics and/or Directed Reading courses may 

be substituted for Group II or III courses, provided; 

a)

the content of the Special Topics and/or Directed 

Studies courses suggest a suitable substitution, and 

b)

written consent of the Department is obtained 

prior to registration. 

RATIONALE: Group I courses are the core courses and 

all students majoring in the department should 

have these courses. Therefore no. substitutions 

should be made for these courses. Directed 

Studies/Selected Topics courses may be sub- 

stituted only if the content is appropriate. 

P. 99 

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CHANGE OF COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR HONORS 

FROM: Archaeology Majors who wish admission to the Honors 

program must hold a 3.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average 

and to remain in the program must maintain that 

average. Also necessary are: the successful 

completion of the Honors Reading and Honors Essay 

Archaeology courses, and 10 credit hours in other, 

courses approved in advance, over and above the 

requirements for a Major. In addition, the following 

is required: successful completion of ARC. 376, or 

.MATH 101, or CMPT 1O3 and 105, or PSYC 210, or a 

statistics course approved by the Department. 

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Archaeology Majors who wish admission to the Honors 

program must hold a 3.0 Cumulative Grade Point 

Average, and to remain in the program must maintain 

that average. Also necessary are: the successful 

completion of the Honors Reading-ARC. 4.93-5 and 

Honors Essay-ARC. 499-5, and 10 credit hours in 

other courses approved in advance, over and above the 

requirements for a Major. 

RATIONALE: The present wording allows students to meet 

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the Honors requirements without taking ARC. 

376 (i.e. by taking MATH 101 only). Since the 

requirement for a Major is MATH 101 (prerequisit( 

to ARC. 376) and ARC. 376, this implies that the 

Honors requirement is less stringent than the 

Majors requirements. 

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Dale.... 

A couple of problems have arisen because of the wording 

used in our degree requirements (pp. 98 and 99 of the Under- 

graduate Studies Calendar). These need to be corrected. 

Pg. 98 - second paragraph, first line, states: "Arc 223, 

333, 335, and 480 may be substituted for any of the above 

group courses upon the written consent of the Department prior 

to registration." 

My concern here is for substitutions for Group 1 courses. 

It my my understanding that our Group 1 courses were those-we 

considered 'core' courses and felt that all students should 

have. In fact, three paragraphs later, we state exactly, that 

(for majors). Group 11 are "technically-oriented" courses,and 

Group III are areal and topical courses. Thus, while 333,335 

and 480 (Special Topics and Directed Studies courses) could 

conceivably be properly substituted for Group 1 courses (if the 

content suggests a suitable substitution), Arc. 223 (Prehistory 

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of Canada) is basically an area course (Group III) and probably 

should not be substituted for Groups I and II. Confusion and 

a lack of clarity about what may be substituted for what is 

creating difficulty for Ingrid in advising students. 

I propose that 

following: 

Special Topics 

substituted fo 

content of the 

course suggest 

consent of the 

paragraph 2, pg. 98, be replaced with the 

and/or Directed Studies courses may be 

r Group II or III courses, provided a)the 

Special Topics and/or Directed Studies 

a suitable substitut'ion,and b) written 

Department is obtained prior to registration. 

Pg. 99- last sentence, under "Course Requirements for Honors" 

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*-teinrnst*t students &&w meet 1onors 

requirements without taking Arc. 376 (i.e. by taking Math 101 

only). Since the requirement for a Major is Math 101 (prerequisite 

to Arc. 376) and Arc. 376, this implies that the Honors requirement 

is less stringent than the Majors requirement. I/This final sentence 

also conflicts with the preceeding sentence, which states that Honors 

students are required to complete: 

"...lO credit hours in courses approved in advance, 

over and above the reauirements for a Major." 

(emphasis added). 

I propose that we drop the final sentence under "Course Re- 

quirements for Honors". 

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