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BA History and Archaeology

University of Leicester

Institution
University of Leicester
Level
undergraduate
Subject
History and Archaeology BA
Duration
3-4 years
UCAS code
VV14
Typical offer
A-level ABB

Entry requirements

A level: ABB

About this course

BA in History and Archaeology, combining the study of human societies through historical texts and material remains. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Historical Research. The first two years split time equally between archaeology and history, with the dissertation in the third year completed in either discipline. Modules include placements with local heritage organisations, schools, and a professional archaeological unit, alongside access to nine specialist laboratories.

Modules

  • Fieldwork 2
  • History Dissertation
  • Sport and the British
  • You are what you Wear? Clothing, Fashion and Belonging in the Modern World
  • Daring to be Free: The Women's Movement, 1850s to 1970s
  • Disasporas and Migrations in the Modern World
  • The Making of a Nation: India and the British Empire 1857-1947
  • Early Christian Europe
  • Human Skeletal Analysis
  • Conflict, Heritage and archaeology
  • The Archaeology of Colonialism in the Americas
  • Lived Experience in Imperial Rome
  • The Imperial Economy: Britain and the Wider World 1830-1914
  • The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968
  • The Death Penalty and its Abolition: A Global History
  • Archaeology and Ancient History in Action: Community Engagement and Heritage Practice
  • The Archaeology of Human Evolution
  • Archaeology and Materials
  • Late Antique North Africa
  • After Hitler: Society, Culture and The Politics of The Nazi Past in The Two Germanies, 1945-1990
  • Cultures of Struggle and Liberation: Twentieth Century Southern Africa
  • The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Fieldwork 2
  • Archaeology Dissertation
  • Sport and the British
  • You are what you Wear? Clothing, Fashion and Belonging in the Modern World
  • Daring to be Free: The Women's Movement, 1850s to 1970s
  • Disasporas and Migrations in the Modern World
  • The Making of a Nation: India and the British Empire 1857-1947
  • Early Christian Europe
  • Human Skeletal Analysis
  • Conflict, Heritage and archaeology
  • The Archaeology of Colonialism in the Americas
  • Lived Experience in Imperial Rome
  • The Imperial Economy: Britain and the Wider World 1830-1914
  • The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968
  • The Death Penalty and its Abolition: A Global History
  • Archaeology and Ancient History in Action: Community Engagement and Heritage Practice
  • The Archaeology of Human Evolution
  • Archaeology and Materials
  • Late Antique North Africa
  • After Hitler: Society, Culture and The Politics of The Nazi Past in The Two Germanies, 1945-1990
  • Cultures of Struggle and Liberation: Twentieth Century Southern Africa
  • The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • An Introduction to World Archaeology BC
  • Archaeology: The Essentials
  • Thinking Through Things
  • Making History
  • People and Places
  • An Introduction to World Archaeology AD
  • Global History: Connections and Cultures in a Changing World, 1750 to the present
  • Modern Britain: c1700-Present
  • Medieval and Early Modern Europe: People, Power, Faith, and Culture
  • Perceiving the Past
  • Fieldwork 1
  • Becoming the Historical Researcher
  • Theory in Archaeology
  • Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age Britain and Ireland
  • Heritage Skills
  • Archaeology of the Roman Empire
  • Artefact Analysis
  • Living in Towns: Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Urbanism
  • The Medieval Mediterranean World
  • The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
  • Global Cities
  • Jack-the-Ripper: Crime, Popular Culture and Policing in Victorian Times
  • Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
  • History in the Classroom
  • Working with History: The Heritage Field Project
  • World's End: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Environmental Crises