Undergraduate Studies: About the Program

As an undergraduate you will be introduced to the subdisciplines of anthropology through required courses: "Introduction to Cultural Anthropology" (ANTH 1023), "Introduction to Biological Anthropology" (ANTH 1013 & lab ANTH 1011L), and "Approaches to Archeology" (ANTH 3023 & lab ANTH 3021L). "History of Anthropology Thought," a senior capstone course, fulfills the Fulbright College Writing Requirement. Elective courses will allow you to explore your special interests.

Awards

See "Financial Support."

Field Schools

The Archeological Field School course is an intensive off-campus opportunity for students to learn archeology while earning undergraduate or graduate credit. Field school students will receive training in all aspects of archeological fieldwork including site mapping with total station, archeological excavation and recording techniques, soil description, and preliminary artifact processing in the laboratory. The archeological field school is offered through University of Arkansas’s Division of Continuing Education during Summer 5 term as “Archeological Field Session” Anth 4256 (6 hours undergraduate or graduate credit) or “Field Research in Archeology” Anth 561V (6 hours graduate credit).

In the summer of 2008, the Archeological Field School will investigate Archaic period sedentism, craft specialization, and chipped stone (novaculite) tool production and exchange by continuing excavations at a site on the Ouachita River, near Hot Springs, Arkansas. This multi-component lithic workshop and habitation site has cultural material from several thousand years of Indian occupation, but our work will focus on the Middle Archaic period deposits dating 6000 years ago.

The summer field school runs from June 2 to July 3, 2008 and will be directed by Dr. Mary Beth Trubitt, station archeologist for the Arkansas Archeological Survey's Henderson State University Research Station. Dr. Trubitt teaches at that institution and is a member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

For more information:

• See Project Website (http://www.hsu.edu/default.aspx?id=7270)
• Download Information Sheet and Application Form (pdf file)