There is also a reader, a daily log requirement, and a final field examination. REL 4936 Palestine in Late Antiquity is a survey of the history and archaeology of Palestine from the Hellenistic period to the late Byzantine period. There is a reading list, a take-home exam, and a paper requirement upon return. Graduate credit at graduate tuition levels can be arranged. Students are asked to make sure that their own graduate program will accept this graduate credit.
Accommodations are at a kibbutz, a small collective settlement, west of the site.
Most participants are assigned two or three to a room in small cottages with a private bath, though a few rooms have a bath down the hall. Ingredients for hot coffee or tea and a hot water pot are available in each room. In addition, the kibbutz has a common dining room, tennis courts, basketball courts, grass and trees, a swimming pool, a telephone, and a lecture room for our lectures. Horseback riding and donkeyback riding are available in the vicinity for a fee. The kibbutz opereates a kiosk where particpants can purchase snacks.