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
MELC 0001: Intro to the Ancient Middle East