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Dec 04, 2025
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ANTH 323 - Archaeology in Movies and TV
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4; Social Justice
From Indiana Jones to Alien vs Predator, archaeological fictions are a Hollywood staple. This course compares the media fantasy of archaeology with real life science, introducing students to archaeological practice against fictional portrayals of archaeology in visual media.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay - Social Justice
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
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.
- Critically evaluate fictional and other popular takes on archaeological data, sites, and descendant populations.
- Discuss multiple examples of difference between scientific archaeological methods and modes of narrative and media fantasies or embellished retellings (“based on a true story”).
- Recognize the techniques by which biased and stereotypical views about different cultures and gender roles are reinforced in popular portrayals of archaeology.
GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes
- Analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and the ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.
Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
- Describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
- Identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.
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