Academic Team:

Chris Bell (cbell3@uoregon.edu) 
FIG Seminar Instructor

Larissa Rudnicki (lrudnick@uoregon.edu) 
FIG Seminar Instructor

Olivia
FIG Assistant

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Courses in the FIG:

UGST 109 FIG Seminar

 TIME | BUILDING | CRN | 1 Credit

ANTH 145 Principles of Archaeology  

Science (>3)| TIME | BUILDING | CRN | 4 Credits

This course is an introduction to the history of archaeology and its methods and theories. As we progress through the term, we will discuss how archaeology developed as a discipline and ways in which archaeological investigation is conducted and applied in the field. Students will become familiar with the modern methods that archaeologists use to locate, preserve, and manage cultural resources, theories that drive archaeological interpretation, and how studies of prehistory have enriched our understanding of humans through space and time.

LA 260 Understanding Landscapes

Arts & Letters (>1) | TIME | BUILDING | CRN | 4 Credits

This course presents a richly illustrated overview of the relationships between human cultures and their vernacular and designed landscapes. Students study a broad range of gardens, parks, memorials, and civic landscapes. These places exemplify both the distinctive characteristics of many world cultures and themes found in the creation of special multi-cultural landscapes. Gardens are studied as metaphors for the human cultural ideas they seek to express and nurture. Students learn about the structure and pattern of designed landscapes, the history of environmental policies and values that affect them, and the ways that landscape designs are understood and described. Students do class projects, such as making models or simple drawings of gardens, but need not have any prior art experience to take the class.