ARCHEOL 202Waystation Certificate Program Core Course
Archaeology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Examination of rapidly evolving views regarding ownership, sale, stewardship, and interpretation of the world's cultural heritage. Critical examination of evolving ethics, legal instruments, and institutional definitions that are shaping current efforts to protect and interpret cultural heritage. Study includes working directly with cultural objects by exploring resources and methods for provenance research and learning to identify and preserve the heritage material. Participation in the effort to return cultural objects to the nation or community of origin. Exploration and critical examination of current debates about stewardship, repatriation and returns, authenticity and identity, community engagement and the importance of traditional knowledge, the illicit trade, and international law; and consideration of the ethical implications of collecting, buying and selling, and curating cultural objects.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.