BA Museum Studies and Archaeology PV14

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
This is a unique chance to study museum studies and archaeology at an undergraduate level.
Learn to think and research like a museum professional while gaining hands-on experience at our three on-site museums and on archaeological digs.
This Joint Honours course combines the contemporary theory and practice of museum studies with the academic and practical study of archaeology. 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.
Central to the course is the hands-on experience you will gain at our on-site museums. The University has three museums – including the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology – in which you can gain experience as a volunteer while you learn. As well as museums we also have a number of special collections, including art and rare books.
You will develop the knowledge and skills necessary to be a museum professional by considering the environment that artefacts are displayed in, how they are catalogued and the meanings they hold for different audiences.
Our museum teaching staff are all practising professionals, including curators, conservators and archivists, and use a combination of problem solving and enquiry based learning techniques in their teaching. You will be given the opportunity to conduct your own research throughout the course, and in your final year, you will design, create and evaluate your own exhibition.
One of the most popular parts of the course is our Archaeology Field School, on which every student is guaranteed a place. In the coming years we are excavating in the Vale of Pewsey in a collaborative project with Historic England. Over 2 weeks, learn about the Neolithic men and women who built and worshipped at Stonehenge, and receive high-quality training in a...

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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
  • Art
  • School
  • Joint
  • Greek
  • University
  • Teaching
  • Interpretation
  • Design
  • Project

Course programme

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
Year 1 Core modules include:
  • Museum History, Policy and Ethics
  • Museum Communication and Interpretation
  • Practising Archaeology: methods and approaches
Optional modules include:
  • Bones, Bodies and Burials: the archaeology of death
  • Makers and Making: artists, architects and their practices
  • Art's Histories: a survey
  • From Rome to the Reformation: an introduction to historic archaeology
  • 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.

Year 2 Core modules include:
  • Break into the Museum: Work Placement
  • Careers for Archaeologists
  • Curatorship and Collections Management
  • Museum Learning and Engagement
  • Techniques in Artefact Interpretation
Optional modules include:
  • Altars, Aristocrats and Guillotine. Aspects of Baroque, Rococo and Neo-Classical art and architecture
  • Archaeological Science
  • Archaeological Thought
  • Celts and Romans: Northern Europe and Britain
  • Formations of Modernism
  • Greek Sculpture and Architecture
  • Later Medieval Europe
  • Later Prehistoric Europe
  • Other Visions: Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture
  • Peoples and Societies of the Ancient Near East
  • Post Roman and Early Medieval Europe
  • Rome's Mediterranean Empire
  • Field School (Joint Honours)
  • Techniques of Skeletal Interpretation
  • The Mesolithic of North-West Europe
  • The Middle Palaeolithic of Europe and SW Asia
  • Themes and Issues in History

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Core modules include:
  • Display Design, Planning and Creation: Project Module
Optional modules include:
  • Gothic: Architecture, Money and Cultural Identity
  • Hominins, Hearths and Handaxes: Studies in the Lower Palaeolithic of North-Western Europe
  • Mapping the London art world: dealers, spaces, value, collectors
  • The Archaeology of Money: Coins, Power and Society
  • Archaeology of the Dark Ages
  • British Prehistory 1: The Age of Stonehenge
  • British Prehistory 2: The Age of Hillforts
  • Burial Archaeology
  • Coastal and Maritime Archaeology
  • Dissertation
  • Expansion or Contraction in the Twelfth Century?
  • Greek & Roman Painting
  • Imperial Encounters in the Roman World
  • Micromorphology and the Study of Early Agricultural and Urban Settlements and Landscapes
  • Palaeopathology
  • Roman Cities
  • Roman Material Culture Studies
  • Field School (Joint Honours)
  • Technology in the Ancient World
  • The Archaeology of Early Iran
  • The Archaeology of Food and Nutrition
  • The Archaeology of Later Medieval Religion and Belief
  • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
  • Vitruvius

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

BA Museum Studies and Archaeology PV14

£ 9,250 + VAT