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Year 1

In your first year you will split your studies equally between archaeology and history, taking modules covering medieval, early modern and global history, providing you with a thorough grounding in historical methods and practice at university level. You will also study the archaeological past from the origins of the human species to the 21st century, along with the aims and methods of archaeology.

You will be able to take part in a local archaeological fieldschool. Recently we have run fabulous fieldschools at Bradgate Park with sites from the Mesolithic to the historic period, including the Tudor mansion of Lady Jane Grey (England's nine-day Queen), and the Iron Age hillfort of Burrough Hill.

Core modules

• An Introduction to World Archaeology BC

• Archaeology: The Essentials

• Thinking Through Things

• An Introduction to World Archaeology AD

Option modules

Choose one option module from:

• Barbarism and Civilisation: Medieval and Early Modern Europe

• The Shock of the Modern

Then choose three option modules from:

• Global History: Connections and Cultures in a Changing World, 1750 to the present

• Great Britain: The State We're In

• US History since 1877

• Europe 1861-1991: Emancipation and Subjugation

Year 2

In your second year you will continue to balance your studies equally between the two subjects. You will have more opportunity to shape the course of your degree this year as you will be able to choose option modules from the areas of history and archaeology that interest you the most. You will also have the opportunity to study a range of laboratory-based modules, covering subjects such as environmental archaeology and artefact analysis. At the end of your second year you will participate in a research excavation, which can take place anywhere in the world.

If you would like to write your third year dissertation on an area of history rather than archaeology then you must take the option module The Historian’s Craft.

Core modules

• Perceiving the Past

• Fieldwork 1

• Theory and Archaeology

Option modules

Choose one history option module from:

• Blood, Position and Power: The Nobility of Later Medieval England, 1066-1485

• Madness, Monarchy and Politics in Georgian Britain

• Jack-the-Ripper: Crime, Popular Culture and Policing in Victorian Times

• A World Connected: Welfare, Economy and Government since 1945

• Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

Then choose one archaeology option module from:

• Environmental Archaeology  

• Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age Britain and Ireland 

• Living in Towns: Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeological Approaches

• Archaeology of the Roman Empire

Then choose one archaeology option module from:

• Heritage Skills

• Celts, Britons and Barbarians: Iron Age Europe in context

• Artefact Analysis

• Archaeological Survey and Geomatics

• The Medieval Mediterranean World

Plus either Becoming the Historical Researcher (you must choose this if you plan to write your third year dissertation on history)

Or two more history option modules: choose one option module from:

• Gender History

• Race and Ethnicity

• All Bourgeois Now? Class in History

And one option module from:

• The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern

• Enter the Dragon: Modern Chinese History, 1839-1989

• From Beer to Fraternity: Alcohol, Society, and Culture in North America

• History in the Classroom

• Living with Dictatorship: European Societies, 1918-1941

• Holy Wars in Sacred Lands: Conflict and Coexistence during the Crusades

• Heritage Field Project

Year Abroad (optional)

• If you want to, you can spend your third year studying abroad at one of our partner institutions (eligibility is dependent on your academic performance in Years 1 and 2). Alternatively, you can opt to continue studying at the University and complete your degree in three years.

• Studying abroad is not just for people who are interested in travelling and meeting new people. It is about acquiring life skills that are becoming increasingly significant for a wide range of jobs in our modern globalised society. Whether you go on to work in the private sector, the state sector, a non-governmental organisation or become self-employed you will find the experience invaluable. Find out more from our Study Abroad Unit.

Final Year (History dissertation)

Core module

• Fieldwork 2

Option modules

Choose four option modules from the lists below, two from the lists marked A and two from the lists marked B. You can choose either one history module and three archaeology modules or two modules from each subject.

History modules list A

• The USA and the Vietnam War

• Fourteenth Century Crisis in England? Politics and Society 1297-1413

• Crime and Punishment in African American History

• When Two Dragons Fight: China and Japan at War in the Twentieth Century

• Disasporas and Migrations in the Modern World

• Gender, Crime and Deviance in Eighteenth Century Britain

Archaeology modules list A

• Households and Domesticity in the Ancient World

• Early Christian Europe

• Warfare, Conflict and Violence in the Human Past

• Archaeology of Islamic Societies

• South Asian Archaeology and Heritage

History modules list B

• What Difference Did the War Make? British Society and the Great War, 1900-1939

• The Imperial Economy: Britain and the Wider World, 1815-1914

• Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, c1350-1650

• The Medieval Natural World

• From Empire to Nation: Modern South Asia, c. 1857-1947

• Women in American Society from the Civil War to First World War

• Clothing and Fashion in Historical Perspective. Case Studies of Modern European History in Transnational Context

Archaeology modules list B

• Greek and Roman Art

• Archaeology and Ancient History in Education

• Plants and People

• Power and Difference in the Past

• The Archaeology of Colonialism in the Americas

Final Year (Archaeology dissertation)

Core module

• Fieldwork 2

Option modules

Either choose four option modules from the lists below, two from the lists marked A and two from the lists marked B - you should choose one archaeology module and three history modules.

History modules list A

• The USA and the Vietnam War

• Fourteenth Century Crisis in England? Politics and Society 1297-1413

• Crime and Punishment in African American History

• When Two Dragons Fight: China and Japan at War in the Twentieth Century

• Disasporas and Migrations in the Modern World

• Gender, Crime and Deviance in Eighteenth Century Britain

Archaeology modules list A

• Households and Domesticity in the Ancient World

• Early Christian Europe

• Warfare, Conflict and Violence in the Human Past

• Archaeology of Islamic Societies

• South Asian Archaeology and Heritage

History modules list B

• What Difference Did the War Make? British Society and the Great War, 1900-1939

• The Imperial Economy: Britain and the Wider World, 1815-1914

• Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, c1350-1650

• The Medieval Natural World

• From Empire to Nation: Modern South Asia, c. 1857-1947

• Women in American Society from the Civil War to First World War

• Clothing and Fashion in Historical Perspective. Case Studies of Modern European History in Transnational Context

Archaeology modules list B

• Greek and Roman Art

• Archaeology and Ancient History in Education

• Plants and People

• Power and Difference in the Past

• The Archaeology of Colonialism in the Americas

Or choose one archaeology module from either of the Archaeology lists above and one history special subject module from this list:

• The British Antislavery Movement, 1787-1833

• The Holocaust: Genocide in Europe

• After Hitler: Society, Culture and The Politics of The Nazi Past in The Two Germanies, 1945-1990

• The Age of Bede and Alcuin: Anglo-Saxon Northumbria and Mercia in the 7th and 8th Centuries

• Beauty, Sex & Science: Whose Body is it Anyway c.1550-2015?

• How Soon is Now? A Social History of Urban England, 1945-1985

• The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Church, State and Belief in Soviet Russia, 1941-1991