ObjectivesStudying a modern language alongside archaeology provides you with opportunities to gain a greater insight into the historical and cultural development of your chosen country, and to develop specific and highly valuable language skills.
Practical experienceYour knowledge and skills are enhanced by spending the third year of your four-year degree in Germany.
Entry requirements-GCE/VCE A Levels - BBC -BTEC National Diploma - 3 Distinctions and 3 Merits -Two GCE A Levels plus two GCE AS Levels - BC+BB -Scottish Highers - AABB -Irish Leaving Cert. - ABBBB -International Baccalaureate - 32 points -Core Requirements - Normally requires Grade B in GCE A Level German.
Academic titleArchaeology and German BA
Course descriptionThis is a list of modules that have been offered in the past. We expect similar modules to be offered for courses starting in 2009.
-Research Skills in Archaeology
-Thinking through Archaeology -German Language (Continuation) -German Language (Foundation) -Archaeology and Text -Archaology of the Graeco-Roman World
-Dutch Advanced
-Early Historic Europe
-Early Prehistoric Europe
-From Households to Empires -German Culture and Ideas from the Enlightenment to the Present Day
-Later Historic Europe
-Later Prehistoric Europe
-Nederlandse Taalvaardigheid en Cultuur
-Reconstructing Ancient Landscapes
-Aspects of Modern German Drama
-Dutch Beginners A
-Dutch Beginners B
-Freud's Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies -German Film and Society
-History and Dialectology of the German Language
-Images of Women in German Literature
-Maternalism and Militarism: 1871-1918
-Medien und Oeffentlichkeit
-Oesterreich Heute
-Politik und Gesellschaft in Deutschland
Typical Third Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Germanic Studies Year Abroad -Germanic Studies Year Abroad -German Year Abroad (Project) -German Year Abroad (Project)
Typical Fourth Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Dissertation (Archaeology and German) -German Language Part 1 -German Language Part 2 -Archaeology and Texts in the Age of Homer -Archaeology, Ethnicity and Nationalism
-Athens, Empire and the Classical Greek World
-Dark Age Britain
-Death and Burial in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England
-Deutsche Literatur und Gesellschaft im 19. Jahrhundert
-Dutch Language and Culture for Specialists
-Ethnohistory and Anthropology of Modern Hunter Gatherers
-Fordjupningskurs i svensk sprakfardighet och kultur (Further Advanced Swedish)
-Funerary Archaeology
-Geschichte und Gesellschaft der DDR
-Material Life and Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern World
-Mediterranean Landscapes
-Modern German Political Culture and the Legacy of the National Socialist Past
-Modern German Thought
-Nederlands Voor Gevorderden
-Nederlandse Taalvaardigheid en Cultuur
-Optical and Geophysical Surveying in Archaeology
-Rome: Capital, Hinterland and Periphery
-Social Transformations in Britain From the 4th to 2nd Millennium BC
-Swords and Sorcery: Northern Europe 1000 BC-AD 500
-Syntax und Diskurs im Gesprochenen Deutsch
-The Language and Society of Luxembourg
-Twentieth Century Fiction and Drama
-Work Place Learning
-Swedish Advanced A
-Swedish Advanced B