ObjectivesThis dual-honours degree combines the study of historical texts with the investigation of past material culture, and practical archaeological fieldwork. This provides you with both a broad understanding of the early history of Europe, and a deeper insight into significant issues of our historical past.
Entry requirements-GCE/VCE A Levels - BBB -BTEC National Diploma - 3 Distinctions and 3 Merits -Two GCE A Levels plus two GCE AS Levels - BB+AB -Scottish Highers - AABB -Irish Leaving Cert. - ABBBB -International Baccalaureate - 32 points -Core Requirements - Requires B in A Level History or the equivalent.
Academic titleArchaeology and History 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.
Typical First Year Modules
Module/Unit
-European Classical Civilisations
-Pagans, Christians and Heretics in Medieval Europe
-Paths from Antiquity to Modernity
-World Civilisations
Typical Second Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Historians and History
-Research Skills in Archaeology
-Archaeology and Text
-Archaology of the Graeco-Roman World
-Colonising America: Europeans and the New World, 1450-1763
-Disease, Medicine and Health Care in Early Modern Europe
-Early Historic Europe
-From Households to Empires
-Frontiers and Failures: Lost Nations of the Eightenth-Century
-Gender, Culture and Society: Britain 1689 - 1837
-Later Historic Europe
-Later Prehistoric Europe
-Reconstructing Ancient Landscapes
-Sacred Violence in the Medieval Mediterranean
-The Carolingians and the Birth of Europe
-The European Reformation
-The Fall of the Roman Empire in the West
-The Struggle for England's Soul: Politics, Religion and Cultural Conflict 1560-1640
-Tolerance and Dissent in Europe (12th - 16th Centuries)
-Warriors, Saints and Heroes in Early Medieval Britain
Typical Third Year Modules
Module/Unit
-Dissertation (Archaeology and History)
-Archaeology and Texts in the Age of Homer
-Archaeology, Ethnicity and Nationalism
-Athens, Empire and the Classical Greek World
-Becoming America: Britain's 18th Century American Colonies I
-Becoming America: Britains 18th Century American Colonies II
-Dark Age Britain
-Death and Burial in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England
-Death and Burial in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England
-Funerary Archaeology
-Gregory of Tours and His World I
-Gregory of Tours and His World II
-Makers of a New World: Merchants, Scholars and Commoners in Late Medieval Europe I
-Makers of a New World: Merchants, Scholars and Commoners in Late Medieval Europe II
-Material Life and Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern World
-Mediterranean Landscapes
-Misrule and Magna Carta: The Reign of King John I
-Misrule and Magna Carta: the Reign of King John II
-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
-The Coming of the French Revolution, c. 1770-1790 II
-The Coming of the French Revolution, c.1770-1790 I
-The Making of the Modern Home: Gender and Domesticity, 1650-1800 I
-The Making of the Modern Home: Gender and Domesticity, 1650-1800 II
-The Road to Civil War: England 1621-1642 I
-The Road to Civil War: England 1621-1642 II
-Work Place Learning