BA Archaeology with Year Abroad
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 with Year Abroad, a degree in the field of archaeology centred on the investigation of human societies, material culture, and past environments. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork. Students participate in at least three weeks of fieldwork as part of an active research project and spend a year abroad at a partner institution. The first year introduces global prehistory, human origins, historical archaeology, and material worlds through compulsory modules such as Archaeological Methods for Fieldwork and Analysis, Fieldwork and Practice, Human Origins, and Introduction to Global Prehistory: Deconstructing the Emergence of Civilisation, alongside optional choices like Debates and Issues in Archaeological Science. The second year covers contemporary debates and research methods through compulsory modules including Contemporary Issues and Debates in Archaeology, Fieldwork and Practice, Humanities Study Abroad Preparation Module, Researching Archaeology, Working With Things: the analysis of material culture, Year Abroad Report Module for Humanities Students, and Year in Employment, with optional modules such as Bones, Bodies and Burials: osteology and comparative anatomy and Maritime Archaeology. The final year centres around an independent research project supported by the Archaeology Dissertation module. Optional modules in the final stage allow students to explore specialist areas including GIS for Archaeology, Molecular Archaeology, and Photogrammetry and Data Visualisation in Archaeology.
Modules
- Archaeological Methods for Fieldwork and Analysis
- Fieldwork and Practice
- Human Origins
- Introduction to Global Prehistory: Deconstructing the Emergence of Civilisation
- Introduction to Historical Archaeology
- The development of Archaeological and Anthropological Thought
- Thinking Through Things: The Archaeology And Anthropology Of Material Worlds
- Debates and Issues in Archaeological Science
- Introduction to Ethnography: Food and Culture
- Landscapes and Seascapes of Britain’s Past
- Contemporary Issues and Debates in Archaeology
- Fieldwork and Practice
- Humanities Study Abroad Preparation Module
- Researching Archaeology
- Working With Things: the analysis of material culture
- Year Abroad Report Module for Humanities Students
- Year in Employment
- An Anthropology of Everything
- Bones, Bodies and Burials: osteology and comparative anatomy
- 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
- The Power of Rome: Europe’s first empire
- Archaeology Dissertation
- Anthropological Perspectives on Migration and Mobilities
- Archaeology of Seafaring
- 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
- 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