ANTHROPOLOGY 490: ARCHAEOLOGY INTERNSHIPS

COURSE SYLLABUS

COURSE SCHEDULE- variable, COURSE CREDITS 3-6. This course may be repeated for up to a total of 12 credit hours if the course content is different.

INSTRUCTOR: Peter Mills 264 EKH; Email: millsp@hawaii.edu; Office phone- 974-7465

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course is designed to promote student involvement in the community and to create opportunities for students to conduct archaeological fieldwork. Various Big Island organizations deal with archaeological data on a daily basis. This list includes archaeologists in the following organizations: 1) the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division for Historic Preservation in Kona; 2) Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park, Cultural Resources Management Division; 3) the Lyman Museum; 4) Natural Resources Conservation Services Office in Kona; and 5) Kaloko Honokohau National Historic Park; and 6) Various private consultants including Haun and Associates, Rechtman Consulting, Paul H. Rosendahl, Inc., and Scientific Consulting Services. This list is not exhaustive, and occasionally, other archaeologists are conducting research on the Big Island and take on student interns. For a more extensive list of private archaeological consultants in Hawai`i, see http://www.state.hi.us/dlnr/hpd/archcon.htm.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

While I will announce internship opportunities that I am aware of, it is up to you to secure an internship position with the archaeological community and design your internship project. In order to accomplish this, you need to design your internship well before the beginning of the semester. Students can enroll only after they receive a permit from the supervising UHH professor. Anthropology 110 is a pre-requisite and you will have to be disciplined and self motivated to pull this off. In addition, you are expected to complete the following:

1) For every three credits that you take, you are expected to spend 8 hours per week on your field project. This may involve time in the office or home preparing maps or conducting background research, or it may involve actual time conducting survey and excavation. You will be required to maintain a log/journal of the time you spend on your internship. This log should list the number of hours spent on various activities and give detailed, thoughtful and introspective descriptions of your activities.

2) You will be required to complete a ten-page scholarly research paper for every three credits that you enroll in. This paper should deal with some aspect of your internship, but does not necessarily have to cover every aspect of your internship. You will be expected to conduct background research, summarize previous reports/publications dealing with your topic and relate that information to your current internship project.

STUDENTS WITH DOCUMENTED DISABILITIES

Any student with a documented disability who would like to request accommodations should contact the University Disability Services Office at 933-0816(V), 933-3334 (TTY) Campus Center Room 311, as early in the semester as possible.