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BA Archaeology and History
BA Archaeology and History

BA Archaeology and History

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  • Level:3-Year Bachelor's Degree
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English Requirements

IELTS 6.5, with no component below 5.5

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Explore the richness and variety of past human experience, and discover its influence on our present and future, with our BA Archaeology and History degree.

At the University of Reading, you will join a community of passionate and curious staff and students from both the Department of Archaeology and the Department of History. You’ll gain an awareness of the development of differing values, systems and societies, working to address issues critical to our shared global future – including human diets and health, environmental change, inequality, migration and identity.

In your archaeological studies, you’ll study material remains to uncover our human past, from as early as the first hominins millions of years ago. Your historical studies will then take you on a journey through Britain, Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East and South Asia, spanning the past thousand years. You’ll interrogate historical records and explore visual and material culture through texts, paintings, photographs, films and oral sources.

Through the lens of these two complementary subjects, you’ll gain a richer, more holistic understanding of our shared human past, balancing your critical evaluation of historical sources against the physical evidence of lived experience provided by archaeological finds.

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Year 1
Compulsory modules include:
• Code, Module, Convenor
• AR1MET, Archaeology today: methods and practice, MS Amanda Clarke
• AR1REV, Revolutions in Human Behaviour: 4 Million Years BC to the Present, PROF Steve Mithen
• HS1JH1, Journeys through History 1:Power and People, DR Daniel Renshaw
• HS1JH2, Journeys through History 2: Culture and Concepts', PROF Anne Lawrence
• HS1RSO, Research Skills and Opportunities in History, DR Ruth Salter
Optional modules include:
• Code, Module, Convenor
• AR1EMP, Early Empires: Mesopotamia, Egypt & Rome, PROF Roger Matthews
• AR1FOR, Forensic Anthropology and the Archaeology of Death, DR Ceri Falys
• AR1SOC, Contemporary world cultures: an introduction to social anthropology, DR Alanna Cant
• AP1EM1, Introduction to Marketing, MR Nick Walker
• AP1SB1, Introduction to Management, PROF Julian Park
• CL1G1, Ancient Greek 1, MRS Jackie Baines
• CL1GH, Greek History: war, society, and change in the Archaic Age, DR Emma Aston
• CL1L1, Latin 1 (C), MRS Jackie Baines
• CL1RH, Roman History: the rise and fall of the Republic, DR Andreas Gavrielatos
• CL1SO, Ancient Song, PROF Ian Rutherford
• CL1TR, Texts, Readers, and Writers, PROF Eleanor Dickey
• EC110, The Economics of Climate Change, DR Stefania Lovo
• FT1CSS, Comedy on Stage and Screen, DR Simone Knox
• LS1ELS, English Language and Society, DR Christiana Themistocleous
• MC1HPE, Museum History, Policy and Ethics, DR Rhi Smith
• MC1PP, Presenting the Past, DR Rhi Smith
• ML1IL, Introduction to Linguistics, MR Federico Faloppa
• PP1GJ, Global Justice, MISS Michela Bariselli
• PP1ML, The Meaning of Life, DR Luke Elson

Year 2

Optional modules include:
• Code, Module, Convenor
• AR2F13, Archaeology Fieldschool Joint Honours, MS Amanda Clarke
• AR2F17, Forensic Archaeology and Crime Scene Analysis, PROF Mary Lewis
• AR2F20, Professional Practice, MS Amanda Clarke
• AR2FAO, Ancient objects: materials and meanings, DR Andrew Souter
• AR2M8, Medieval Europe: power, religion and death, DR Gabor Thomas
• AR2P14, Prehistoric Europe: the first million years, DR Rob Hosfield
• AR2R8, Rome's Mediterranean Empire, DR Andrew Souter
• AR2SBI, Bioarchaeology, DR Aleks Pluskowski
• AR2SCF2, Changing the Face of the Earth: Past, Present and Future Sustainability, DR Wendy Matthews
• AR2TAH, Archaeology and heritage: past, present and future, PROF Duncan Garrow
• HS2GPP, Going Public: Presenting the Past, Planning the Future, PROF Kate Williams
• HS2HAD, Historical Approaches and My Dissertation, MISS Liz Barnes
• HS2O12, Belief and Unbelief in Europe: Religion, Science and the Supernatural c.1400-1800, PROF Helen Parish
• HS2O3, People, power and revolution: political culture in seventeenth-century England, DR Rachel Foxley
• HS2O56, Medieval Medicine, MRS Katie Phillips
• HS2O7, Kingship and Crisis in England, c.1154–1330, DR Elizabeth Matthew
• CL2AE, Ancient Epic, DR Christa Gray
• CL2AEL, Ancient Egyptian Language and Hieroglyphs, PROF Rachel Mairs
• CL2CGH, Greek History: Persian Wars to Alexander, PROF Timothy Duff
• CL2DR, Ancient Drama, PROF Barbara Goff
• CL2RO, Roman History: From Republic to Empire, PROF Annalisa Marzano
• GV2GIS, Geographical Information Systems, DR Jess Neumann
• GV2MPL, Summer Micro-Placement, DR Aleks Pluskowski
• GV2PLA, Summer Placement, DR Aleks Pluskowski
• GV2QCEC, Quaternary Climate and Environmental Change, PROF Nicholas Branch
• LS2LAT, Introduction to English Language Teaching, MRS Suzanne Portch
• LS2LNM, Language and New Media, PROF Rodney Jones
• MC2CCM, Curatorship and Collections Management, DR Rhi Smith
• MC2LE, Museum Learning and Engagement, DR Rhi Smith
• ML2GF, Science, perversion, and dream in global fantastic literature, DR Alice Christensen
• ML2STA, Society, Thought, and Art in Modern Europe, DR Veronica Heath
• MM270, Practice of Entrepreneurship, DR Norbert Morawetz
• MT2CC, The Science of Climate Change, PROF Nigel Arnell
• PO2MIR, Modern International Relations, DR Joseph O' Mahoney
• PO2PWS, Politics of the Welfare State, DR Brandon Beomseob Park
• PO2THI, Political Thinking, DR Alice Baderin
• PP2EA1, Ethical Argument 1: Philosophy and How to Live, DR Luke Elson
• PP2GP1, Global Philosophy 1, MISS Michela Bariselli
• PP2HKW1, Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein 1, DR Severin Schroeder
• PP2IDR1, Ignorance, Doubt, and Relativism 1, DR Jumbly Grindrod
• PP2MM1, Meaning and the Mind 1, DR Jumbly Grindrod
• PP2OID1, Oppression, Inequality, and the Enemies of Democracy 1, DR Charlotte Newey
 

Year 3

Optional modules include:
• Code, Module, Convenor
• AR3D1, Dissertation, DR Andrew Souter
• AR3F1, Post-Excavation: assessment, analysis & publication in the profession, MS Amanda Clarke
• AR3HCP, The Anthropology of Heritage and Cultural Property, DR Alanna Cant
• AR3P13, Emergence of Civilisation in Mesopotamia, PROF Roger Matthews
• AR3P22, The First Europeans: The Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology of the Lower Palaeolithic, DR Rob Hosfield
• AR3R9, Archaeology of the City of Rome, DR Andrew Souter
• AR3S21, Biological anthropology, DR Ceri Falys
• HS3DAC, Discovering Archives and Collections, DR Jacqui Turner
• HS3HLD, Dissertation in History, DR Heike Schmidt
• HS3SHP, Heretics and Popes: Heresy and Persecution in the Medieval World, PROF Rebecca Rist
• HS3T25, Medieval Magic and the Origins of the Witch-Craze, PROF Anne Lawrence
• FB3NGLA, Genes, Lifestyle and Nutrition, DR Vimal Karani
• GV3CC, Climate Change, PROF Maria Shahgedanova
• GV3ESM, Ecosystems Modelling, DR Shovonlal Roy
• GV3TRC, Tropical Rainforests, Climate & Lost Civilisations, PROF Frank Mayle
• LS3IC, Intercultural Communications, DR Erhan Aslan
• LW3CRY, Criminology, PROF Paul Almond
• ML3IC, Identity and Conflict in Modern Europe, DR Athena Leoussi
• ML3LP, Language and Power, MR Federico Faloppa
• MM302, Entrepreneurial Project, MR Keith Heron
• PO3FPT, Feminism and Political Theory, DR Maxime Lepoutre
• PO3IPE, International Political Economy, DR Jonathan Golub
• PO3USF, US Foreign and Defence Policy since 1950, DR Graham O'Dwyer
 
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