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Three quarter credits.This course will train you in basic fieldwork recordation and analysis techniques, resulting in documentation such as architectural plans, textual descriptions, photographs, and interpretative drawings. Preparing for a proposed publication project will afford you the opportunity to explore a wide range of construction techniques and form/plan types through a series of case studies. In addition, you will collect ethnographic data and descriptions of certain objects and their uses, such as kitchen utensils or historic farming and milling equipment.

“Food and Culture in Greece” is an active and intensive, three-week program that allows participants to develop an intimate, hands-on appreciation for the role of food in Greece’s rich and storied past and to see how it mediates social, political, environmental, cultural and economic processes in contemporary life as well. Through structured engagements with influential texts in food studies and Greek food, culture and history and guided encounters in key food related locations (ancient and contemporary) across the country participants will gain important insights into Greek cuisine in the thr

Why does it matter what people eat, and how does our relationship to food reflect who we are? How can comprehension of food ways enrich our experience abroad? This course is an interdisciplinary analysis of foodways in Italy, with a special focus on Tuscany, using the tools of anthropology, history, geography, sociology, journalism and marketing. We'll examine the issues affecting the world's food today, how food production and consumption are changing and Italy's strategies for protecting its diverse food traditions.

In this program we will explore the archaeology of Curaçao and other Pre-Columbian settlements in the Caribbean islands. With a focus toward examining migration theories, settlement patterns, subsistence strategies and the development of cultural complexity through time, we will examine the rich archaeological and historical record of a region that often receives little attention from introductory textbooks and discussions of world prehistory.

Three quarter credits.In Preservation Field Practicum: Restoration and Revitalization Efforts of Traditional Stone Environments
 you will work alongside University of Oregon faculty and local professionals of traditional practice to begin various phases of a rural revitalization project for the island of Brač, just off the Dalmatian Coast in the Adriatic Sea. The course will cover the fundamentals of masonry and wood construction in a hands-on format: from methods of dressing and laying stone, to wood preservation techniques in the context of traditional Croatian practices.



Three quarter credits.Discussion groups and application models, directed by the academic instructors, will focus on heritage conservation issues, heritage protection policies, and architectural documentation requirements—comparing practices in the US with those in Croatia. The history of urban growth and the changes in town form within the region will provide a framework for policy and preservation practice discussions led by professionals from the Trogir Ministry of Culture, professors of Ethnography from the University of Zagreb, and University of Oregon faculty.

There are many reasons for the global success of football. The game fulfils our longing for triumph and endorses our knowledge of failure. It produces heroes and losers, demonstrates that we have to fight to reach our aims, but also shows the importance of cooperating and interacting. Thus football acts as a theatre of existence, in which life can both mirror and transcend itself. The class will take a look behind the scenes and identify the mechanisms that make football so popular.

This course is designed to provide students with a “hands-on” introduction to archaeological fieldwork. Fieldwork and laboratory analysis will be conducted in a collaborative manner. All tasks will involve cooperation with one another and a deep commitment to the project itself.