ANTH 320 - Archaeological Science and Indigenous Knowledge

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UDB; Diversity
This course braids methods of scientific archaeology with the knowledge and narrative authority of Native American elders. Students will study conventional archaeological field and laboratory methods alongside connected Indigenous oral traditions and culturally-situated archaeological interpretations, learning to embrace the difference.

Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UDB- Upper Division Science Inquiry and Quantitative Reasoning, Overlay - Diversity
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

understand and explain basic scientific archaeological field, laboratory, and experimental methods, including at least three laboratory-based modes of archaeological dating;
apply basic quantitative archaeological methods and read and interpret the results of common tests of archaeological statistics with a reasonable level of understanding;
discuss multiple examples of difference between scientific archaeological historical narrative and Indigenous knowledge and social memory;
cite multiple examples of scientific archaeologists and Indigenous elders working together to produce knowledge useful to both researchers and tribes.

UD-B. Upper-division Science Inquiry and Quantitative Reasoning Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate advanced and/or focused science or quantitative content knowledge in a specific scientific field, using appropriate vocabulary and referencing appropriate concepts (such as models, uncertainties, hypotheses, theories, and technologies);
Apply advanced quantitative skills (such as statistics, algebraic solutions, interpretation of graphical data) to scientific problems and evaluate scientific claims;
Demonstrate understanding of the nature of science and scientific inquiry and the experimental and empirical methodologies used in science to investigate a scientific question or issue; and
Apply science content knowledge to contemporary scientific issues (e.g., climate change) and technologies (e.g., genome editing), where appropriate.

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes

Describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U.S. cultural groups, and the resilience and agency of group members.
Identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by U.S. cultural groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures.
Analyze the intersection of categories of race and gender as they affect U.S. cultural group members lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities.
Recognize the way that multiple differences (including, e.g., gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within U.S. cul