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Short-term Faculty-led Study Away Program Summer 2014 May 23 - June 16, 2014

Course Name: Archaeology Field Program Fee:$4,200 Informational Meeting: School in Program Fee Includes: airfare, ground TBA Course Numbers: HST 374/674 transportation, shared hotel room in , Application Due: board, weekend excursions, entrance fees to January 31, 2014 Credit Hours: 3 (undergraduate or archaeological sites and museums, Study graduate, with enhanced content) Away student fee. Separated costs Pre-travel Class Meetings TBA Location: Central Jordan (Tall not available. ) Program Fee Excludes: MSU tuition for 3 Depart Springfield for , Jordan: May 23, 2014 Course Highlights: hours of undergraduate or graduate credit • Participate in a “live” archaeological ($612/741); passport & visa fees; Depart Amman, Jordan for Springfield: research project with an international, immunizations; misc. personal expenses June 16, 2014 interdisciplinary team Applications are due by January 31, 2014. Post-travel Meeting, Final Exam: • Experience ethnographic work in a A nonrefundable deposit of $630 will be TBA “live” Jordanian village billed to your student account. Please see • Expand your knowledge through Application & Payment Procedures for MSU Interested in going? weekend excursions to sites in and Visiting Students on reverse. central Jordan, such as: For more information, contact Scholarship Eligibility & Financial Aid • Walking tour of Madaba during Dr. Bethany Walker, Professor of Students may apply for the College of morning and sunset at Mt Nebo. Middle Eastern History and Islamic • Tour of Northern Jordan: Jerash, Humanities and Public Affairs Study Away Archaeology: 836-5511 or Ajlun, Gadera, Pella and Succoth scholarship. Applications are due to the Study • Tour of Amman Citadel, Museum and Away office by April 11, 2014. Please see the [email protected] Theatre, Tall Umayri, Tall Jalul scholarship page on the Study Away website. • Afternoon Tour of Bethany beyond Additionally, students who receive financial Jordan and Dead Sea Swim aid may apply aid to this program. Contact the • Desert Highway toward Petra, Hejaz Office of Financial Aid at 836-5262 for more Railway, Shoubak Castle, Wadi Musa information. • Tour of Petra Archaeological Park • The King’s Highway to Madaba via Al Kerak, Wadi Mujib, and Dibon • Brush up on or learn new Arabic language skills • Excavate a medieval castle and Roman ruins • Explore and map caves • Learn aerial photography and other new technologies Missouri State University Study Away Programs Jim D. Morris Center, Suite 403 301 S. Jefferson Ave., Springfield, MO 65806 P: 417-836-6368 • E: [email protected] An EO/AA Institution W: http://international.missouristate.edu/studyaway/ Course Objectives Weekend excursions will take you to some Application & Payment Procedures This course is a formal archaeological field of the most important archaeological and Missouri State University students and school - with field, lab, and classroom cultural sites and most beautiful natural others who are approved by a Program components – held on-site in Jordan as an MSU wonders of the country. Director may apply. Instructions are included on study away program. The field school provides For more information about the project, the program application. hands-on training in archaeological excavation visit http://clio.missouristate.edu/bwalker MSU Students: A non-refundable deposit and post-season object analysis techniques; /default.html of $630 will be billed to your University students will also participate in several projects account upon application (deadline Jan 31, related to site presentation, architectural Course Schedule & Itinerary 2014). You will receive a second billing on Feb. preservation, and community outreach that are The program schedule consists of a 5-day 21, 2014 and a final billing on March 31, 2014, running concurrently with the excavation. (Sun.-Thurs.) work week, dedicated to field for the balance of the program fee ($3,570). MSU course tuition ($612/741) will be billed to The field school is based on excavations at Tall work (6 am-noon); afternoon labs for pottery washing, reading and artifact processing (4-6 your University account and is due according to Hisban, a multi-component tell site in central the university payment plan. Jordan with a medieval castle. This is the pm); and evening lectures 3 days per week (7 longest running foreign-led archaeological pm). Group tours are held on weekends. Visiting Students: A non-refundable deposit of $630 (check or money order) must accompany project in the Middle East (launched over forty Course Credit & Requirements your application (deadline Jan. 31, 2014). A years ago), as well as one of the oldest and Students receive 3 hours of either check or money order for the balance of the most prestigious field schools in the region. undergraduate credit (HST 374) or graduate program fee ($3,570) and MSU course tuition Hisban has trained generations of budding credit (HST 674) for satisfactory completion of ($612/741) will be due by April 18, 2014. archaeologists through this form of study away the program. There are no prerequisites for the IN ORDER TO ENSURE PARTICIPATION IN field school. Students will live at the Salome course, although previous coursework in THIS STUDY AWAY PROGRAM, THE ENTIRE Hotel in Madaba, an old Christian town south of World history, Middle East history or Middle AMOUNT OF THE PROGRAM FEE MUST BE Amman, and will be immersed in Jordanian life, East Studies, archaeology or anthropology, or RECEIVED BY FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014. PAYMENT both in the field and at “camp”. The 2014 Arabic language is highly recommended. All CAN BE MADE ONLINE OR AT THE BURSAR’S season at Hisban is a three-week excavation. majors are welcome. No previous field OFFICE. Estimated program fees are based on The course begins with several cultural experience is necessary: students will receive rates in effect on the publication date of this orientation and field training classes, held training “in the field” in Jordan. flyer and may be subject to change. Program participants agree to a potential increase of up spring semester 2014, which consists of weekly, Required Text: Excavation Manual: Madaba to 10% if rates increase before or during travel. evening meetings. The field school proper runs Plains Project ($10, loose-leaf)—order from from May 23 to June 16. Weekend excursions publisher at: Cancellation & Refund Policies are planned to sites of archaeological and http://www.andrews.edu/archaeology/pubs/ • Students who withdraw prior to April 4, 2014 historical interest in Jordan. books/manual.html. All other readings will be will receive a refund of fees paid, less the Students are strongly encouraged to take have provided electronically to students through the $630 deposit and any non-refundable taken some Middle Eastern courses (history, course Blackboard site. purchases made on his/her behalf. anthropology, Arabic language) or archaeology. Assessment of learning • If a student is forced to withdraw after There are, however, no formal prerequisites. All Students will be assessed through both April 4, 2014 for a bona fide medical participants should be in good health, have an hands-on fieldwork and traditional in-class reason, s/he will receive a refund of fees interest in and respect for Middle Eastern assignments. Grades are based on: paid, less the $630 deposit and expenses. A certificate of incapacitating cultures, and have a commitment to active • Performance in fieldwork and careful research. Some training in Arabic language is illness or injury from a licensed physician is completion of field notes required. recommended but not required. No prior • Evening lecture attendance and notes archaeological experience is required. All majors • Academic journal and post-travel essay • Students withdrawing voluntarily after are welcome. April 4, 2014, or withdrawing due to medical reasons not protected under the fees refund policy, receive no refund. • Once the program has started, no refunds will be issued under any circumstances. • All notifications of withdrawal must be made in writing and sent to the Program Director and Director of Study Away Programs at the Study Away Office, Jim D. Morris Center, Suite 403. Non-payment of fees does not guarantee automatic withdrawal.