Ancient Civilizations

Study Across a Great Depth of Time

The study of Ancient Human Civilizations is both one of the most challenging and most rewarding fields of scholarly endeavor. Successful research across such a depth of time demands an interdisciplinary approach which draws upon a variety of fields, including History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, Philosophy, Theatre, and others.  

Students and scholars who are willing to undertake such study are rewarded with insights into the period of human society when crucial steps were made in constructing the foundations for the modern world. It was, after all, in the ancient world that the building blocks of contemporary religions, languages, social systems, and technologies were laid down.
   
The Ancient Civilizations Minor is built around a shared core of six (6) semester hours and the choice of three independent tracks which allow students to design a minor which is tailored to their own scholarly interests and needs.

Requirements

The requirement for this minor is 21 semester hours.

There are three tracks in the Ancient Civilizations minor: 

• Classics & Near East
• World Civilizations
• General

Required Courses for ALL Minors in Ancient Civilizations

• HIS 108 World History to 1500
• ANT 380 Origins of Civilization

General Track

Elective Courses (15 semester hours)

Courses must come from at least two different disciplines.

• ANT 110 Introduction to Archaeology
• ANT 310 African Arts
• ANT 318 Prehistoric Ecology
• ANT 352 Archeology of Mesoamerica
• ANT 394 Topics: Women in Prehistory (soon to be a regular course as ANT 331)
• ANT 394 Topics: Anthropology, if an ancient civilizations topic
• ANT 594 Topics: Anthropology, if an ancient civilizations topic
• ARI 201 Intermediate Arabic I
• ARI 202 Intermediate Arabic II
• ARTH 101 Survey of Western Art I
• ARTH 350 Ancient Art
• CHI 201 Intermediate Chinese I
• CHI 202 Intermediate Chinese II
• ENG 206 Western World Literature I
• ENG 215 Greek and Roman Mythology
• ENG 315 The Bible as Literature
• HIS 100 History of Europe to 1713
• HIS 300 The Ancient Near East and Greece to the Macedonian Conquest
• HIS 301 The Hellenistic World and Rome to the Death of Constantine
• HIS 325 Early Latin American History
• HIS 329 History of the Middle East and North Africa
• HIS 331 History of Japan
• HIS 335 History of Ancient Africa
• HIS 340 History of Imperial China
• HIS 365 European Military History: Ancient World to the Renaissance
• HIS 494 Topics: History, if an ancient civilizations topic
• HIS 594 Topics: History (3,0,3), if an ancient civilizations topic
• JPN 201 Intermediate Japanese I
• JPN 202 Intermediate Japanese II
• LAT 201 Intermediate Latin I
• LAT 202 Intermediate Latin II
• LAT 280 Topics in Latin Language and Literature
• PHI 180 History of Classical and Medieval Philosophy
• PHI 355 Socrates & Plato
• PHI 394 Topics: Philosophy, if an ancient civilizations topic.
• PSC 110 History of Western Political Thought
• PSC 370 Pre-Enlightenment Political Theory
• PSC 394 Topics: Theory and Practice, if an ancient civilizations topic.
• REL 181 Survey of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)
• REL 182 Survey of the New Testament
• REL 185 Survey of Christianity
• REL 186 Introduction to Judaism
• REL 305 Islam
• REL 394 Topics: Religious Studies, if a world civilizations topic.
• TAR 346 History of the Theatre and Dramatic Literature I (3,0,3)