Archaeology And Geography (Ba): 3-Year, Full-Time
Bachelor's degree
In London
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
London
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Duration
3 Years
Our BA Archaeology and Geography will equip you to study past humans and environments through texts, objects and landscapes.
This programme teaches you how to use a range of evidence - from prehistoric pottery to marine sediment, temporal registers and geographical information - to explore the past. You will gain practical archaeological and geographical experience by participating in a fieldschool where archaeology and geography are brought together by situating sites within the context of landscapes. You will also acquire critical and analytical skills by studying and comparing data and methods from the two disciplines of archaeology and geography.
This course is also available for part-time evening study over four years.
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About this course
Graduates can pursue careers in archaeology, conservation, education, local and national government, planning, policy-making or environmental or development roles. This degree may also be useful in becoming an archaeologist, heritage manager, museum/gallery curator or higher education lecturer.
Graduates from this degree have gone on to work with Historic England, the National Trust, British Museum, Museum of London, Cambridge Archaeological Unit and a host of schools and colleges.
We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.
We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.
Awarding Body
University of London
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- Archaeology
- Part Time
- Full Time
- Impressive
- Chronological
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- Moving
- Compulsory
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Course programme
Our new survey course options range from the ancient to the contemporary world and will introduce you to the key themes you need to know about when studying the past. In keeping with our tradition of teaching an impressive chronological breadth within one department, these modules cover the time from prehistory to the present, moving across continents and cultures.
In parallel with these cutting-edge surveys, we offer a range of compulsory 'How to' modules which bring you together with academic staff to explore the study of the past and develop the skills needed to research and write history. Every year, as you build your studies and progress towards your degree, you will take one of these courses, helping you to develop your own unique perspective on the past.
Both the survey courses and our ‘How to’ courses run annually so that it doesn't matter whether you study part-time or full-time with us - you will be able to make the most of them.
The programme consists of 11 modules (360 credits). You will be required to undertake five days of archaeological fieldwork, provided via the fieldschool module.
In Year 1, you take four compulsory modules, including a fieldschool module.
In Year 2, you take one compulsory module and choose three Level 5 options.
In Year 3, you choose two Level 6 options and write a dissertation in either archaeology or geography.
YEAR 1 COMPULSORY MODULES
- Approaching the Past
- Discovering Archaeology: From Field to Finds Room
- Introduction to Spatial Thinking
- Thames through Time: Birkbeck/MOLA Field School
- Exploring the Past
- Research Project
- Writing the Past: Dissertation
- Beginnings: The Archaeology of Prehistory
- Environmental Processes
- A sense of space: travellers and maps in the pre-modern world
- Advanced Applications of GIS
- Archaeological Landscapes
- Landscape Change: Past and Future (1)
- Living with Climate Change
- Principles of Geographic Information Systems Level 6
- Stories in Stuff: the medieval and early modern worlds in 20 texts and objects
- The Archaeology of Early Medieval Britain
- The Archaeology of Human Evolution
- The Viking Impact, c 750-1100
Additional information
Full-time international students: £ 14280 pa
Archaeology And Geography (Ba): 3-Year, Full-Time