Archaeology program requirements
What the Archaeology Specialist, Major and Minor require, as the 2026-2027 Arts & Science Calendar states it, and every course they name.
Archaeology Specialist
- Arts program
- 11.0 credits
- Limited enrolment
- ASSPE0155
Enrolment
This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.
Completion requirements
(11.0 credits, including at least 4.0 credits at the 300+ level and 1.0 credit at the 400-level)
First Year:
1ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1
2Statistical Requirement: NMC268H1 or GGR270H1 (Geography pre- or co-requisites waived for Archaeology and Anthropology students); or 0.5 credit from STA220H1, STA221H1, STA247H1, STA248H1, STA255H1, STA257H1, STA261H1, or ANTC35H3 (at UTSC)
3ANT100Y1 or CLA160H1. If CLA160H1 is taken, students must take an additional 0.5 credit from the following: CLA210H1, CLA230H1, CLA231H1; FAH206H1, FAH207H1; GGR101H1; NMC262H1
Upper Years:
4ARH205H1/ ARH305H1, ARH309H1, ARH312Y1, ANT411H1
5Field Requirement: ANT311Y1 or ARH306Y1 or ARH306Y0 or NMC261Y0 or ARH361Y1 or ARH361H1 or ANT418H5 (at UTM). If ARH361H1 or ANT418H5 is taken, students must take an additional 0.5 credit from ANT/ ARH/ JAL/ JGA courses.
65.0 credits from Groups A and B, of which 2.0 credits must be from Group A and 2.0 credits must be from Group B and 1.0 credit from either group
Note that students may substitute ARH495H1 (Research Practicum) for 0.5 credit of this requirement (assignment to Group A or B to be determined by Undergraduate Coordinator).
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 1: Theoretical
ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT325H1, ANT370H1, ANT409H1, ANT411H1, ANT416H1, ANT420H1, GGR274H1, MCS225Y1, NMC265H1, NMC266H1, NMC268H1, NMC474H1, NMC476H1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 2: Archaeometry
ARH440H1, CHM317H1, CHM414H1, CHM416H1, GGR315H1, JGA305H1, NMC462H1, NMC470H1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 3: Ceramic and Lithic Analysis
ANT406H1, ANT408H1, FAH205H1, NMC465H1, NMC466H1, NMC469Y1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 4: Geoarchaeology
ANT409H1, GGR272H1, GGR273H1, GGR301H1, GGR315H1, GGR373H1, GGR390H1, GGR406H1, GGR413H1, ESS234H1, ESS331H1, JGA305H1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 5: Osteoarchaeology and Zooarchaeology
ANT334H1/ ANT334Y1, ANT335Y1, ANT338H1, ANT415Y1, ANT434H1, EEB318H1, EEB323H1, EEB324H1, EEB390H1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 6: Paleoethnobotany
EEB340H1, GGR305H1, GGR390H1, JGE331H1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 7: Urbanism and Settlement
ANT318H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 1: Classical and Aegean Archaeology
CLA210H1, CLA215H1, CLA230H1, CLA231H1, CLA362H1, CLA363H1, CLA364H1, CLA367H1, CLA368H1, CLA369H1, CLA372H1, CLA373H1, CLA389H1, CLA392H1, CLA402H1, CLA403H1, FAH206H1, FAH207H1, FAH303H1, FAH309H1, FAH401H1, FAH407H1, HIS320H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 2: Egyptian Archaeology
JAL328H1, NMC267H1, NMC343H1, NMC344H1, NMC345H1, NMC365H1, NMC367H1, NMC368H1, NMC461H1, NMC467H1, NMC468H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 3: European and Celtic Archaeology
FAH318H1, FAH327H1, FAH328H1, FAH420H1, FAH421H1, HIS321H1, HIS323H1, HIS403H1, HIS424H1, HIS432H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 4: Historical Archaeology
ANT405H1, ANT412H1, GGR240H1, GGR241H1, GGR336H1, GGR421H1, HIS369H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 5: Islamic Archaeology
NMC376H1, NMC394H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 6: Near Eastern Archaeology
JAL328H1, NMC260H1, NMC262H1, NMC264H1, NMC346H1, NMC347H1, NMC360H1, NMC361H1, NMC364H1, NMC366H1, NMC369H1, NMC370H1, NMC380H1, NMC445H1, NMC446H1, NMC447H1, NMC449H1, NMC461H1, NMC463H1, NMC464H1, NMC466H1, NMC471H1, NMC491H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 7: North and South American Prehistory
ANT315H1, ANT317H1, ANT320H1, ANT407H1, JIH369H1, JIG322H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 8: Old World Prehistory
ARH360H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 9: East Asian Archaeology
EAS312H1, EAS412H1
Courses these requirements name
- ANT200Y1Introduction to Archaeology
- ARH100Y1Introduction to Archaeology
- NMC268H1Data Science Applications in Archaeology
- GGR270H1Introductory Analytical Methods
- STA220H1The Practice of Statistics I
- STA221H1The Practice of Statistics II
- STA247H1Probability with Computer Applications
- STA248H1Statistics for Computer Scientists
- STA255H1Statistical Theory
- STA257H1Probability and Statistics I
- STA261H1Probability and Statistics II
- ANT100Y1Introduction to Anthropology
- CLA160H1Introduction to Classical Studies
- CLA210H1Greek and Roman Archaeology
- CLA230H1Introduction to Greek History
- CLA231H1Introduction to Roman History
- FAH206H1Prehistoric Aegean and East Mediterranean Art and Archaeology
- FAH207H1Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology
- GGR101H1Histories of Environmental Change
- NMC262H1Empires and Internationalism: The Archaeology of the Historic Near East
- ARH205H1Archaeological Inference
- ARH305H1Archaeological Interpretation last in the 2021-2022 Calendar
- ARH309H1Archaeology, Ethics, and the Public
- ARH312Y1Archaeological Laboratory
- ANT411H1Advanced Archaeological Theory
- ANT311Y1Archaeological Fieldwork
- ARH306Y1Archaeological Field Methods
- ARH306Y0
- NMC261Y0Field Archaeology last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- ARH361Y1Field Archaeology
- ARH361H1Field Archaeology
- ANT418H5
- ARH495H1Archaeology Research Practicum
- ANT210H1Anthropologists and Indigenous Peoples in North America
- ANT215H1Fight the Power!: A Global History of Resistance and Revolution
- ANT325H1Indigenous Archaeologies
- ANT370H1Introduction to Social Anthropological Theory
- ANT409H1Landscape Archaeology
- ANT416H1Archaeology of Ritual and Identity
- ANT420H1Archaeology of Inequality
- GGR274H1Introductory Computation and Data Science for the Social Sciences
- MCS225Y1A History of the World in Objects and Signs
- NMC265H1Archaeology in War Zones: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan
- NMC266H1Archaeologies of Power
- NMC474H1The Archaeology of Death last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC476H1Politics of Archaeology in the Modern Middle East last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- ARH440H1Photogrammetry and 3D Analysis of Material Culture last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- CHM317H1Introduction to Instrumental Methods of Analysis
- CHM414H1Biosensors and Chemical Sensors
- CHM416H1Separation Science
- GGR315H1Environmental Remote Sensing
- JGA305H1Environmental and Archaeological Geophysics
- NMC462H1Polarized-light Microscopy in Archaeology I: Foundations
- NMC470H1Polarized-light Microscopy in Archaeology II: Applications
- ANT406H1Lithic Analysis
- ANT408H1The History Lab: Applied Methods in Historical Archaeology
- FAH205H1Clay: A Material and Visual History
- NMC465H1Ceramic Analysis
- NMC466H1Near Eastern Ceramics
- NMC469Y1Medieval Middle Eastern Ceramics
- GGR272H1Geographic Information and Mapping I
- GGR273H1Geographic Information and Mapping II
- GGR301H1Fluvial Geomorphology last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- GGR373H1Advanced Geographic Information Systems
- GGR390H1Field Methods
- GGR406H1Geomorphology and the Anthropocene last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- GGR413H1Watershed Hydroecology last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- ESS234H1Introduction to Geological Field Methods
- ESS331H1Sedimentation and Stratigraphy
- ANT334H1Human Skeletal Biology last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- ANT334Y1Human Skeletal Biology
- ANT335Y1Human Evolution
- ANT338H1Molecular Anthropology and Human Evolution
- ANT415Y1Laboratory in Faunal Archaeo-Osteology
- ANT434H1Health, Diet & Disease in the Past
- EEB318H1Principles of Evolution
- EEB323H1Evolutionary Genetics
- EEB324H1Evolutionary Ecology
- EEB390H1Vertebrate Paleontology: Major Transitions in Vertebrate History
- EEB340H1Comparative Plant Morphology
- GGR305H1Biogeography last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- JGE331H1Resource and Environmental Theory
- ANT318H1The Preindustrial City and Urban Social Theory
- CLA215H1Classical Warfare
- CLA362H1Early Greece
- CLA363H1Archaic and Classical Greece
- CLA364H1The Hellenistic World
- CLA367H1The Roman Republic
- CLA368H1Augustus and the Julio-Claudians
- CLA369H1The Roman Empire
- CLA372H1The Economic History of the Classical World
- CLA373H1The Environment in the Greco-Roman World
- CLA389H1Classical Spaces: Sites and Monuments
- CLA392H1Topics in the study of Classical Culture and Society
- CLA402H1Advanced Seminar in Greek Civilization
- CLA403H1Advanced Seminar in Roman Civilization
- FAH303H1Emergence of Greek Civilisation
- FAH309H1City of Rome
- FAH401H1Aegean Wall Paintings
- FAH407H1Studies in Roman Painting and Sculpture
- HIS320H1Barbarian Invasions and the Fall of the Roman Empire
- JAL328H1Writing Systems
- NMC267H1Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt
- NMC343H1History of Ancient Egypt I: From Farmers to Pyramid Builders
- NMC344H1History of Ancient Egypt II: From Hyksos Subjects to Empire Builders
- NMC345H1Nubian Archaeology
- NMC365H1Women and Gender in Egyptian Archaeology
- NMC367H1Archaeology & Architecture of Egyptian Monasticism last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC368H1Coptic Art & Archaeology
- NMC461H1The History and Archaeology of the Horn of Africa and South Arabia
- NMC467H1Seminar in Egyptian Archaeology I
- NMC468H1Seminar in Egyptian Archaeology II
- FAH318H1Monastic Art and Architecture
- FAH327H1Secular Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages
- FAH328H1Gothic Cathedral
- FAH420H1Studies in Western Medieval Art and Architecture
- FAH421H1Studies in Medieval Cities
- HIS321H1Dark Age Europe, 7th-10th Centuries
- HIS323H1Rites of Passage and Daily Life in the Middle Ages
- HIS403H1Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
- HIS424H1Violence in Medieval Society
- HIS432H1Advanced Topics in Medieval History
- ANT405H1African Diaspora Archaeology
- ANT412H1Historical Archaeology
- GGR240H1Geographies of Colonialism in North America
- GGR241H1Geographies of Urban Social Exclusion last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
- GGR336H1Urban Historical Geography of North America
- GGR421H1Histories of Geographical Thought
- HIS369H1Indigenous Histories of the Great Lakes, to 1830 last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
- NMC376H1History of Islamic Spain and North Africa (640-1492) last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC394H1Persianate Art and Architecture last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC260H1From Agriculture to Urbanism: The Archaeology of the Pre- and Proto-historic Near East
- NMC264H1The Archaeology of Stuff
- NMC346H1Ancient Mesopotamia I: Sumerians and Akkadians
- NMC347H1Ancient Mesopotamia II: Assyrians and Babylonians
- NMC360H1The Archaeology of the Biblical World I: The Bronze Age
- NMC361H1The Archaeology of the Biblical World II: The Iron Age
- NMC364H1Art and Archaeology of Syria last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC366H1Archaeology of Mesopotamia I: Rise of Civilization
- NMC369H1Archaeology of Mesopotamia II: States and Empires
- NMC370H1History of Ancient Israel last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC380H1Religion in the Ancient Near East
- NMC445H1Sacred versus Secular Space: Mesopotamian Architecture in Context
- NMC446H1The Babylonian City
- NMC447H1The Neo-Assyrian Empire
- NMC449H1Mesopotamian Society and Economy
- NMC463H1Warfare: The Archaeology of Conflict in the Ancient Near East
- NMC464H1The Archaeology of Stuff at the ROM last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC471H1Advanced Topics in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
- NMC491H1Mesopotamian Material Culture: Art versus Artifact
- ANT315H1Arctic Archaeology
- ANT317H1Archaeology of Eastern North America
- ANT320H1Ancient Cultures of the Andes
- ANT407H1Inka and Aztec States
- JIH369H1Great Lakes Indigenous Histories to 1830
- JIG322H1Indigenous Worlds, Worldviews and the Environment
- ARH360H1Prehistory of the Near East
- EAS312H1Art and Archaeology of Early China
- EAS412H1Technology and Material Cultures of Ancient China
Archaeology Major
- Arts program
- 7.0 credits
- Limited enrolment
- ASMAJ0155
Enrolment
This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.
Completion requirements
(7.0 credits, including at least 2.0 credits at the 300+ level and one 0.5 credit at the 400-level)
First Year:
1ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1
2ANT100Y1 or CLA160H1. If CLA160H1 is taken, students must take an additional 0.5 credit from the following: (CLA210H1/ CLA230H1/ CLA231H1)/ (FAH206H1/ FAH207H1)/ GGR101H1/ NMC262H1
Upper Years:
3ARH205H1/ ARH305H1, and ARH309H1
41.0 credit from: ARH306Y1, ARH306Y0, ARH312Y1, ARH361Y1, ARH361H1, ANT311Y1, NMC261Y0, NMC465H1, NMC466H1
52.5 credits from: Group A
60.5 credit from: Group B
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 1: Theoretical
ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT325H1, ANT370H1, ANT409H1, ANT411H1, ANT416H1, ANT420H1, GGR274H1, MCS225Y1, NMC265H1, NMC266H1, NMC268H1, NMC474H1, NMC476H1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 2: Archaeometry
ARH440H1, CHM317H1, CHM414H1, CHM416H1, GGR315H1, JGA305H1, NMC462H1, NMC470H1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 3: Ceramic and Lithic Analysis
ANT406H1, ANT408H1, FAH205H1, NMC465H1, NMC466H1, NMC469Y1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 4: Geoarchaeology
ANT409H1, GGR272H1, GGR273H1, GGR301H1, GGR315H1, GGR373H1, GGR390H1, GGR406H1, GGR413H1, ESS234H1, ESS331H1, JGA305H1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 5: Osteoarchaeology and Zooarchaeology
ANT334H1/ ANT334Y1, ANT335Y1, ANT338H1, ANT415Y1, ANT434H1, EEB318H1, EEB323H1, EEB324H1, EEB390H1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 6: Paleoethnobotany
EEB340H1, GGR305H1, GGR390H1, JGE331H1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 7: Urbanism and Settlement
ANT318H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 1: Classical and Aegean Archaeology
CLA210H1, CLA215H1, CLA230H1, CLA231H1, CLA362H1, CLA363H1, CLA364H1, CLA367H1, CLA368H1, CLA369H1, CLA372H1, CLA373H1, CLA389H1, CLA392H1, CLA402H1, CLA403H1, FAH206H1, FAH207H1, FAH303H1, FAH309H1, FAH401H1, FAH407H1, HIS320H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 2: Egyptian Archaeology
JAL328H1, NMC267H1, NMC343H1, NMC344H1, NMC345H1, NMC365H1, NMC367H1, NMC368H1, NMC461H1, NMC467H1, NMC468H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 3: European and Celtic Archaeology
FAH318H1, FAH327H1, FAH328H1, FAH420H1, FAH421H1, HIS321H1, HIS323H1, HIS403H1, HIS424H1, HIS432H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 4: Historical Archaeology
ANT405H1, ANT412H1, GGR240H1, GGR241H1, GGR336H1, GGR421H1, HIS369H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 5: Islamic Archaeology
NMC376H1, NMC394H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 6: Near Eastern Archaeology
JAL328H1, NMC260H1, NMC262H1, NMC264H1, NMC346H1, NMC347H1, NMC360H1, NMC361H1, NMC364H1, NMC366H1, NMC369H1, NMC370H1, NMC380H1, NMC445H1, NMC446H1, NMC447H1, NMC449H1, NMC461H1, NMC463H1, NMC464H1, NMC466H1, NMC471H1, NMC491H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 7: North and South American Prehistory
ANT315H1, ANT317H1, ANT320H1, ANT407H1, JIH369H1, JIG322H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 8: Old World Prehistory
ARH360H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 9: East Asian Archaeology
EAS312H1, EAS412H1
Courses these requirements name
- ANT200Y1Introduction to Archaeology
- ARH100Y1Introduction to Archaeology
- ANT100Y1Introduction to Anthropology
- CLA160H1Introduction to Classical Studies
- CLA210H1Greek and Roman Archaeology
- CLA230H1Introduction to Greek History
- CLA231H1Introduction to Roman History
- FAH206H1Prehistoric Aegean and East Mediterranean Art and Archaeology
- FAH207H1Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology
- GGR101H1Histories of Environmental Change
- NMC262H1Empires and Internationalism: The Archaeology of the Historic Near East
- ARH205H1Archaeological Inference
- ARH305H1Archaeological Interpretation last in the 2021-2022 Calendar
- ARH309H1Archaeology, Ethics, and the Public
- ARH306Y1Archaeological Field Methods
- ARH306Y0
- ARH312Y1Archaeological Laboratory
- ARH361Y1Field Archaeology
- ARH361H1Field Archaeology
- ANT311Y1Archaeological Fieldwork
- NMC261Y0Field Archaeology last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- NMC465H1Ceramic Analysis
- NMC466H1Near Eastern Ceramics
- ANT210H1Anthropologists and Indigenous Peoples in North America
- ANT215H1Fight the Power!: A Global History of Resistance and Revolution
- ANT325H1Indigenous Archaeologies
- ANT370H1Introduction to Social Anthropological Theory
- ANT409H1Landscape Archaeology
- ANT411H1Advanced Archaeological Theory
- ANT416H1Archaeology of Ritual and Identity
- ANT420H1Archaeology of Inequality
- GGR274H1Introductory Computation and Data Science for the Social Sciences
- MCS225Y1A History of the World in Objects and Signs
- NMC265H1Archaeology in War Zones: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan
- NMC266H1Archaeologies of Power
- NMC268H1Data Science Applications in Archaeology
- NMC474H1The Archaeology of Death last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC476H1Politics of Archaeology in the Modern Middle East last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- ARH440H1Photogrammetry and 3D Analysis of Material Culture last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- CHM317H1Introduction to Instrumental Methods of Analysis
- CHM414H1Biosensors and Chemical Sensors
- CHM416H1Separation Science
- GGR315H1Environmental Remote Sensing
- JGA305H1Environmental and Archaeological Geophysics
- NMC462H1Polarized-light Microscopy in Archaeology I: Foundations
- NMC470H1Polarized-light Microscopy in Archaeology II: Applications
- ANT406H1Lithic Analysis
- ANT408H1The History Lab: Applied Methods in Historical Archaeology
- FAH205H1Clay: A Material and Visual History
- NMC469Y1Medieval Middle Eastern Ceramics
- GGR272H1Geographic Information and Mapping I
- GGR273H1Geographic Information and Mapping II
- GGR301H1Fluvial Geomorphology last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- GGR373H1Advanced Geographic Information Systems
- GGR390H1Field Methods
- GGR406H1Geomorphology and the Anthropocene last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- GGR413H1Watershed Hydroecology last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- ESS234H1Introduction to Geological Field Methods
- ESS331H1Sedimentation and Stratigraphy
- ANT334H1Human Skeletal Biology last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- ANT334Y1Human Skeletal Biology
- ANT335Y1Human Evolution
- ANT338H1Molecular Anthropology and Human Evolution
- ANT415Y1Laboratory in Faunal Archaeo-Osteology
- ANT434H1Health, Diet & Disease in the Past
- EEB318H1Principles of Evolution
- EEB323H1Evolutionary Genetics
- EEB324H1Evolutionary Ecology
- EEB390H1Vertebrate Paleontology: Major Transitions in Vertebrate History
- EEB340H1Comparative Plant Morphology
- GGR305H1Biogeography last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- JGE331H1Resource and Environmental Theory
- ANT318H1The Preindustrial City and Urban Social Theory
- CLA215H1Classical Warfare
- CLA362H1Early Greece
- CLA363H1Archaic and Classical Greece
- CLA364H1The Hellenistic World
- CLA367H1The Roman Republic
- CLA368H1Augustus and the Julio-Claudians
- CLA369H1The Roman Empire
- CLA372H1The Economic History of the Classical World
- CLA373H1The Environment in the Greco-Roman World
- CLA389H1Classical Spaces: Sites and Monuments
- CLA392H1Topics in the study of Classical Culture and Society
- CLA402H1Advanced Seminar in Greek Civilization
- CLA403H1Advanced Seminar in Roman Civilization
- FAH303H1Emergence of Greek Civilisation
- FAH309H1City of Rome
- FAH401H1Aegean Wall Paintings
- FAH407H1Studies in Roman Painting and Sculpture
- HIS320H1Barbarian Invasions and the Fall of the Roman Empire
- JAL328H1Writing Systems
- NMC267H1Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt
- NMC343H1History of Ancient Egypt I: From Farmers to Pyramid Builders
- NMC344H1History of Ancient Egypt II: From Hyksos Subjects to Empire Builders
- NMC345H1Nubian Archaeology
- NMC365H1Women and Gender in Egyptian Archaeology
- NMC367H1Archaeology & Architecture of Egyptian Monasticism last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC368H1Coptic Art & Archaeology
- NMC461H1The History and Archaeology of the Horn of Africa and South Arabia
- NMC467H1Seminar in Egyptian Archaeology I
- NMC468H1Seminar in Egyptian Archaeology II
- FAH318H1Monastic Art and Architecture
- FAH327H1Secular Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages
- FAH328H1Gothic Cathedral
- FAH420H1Studies in Western Medieval Art and Architecture
- FAH421H1Studies in Medieval Cities
- HIS321H1Dark Age Europe, 7th-10th Centuries
- HIS323H1Rites of Passage and Daily Life in the Middle Ages
- HIS403H1Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
- HIS424H1Violence in Medieval Society
- HIS432H1Advanced Topics in Medieval History
- ANT405H1African Diaspora Archaeology
- ANT412H1Historical Archaeology
- GGR240H1Geographies of Colonialism in North America
- GGR241H1Geographies of Urban Social Exclusion last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
- GGR336H1Urban Historical Geography of North America
- GGR421H1Histories of Geographical Thought
- HIS369H1Indigenous Histories of the Great Lakes, to 1830 last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
- NMC376H1History of Islamic Spain and North Africa (640-1492) last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC394H1Persianate Art and Architecture last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC260H1From Agriculture to Urbanism: The Archaeology of the Pre- and Proto-historic Near East
- NMC264H1The Archaeology of Stuff
- NMC346H1Ancient Mesopotamia I: Sumerians and Akkadians
- NMC347H1Ancient Mesopotamia II: Assyrians and Babylonians
- NMC360H1The Archaeology of the Biblical World I: The Bronze Age
- NMC361H1The Archaeology of the Biblical World II: The Iron Age
- NMC364H1Art and Archaeology of Syria last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC366H1Archaeology of Mesopotamia I: Rise of Civilization
- NMC369H1Archaeology of Mesopotamia II: States and Empires
- NMC370H1History of Ancient Israel last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC380H1Religion in the Ancient Near East
- NMC445H1Sacred versus Secular Space: Mesopotamian Architecture in Context
- NMC446H1The Babylonian City
- NMC447H1The Neo-Assyrian Empire
- NMC449H1Mesopotamian Society and Economy
- NMC463H1Warfare: The Archaeology of Conflict in the Ancient Near East
- NMC464H1The Archaeology of Stuff at the ROM last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC471H1Advanced Topics in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
- NMC491H1Mesopotamian Material Culture: Art versus Artifact
- ANT315H1Arctic Archaeology
- ANT317H1Archaeology of Eastern North America
- ANT320H1Ancient Cultures of the Andes
- ANT407H1Inka and Aztec States
- JIH369H1Great Lakes Indigenous Histories to 1830
- JIG322H1Indigenous Worlds, Worldviews and the Environment
- ARH360H1Prehistory of the Near East
- EAS312H1Art and Archaeology of Early China
- EAS412H1Technology and Material Cultures of Ancient China
Archaeology Minor
- Arts program
- 4.0 credits
- Limited enrolment
- ASMIN0155
Enrolment
This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.
Completion requirements
(4.0 credits, including at least 1.0 credit at the 300 or 400-levels)
1ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1
2ARH205H1/ ARH305H1, and ARH309H1
31.5 credits from Group A
40.5 credit from Group B
Note 1If ARH312Y1 is completed, it will be considered a Group A course.
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 1: Theoretical
ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT325H1, ANT370H1, ANT409H1, ANT411H1, ANT416H1, ANT420H1, GGR274H1, MCS225Y1, NMC265H1, NMC266H1, NMC268H1, NMC474H1, NMC476H1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 2: Archaeometry
ARH440H1, CHM317H1, CHM414H1, CHM416H1, GGR315H1, JGA305H1, NMC462H1, NMC470H1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 3: Ceramic and Lithic Analysis
ANT406H1, ANT408H1, FAH205H1, NMC465H1, NMC466H1, NMC469Y1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 4: Geoarchaeology
ANT409H1, GGR272H1, GGR273H1, GGR301H1, GGR315H1, GGR373H1, GGR390H1, GGR406H1, GGR413H1, ESS234H1, ESS331H1, JGA305H1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 5: Osteoarchaeology and Zooarchaeology
ANT334H1/ ANT334Y1, ANT335Y1, ANT338H1, ANT415Y1, ANT434H1, EEB318H1, EEB323H1, EEB324H1, EEB390H1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 6: Paleoethnobotany
EEB340H1, GGR305H1, GGR390H1, JGE331H1
Group A: Theoretical and Methods 7: Urbanism and Settlement
ANT318H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 1: Classical and Aegean Archaeology
CLA210H1, CLA215H1, CLA230H1, CLA231H1, CLA362H1, CLA363H1, CLA364H1, CLA367H1, CLA368H1, CLA369H1, CLA372H1, CLA373H1, CLA389H1, CLA392H1, CLA402H1, CLA403H1, FAH206H1, FAH207H1, FAH303H1, FAH309H1, FAH401H1, FAH407H1, HIS320H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 2: Egyptian Archaeology
JAL328H1, NMC267H1, NMC343H1, NMC344H1, NMC345H1, NMC365H1, NMC367H1, NMC368H1, NMC461H1, NMC467H1, NMC468H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 3: European and Celtic Archaeology
FAH318H1, FAH327H1, FAH328H1, FAH420H1, FAH421H1, HIS321H1, HIS323H1, HIS403H1, HIS424H1, HIS432H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 4: Historical Archaeology
ANT405H1, ANT412H1, GGR240H1, GGR241H1, GGR336H1, GGR421H1, HIS369H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 5: Islamic Archaeology
NMC376H1, NMC394H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 6: Near Eastern Archaeology
JAL328H1, NMC260H1, NMC262H1, NMC264H1, NMC346H1, NMC347H1, NMC360H1, NMC361H1, NMC364H1, NMC366H1, NMC369H1, NMC370H1, NMC380H1, NMC445H1, NMC446H1, NMC447H1, NMC449H1, NMC461H1, NMC463H1, NMC464H1, NMC466H1, NMC471H1, NMC491H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 7: North and South American Prehistory
ANT315H1, ANT317H1, ANT320H1, ANT407H1, JIH369H1, JIG322H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 8: Old World Prehistory
ARH360H1
Group B: Area Courses and Cultural History 9: East Asian Archaeology
EAS312H1, EAS412H1
Courses these requirements name
- ANT200Y1Introduction to Archaeology
- ARH100Y1Introduction to Archaeology
- ARH205H1Archaeological Inference
- ARH305H1Archaeological Interpretation last in the 2021-2022 Calendar
- ARH309H1Archaeology, Ethics, and the Public
- ARH312Y1Archaeological Laboratory
- ANT210H1Anthropologists and Indigenous Peoples in North America
- ANT215H1Fight the Power!: A Global History of Resistance and Revolution
- ANT325H1Indigenous Archaeologies
- ANT370H1Introduction to Social Anthropological Theory
- ANT409H1Landscape Archaeology
- ANT411H1Advanced Archaeological Theory
- ANT416H1Archaeology of Ritual and Identity
- ANT420H1Archaeology of Inequality
- GGR274H1Introductory Computation and Data Science for the Social Sciences
- MCS225Y1A History of the World in Objects and Signs
- NMC265H1Archaeology in War Zones: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan
- NMC266H1Archaeologies of Power
- NMC268H1Data Science Applications in Archaeology
- NMC474H1The Archaeology of Death last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC476H1Politics of Archaeology in the Modern Middle East last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- ARH440H1Photogrammetry and 3D Analysis of Material Culture last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- CHM317H1Introduction to Instrumental Methods of Analysis
- CHM414H1Biosensors and Chemical Sensors
- CHM416H1Separation Science
- GGR315H1Environmental Remote Sensing
- JGA305H1Environmental and Archaeological Geophysics
- NMC462H1Polarized-light Microscopy in Archaeology I: Foundations
- NMC470H1Polarized-light Microscopy in Archaeology II: Applications
- ANT406H1Lithic Analysis
- ANT408H1The History Lab: Applied Methods in Historical Archaeology
- FAH205H1Clay: A Material and Visual History
- NMC465H1Ceramic Analysis
- NMC466H1Near Eastern Ceramics
- NMC469Y1Medieval Middle Eastern Ceramics
- GGR272H1Geographic Information and Mapping I
- GGR273H1Geographic Information and Mapping II
- GGR301H1Fluvial Geomorphology last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- GGR373H1Advanced Geographic Information Systems
- GGR390H1Field Methods
- GGR406H1Geomorphology and the Anthropocene last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- GGR413H1Watershed Hydroecology last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- ESS234H1Introduction to Geological Field Methods
- ESS331H1Sedimentation and Stratigraphy
- ANT334H1Human Skeletal Biology last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- ANT334Y1Human Skeletal Biology
- ANT335Y1Human Evolution
- ANT338H1Molecular Anthropology and Human Evolution
- ANT415Y1Laboratory in Faunal Archaeo-Osteology
- ANT434H1Health, Diet & Disease in the Past
- EEB318H1Principles of Evolution
- EEB323H1Evolutionary Genetics
- EEB324H1Evolutionary Ecology
- EEB390H1Vertebrate Paleontology: Major Transitions in Vertebrate History
- EEB340H1Comparative Plant Morphology
- GGR305H1Biogeography last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- JGE331H1Resource and Environmental Theory
- ANT318H1The Preindustrial City and Urban Social Theory
- CLA210H1Greek and Roman Archaeology
- CLA215H1Classical Warfare
- CLA230H1Introduction to Greek History
- CLA231H1Introduction to Roman History
- CLA362H1Early Greece
- CLA363H1Archaic and Classical Greece
- CLA364H1The Hellenistic World
- CLA367H1The Roman Republic
- CLA368H1Augustus and the Julio-Claudians
- CLA369H1The Roman Empire
- CLA372H1The Economic History of the Classical World
- CLA373H1The Environment in the Greco-Roman World
- CLA389H1Classical Spaces: Sites and Monuments
- CLA392H1Topics in the study of Classical Culture and Society
- CLA402H1Advanced Seminar in Greek Civilization
- CLA403H1Advanced Seminar in Roman Civilization
- FAH206H1Prehistoric Aegean and East Mediterranean Art and Archaeology
- FAH207H1Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology
- FAH303H1Emergence of Greek Civilisation
- FAH309H1City of Rome
- FAH401H1Aegean Wall Paintings
- FAH407H1Studies in Roman Painting and Sculpture
- HIS320H1Barbarian Invasions and the Fall of the Roman Empire
- JAL328H1Writing Systems
- NMC267H1Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt
- NMC343H1History of Ancient Egypt I: From Farmers to Pyramid Builders
- NMC344H1History of Ancient Egypt II: From Hyksos Subjects to Empire Builders
- NMC345H1Nubian Archaeology
- NMC365H1Women and Gender in Egyptian Archaeology
- NMC367H1Archaeology & Architecture of Egyptian Monasticism last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC368H1Coptic Art & Archaeology
- NMC461H1The History and Archaeology of the Horn of Africa and South Arabia
- NMC467H1Seminar in Egyptian Archaeology I
- NMC468H1Seminar in Egyptian Archaeology II
- FAH318H1Monastic Art and Architecture
- FAH327H1Secular Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages
- FAH328H1Gothic Cathedral
- FAH420H1Studies in Western Medieval Art and Architecture
- FAH421H1Studies in Medieval Cities
- HIS321H1Dark Age Europe, 7th-10th Centuries
- HIS323H1Rites of Passage and Daily Life in the Middle Ages
- HIS403H1Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
- HIS424H1Violence in Medieval Society
- HIS432H1Advanced Topics in Medieval History
- ANT405H1African Diaspora Archaeology
- ANT412H1Historical Archaeology
- GGR240H1Geographies of Colonialism in North America
- GGR241H1Geographies of Urban Social Exclusion last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
- GGR336H1Urban Historical Geography of North America
- GGR421H1Histories of Geographical Thought
- HIS369H1Indigenous Histories of the Great Lakes, to 1830 last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
- NMC376H1History of Islamic Spain and North Africa (640-1492) last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC394H1Persianate Art and Architecture last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC260H1From Agriculture to Urbanism: The Archaeology of the Pre- and Proto-historic Near East
- NMC262H1Empires and Internationalism: The Archaeology of the Historic Near East
- NMC264H1The Archaeology of Stuff
- NMC346H1Ancient Mesopotamia I: Sumerians and Akkadians
- NMC347H1Ancient Mesopotamia II: Assyrians and Babylonians
- NMC360H1The Archaeology of the Biblical World I: The Bronze Age
- NMC361H1The Archaeology of the Biblical World II: The Iron Age
- NMC364H1Art and Archaeology of Syria last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC366H1Archaeology of Mesopotamia I: Rise of Civilization
- NMC369H1Archaeology of Mesopotamia II: States and Empires
- NMC370H1History of Ancient Israel last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC380H1Religion in the Ancient Near East
- NMC445H1Sacred versus Secular Space: Mesopotamian Architecture in Context
- NMC446H1The Babylonian City
- NMC447H1The Neo-Assyrian Empire
- NMC449H1Mesopotamian Society and Economy
- NMC463H1Warfare: The Archaeology of Conflict in the Ancient Near East
- NMC464H1The Archaeology of Stuff at the ROM last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- NMC471H1Advanced Topics in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
- NMC491H1Mesopotamian Material Culture: Art versus Artifact
- ANT315H1Arctic Archaeology
- ANT317H1Archaeology of Eastern North America
- ANT320H1Ancient Cultures of the Andes
- ANT407H1Inka and Aztec States
- JIH369H1Great Lakes Indigenous Histories to 1830
- JIG322H1Indigenous Worlds, Worldviews and the Environment
- ARH360H1Prehistory of the Near East
- EAS312H1Art and Archaeology of Early China
- EAS412H1Technology and Material Cultures of Ancient China
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