Object-Based Learning Courses

The University of Pennsylvania offers students direct access to some of the finest collections of art, artifacts, and rare books and manuscripts in the world. The incorporation of these objects into course instruction exposes students to these collections and enhances the learning environment of the classroom.

Object-based learning is part of many courses in Anthropology, Classics, Art History, History, and area studies departments, particularly the following core courses: 

ANTH 1480: Food and Fire: Archaeology in the Laboratory

ANTH 2221: Material World in Archaeological Science

ANTH 3307: Intro to Digital Archaeology

ANTH 5230: Archaeobotany Seminar

ARTH 1010: World Art and Civilization Before 1400

CLST 1205: Race and Ethnicity in the Ancient World

CLST 1300: Intro to Mediterranean Archaeology

EALC 1127: Chinese Painting

EALC 2109: East Asian Ceramics

NELC 0001: Intro to the Ancient Near East