Second year modules
In the second year, you begin to specialize in your chosen discipline by choosing option courses. In the first term, you will take World Archaeology, in which you can choose an option that interests you, regardless of your course. The Practical Skills and Team Project modules in the spring and summer terms are linked, and again are open for you to choose regardless of course, although some are more appropriate for BA or BSc courses.
All BAs in Historical Archaeology will take Themes in Historical Archaeology, but the other courses may choose their Themes course dependent on their time-period interests. The Themes course runs throughout the second year.
The Research Skills module also runs the whole year and this module will prepare you with the specific skills you will need to carry out independent research on your dissertation, as well as helping you focus in on a research topic. It will also teach you a range of skills (from time management, to computing applications, to writing a CV and presenting a pitch) that will be of use in your future careers. You will be divided into seminar groups according to your degree programme.
Please note: Not all options listed here for World Archaeology and Practical Skills will be available every year, but we always aim to provide a broad range of choices, and these give you an idea of the breadth of topics which we cover.
World Archaeology (lectures)
- Coastal Prehistory
- Early Medieval towns
- Heritage and Crime (new module!)
- Historical Archaeology and the Modern World
- A History of death and burial
- Mediterranean Civilisation (not for 2013)
- Mummification
- Russia and the Slavs (not for 2013)
Practical skills (lectures and practicals)
- Animal bones
- Artefacts
- Buildings history
- Heritage
- Human bones
- Professional and management skills
- Conservation and Planning
- Biomolecular
- Environmental Archaeology
Team project (workshops and independent study)
- Animal bones
- Artefacts
- Buildings history
- Heritage
- Human bones
- Professional and management skills
- Conservation and Planning
- Biomolecular
- Environmental Archaeology
Themes in Archaeology (lectures and seminars)
Research skills (lectures, seminars, and workshops)
- Research skills (divided into groups of BA students, BSc and Bioarchaeology, BA Historical and Heritage)
Erasmus exchange
- We have a formal Erasmus exchange program with Aarhus University. Students attend modules at Aarhus during their second year. We are developing new links with Uppsala and Oulu.
There is a wide range of modules to choose from in second and third year ranging from buildings history and the archaeology of the contemporary past to debates in archaeological science and human evolution which demonstrates the mass of expertise that the staff have chosen to specialise in.
Anna, BA Historical Archaeology