Course description
Transferable skills
In following this programme, students will have had the opportunity to develop their skills
relating to oral and written communication, data collection and analysis, and information
technology to a high level, providing the independent learning ability that is essential for
future professional development. Students will also develop skills in the critical analysis of
archaeological evidence, and be able to think comparatively and cross-culturally. They will
be able to exercise their own initiative, and make decisions in complex situations.
Programme content
The profile which follows states which modules must be taken (the compulsory part) together
with one or more lists of modules from which the student must make a selection (the option
modules). Students must choose such additional modules as they wish, in consultation with
their programme adviser, to make 180 credits. The number of credits for each module is
shown after its title.
Students must take three 10-credit modules in Research Skills including
Research Resources and Skills and two technical optional modules (30
credits overall), three specialist optional modules of 20 credits each (60
credits overall), and write a dissertation (90 credits). Students who have
not previously studied Archaeology are required to take Archaeological
Thought as one of the research skills modules. A language module of 20
credits can be taken with the Institution-wide Language Programme in
place of two of the research skills technical option modules where
appropriate.
Credits Level
Compulsory modules
-Dissertation
Research Skills
Compulsory module
-Research Resources and Skills
Optional technical modules
(Not all optional modules will be available in any one year. The availability of all optional
modules is subject to availability of staff and will require a minimum number of participants.
Admission to optional modules will be at the discretion of the Programme Director).
TWO of: 20 credits
-Archaeological Thought
-Archaeological Graphics
-Applications of Micromorphological Analysis
-Soils in Archaeology
-Field Methods and Experimentation in Geoarchaeology
Or ONE Language option with the Institution-wide Language Programme 20 credits
Optional specialist modules
(Not all optional modules will be available in any one year. The availability of all optional
modules is subject to availability of staff and will require a minimum number of participants.
Admission to optional modules will be at the discretion of the Programme Director).
THREE of:
-Burial Archaeology
-The Age of Hillforts in Britain
-The Age of Stonehenge in Britain
-Emergence of Civilisation in Mesopotamia
-Early Complex Societies in the Mediterranean
-Hominins, Hearths and Handaxes: Lower Palaeolithic of NW Europe
-Palaeopathology
-Early Roman Britain
-Coastal and Maritime Archaeology
-The Archaeology of Food and Nutrition
-Ancient Aegean Landscapes: Neolithic & Classical
Periods
-Information Molecules: Biomolecular Method for Archaeologists
-The Archaeology of Crusading
-Vikings in the West
-Later Anglo-Saxon England
-‘Europe’ in the Later Middle Ages?
