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ARCO2011: Growing Empires in Iron Age Western Asia
2020 unit information
West Asia in the Iron Age witnessed a succession of splendid imperial expansive states, from the mighty Assyrian and Babylonian empires to the Achaemenid state as the first World Empire. This unit introduces these developments in a broad comparative perspective throughout ancient West Asia.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Archaeology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 1000 level in the Archaeology major |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate an understanding of how archaeology, as the study of material culture, is employed across a wide variety of spatial and temporal contexts
- LO2. Synthesise knowledge, experience and practice by constructing and testing new arguments and proposing evidence-based solutions.
- LO3. Demonstrate an understanding of archaeological interpretations of early human society
- LO4. Demonstrate a basic capacity for scholarly evaluation, critical analysis, and problem solving within archaeology through the writing of an essay on a selected topic
- LO5. Demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of global archaeological processes, along with a basic awareness of archaeological sequences and cultural change.
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