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MSc Archaeological Information Systems

Programme information:

• Introduction
• Course aims and objectives
• Programme specification
• Course placements
• Introductory reading

Module choices

Signature modules are compulsory. Students must choose from the selection of supplementary and skills modules listed here, and these must be approved by the Programme Director.

Students registered for the MSc AIS are required to undertake 3 out of 4 of these skills modules
Recommended as particularly appropriate supplementary modules for students registered for the MSc AIS

Autumn Term

• Signature module (20 credits)
• Digital publication and web technologies


• Supplementary module (20 credits)

Choose one from the following list of modules:
• Bones: matters of life and death
• Bioarchaeology, ecofacts and figures
• Evolving minds and societies
• Cultural Heritage Management 1: concepts, principles and practice
• Analysing Historic Buildings
• Philosophical approaches to conservation
• The context and practice of gathering field archaeology data
• Concepts of landscapes
• Issues in Historical Archaeology 1
• The Vikings
• Mesolithic theory and interpretation
• Coastal landscapes


• Research skills and training modules (5 credits) weeks 2-5
  Choose one from the following list of modules:
  • Narrating our pasts
  • Topographical Survey
  • Working on the web
  • Zooarchaeology: anatomy and identification
  • Lime and Stone
  
  
• Research skills and training modules (5 credits) weeks 6-9
  Choose one from the following list of modules:
  • Buildings Survey
  • Artefacts
  • Database Design and implementation
  • Introduction to biomolecules, invertebrates and plants
  • Geophysical Survey
  • Legislation and Policy

Spring Term

• Signature module (20 credits)
  • Analysis and visualisation
  
  
• Supplementary module (20 credits)
  Choose one from the following list of modules:
  • Bones: from data to interpretation
  • Bioarchaeology data analysis: not just digging up plants and animals
  • Coastal Settlement
  • Cultural Heritage Management 2: Museums, audiences and interpretation
  • Interpreting Historic Buildings
  • Conservation solutions
  • The analysis, interpretation and dissemination of field archaeology data
  • Themes in the Historic Landscape
  • Issues in Historical Archaeology 2
  • Medieval Settlement and communities
  • Themes in the Prehistoric Landscape
  • Mesolithic lifeways
  • Hunting and gathering societies
  
  
• Research skills and training modules (5 credits) weeks 2-5
  Choose one from the following list of modules:
• GIS
• Geoarchaeology
• Debates in Museum Theory & Practice
• Zooarchaeology: exploring the assemblage
• Vernacular Buildings

Research skills and training modules (5 credits) weeks 6-9
Choose one from the following list of modules:

• Human Bone Practicals
• Virtual Reality Modelling
• International issues in Cultural Heritage Conservation
• Perspectives in Landscape Research
• Artefacts from Excavation

Summer Term

• Assessed lecture
• Dissertation
• Suggested dissertation projects
• Past dissertation titles
• Student homepage from 1999-2000
• Dissertation project from 2001-2 York Minster Mason's loft VR model, by Vicky Sypsa

N.B. Whilst we endeavour to give everyone their first choice on modules, please note that this cannot always be guaranteed. Please be aware that certain skills modules are required by particular programmes and so some may be more over-subscribed than others.

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Information last updated by JDR, Jul 2009