BA History and Archaeology
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: 32 points
About this course
BA Honours in History and Archaeology, combining archaeological and historical approaches to the human past. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Holds Chartered Institute for Archaeology (CIfA) and University Archaeology UK (UAUK) accreditation. Field trips to North East England explore sites from Hadrian's Wall to post-industrial landscapes.
Modules
- Introduction to Archaeology
- The Archaeology of Britain from the Romans to the 20th Century
- Evidence and Argument
- Introduction to Archaeological Science
- Prehistoric Britain
- Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology
- Global Middle Ages
- Stuff: living in a material world
- Global Ancient Histories
- Historical Sources and Methods
- History Lab I
- History Lab II
- Introduction to Public History
- What is History For?
- Fieldwork and Post-Excavation: Archaeology in the UK
- Archaeological Theory and Interpretation
- From Lascaux to Knossos: Prehistoric Europe
- Archaeologies of the Roman Empire: The Roman World from Augustus to Diocletian
- Colonial Worlds: History and Archaeology
- Artefacts
- Sacred words and dirty deeds: Thriving in Late Antiquity
- The Mediterranean: a connected past
- Africa: History of a Continent
- Oral History of Modern Britain
- 1968: A Global Moment?
- Crafting History: Developing a Research Proposal
- War, Wounds, and Disabilities in Global Perspectives
- Famines in History
- History and Film: Representing the Past
- Researching History
- Reformation and Revolution: Tudors to the Georgians
- Destroying Nature: Disasters, Diseases and Environmental Injustice
- Diversities of Sexuality and Gender in History
- Politics in Britain: National Life since 1945
- Early Medieval Britain
- Frontier Communities of Roman Britain
- The Archaeology of Animal Bones
- Early Prehistoric Europe: Origins and transformations
- Sex, bodies and identities in Classical Greece
- Dissertation in Archaeology: Research as Professional Practice
- Dissertation in History and Archaeology: Research as Professional Practice
- Homeric Archaeology: Greece from Palaces to City States
- Fundamentals of Digital Humanities: Computer literacy, data analysis and GIS
- Reading History
- Public History In Practice
- Dissertation in History (VV41 only): Research as Professional Practice
- The Irish Revolution, 1879-1923
- Reconstruction and the New South, 1865-1900
- British Foreign Policy since Suez
- Birth Control in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- Gender and the British Empire: Violence towards Men and Women in the Making of Modern South Asia
- Lunatic to Citizen? Madness and Society since 1900
- The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1961-1990
- Buddhism and Society in Medieval Japan
- The Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps - Origins, Experiences and Aftermaths
- Nineteenth Century Aotearoa New Zealand: Maori, Pakeha & Tauiwi
- War and Remembering: Recalling War in Oral Histories, c.1950-2022
- May 1968: All Power to the Imagination
- Fictional Histories: from medieval to modern
- Exhausted! The problem of sleep (and not sleeping) from 1500 to the present day
- Beyond Brexit: The UK and European Integration since 1945
- Riot, Reform and Revolution: Britain c.1760-1832
- Read All About It! The News Revolution in Georgian Britain, 1714-1800
- Career Development for final year students