Anth 520: Contact Communities in Eastern North America

Fall 2009

Professor: Dr. Peter Peregrine

Office: Briggs 307

Phone: 832-7684 (office) or 730-8094

Office Hours: after class or by appointment

E-mail: peter.n.peregrine@lawrence.edu

Web: http://www.lawrence.edu/fast/peregrip/peregrine.html

COURSE OUTLINE

This course will be run as a research seminar. You will choose (this week) a particular region of early colonial North America, and identify all the excavated sites in that region dating from the early colonial period (time period varies by region). By mid-term reading period you will be expected to have developed an extensive list of archaeological sites and a bibliography on them. By the last day of the course (Nov. 16) you will be expected to have obtained and read much of the bibliographic material, and constructed a comprehensive annotated bibliography. By the date of the assigned final exam (Tuesday, Nov. 24, 1:30 pm) you are expected to have produced a paper that both summarizes and explains the nature of the archaeological record of contact communities in your region of study.

GRADING

Your annotated bibliography will be worth 40 points. Your paper will be worth 60 points. Your grade for the course will be determined from the one hundred total points by the following scale:

90-100 = A

80-89 = B

70-79 = C

60-69 = D

<59 = F

I may adjust this scale down but will never adjust it up. Pluses and minuses will be given at my discretion. You also may lose points for failure to attend class (see below).

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY

I expect all students to adhere to the Lawrence University Honor Code. If I find you are in violation of the Honor Code I am required to report it. One specific thing you should know: I encourage group work in all my classes; I encourage you to talk about assignments outside of class, and even to work together on them. However, all assignments must be written individually and independently—you may work with others to sketch out and discuss possible answers, but what you turn in must be a product of your own thought and effort. This is admittedly a fine line, and if you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to ask.