ARCH30920

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize how archaeology is used and abused for myth-making to serve a variety of political and ideological agendas

2. Identify, critique, and counteract sources of bias, misleading tropes, and rhetorical strategies in popular accounts of
archaeology in various media (online, print, film, TV & museums)

3. Communicate archaeological research to diverse public audiences in accessible and compelling ways

Indicative Module Content:

Public perceptions of archaeology and archaeologists; Confronting pseudo-archaeology; Decolonising archaeology; Communicating archaeology to broad public audiences

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Assessment Strategy

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Written feedback within 4 weeks after submission deadline. Feedback contains feed-forward details, which will help you think about how you could improve your approach in future assignments. The initial project will help you develop your ideas, and feedback from the project is intended to help you construct your final essay. In class peer-review of drafts of the final assessment will help refine your essay prior to submission. NOTE on Generative AI: Generative AI raises significant intellectual and ethical concerns, including its environmental impact, exploitation of workers in the Global South, and disregard for intellectual property. It also often fabricates non-existent citations, as well as content that is out-of-date or inaccurate. As such, large language models (such as ChatGPT) and AI image generators also represent significant challenges to public science communication and new frontiers for the propagation of pseudo-archaeology. When preparing submissions for this class, you may choose to use Generative AI ONLY as a source of data on the role of these technologies in science communication and misinformation. Any text or imagery derived from AI must be explicitly attributed to the relevant software and subjected to critique. You MUST AVOID the use of generative AI to compose or revise text. Any unattributed use of AI is forbidden and will put you in breach of UCD’s Student Plagiarism policies.