Dr. Prieto
One of the major challenges in the academic life of graduate students is dealing with the fieldwork for a master/doctoral dissertation project. This is more difficult when the work has to be done overseas in different countries with foreign languages and cultures. This course is designed to explore how we should design a research project, choosing the right problem and the set of questions that will direct the investigation. In this class the students will explore multiple situations and evaluate the case-study presented by the professor to determine what should be a good site/place to work and how we should deal with common issues that rise during the fieldwork. In archaeology, excavations are expensive and time consuming. How to choose the right place and area size? Part of this class is designed to go out to the field to practice modern technologies to maximize time during the fieldwork like drone mapping and photogrammetric models for archaeological excavations. This course shows also how to create international teams and getting familiar with local laws and institutions in order to maximize time and field expenses to satisfactorily finalize fieldwork during graduate years. The ultimate goal is tocome back home with all the need data to write the dissertation.