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ARCO3016: Spatial Methods for the Humanities
2025 unit information
This unit introduces spatial analysis methods and geographic information systems (GIS) for the humanities. Although focus will be placed on techniques for archaeological research, transferable skills such as acquiring, managing, visualizing, mapping, and interpreting spatial data, will be widely applicable across humanities disciplines. This unit explores the intersection of the humanities with geography and spatial analysis to uncover insights into cultural, historical, societal, and environmental phenomena through the lens of space and place. No prior GIS knowledge is required, and all software and facilities will be provided and made available to students during the unit.
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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6 credit points at 2000 level in Archaeology |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Develop an understanding of the varieties of ways that archaeologists understand social life in the past and what these interpretations mean for the present.
- LO2. Identify prominent social themes relating to substantive research questions that can be addressed using archaeological data.
- LO3. Be able to express complex ideas about social theory applications in archaeology in a sophisticated and clear way.
- LO4. Appreciate the diversity of past human lives, and articulate the ways that diversity affects understandings of the present as well as possible futures.
- LO5. Apply the broad conceptual themes of the class to a specific geographical and temporal area of the student’s choosing.
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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