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Archaeology, Technology and Historical Structures

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This innovative multidisciplinary program studies the establishment and evolution of technological, architectural, and engineering practices and their relationship to the ancient and pre-industrial societies and cultures, which technology and engineering helped create and sustain. Assuming a global perspective, the program integrates material from several disciplines in engineering and the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. Students learn to apply engineering, archaeological, architectural, and historical methodologies to explore the creation of artifacts, buildings, and infrastructural systems within and across societies and cultures from the first millennium B.C. to the eighteenth century. A prominent feature of the program is undergraduate research under the aegis of both the University of Rochester and prestigious foreign academic institutions to address issues of interpretation, conservation, and restoration of the world’s cultural heritage.

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Special Features of the Program

• Multidisciplinary and interdepartmental
• Integration of archaeology, architecture, classics, art history, history of technology, and engineering
• Study on location and study abroad opportunities
• Major and minor
• Research with faculty leading to Senior Thesis
• Global perspective across societies and cultures
• Collaboration with prestigious foreign academic institutions
• New and unique academic program at the national level

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