AN N EA CM163
Archaeology of Iran
Description: (Same as Iranian CM163.) Lecture, three hours. Designed to introduce students to Iranian archaeology from prehistoric through Achaemenid times. Concurrently scheduled with course CM259. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Most Helpful Review
Spring 2023 - Overall I liked this class, Professor Fabian hosts office hours and she's always willing to answer questions. But there was just too much material to cover in 10 weeks, she talked through them really fast. Although she provided a study guide with a list of subjects on it but it was still quite a bit workload. The names in Persian were hard for me to memorize but in general, this was a fun class to take, Professor Fabian is really knowledgeable about the material. Take it if you are interested in learning about the culture, but this is not an easy class and requires a bit of time commitment.
Spring 2023 - Overall I liked this class, Professor Fabian hosts office hours and she's always willing to answer questions. But there was just too much material to cover in 10 weeks, she talked through them really fast. Although she provided a study guide with a list of subjects on it but it was still quite a bit workload. The names in Persian were hard for me to memorize but in general, this was a fun class to take, Professor Fabian is really knowledgeable about the material. Take it if you are interested in learning about the culture, but this is not an easy class and requires a bit of time commitment.
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Most Helpful Review
Spring 2020 - Overall, not a difficult class at all, but also not a particularly interesting one. It consists of a final exam and a short 5-7 page midterm paper. The paper is on a topic of your choosing related to archaeology, and the final is very very clear, short, and straightforward. You would have to actively try to fail to not get an A in my opinion. Prof. Mousavi is a little dry and boring, and often too serious, and he has a very strange obsession with proper pronunciation, to the point where he gets upset if you have the slightest American accent when pronouncing an Iranian term, which is ironic because he speaks English with an accent (which is obviously fine, just ironic that he gets so perturbed when somebody doesn’t say something like “Naqsh-e Rostam” perfectly). Overall, he’s not a bad prof or a bad guy, just stern and sometimes a little strange, and his class is straightforward and fairly easy to get an A. Just attend lectures, take notes, and study the material that he emphasizes in the review.
Spring 2020 - Overall, not a difficult class at all, but also not a particularly interesting one. It consists of a final exam and a short 5-7 page midterm paper. The paper is on a topic of your choosing related to archaeology, and the final is very very clear, short, and straightforward. You would have to actively try to fail to not get an A in my opinion. Prof. Mousavi is a little dry and boring, and often too serious, and he has a very strange obsession with proper pronunciation, to the point where he gets upset if you have the slightest American accent when pronouncing an Iranian term, which is ironic because he speaks English with an accent (which is obviously fine, just ironic that he gets so perturbed when somebody doesn’t say something like “Naqsh-e Rostam” perfectly). Overall, he’s not a bad prof or a bad guy, just stern and sometimes a little strange, and his class is straightforward and fairly easy to get an A. Just attend lectures, take notes, and study the material that he emphasizes in the review.
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