BA Archaeology and History
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 32 points overall including 6,5,5 at Higher Level
About this course
BA in History and Archaeology, examining the human past through textual and physical evidence. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The curriculum incorporates practical excavation work requiring daily attendance at an approved site for a prescribed period.
Modules
- Exploring History 1
- Exploring History 2
- Introduction To World Archaeology
- A World on the Move:Historical and Anthropological Approaches to Globalization
- History and Historians: Contested Pasts
- Europe in Prehistory
- Themes in Historical Archaeology
- Environmental Change: past, present and future
- Revolutions
- Archaeological Excavation
- The Long Road to Black Lives Matter
- Thinking through Things Theorizing Global Archaeology
- Politics and Society in 19th Century Ireland
- The American South 1619-1865
- Ireland since partition
- The American South, 1865-1980
- The Roman Origins of the East and West; From Augustus to Charlemagne
- The Expansion of Medieval Europe, 1000-1300
- Europe between the Wars, 1919-1939
- The making of contemporary Britain: 1914 to the present
- Archaeological Excavation
- Ireland in Prehistory
- From St Patrick to the Plantation: The Archaeology of Historic Ireland
- Revolutionary Europe, 1500-1789
- Nationalism and Liberation in 20th Century Africa
- Recording History
- Palaeoenvironmental Techniques
- Alexander The Great and the Creation of the Hellenistic World
- Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world
- Archaeology in Practice
- Cabinets of Curiosity: Museums Past and Present
- Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future
- Revolution and Disaster in Ireland and Britain 1603-1707
- An Age of Revolutions: Britain and Ireland, 1688-1815
- Cultural Heritage Management Practice
- Dissertation
- Archaeology/Palaeoecology Dissertation
- Independent Project
- That Vast Catastrophe: The Great Irish Famine
- The American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860-1877
- The Origins of Protestantism
- The Soviet Union 1921-1991
- The Irish Revolution, 1917-1921
- The Peasants' Revolt 1381
- Working Class Communities in the UK 1900-1970
- United Irishmen and Unionists: the religion and politics of Ulster protestants
- Kings, courts and culture in Carolingian Europe
- Religion and Empire: Christian Missions To Africa, Asia and Middle East
- Society, Death and Disease
- Crime & Punishment 19th Century Ireland
- The Rise of Christianity 2: The Conversion of the Roman Empire
- Volcanoes: environmental and societal impacts
- Kingship and Religion in the First Millennium AD
- Thatcher's Britain
- Sin Cities? Everyday Life in the Modern Metropolis
- The Ancient City
- Pop Culture and Protest in U.S. History
- Twentieth-Century China
- Paths to Independence and Decolonisation in India and East Africa
- Critical Thinking and the Past
- Wolf Children and Baby Boomers: The Family in European History 1945-1970s
- Diaspora: Irish 19th-century migration
- The Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Residential Fieldtrip Module)
- Extermination: History and Memory of the Murdered Jews of Europe
- The Exceptional Origins of the
- War, Politics, and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland, c.1166-c.1521
- African and Irish Relations in the Americas