BA Archaeology and Classical Studies QV84

Bachelor's degree

In Reading

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Reading

Full Time: 3 Years | Plus an optional placement year or year abroad
Delivered jointly by the Department of Archaeology and the Department of Classics, this course provides a complementary balance of Archaeology and Classical Studies, enabling an in depth study of the Ancient World and its literature.
We have an outstanding track record for student satisfaction, with 90-100% of students satisfied with the quality of their course in consecutive National Student Surveys (2010-2015).
The Classical Studies element of the course provides a broad exposure to the literature, history, and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds, which sit at the heart of modern Western civilisation. Your literary modules, studied in translation, include poetry, tragic and comic drama, and cover broad themes such as love, loss, duty, war and peace. There is also the opportunity to discover how the ancient world has influenced modern literature and culture, and to study other aspects of the ancient past such as its art – including through first-hand access to our own unique collection of Greek and Egyptian antiquities.
At the University of Reading, our expertise in Archaeology starts with the earliest humans and spans up until the medieval period. We focus mainly on British, European and Near Eastern Archaeology, but explore other regions across the world. You will learn about Burial Archaeology, Material Culture, Bioarchaeology (including human remains), Forensics, Past Environments (including Geoarchaeology), Museums and Gender Archaeology. Benefit from our dedicated Archaeology Building and specialist equipment, and learn in purpose-built laboratories.
This flexible course enables you to tailor your degree to your interests and apply what you learn in the real world. One of the most popular parts of the course is our Archaeology Field School, on which every Archaeology student is guaranteed a place. In the coming years we are excavating in the Vale of Pewsey in a collaborative...

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Location

Start date

Reading (Berkshire)
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Whiteknights, RG6 6AH

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Archaeology
  • Greek
  • Latin
  • School
  • Drama
  • Classics
  • Interpretation
  • Poetry
  • Art
  • Translation

Course programme

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
Year 1 Core modules include:
  • Texts, Readers, and Writers
  • Ancient Song
  • From Rome to the Reformation: an introduction to historic archaeology
  • Practising Archaeology: methods and approaches
Optional modules include:
  • Bones, Bodies and Burials: the archaeology of death
  • Museum History, Policy and Ethics
  • Museum Communication and Interpretation
  • Primates to Pyramids: an introduction to world prehistory
  • Rome in the Augustan Age
  • The Civilization of Fifth-Century Athens

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

For more information about this course, visit the Department of Archaeology's website.

Year 2 Optional modules include:
  • Alcohol Consumption, Abuse and Addiction in Antiquity
  • Ancient Drama
  • Ancient Epic
  • Ancient Persuasion
  • Ancient World on Film
  • Archaeological Science
  • Archaeological Thought
  • Careers for Archaeologists
  • Celts and Romans: Northern Europe and Britain
  • Curatorship and Collections Management
  • Egypt and Greece: Hellenic Origins
  • Egypt and Greece: Roman Revelations
  • Greek Comedy
  • Greek History: Archaic Age to Alexander
  • Greek Sculpture
  • Greek-English Translation
  • Human Activity and Environmental Change
  • Introduction to Zooarchaeology
  • Later Medieval Europe
  • Later Prehistoric Europe
  • Museum Learning and Engagement
  • My Mother's Sin and other Stories
  • Peoples and Societies of the Ancient Near East
  • Plato on Love and Language
  • Post Roman and Early Medieval Europe
  • Prospects for Classicists and Ancient Historians
  • Roman Epic
  • Roman History: From Republic to Empire
  • Roman Love Poetry
  • Rome's Mediterranean Empire
  • Silchester Field School (Joint Honours)
  • Techniques in Artefact Interpretation
  • Techniques of Skeletal Interpretation
  • The Mesolithic of North-West Europe
  • The Middle Palaeolithic of Europe and SW Asia
  • Themes and Issues in History
  • Work placement for Classicists and Ancient Historians

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

For more information about this course, visit the Department of Archaeology's website.

Year 3 Optional modules include:
  • Hominins, Hearths and Handaxes: Studies in the Lower Palaeolithic of North-Western Europe
  • People, Plants and Environmental Change
  • Alexander to Cleopatra: History and Culture of the Hellenistic World (c. 330-30 BC)
  • Anatolia and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age. The Context for the Trojan War
  • Ancient Biography
  • Ancient Egyptian Language and Hieroglyphs
  • Ancient Greek 1
  • Ancient Greek 2 (I)
  • Ancient Greek 3 (I)
  • Ancient Greek 4 (H)
  • Ancient Greek 5 (H)
  • Archaeology and Topography of Ancient Greece
  • Archaeology of the City of Rome
  • Archaeology of the Dark Ages
  • British School at Rome Undergraduate Summer School
  • Carthage:The Rise and Fall
  • Coastal and Maritime Archaeology
  • Digital Silchester
  • Dissertation
  • Dissertation in Classics
  • Emergence of Civilisation in Mesopotamia
  • Expansion or Contraction in the Twelfth Century?
  • Greek Art and Drama
  • Holocene Climate Change and Human Society
  • Independent Third Year Project
  • Latin 1 (C)
  • Latin 2 (I)
  • Latin 3 (I)
  • Latin 4 (H)
  • Latin 5 (H)
  • Micromorphology and the Study of Early Agricultural and Urban Settlements and Landscapes
  • Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain
  • Palaeopathology
  • Preparation for Dissertation in Classics
  • Roman Material Culture Studies
  • Science and the Dead: Taphonomy and Molecular Analysis of Human Remains
  • Technology in the Ancient World
  • The Archaeology of Crusading
  • The Archaeology of Early Iran
  • The Archaeology of Food and Nutrition
  • Transformations of Helen
  • Xenophon’s Anabasis

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

For more information about this course, visit the Department of Archaeology's website.

BA Archaeology and Classical Studies QV84

£ 9,250 + VAT