Full list of modules 2020/21
Please note: this list may alter slightly from year to year depending on staff availability and timetabling. Number in brackets denotes the number of places available.
Autumn
Core/option modules
Weeks 2-9
- Analysing Historic Buildings (40)
- Analysis and Visualisation (20)
- Animal Bones for Archaeologists (16)
- Approaches to Conservation (40)
- The Archaeology of Human Bones (28)
- Becoming Human: Evolving Minds and Societies (20)
- Concepts of Landscape
- Cultural Heritage I: Concepts, Principles and Practice (40)
- Death and Burial in the Age of Vikings
- Ethnoarchaeology (15)
- Gathering Field Archaeology Data (15)
- Hard Tissue Biology
- Making the Nation (15)
- Mesolithic Lifeways (15)
- Primate Ecology and Evolution
- Public History I: Meaning and Values
- Roman Europe (15)
- Sustainability I: Definitions and Methods of Assessment (15)
- The Ancient Celts: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe (15)
- The Viking Age: People Places and Things (28)
All MA/MSc students
Weeks 2-9
Research skills
Weeks 2-5
- Buildings Survey (18)
- Community Activism (16)
- Digital Imaging (12)
- Experimental Archaeology Design and Practice (16)
- Human Bone Practicals 1 (13)
- Landscape and Earthworks Survey (17)
- Practical Buildings Conservation (30)
- Project Management (20)
- Virtual Anatomy 1 (4)
- Virtual Reality and 3D Modelling for Archaeology (17)
- Zooarchaeology 1: Identifying Animal Bones (20)
Weeks 6-9
- Artefacts from Excavation
- Building Survey (18)
- Community Activism (16)
- Geoarchaeology
- Geographical Information Systems (GIS) (17)
- Geometric Morphometrics 1 (6)
- Heritage Protection (30)
- Human Bones Practicals 1 (2 groups of 13)
- Understanding Archaeological Pottery (15)
- Working on the Web (15)
Spring
Core/option modules
Weeks 2-9
- Analysis, Interpretation and Dissemination of Field Archaeology Data (15)
- Ancient Biomolecules (24)
- Cultural Heritage Management 2: Audiences, Interpretation and Museums
- Death, Burial and Commemoration in the Roman World (15)
- Debates in Funerary Archaeology (24)
- Digital Knowledge Production in Archaeology (12)
- Domestic Historic Interiors (20)
- Empire of Improvement (15)
- Experimental Archaeology in Context (14)
- Functional and Musculoskeletal Anatomy
- Human Evolutionary Anatomy
- Hunting and Gathering Societies (20)
- Interpreting Animal Remains (15)
- Interpreting Historic Buildings (40)
- Issues in Cultural Heritage Conservation (40)
- Life and Death in Iron Age Britain and Ireland
- Medieval Settlement and Communities (28)
- Mesolithic Funerary Archaeology (15)
- Sustainability II: Understanding Sustainability as Change Through Time (TBC)
- Themes in Prehistoric Landscape (15)
All MA/MSc students
Weeks 2-9
Research skills
Weeks 2-5
- Conservation Solutions (30)
- Debates in Museum Theory and Practice (16)
- Documents and Archives for Archaeologists (15)
- Geometric Morphometrics 2 (3)
- Heritage Protection (30)
- Human Bones Practicals 2 (2 groups of 13)
- Introduction to Ceramic Petrology (6) (link to follow)
- Perspectives in Landscape Research (14)
- Spatial Analysis in GIS (17)
- Using Archaeological Data (15)
Weeks 6-9
- Applied Buildings Survey (18)
- Geophysical Survey (10)
- Heritage Education (24)
- Human Bones Practicals 2 (13)
- Material Culture Theory in Practice (14)
- Radiocarbon (12) (link to follow)
- Sustainable Building Conservation Skills (30)
- User Experience Design in Heritage
- Virtual Anatomy 2 (2)
- Zooarchaeology 2: Exploring the Assemblage (20)