- A Statement on Teaching, not a "philosophy" but perhaps an opinionated point of view, or approach.
Omur with his students
Brown University Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
- ARCH 1600 Archaeologies of the Near East
Fall 2007
- ARCH1150 s01 Urbanism in the Archaeological Record
Spring 2007
- AE0120 S10 City and the Festival: Cult Practices and Architectural Production in the Ancient Near East Read the Critical Review
Fall 2006
- AE 0037. Archaeology of Mesopotamia. Read the Critical Review.
Reed College, Department of Art
These are the courses I taught at Reed College, Department of Art in Portland Oregon, when I was there from Spring 2005 to the end of Spring 2006:
- Architecture and Memory: Modern Theories and Ancient Paradigms of Architectural Space Between East and West (Spring 2006).
- Introduction to Art History (Fall 2005 and Spring 2006).
- Material Worlds: Skilled Craftsmanship and Symbolic Technologies in Africa and the Near East (Fall 2005).
- Contemporary issues in archaeological theory: interpreting material culture and architectural space (Spring 2005).
- Commemorative monuments and cultural representations: architecture and the city in the ancient Near East (Spring 2005).
University of Pennsylvania Department of Art History
The courses I taught and co-taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Art History:
Empire and History: Assyria, Persia, Rome. An upper level undergraduate seminar, co-taught with Prof Holly Pittman in Spring 2003.
- Architecture and the City in the Ancient Near East. Undergraduate course which I developed and taught for Penn's College of General Studies and the Department of Art History twice in Spring 2001 and Fall 2004.
