Archaeology with a Foundation Year (Full-time) (Foundation, BA Hons)
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Entry requirements
0-32 UCAS Tariff Points
About this course
Foundation Year in Archaeology, leading to BA Hons. Core topics include Fieldwork, Communication & Writing, and Human Behaviour. The course includes laboratory-based analysis of materials such as soil, pollen and bones, alongside practical fieldwork. Work placement opportunities are available with organisations such as the National Trust, CADW and local archaeology trusts.
Modules
- Academic Survival Skills
- Introduction to University Life
- Independent Investigation
- Introduction to the Humanities
- Academic Writing
- Understanding Literature
- Talking to the Dead
- Being Human
- Understanding Democracy
- Exploring the Humanities
- Introduction to Archaeology
- From Egypt to the Near East: phenomena of the Mediterranean
- Hieroglyphs 1
- Into the Field
- What makes civilisation?
- Death, Burial and the Afterlife
- Myths and Mythology: How Stories Shape the World
- Doing Archaeology: The Past in Practice
- Everyday Life in Athens and Rome
- The Modern World
- Human Evolution: origins of modern human behaviour
- Heritage and Archaeology of Conflict
- Exhibiting the Past: Ancient Egypt, death and modern representation
- Households in the ancient world
- Hieroglyphs 1
- Ancestors, Death and Burial
- Thinking With Things
- Animals in Archaeology
- (Re)presenting and (Re)constructing the Past
- Difficult Heritage/ Dark Tourism
- Art and Ancient Egypt 4000BC to the 2020ies: Exhibiting artistic representations
- Excavation and Fieldwork
- Ancient Lives in Death
- Entanglements: Exploring Interactions between the Aegean and the Near East
- Museums, Heritage and Representation
- Medicine and Miracles: Health, Illness, and Cure
- Professional Placement
- Thinking Through History - Independent Project
- Heritage Project
- Independent Project
- Hieroglyphs 1
- Into the Field
- Death, Burial and the Afterlife
- Exploring the Humanities
- What makes civilisation?
- Ancestors, Death and Burial
- Thinking With Things
- Animals in Archaeology
- Excavation and Fieldwork
- (Re)presenting and (Re)constructing the Past
- Difficult Heritage/ Dark Tourism
- Ancient Lives in Death
- Entanglements: Exploring Interactions between the Aegean and the Near East
- Households in the ancient world
- Human Evolution: origins of modern human behaviour
- Exhibiting the Past: Ancient Egypt, death and modern representation
- Heritage & Archaeology of Conflict
- Art and Ancient Egypt 4000BC to the 2020ies: Exhibiting artistic representations