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Learning Goals and Activities

• Get to know features of major software packages that are relevant for archaeology research and acquire basic skills to use those
  How: provide technology skill training focused on archaeology problems
  Activities: interact with the software/tools, outside-class hands-on sessions, access documentation/manuals, reference material
  
  
• Obtain experience in archaeology software supported data modeling, data interpretation, and data presentation techniques
  How: practice data modeling, analysis, interpretation, presentation,
  Activities: practice exemplary activities provided by faculty
  
  
• Acquire critical assessment skills of tools and methods, interpretation of other's models, back-interpretation, critical assessment of models
  How: evaluate weaknesses and strengths of the software tools and models
  Activities: critical discussion, comparison
  
  
• Get a sense of the "messy-ness" of archaeology field research which involves computational modeling and imaging, be able to find solutions if "things don't work"
  How: provide experiential environment as close as possible to real life experience, design classroom as "archaeology research station"
  Activities: gather real data or work with real data and deal with real life challenges