ARCH 425:Information Technology in Cultural & Heritage Studies
In this course, the student will be trained in the use of computers and other digital equipment with which archaeologists gather, record, classify and analyse data. They will specifically train in the use of the internet as a research tool, and how to... |
ARCH 424:Cultural Resource Management in Ghana
The course deals with public policy and efforts to preserve and protect archaeological and historical sites and resources and examines topics such as the public and archaeology, value and destruction of archaeological resources, looting of, and illicit... |
ARCH 422:Post-field Laboratory Analysis
The course is a continuation of ARCH 401. It deals with post-field processing, preservation, conservation, cataloguing, packaging and storage of data. The student will be trained in methods of classification and analyses of data in an off-field... |
ARCH 410:Long Essay
This course will require the student to undertake independent field research and prepare, with adequate supervision by a Senior Member, a Long Essay of not more than 8000 words (excluding appendices, photographic plates, maps, drawings and bibliography) on a... |
ARCH 333:Introduction to Physical Anthropology
This course is a survey of human evolution, variation and adaptation. Knowledge about human beings as biological organisms is integrated with human ways of life for a bio-cultural approach to human evolution. The student will learn about human and non-... |
ARCH 331:Art History of Ghana
The course focuses on the character and meaning of art works in Ghana over the period 2000 B.C. to the present. Lectures cover topics such as the development of art history as a discipline, artist, and art. Regional case studies of prehistoric, historic... |
ARCH 329:Archaeology and Tourism in Ghana
This course will help students to understand the “tourist culture” and its effect on the hosts and the environment. It will involve studies of tourism and its role in acculturation, modernization, and economic development. Tourism will be analyzed... |
ARCH 328:Archaeology, Anthropology and Cultural Evolution
The course examines culture as a concept, and the evolution of culture in time and space from anthropological and archaeological perspectives. It will guide the student to gain insights into the history and evolution of languages, and the variables that... |
ARCH 327:Introduction to Theories of Culture
The course is aimed at providing the student with different perspectives of what culture is. Various definitions and theories of culture, including theories that explain spatial and temporal transformations of culture will be discussed. Examples will be drawn... |
ARCH 326:Public Policy and Heritage Management in Ghana
The course will train the student to be able to examine how public policy impacts upon the preservation of archaeological and historical resources. The student will learn about world perspectives of heritage management; and about how to review... |