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Twin Cities Campus
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology B.A.
Classical & Near Eastern Studies
College of Liberal Arts
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Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2005.
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Required credits to graduate with this degree: 120.
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Required credits within the major: 36.
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This program requires summer terms.
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Degree: Bachelor of Arts.
This major allows students to concentrate their studies on the material remains from the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Biblical lands from ca. 3000 B.C.E. though 650 C.E.
The program includes courses from classical and near eastern studies, anthropology, art history, geography, geology, and history.
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Admission Requirements
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For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the
Office of Admissions Web site.
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General Requirements
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All students are required to complete general University and college
requirements including writing and liberal education courses.
For more information about University-wide requirements, see the
liberal education requirements.
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Program Requirements
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Students are required to take 4 semester(s) of Greek, Hebrew, or Latin. Preparatory Courses
CNES 3152 - Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece, OH (4.0 cr)
CNES 3162 - Roman Art and Archaeology, OH (4.0 cr)
CNES 1043 - Introduction to Greek and Roman Archaeology, HP (4.0 cr)
or CNES 3008 - History of Ancient Art, IP, OH (4.0 cr)
CNES 3104 - Ancient Rome: Kings and Consuls, HP (3.0 cr)
or CNES 3105 - Ancient Rome: The Age of Augustus, HP (3.0 cr)
or CNES 3107 - Age of Constantine the Great, HP, IP (3.0 cr)
or CNES 3108 - Age of St. Augustine of Hippo, HP (3.0 cr)
or HIST 3051 - Ancient Civilization: Near East and Egypt (3.0 cr)
or HIST 3052 - Ancient Civilization: Greece (3.0 cr)
or HIST 3053 - Ancient Civilization: Rome (3.0 cr)
or HIST 3061 - "Bread and Circuses": Spectacles and Mass Culture in Antiquity (3.0 cr)
or HIST 3502 - Ancient Israel: From Conquest to Exile, HP (3.0 cr)
or HIST 3930 - Topics in Ancient History (3.0 cr)
or HIST 4051 - Ancient Near East and Egypt: Neolithic to 1500 BCE (3.0 cr)
or HIST 4052 - Ancient Near East and Egypt: 1500 to 323 BCE (3.0 cr)
or HIST 4061 - History of the Greek World from Earliest Times to 400 B.C. (3.0 cr)
or HIST 4062 - History of the Greek World: 400 to 30 B.C. (3.0 cr)
or HIST 4071 - History of Rome to 78 B.C. (3.0 cr)
or HIST 4072 - History of Rome: 78 B.C. to A.D. 117 (3.0 cr)
or HIST 4073 - History of Rome: A.D. 117 to 641 (3.0 cr)
or HIST 5051 - Before Herodotus: History and Historiography of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East (3.0 cr)
or HIST 5053 - Doing Roman History: Sources, Methods, and Trends (3.0 cr)
or HIST 5930 - Topics in Ancient History (1.0-4.0 cr)
or HIST 5933 - Seminar in Ancient History (3.0 cr)
Major Courses
Five courses must be taken from Groups 1-3, with at least one course from each group. Remaining courses may be selected from courses in Groups 1-3 not used to fulfill the five-course requirement, from courses in the preparatory course list that are not used to fill that requirement, from selected courses in anthropology, or from any 3xxx-5xxx course in CNES or RELA. Course selections are subject to the approval of the director of undergraduate studies.
Take 8 or more course(s) totaling 24 or more credit(s) from the following:
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Take 5 or more course(s) including 3 or more sub-requirement(s) from the following:
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Group 1 - The Classical World
Take 1 or more course(s) from the following:
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CNES 5111 - Prehistoric Art and Archaeology of Greece (3.0 cr)
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CNES 5112 - Archaic and Classical Greek Art (3.0 cr)
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CNES 5103 - Hellenistic and Early Roman Art and Archaeology (3.0 cr)
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CNES 5108 - Greek Architecture (3.0 cr)
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CNES 5172 - House, Villa, Tomb: Roman Art in the Private Sphere (3.0 cr)
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CNES 5182 - Art and the State: Public Art in the Roman Empire (3.0 cr)
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Group 2 - The Near East
Take 1 or more course(s) from the following:
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CNES 3142 - Art of Egypt, HP (4.0 cr)
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CNES 3172 - Archaeology of Israel (3.0 cr)
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Group 3 - Field/Lab Work
Take 1 or more course(s) from the following:
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ANTH 4069 - Environmental Archaeology, SSCI, ENVT (3.0 cr)
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CNES 3340 - Practicum in Archaeological Field and Computer Techniques (3.0 cr)
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CNES 5120 - Field Research in Archaeology (3.0-6.0 cr)
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CNES 5340 - Practicum in Archaeological Field and Computer Techniques (3.0 cr)
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Electives
Take 0 - 3 course(s) from the following:
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ANTH 3009 - Rise of Civilization, IP, SSCI (3.0 cr)
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ANTH 3027W - Archaeology of Prehistoric Europe, WI (3.0 cr)
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ANTH 3028 - Introduction to Historical Archaeology (3.0 cr)
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ANTH 4043 - Archaeology of Northern Europe (4.0 cr)
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ANTH 4069 - Environmental Archaeology, SSCI, ENVT (3.0 cr)
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ANTH 5027W - Origins of European Civilization, WI (3.0 cr)
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CNES 3xxx
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CNES 4xxx
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CNES 5xxx
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RELA 3xxx
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RELA 4xxx
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RELA 5xxx
Senior Project
Students who complete another CLA major may substitute 4 credits of appropriate coursework at 3xxx or above for the CNES senior project.
CNES 3951W - Major Project, WI (4.0 cr)
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Program Sub-plans
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A sub-plan is not required for this program.
Honors
This is an honors sub-plan.
Eligibility is based on the GPA in the student's final 60 graded credits (the full semester in which the 60th credit is received will be included) at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus (transfer credits are not included). Satisfactory completion of at least four upper division honors opportunities after completion of the 60th semester credit is required. One of the four honors opportunities must be outside the major field, a second is achieved through the honors thesis or project, and at least two of the four must be honors classroom experiences. Students must complete the honors requirements for their degree within two years of the term in which they apply for graduation. All honors courses must be graded A-F. CLA Honors
Honors Opportunity 1
Honors Opportunity 2
A senior project that is acceptable for an honors project for cum laude and magna cum laude. For summa cum laude, students must complete a thesis which must be approved unanimously by a committee of three faculty members, two from the major department and one from outside the major.
HSEM 3xxx
or HSEM 4xxx
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