BA Archaeology and History

Comments about BA Archaeology and History - At the institution - Sheffield - South Yorkshire

• Objectives
  This 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 title
  Archaeology and History BA
• Course description
  This 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

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