A course space for learning

Metamedia Lab, Stanford Archaeology Center - exploring media in their archaeological materiality.

We are active in exploring social software and digital technologies of all kinds in learning and teaching. All classes offer a major research component.

Winter Quarter 2008

• Visualizing Archaeological Knowledge in the Information Age - a class with Timothy Webmoor on new media for visualizing archaeological information

Spring Quarter 2007

• Digital Humanities - a class with Michael Shanks on the 'digital turn' in the humanities
• Archaeology and Photography - a class with Michael Shanks emphasizing the discipline's specialty as practice not technique

Winter Quarter 2007

• Ten things - a class with Michael Shanks about design
• Digital Journalism with Howard Rheingold
• Forecasting the Future of Engineering with Paul Saffo
• The Archaeology of Contemporary Issues with Bill Rathje and Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal

Fall Quarter 2006

• Eight great archaeological sites with Michael Shanks.
• Human and Machine with Henry Lowood and Michael Shanks
• Digital Journalism with Howard Rheingold

Spring Quarter 2006

• Digital Humanities with Michael Shanks.
• A comparative history of antiquarian traditions between EAST And WEST with Alain Schnapp

Winter Quarter 2006

• Eight great archaeological sites with Michael Shanks. Latest iteration of a class that has run for several years in the Freshman and Sophomore Seminar Program, now accredited as part of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric
• Digital Journalism with Howard Rheingold
• The Archaeology of Contemporary Issues with Bill Rathje and Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal
• In Search of the Goddess with Tristan Carter

Fall Quarter 2005

• Stanford Archaeological Theory - a reading group with Michael Shanks
• Human and Machine with Henry Lowood, Michael Shanks and Jeffrey Schnapp
• Archaeologies of the Greek Past with Christopher Witmore

Past

• Performance, place and the past with Michael Shanks
• Ancient urbanism with Michael Shanks
• Science, technology, and culture - the design of ten artifacts with Michael Shanks
• Creative Computing in the Humanities with Joe Adler and Michael Shanks
• Artifacts - an introduction to material culture studies with Barry Katz and Michael Shanks