Ancient History and Archaeology (BA)

Year 1

Compulsory modules

• Archaeology in Britain

• Cities in Antiquity.

Archaeology

Choose one module from:

• Applied Archaeological Methods

• Discovering World Prehistory

• Medieval to Modern: An Introduction to the Archaeology of the Medieval to Post- Medieval World

• Ancient Civilisations of the East

• OR: a language module

And, Ancient History: Three modules in Ancient History OR: two modules in Ancient History and a language module.

Year 2

Three modules in Ancient History OR: two modules in Ancient History and a language module.

Three modules in Archaeology from:

• Professional Training (includes three weeks of excavation in the summer preceding Level 2)

• Developing Archaeological Research

• Prehistoric Europe

• Becoming Roman

• Ancient Mediterranean Civilisations: East and West

• Archaeology of Medieval and Post-Medieval Britain

• East Mediterranean in the Bronze Age

• Or a language module.

Year 3

Compulsory modules

• Dissertation (double module) registered in either Classics or Archaeology.

Optional modules

Choose two modules from Archaeology:

• Specialised Aspects in Archaeology (double module)

• Specialised Aspects in Archaeology (single module) 

• Current Archaeology

• Advanced Professional Training

• Interpreting Heritage

• Museum Representation

• Two modules in Ancient History or one module from Ancient History and a language module.

Fieldwork

• Fieldwork is not compulsory for Joint Honours but all Joint Honours students are encouraged to attend three weeks at our field school in the first year, and three weeks at an excavation of their choice in the second year.

Joint Honours students may only take one language module in a year.

• We review course structures and core content (in light of e.g. external and student feedback) every year, and will publish finalised core requirements for 2020 entry from September 2019.

Study Abroad

Classics and Ancient History

• Single Honours courses include an optional European Studies element as part of the ERASMUS scheme, where you may spend the third year of a four-year course studying at a European university. We currently have ERASMUS exchange links with universities in Belgium (Liege), France (Bordeaux), Germany (Tubingen, Munich), Greece (Athens), Italy (Bologna, Rome, Milan, Vercelli), the Netherlands (Free University, Amsterdam, Groningen), Spain (Seville) and Switzerland (Fribourg), with further to come. Students interested in studying abroad should apply to transfer to the European Studies course after their first year of study.

Archaeology

• We are part of the SOCRATES/ERASMUS programme 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 programme 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.

Placement Year

You may be able to take a work placement.