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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Winter 2025 - I skipped some classes and still got an A, and she records the lectures too. Lowkey way too much information packed in just a quarter, and after our 2nd and final test, lectures literally didn't matter. So if you think you want to skip classes, wait until the end of the quarter. You get a max of 3 unexcused absences in that class before points are taken off. Again, way way way too much information packed in one quarter. Even with archaeology being my focus, I found that the overwhelming amount of info we had to memorize led to me immediately forgetting it. She is really nice, and you can tell she is very passionate (Which is, I'm assuming, the reason why there is too much to cover properly). There is a final project you work on over the course of the quarter, as well as some discussion posts you have to complete. Not a ton of work outside of class. Studying was the most time consuming for that class. I would probably take it again if we covered less and had more time to focus longer on certain areas.
Winter 2025 - I skipped some classes and still got an A, and she records the lectures too. Lowkey way too much information packed in just a quarter, and after our 2nd and final test, lectures literally didn't matter. So if you think you want to skip classes, wait until the end of the quarter. You get a max of 3 unexcused absences in that class before points are taken off. Again, way way way too much information packed in one quarter. Even with archaeology being my focus, I found that the overwhelming amount of info we had to memorize led to me immediately forgetting it. She is really nice, and you can tell she is very passionate (Which is, I'm assuming, the reason why there is too much to cover properly). There is a final project you work on over the course of the quarter, as well as some discussion posts you have to complete. Not a ton of work outside of class. Studying was the most time consuming for that class. I would probably take it again if we covered less and had more time to focus longer on certain areas.
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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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