BA Archaeology and Anthropology
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: Pass, with 30 points overall with 15 points at Higher Level
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology and Anthropology, an anthropology and archaeology degree centered on global human diversity in time and space, combining humanities and sciences. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students complete fieldwork as part of an active research project in the UK or abroad. The first year covers foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as Archaeological Methods for Fieldwork and Analysis, Exploring Other Cultures, Fieldwork and Practice, Introduction to Ethnography: Food and Culture, Introduction to Global Prehistory: Deconstructing the Emergence of Civilisation, Introduction to Historical Archaeology, and The development of Archaeological and Anthropological Thought, alongside optional modules like Applied Ethics. The second year continues with compulsory study in An Anthropology of Everything, Contemporary Issues and Debates in Archaeology, Fieldwork and Practice, Humanities Study Abroad Preparation Module, Researching Archaeology, Year Abroad Report Module for Humanities Students, and Year in Employment, with options such as Animal Ethics, Animal Minds. The final year centers on the Archaeology Dissertation compulsory module, complemented by diverse optional modules like Anthropological Perspectives on Migration and Mobilities, Archaeology of Seafaring, and GIS for Archaeology.
Modules
- Archaeological Methods for Fieldwork and Analysis
- Exploring Other Cultures
- Fieldwork and Practice
- Introduction to Ethnography: Food and Culture
- Introduction to Global Prehistory: Deconstructing the Emergence of Civilisation
- Introduction to Historical Archaeology
- The development of Archaeological and Anthropological Thought
- Applied Ethics
- Debates and Issues in Archaeological Science
- Human Origins
- Landscapes and Seascapes of Britain’s Past
- Philosophy of Race
- Puzzles about Art and Literature
- An Anthropology of Everything
- Contemporary Issues and Debates in Archaeology
- Fieldwork and Practice
- Humanities Study Abroad Preparation Module
- Researching Archaeology
- Year Abroad Report Module for Humanities Students
- Year in Employment
- Animal Ethics, Animal Minds
- Bones, Bodies and Burials: osteology and comparative anatomy
- Children and Society
- Collective Action and Social Change
- Ethics of Global Poverty
- Experimental Archaeology: the social prehistory of technology
- Human Dispersal and Evolution
- Introduction to European Prehistory
- Introduction to Scientific Diving
- Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography
- Maritime Archaeology
- Moral Philosophy
- Political Philosophy
- The Power of Rome: Europe’s first empire
- Working With Things: the analysis of material culture
- Archaeology Dissertation
- Anthropological Perspectives on Migration and Mobilities
- Archaeology of Seafaring
- Children and Society
- Collective Action and Social Change
- Crime and Punishment
- Ecology of Human Evolution: Biological, social and cultural approaches to hominin adaptations.
- GIS for Archaeology
- Later Anglo-Saxon England
- Living with the Romans: Urbanism in the Roman Empire
- Molecular Archaeology
- More than Pyramids & Pharaohs? Ancient Egypt in Context
- Philosophy and Ethics in Psychology and AI
- Philosophy of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender
- Photogrammetry and Data Visualisation in Archaeology
- Presenting the Past: Museums and Heritage
- Seeing Beneath the Soil: geophysical survey for archaeology
- Stonehenge to Skara Brae: the Neolithic of Britain
- The Archaeology and Anthropology of Adornment
- The Ethics of Climate Change