Boston University College of Arts & Sciences

Annual Academic Planning Self-Study 2014 (Updated 2015) Matching the Class Schedule and Faculty Assignments to the Educational Mission

STEP I. THE CURRICULAR CONTEXT Throughout this self-study, please add any explanatory notes you believe will help us understand the situation.

A. Degrees, Minors, and Certificates offered by your program, individually or jointly

1. Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees

● B.A. in Archaeology ● M.A. in Archaeology ● M.A. in Archaeological Heritage Management ● M.A. in Geoarchaeology (jointly with Earth and Environment) ● Ph.D. in Archaeology

We are in the process of revamping our MA offerings in four ways: 1) We have redesigned the MA in Archaeology program requirements to reduce required coursework to enable students to complete the MA in one year. That curricular revision has been recently approved by the GAAC. 2) Last year we proposed a new 5-year BA/MA program in Archaeology that has been recently approved by the GAAC. We have recently received our first application to the program by a student, currently a senior, to receive her MA in 2017. 3) We are revising the MA in Archaeological Heritage Management and incorporating new collaborations with Preservation Studies and the Pardee School. Pending that change, and due to currently insufficient staffing (which we hope to recify by hiring a Professor of the Practice for AY 2016-2017), we have suspended admission to the MA in Archaeological Heritage Management since the 2013-14 admissions cycle. We intend to submit a revised curriculum proposal during the 2016-16 AY with the goal of approval in time for the 2016-17 admissions cycle. 4) Following the retirement in May 2014 of our sole geoarchaeologist, we intend to broaden the MA in Geoarchaeology to an MA in Archaeological Science, to which multiple existing members of the AR faculty can contribute (Marston, West, Carballo, Roosevelt). We have suspended admission to the MA in Geoarchaeology since the 2013-14 admissions cycle. We intend to submit a revised curriculum proposal during the 2015-16 AY with the goal of approval in time for the 2016-17 admissions cycle.

2. List all undergraduate minors offered by your program.

Minor in Archaeology

3. List all certificate programs for which your program is responsible or shares responsibility.

We do not currently offer certificate programs. We intend to develop a certificate program in Archaeological Heritage Management and another in Archaeological Science that could be completed as part of an MA in Archaeology (or a BA/MA in Archaeology). These new certificate programs will provide valuable professional credentials that will leverage the strengths of the AR faculty and encourage increased enrollment in our MA 1 program. We will begin developing proposals for these new certificate programs during the 2015-16 AY with the goal of having the programs in place for the 2016-17 admissions cycle.

B. Undergraduate majors offered by other departments and programs that depend on coursework in your program

1. Undergraduate majors in CAS.

● Anthropology: requires one Archaeology course (excluding AR 100). Additionally, the Social Anthropology track requires two “additional courses” from AN or AR (excluding AR 100), and the Biological Anthropology track requires one additional course in Archaeology (excluding AR 100). ● Asian Studies: three core courses are required, and these may include AR 261 and AR 390. Eight principal courses are required and may include AR 240, 360, 390, 560. ● Classical Studies: up to two “related courses” may be applied to the BA in Classical Civilization with approval of the advisor. These include AR 100, 101, 208, 230, 232, 330, 331. ● Classics & Religion: four courses are required at the 200-level and above from the list of those eligible for Classical Civilization credit, including AR 208, 230, 232, 330, 331. ● History of Art & Architecture: a number of courses taught by AR faculty are cross-listed as AH/AR and satisfy the requirement for the “Ancient” area of Group A, from which one course is required for all BA students. These include: AR 232, AR 322, and AR 438 (which is taught by Kleiner, who is appointed in both AR and AH). ● Latin American Studies: two courses are required from “Group 1” (Historical Context), including AR 201, 250, 251, 270, 322, 351, 352, 353, 451, 551, 552. ● Middle East & North Africa Studies: three courses are required from “List C” (Social Sciences). These include AR 209, 221, 341, 342, 343, 532.

2. Undergraduate majors and degrees outside CAS

● None

3. Undergraduate minors

● African Studies: Elective courses include AR 205, 232, 347/747, 348, 513. ● East Asian Studies: AR 261 and 262 are listed among Regional Courses; AR 240 is listed among courses in Chinese History and Politics; AR 390 and 560 are listed among courses in South and Southeast Asia. ● Jewish Studies: AR 342 is an elective course. ● Muslim Cultures and Muslim Societies: elective courses include AR 221, 232, 343 ● Latin American Studies: at least one course is required from “Group 1” (Historical Context), including AR 201, 250, 251, 270, 322, 351, 352, 353, 451, 551, 552. ● Women’s Studies: AR 262 is an elective course.

C. Graduate programs offered by other departments and schools that depend on coursework in your program

1. GRS Master’s Programs outside your department.

● Latin American Studies: courses must be taken from several “issue areas” - one is History and Archaeology, which includes AR 503, 551, 556, 552, 722, 751 as options.

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● Preservation Studies: three courses “addressing the built environment” must be taken from AM, AR, or AH, although the choice of appropriate courses within those departments lies with the academic advisor.

2. GRS Doctoral Programs.

● Anthropology: one course in archaeology or history is required ● Classical Studies: one course in Greek or Roman art or archaeology is required

3. Non-GRS Graduate Degrees.

● Bethard, jointly appointed in AR, teaches several required courses in GMS FA ● Beaudry, jointly appointed in MET, teaches and advises in MET MLA in Gastronomy program

D. College Requirements and Programs: Writing, Foreign Language, Math, Core Curriculum, Divisional Studies

In general, all departments and programs have responsibilities for selected aspects of the CAS curriculum that go beyond the major. Describe your department’s typical role in any of the following in which it has participated. (In what ways has your department contributed? To what extent?) For any aspect in which your department (including through individual faculty) has not played a recent role, enter “None.”

1. Core Curriculum

● Marston, West, and Carballo have been in discussions with Stephanie Nelson about contributing to a revised social science and/or natural science core seminar in the future. Carballo and Marston have been invited to give guest lectures in Core. ● Doctoral students Kristen Wroth and Natalie Susmann are Writing Fellows in Core for 2015-2016.

2. Kilachand Honors College

● Luke taught KHC 101 (Modernism and Its Discontents) during the 2012-13 AY ● Bethard teaches KHC 101 in Spring 2015 (Broken Bones, Buried Bodies: Forensic Anthropology and Human Rights)

3. Teaching seminars toward fulfillment of the College Writing requirement

We have extensive connections with the writing program. Typically, 1-3 PhD students teach in WR each year on fellowships from that program; Luke normally teaches her full load in WR; and current postdoctoral associate Parno has taught in WR for several years.

● Luke regularly teaches WR 150 each semester: in 2014-15 these offerings include United Nations, Culture and Development (F14) and Museums NOW (S15) ● Luiz (PhD student) is teaching WR 100 this year ● Patania (PhD candidate) is teaching WR 100 this year ● Heath (PhD candidate) is teaching WR 100 this year ● Cormier (PhD candidate) is teaching WR 100 this year ● Parno (Postdoctoral Associate) teaches WR 100 and 150 this year

4. Implementation of the foreign language requirement

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● None

5. Offering Divisional Studies courses that also serve as gateways to your major(s)

We offer divisional studies courses at the 100- and 200-level in both humanities and the social sciences. These courses also count towards our major and minor; we position broad and appealing course topics at this level to attract student interest and we bring in a few additional AR majors each year based on the success of these courses.

● Humanities divisional studies credit are provided by the following AR classes: AR 100, 202, 208, 230, 232, 240, 251 ● Social science divisional studies credit are provided by the following AR classes: AR 101, 150, 200, 201, 205, 250, 280, 283, 290

6. Offering Divisional Studies courses that do not also count toward majors in your department or division

● None - all count towards the major.

7. Offering selected courses that are not important for fulfilling requirements for your major(s) or minor(s), but are in very high demand by students because of their interests

Every course in the department is relevant for the major and the minor. Some of our classes routinely fill to maximum enrollment due to interest from students outside the department. Those classes that regularly reach full enrollment include AR 202 (Archaeological Mysteries), AR 230 (Archaeology of Classical Civilizations), AR 232 (Archaeology of Ancient Egypt), AR 430 (The End of Days: Analyzing Collapse in Complex Societies), and AR 590 (Life is a Bowl: Ceramic Studies in Archaeology).

8. Any other aspects of the CAS/GRS curriculum you want to mention

● None

STEP II. ASSESSMENT OF CURRICULAR OBLIGATIONS AND NEEDS

This section lists current undergraduate and graduate courses that are still viable in spite of the recent shrinking of our department with the departure of four faculty (Danti, Goldberg, Mughal, Coggins). We aspire for future hires in the fields of archaeological science and archaeological heritage, in order to bolster those foci of the department and their proposed MA programs.

A. OBLIGATIONS TOWARD UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION.

1. Which courses and course types should be offered every semester?

● AR 100 Great Discoveries in Archaeology ● AR 101 Introduction to Archaeology ● AR 450 Archaeological Methods and Theory

Our two large undergraduate courses, AR 100 and AR 101, have normally been taught every semester. AR 100 should continue to be taught every semester owing to overall strong demand (enrollments around 300 each semester). AR 101 is a requirement for the major and minor and a prerequisite for other courses; enrollment 4 averages 100 each semester. AR 450 is a writing-intensive theory seminar and is required for all majors. Due to declining numbers of majors, however, we project the course to be under-enrolled one or both semesters every year (potentially as low as 7-8 students). We would like to monitor the course over the next two years before deciding whether to offer it on a semester or only on an annual basis.

2. Which courses and course types should be offered annually?

Three categories of courses that should be taught each year are listed below: 1) courses required for the major/minor; 2) CAS divisional studies offerings in and gateway courses to more advanced courses in a particular area of the world, topic, or technique; 3) popular area/topical/technical courses, that serve distributional requirements within both the major and minor. a. Courses Required for the Major/Minor:

● AR 307 Archaeological Science (required for the major and the minor) ● AR 503 Archaeological Field Methods (Field School, required for the major) b. Divisional Studies/Gateway Courses:

Humanities Divisionals ● AR 202 Archaeological Mysteries: Pseudoscience and Fallacy in the Human Past ● AR 230 Introduction to Greek and Roman Archaeology ● AR 232 Archaeology of Ancient Egypt ● AR 240 The Archaeology of Ancient China

Social Science Divisionals ● AR 150 Archaeology of Cities ● AR 200 Heritage Matters: Introduction to Heritage Management ● AR 201 Americas Before Columbus ● AR 205 Origins of Civilization ● AR 250 The Aztecs, Mayas, and their Predecessors: Archaeology of Mesoamerica ● AR 280 Eating and Drinking in the Ancient World ● AR 290 Human Impacts on Ancient Environments c. Popular Area/Topical/Technical Courses:

● AR 215 The Contested Past (Topical) ● AR 308 Archaeological Research Design and Materials Analysis (Technical) ● AR 372 Archaeology of Boston (Area) ● AR 480 Archaeological Ethics and The Law (Topical) ● AR 510 Proposal Writing for Social Science Research (Technical) ● AR 590 Life is a Bowl: Ceramic Studies in Archaeology (Technical)

3. Which courses and course types should be offered every other academic year or every third year?

The following courses are grouped into large geographic areas, archaeological science (largely technical), archaeological heritage (largely topical), and other topical courses a. Mediterranean and Near East Every two years 5

● AR 209 The Near East Bronze Age ● AR 210 Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations ● AR 330 Greek Archaeology ● AR 331 Etruscan and Roman Archaeology ● AR 337 The Wine Dark Sea: Material Culture and Individual Identity in the World of Homer ● AR 338 Mare Nostrum: Material Culture and Individual Identity after Alexander ● AR 342 Archaeology in the Holy Land ● AR 343 Anatolian Archaeology ● AR 347 Egypt and Northeast Africa: Early States in Egypt, Nubia and Eritrea/Ethiopia ● AR 348 Gods, Graves and Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Religion and Ritual

Every three years ● AR 346 Seminar: The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt ● AR 435 Topics in the Materiality of Ancient Mediterranean Religions ● AR 438 Seminar: Pompeii b. The Americas Every two years ● AR 251 Ancient Maya Civilization ● AR 270 Archaeology of the Age of Exploration ● AR 273 Archaeology of the Viking Age ● AR 283 North American Archaeology ● AR 551 Studies in Mesoamerican Archaeology (in Guatemala)

Every three years ● AR 222 Art and Architecture of Ancient America ● AR 322 Ancient Aztec and Inca Civilizations ● AR 323 Maya Art and Architecture ● AR 353 Urbanism in Ancient Mesoamerica ● AR 371 Archaeology of Post-Colonial America ● AR 370 Archaeology of Colonial America ● AR 451 Seminar in Mesoamerican Archaeology ● AR 555 Ancient American Writing Systems ● AR 570 Studies in Historical Archaeology c. Asia Every two years ● AR 261 Asia’s Ancient Cultures and Civilizations ● AR 390 The Archaeology of Southeast Asia d. Archaeological Science Every two years ● AR 381 Introduction to Paleoethnobotany ● AR 382 Zooarchaeology ● AR 506 Regional Archaeology and Geographical Information Systems ● AR 507 Lay of the Land: Surface and Subsurface Mapping in Archaeology

Every three years ● AR 400 Statistics and Computer Sciences for the Archaeologist ● AR 505 Remote Sensing and Archaeology 6

e. Archaeological Heritage Every two years ● AR 396 Cultural Heritage and Diplomacy ● AR 504 Preserving World Heritage: Principles and Practice ● AR 593 Memory in 3-D: Memorials, Then and Now

Every three years ● AR 580 Studies in Archaeological Heritage Management f. Other Topical Courses Every two years ● AR 206 Ancient Technology ● AR 208 Lost Languages and Decipherments ● AR 430 The End of Days: Analyzing Collapse in Complex Societies

Every three years ● AR 305 Paleolithic Archaeology ● AR 375 Oral History and Written Records in Archaeology ● AR 393 Out of the Fiery Furnace: Early Metallurgy of the Pre-industrial World ● AR 577 Pots and Pans: Material Culture of Cookery and Dining

B. OBLIGATIONS TOWARD GRADUATE EDUCATION. Our proposal for a major overhaul of our graduate curriculum was approved by the GAAC last year and is now in place. These changes included the reduction of the previously required five core courses to four. Three current core courses (AR 701, AR 705, AR 706) have been substituted with three others (AR 891, AR 892, AR 894) and a new course (AR 893) was taught for the first time in Spring 2015.

1. Which courses and course types should be offered every semester? N/A

2. Which courses and course types should be offered annually?

The new sequence of core classes, required of all graduate students ● AR 891 Contemporary Theory in Archaeology ● AR 892 Archaeological Ethics and Law ● AR 893 World Archaeology ● AR 894 Scientific Methods in Archaeology

The two-semester course jointly offered by BU, MIT, Harvard, Brandeis, UMass Boston, and Boston College through CMRAE (the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology at MIT). It is annually “taught” by a BU faculty member (currently, Marston) as an uncredited teaching overload, because the instruction takes place at MIT.

● AR 703 Materials in Ancient Society (fall semester) ● AR 704 Materials in Ancient Society (spring semester)

3. Which courses and course types should be offered every other academic year or every third year?

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Note: many of the courses listed here include corresponding undergraduate courses as 300/700 or 400/800 pairings.

Every two years ● AR 701 Intellectual History of Archaeology ● AR 705 Pre-Urban Development ● AR 706 Archaeology of Complex Societies ● AR 737 The Wine Dark Sea: Material Culture and Individual Identity in the World of Homer ● AR 738 Mare Nostrum: Material Culture and Individual Identity after Alexander ● AR 742 Archaeology in the Holy Land ● AR 743 Anatolian Archaeology ● AR 747 Egypt and Northeast Africa: Early States in Egypt, Nubia and Eritrea/Ethiopia ● AR 751 Seminar: Mesoamerica Archaeology ● AR 782 Zooarchaeology ● AR 790 The Archaeology of Southeast Asia ● AR 793 Out of the Fiery Furnace: Metallurgy of the Asian World ● AR 796 Cultural Heritage and Diplomacy ● AR 802 Paleoethnobotany ● AR 805 U.S. Archaeological Heritage Management ● AR 808 Survey and Landscape Archaeology ● AR 810 International Heritage Management ● AR 815 Plunder and Preservation: Cultural Heritage in Wartime ● AR 830 The End of Days: Analyzing Collapse in Complex Societies

Every three years ● AR 712 Seminar in Old World Prehistory ● AR 727 Archaeology and Colonialism ● AR 730 Seminar: Old World Historical Archaeology ● AR 735 Topics in the Materiality of Ancient Mediterranean Religions ● AR 746 Archaeology of Ancient Egypt ● AR 770 New World Historical Archaeology: Colonial America ● AR 771 New World Historical Archaeology: Post-Colonial America ● AR 772 Archaeology of Boston ● AR 775 Oral History and Written Records in Archaeology ● AR 795 Politics, Nationalism, and Archaeology ● AR 800 Food-Gathering Societies

STEP III. PLANNING FOR EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT, EQUITABLE, AND SUSTAINABLE COURSE STAFFING

Key: HUM = humanities divisional credit; SS = social sciences divisional credit; Core = required course for Archaeology major; Area = fulfills departmental area course requirement; Topical = fulfills departmental topical course requirement; Technical = fulfills departmental technical course requirement

Every semester AR 100 Great Discoveries in Archaeology (HUM/Area): Prof. Elia and others will rotate in teaching this course.

AR 101 Introduction to Archaeology (SS/core): Prof. Carballo and others, will rotate in teaching this course.

AR 450 Methods and Theory in Archaeology: Profs. Beaudry and Carballo have taught in fall and spring, respectively; but West will teach this year and in the future, other faculty members will rotate. 8

Every Year AR 150 Archaeology of Cities (SS/Topical): New course to be taught for first time in Spring 2016 by Carballo. Will rotated among approximately half of the current faculty.

AR 200 Heritage Matters: Introduction to Heritage Management (SS/Topical): Prof. Elia will teach every fall.

AR 201 Americas Before Columbus (SS/Area): Prof. Carballo will teach every spring.

AR 202 Archaeological Mysteries: Pseudoscience and Fallacy in the Human Past (HUM/Topical): Prof. Runnels will teach every fall.

AR 205 Origins of Civilization (SS/Topical): Prof. Bard will teach every fall.

AR 215 The Contested Past (Topical): Prof. Elia will teach every spring.

AR 230 Archaeology of Classical Civilizations (HUM/Area): Profs. Berlin and Roosevelt will rotate every fall.

AR 232 Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (HUM/Area): Prof. Bard will teach every fall.

AR 240 Archaeology of Ancient China (HUM/Area): Currently unstaffed.

AR 250 The Aztecs, Mayas, and their Predecessors: Archaeology of Mesoamerica (SS/Area): Prof. Carballo will teach every fall.

AR 280 Eating and Drinking in the Ancient World (SS/Topical): Profs. Marston and West rotate teaching every spring.

AR 290 Human Impacts on Ancient Environments (SS/Topical): Profs. West and Marston rotate teaching every fall.

AR 307 Archaeological Science (core): Profs. Marston and West rotate teaching every fall.

AR 308 Archaeological Research Design and Materials Analysis (Technical): Profs. West and Marston rotate every spring.

AR 480 Archaeological Ethics and the Law (Topical): Profs. Berlin, Elia, and Luke will rotate each year.

AR 503 Archaeological Field Methods (core): We previously held two iterations of this course: one every other spring in Guatemala (Saturno), and one every summer in Menorca (Elia and Amalia Perez-Juez [adjunct]). Neither will continue beyond spring 2016. We have an urgent need for another BU-faculty-taught field school, especially for summer term, offered on an annual basis. This is a critical priority for new hiring.

AR 510 Proposal Writing for Social Science Research (Technical): This course is shared with Anthropology (crosslisted as AN 510) and is taught by Prof. Marston (every odd year) and members of the Anthropology faculty (every even year).

AR 590 Life is a Bowl: Ceramic Studies in Archaeology (Technical): Prof. Berlin will teach every spring.

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AR 891 Contemporary Theory in Archaeology (core): Rotation by Profs. Beaudry, Carballo, and others

AR 892 Archaeological Ethics and Law (core): Rotation by Profs. Berlin and Elia

AR 893 World Archaeology (core): Rotation by staff (Bethard taught in Spring 2015)

AR 894 Scientific Methods in Archaeology (core): Rotation by Profs. Marston and West

Every Two Years

AR 206 Ancient Technology (Topical): Prof. Runnels will teach every fall.

AR 208 Lost Languages and Decipherments (Topical): Rotation involving Prof. Bard.

AR 210 Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations (Area): Prof. Runnels will teach every other spring.

AR 251 Ancient Maya Civilization (HUM/Area): Currently unstaffed.

AR 283 North American Archaeology (SS/Area): Prof. West will teach every other spring. Carballo can also teach.

AR 305 Paleolithic Archaeology (Topical): Prof. Runnels will teach every other spring with AR 705.

AR 337 The Wine Dark Sea: Material Culture and Individual Identity in the World of Homer (Area): Prof. Roosevelt will teach every two years

AR 338 Mare Nostrum: Material Culture and Individual Identity after Alexander (Area): Prof. Berlin will teach every two years

AR 342 Archaeology in the Holy Land (Area): Prof Berlin will teach every two years

AR 343 Anatolian Archaeology (Area): Prof. Roosevelt will teach every two years

AR 347 Egypt and Northeast Africa: Early States in Egypt, Nubia and Eritrea/Ethiopia (Area): Prof. Bard will teach every other spring (meets with 747).

AR 348 Gods, Graves and Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Religion and Ritual (Topical): Prof. Bard will teach every other spring.

AR 351/751 Seminar in Mesoamerican Archaeology (Area): Profs. Carballo will teach every other spring.

AR 381/802 Paleoethnobotany (Technical): Prof. Marston will teach every odd-numbered fall.

AR 382/782 Zooarchaeology (Technical): Prof. West will teach every even-numbered fall.

AR 390/790 Archaeology of Southeast Asia (Area): Currently unstaffed.

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AR 506 Regional Archaeology and Geographical Information Systems (Technical): Prof. Roosevelt will teach every two years.

AR 507 Lay of the Land (Technical): Surface and Subsurface Mapping in Archaeology: Prof. Roosevelt will teach every two years.

AR 551 Studies in Mesoamerican Archaeology (Area): Currently unstaffed.

AR 701 Intellectual History of Archaeology: Prof. Runnels will teach every other fall.

AR 705 Pre-Urban Development: Prof. Runnels will teach every other spring with AR 305.

AR 706 Archaeology of Complex Societies: Prof. Bard will teach every other spring.

AR 808 Survey and Landscape Archaeology: Prof. Roosevelt will teach every two years.

STEP IV: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF UPDATES AND TEN-YEAR PLANNING

1. UPDATES: Please list all major updates that you made to this document this year.

The process of producing this document changed significantly. In prior years, this document was updated by the department chair based on staffing changes and minor revisions to the courses offered. In 2014, faculty rewrote the document completely. It now reflects the full and current state of departmental course offerings, and incorporates newly revised graduate curricula and the results of both our Academic Program Review (during the 2013-14 AY), our departmental retreat (10/4/14), and the new Strategic Plan from 2014. In 2015, this self study has been modified based on the input of multiple faculty members.

Major changes include: 1) description of pending revisions to MA degree offerings 2) updates of all AR courses required by other programs using current Bulletin information 3) rescheduling of course offerings based on current departmental staffing (in light of pending departure of two faculty in 2016), revised undergraduate and graduate curricula, and recent course interest/enrollments 4) revision of course staffing plan to maximize the number of courses taught by multiple instructors and ensure that all required core courses (at both undergraduate and graduate levels) are taught in a rotation by two or more faculty. Simultaneously, we have reduced the number of courses offered that can be taught by only one member of the faculty - a recommendation resulting from our APR process and from discussions within the faculty over the last year

2. GOALS AND PLANNING:

A. The Curricular Context: How will your unit’s set of commitments and priorities in undergraduate and graduate education evolve (include enrollment projections in cases where you foresee a substantial change in student numbers)?

We have dealt with a fairly significant decline in undergraduate student enrollments over the past several years, but those declines seem to have stabilized to a total of roughly 15 majors graduating in each class. As such, our planning going forward is based on recent enrollments (since 2012) rather than prior enrollments, which were roughly 50% higher. 11

To adapt to declining undergraduate enrollments, we have made several significant changes: 1) AR 307, the required laboratory class in archaeological science, has been moved to an annual Fall semester rotation instead of being offered every semester, beginning in Fall 2014. Total annual enrollments have recently been in the high teens to mid-20s, below the single-semester enrollment cap of 30. This change frees Marston and West (who alternate teaching AR 307) to develop and teach additional spring semester courses, and frees two spring semester TFs for other departmental needs. 2) We have revised the process by which course times are assigned to minimize, if not eliminate, any potential scheduling conflicts within the department that have reduced individual course enrollments in the past. We believe this has enabled increased enrollments across classes this term: notably, no classes were cancelled due to low enrollment this term and only two undergraduate courses have enrollments below 10. We also plan to work with cognate departments (AN and AH, in particular) to minimize time conflict between required courses across departments and to reduce subject matter overlap in a given semester that might dilute student interest. 3) We have begun to reduce the frequency with which very small enrollment courses are offered, with the goal of building additional demand for them when they are offered. 4) Our longer list of courses receiving CAS divisional credit was approved by the College.

We also have worked to revise our graduate course offerings to ensure that they continue to be viable given incoming cohort sizes of six doctoral students. We are taking several steps to address this issue: 1) By increasing the relevance of, and demand for, our MA programs we hope to attract more graduate students (see discussion of planned revisions above in I.A.1). 2) We are committed to developing new thematic graduate seminars that will attract students specializing in multiple research areas, and potentially bring in students from other departments (AH, CL, or RN, for example). Recent examples of these courses are AR 735 (Topics in the Materiality of Ancient Mediterranean Religions), which is cross-listed with RN, and AR 796 (Cultural Heritage and Diplomacy), which is cross-listed with IR. Both were offered in Spring 2015, with strong enrollments. AR 510 (Proposal Writing in the Social Sciences) is another success, with Spring 2015 enrollment coming from AR, AN, and SO. 3) We continue to offer “piggybacked” courses at the 300-/700- or 400-/800-level, where undergraduate and graduate students share some course material and graduate students meet separately for 1-2 hours per week for additional instruction and discussion. These courses provide a rich experience for our advanced undergraduate students but also graduate-level instruction in topical areas where we do not have sufficient enrollment to offer graduate-only courses.

As discussed above in 1.A.1, our new 5-year BA/MA program in Archaeology will allow some of our best undergraduate students to complete advanced coursework and directed research with a member of the AR faculty to achieve an MA degree within a single year. Since we now admit to our doctoral program a majority of students who already have MAs, we believe this will make our BA/MA graduates even more competitive for admission to top-tier graduate programs.

The revisions of our existing PhD and MA programs in Archaeology were just approved by the GAAC last year and fully implemented this year. In the new programs, requirements will allow students to reduce time to degree, focus coursework in areas of departmental strength, and, in the case of the doctoral program, improve and systematize professional development training.

Several members of the AR faculty are jointly appointed in, or collaborate with, other programs on campus. In terms of new programs, Marston and West are affiliated faculty with the new PhD program in Biogeosciences.

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Neither our undergraduate major nor doctoral program enroll fewer than 20 students. Our MA programs do have limited enrollment; partly for that reason admissions are currently suspended to the MA in Archaeological Heritage Management and MA in Geoarchaeology, and have revised the program for the MA in Archaeology. We are currently revising our two suspended MA programs to make them more attractive and increase enrollment. We intend to reopen admission to revised versions of these programs and grow the MA modestly through the new BA/MA program, but our ultimate goal is to enroll a maximum of perhaps 10 students at a time in these one-year MA programs combined. Our academic emphasis is on our undergraduate and doctoral programs.

B. Specific Course Needs: In what significant ways will the changes listed in “A” above affect the courses (kind, size, format, offering patterns) you will need to offer?

We have already begun to address changing enrollment trends and graduate program revisions in several ways: 1) In response to a student survey, we have developed a new 100-level course (AR 150) on the Archaeology of Cities. This is the first in a series of lower-level, topical courses that we believe capture areas of student interest more effectively than courses that are solely regional or methodological in focus. Other topics we are considering include religion and climate change. We believe these courses will become high enrollment over time and boost upper-level course enrollments. 2) We are also confronting the reality that most elective graduate courses can only draw reasonable enrollments if they are piggybacked with undergraduate courses or are accessible to graduate students from other departments. AR 510 (Proposal Writing in the Social Sciences) is a good example of a course where archaeology faculty contribute to topics that cut across disciplines; the course is cross-listed with AN and could be expanded to accommodate other social science departments as well, with SO being the most obvious example. 3) We have changed the frequency and staffing of both required and elective courses in response to reduced enrollments, as described in the preceding sections of this document.

Additionally, however, we plan to leverage our areas of strength in Archaeological Heritage Management and Archaeological Science through revised MA programs and new certificate programs. An expansion of these initiatives, while desirable given interest from prospective students and employers, will require additional staffing. We have only one member of the tenure-track faculty specializing in Archaeological Heritage Management (Elia) and can only draw on our non-tenure-track heritage expert (Luke) under limited circumstances. In Archaeological Science, two key members (West and Bethard) are also non-tenure-track, which limits our ability to build a permanent program across the sciences. Additional tenure-track faculty in these two areas would be invaluable building blocks in the future of this department.

C. Course Staffing: How do you see the next ten years of turnover and renewal affecting the composition and profile of your faculty? Please think especially of how you will use replacement positions to build areas of new or continuing high priority in research and teaching. How will these changes affect your planning for the implementation of current and future curricula?

Our tenure-track department faculty profile is currently top-heavy: we have five full professors but only two associate and two assistant professors (one of whom is under review for tenure this year). We face several likely retirements within the next ten years and have not hired replacements for the last six faculty members who left the university within the last two years (3 retirements and 3 unsuccessful tenure cases). We are in need of additional early-career research-active faculty who can direct laboratory-based research programs, in the case of Archaeological Science, and serve as both practitioners and scholars, in the case of Archaeological Heritage. These two positions are our highest priorities for teaching, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, for deepening collaboration with other academic units of the university, and for improving the research profile of

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While we will be able to continue to offer a strong program in Archaeology at the undergraduate, MA, and PhD levels with current staffing levels, and expand in Archaeological Science as MA and certificate programs, we will not be able to reopen admissions to the Archaeological Heritage Management MA without additional staffing in a permanent line. While Archaeological Science staffing is currently adequate, several key faculty members are non-tenure-track, and the strength of the program will not be assured until we have additional permanent faculty.

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