Detailed study of topics such as architecture, sculpture, or topography of sites. No knowledge of Greek or Latin is required.

Study of the artifacts, monuments, and sites of classical Greece; and their value for documenting ancient Greek religious, social, and cultural history.

Public art of the Roman Empire from Augustus to late antiquity, ca. 31 BC to AD 350.

The architecture of mainland Greece, Asia Minor, and Sicily from the Dark Ages to the end of the Hellenistic period (ca. 1000 to 30 BC), with emphasis on public buildings, both religious and secular.

Art of the Hellenistic period from the reign of Alexander the Great to the beginning of the Roman Empire, ca. 336 to 31 BC.

Values and social practices in the ancient Mediterranean as expressed by foodways and nutritional choices.

Uses ancient literary texts and various analytical approaches to examine the ancient remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum in context.

Explores the development of complex societies in ancient Greece by studying its prehistory through archaeology.

Examines the architecture and urban development of Rome from its beginnings until late antiquity.

Various approaches to pottery and analytical techniques. Combines lectures with hands-on analysis of sherds, as well as the experimental manufacture of pottery in bonfires.

Examine Roman urban development, design, and adaption from the perspective of hydrology, hydraulics, and cult and culture.

Examine the ancient civilizations of the Bronze Age Aegean (3000-1100 BCE): Crete, the Cyclades, Mainland Greece, and Western Anatolia.

Survey Greek and Roman religious architecture and sacred space from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic and Roman Empires.

Examine Sicily from the earliest prehistoric settlements to its first Norman king, with a focus on questions of change, recurrence, and continuity as viewed within the dual frames of archaeology and history.