BA in Archaeology

Year 1

Compulsory modules:

• Archaeology in Britain
• Archaeology Practicals
• Applied Archaeological Methods

Optional modules:

Choose up to three modules from the following lists of modules which have been available in previous years:

• Discovering World Prehistory
• Cities in Antiquity
• Medieval to Modern: An Introduction to the Archaeology of the Medieval to Post-Medieval World
• Ancient Civilisations of the East
• One or two modules in another department

Year 2

Compulsory modules:

• Professional Training (requires three weeks of fieldwork in the summer preceding Level 2)
• Advanced skills (single)
• Developing Archaeological Research (required to take a dissertation in Archaeology at Level 3)

Optional modules:

Choose two modules from the following lists of modules which have been available in previous years:

• Prehistoric Europe: from foragers to state formation
• Becoming Roman: from Iron Age to Empire in Italy and the West
• Archaeology of Medieval and Post-Medieval Britain in its European context
• East Mediterranean in the Bronze Age
• Ancient Mediterranean Civilisations: East and West

OR

Advanced Skills (double)

OR 

Another module listed under 4 OR a module in any department (including a language module)

Year 3 (Year 4 if undertaking a Year Abroad)

Compulsory modules:

• Dissertation (double module)
• Advanced Professional Training (requires three weeks of fieldwork in the summer preceding Level 3)

Optional modules

Choose two modules from the following lists of modules which have been available in previous years:

• Specialized Aspects in Archaeology
• Interpreting Heritage
• Museum representation
• A module in any department

Fieldwork

All Single Honours students undertake six weeks of compulsory fieldwork; three weeks at our field school in the first year, and three weeks at an excavation of your choice in the second year.

For Single Honours students, only one module in any department may be taken over the second and third years.

We review course structures and core content (in light of e.g. external and student feedback) every year and will publish finalized core requirements for 2019 entry from September 2018.

Study Abroad

Archaeology

We are part of the SOCRATES/ERASMUS program which encourages students to study for part of their course in a university of another EU country. We currently have links with the universities of Gothenburg (Sweden), Mainz (Germany), Bordeaux (France), Vienna (Austria) and the Free University of Berlin (Germany), as well as Bergen (Norway) and Koc (Turkey). Studying abroad through one of these exchanges, like the Year Abroad, will involve inserting an extra year into your program of study between your second and final years. If in your second year, your application for a place is successful, you will be transferred from the three-year version of your degree to a four-year version. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in excavations run by members of staff and colleagues of other universities at various places around the world.

Options Available:-

• 4 Year With Foundation Year