Students in Stage I must complete at least 6 courses, 10 units of which must be approved graduate courses.
These must include:
1. A methodology course in the area of the student’s main focus of interest, for example
archaeology/anthropology, classical archaeology, history, or history of art.
2. One of the annual interdisciplinary AHMA seminars, team-taught by faculty from two different
departments. These seminars expose students to disciplines other than their own and engage them
directly in the application of different disciplines to their own research.
3. Other lecture courses and seminars, as determined in consultation with the student’s Advisory
Committee.
All coursework choices must be made with the advice and consent of the student’s Advisory Committee.
At least three of these six courses/10 units must be regularly scheduled graduate (200-level) courses in the
student’s subject area, and at least one of them must be in Near Eastern/Egyptian subjects if his/her main
interest is in the Graeco-Roman world, and vice versa.