Courses

If you have questions about what SDSU’s terminal master’s program can offer you, please visit this website. I am currently accepting MA students.

If you’d like to see syllabi of our courses, take a look at the SDSU Syllabus Repository.

Course	Title	Description
ANTH 302	Principles of Archaeology	Core major lab course full of labs and activities centered on archaeological principles
ANTH 349	Roots of Civilizations	Survey course on the rise of domestication and the formation of early states
ANTH 348	Historical Archaeology	Exploration on the scope and methods of North American historical archaeology
ANTH 471	North American Archaeology	Survey course on the major theoretical and thematic developments in North American prehistoric and contact period archaeology
ANTH 564	Zooarchaeological Methods	Lab methods course on non-human osteology and zooarchaeological analysis methods. Get to know your animal bones!
ANTH 602	Methods and Theory in Archaeology	Core graduate core overview of the major theoretical and methodological traditions in North American archaeology
ANTH 566	Archaeologies of the Southwestern Borderlands	Exploration of the major research developments, Indigenous cultures past and present, and ethical challenges of archaeology in the US Southwest/noroeste of Mexico