BA Ancient History and Archaeology VV41

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1

Core modules include:

• From Rome to the Reformation: An Introduction to Historic Archaeology
• Practising Archaeology: Methods and Approaches
• Greek History: War, Society and Change in the Archaic Age
• Roman History: Rise and Fall of the Republic

Optional modules include:

• Bones, Bodies and Burials: The Archaeology of Death
• Ancient Song
• Texts, Readers and Writers
• Museum History, Policy and Ethics
• Museum Communication and Interpretation
• Primates to Pyramids: An Introduction to World Prehistory
• Ancient Greek
• Latin

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

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

Year 2

The second year is made up of a number of compulsory modules that will give you a strong background in the subject, as well as optional modules that let you explore your own interests.

Modules include:

• Prospects for Classicists and Ancient Historians
• Careers for Archaeologists
• Peoples and Societies of the Ancient Near East
• Post Roman and Early Medieval Europe
• The European Palaeolithic
• Rome's Mediterranean Empire
• The Mesolithic of North-West Europe
• Later Medieval Europe
• Later Prehistoric Europe
• Celts and Romans: Northern Europe and Britain
• Archaeology Fieldschool
• Artefacts in Archaeology
• Introduction to Zooarchaeology
• Quaternary Palaeoecology
• Museum Learning and Engagement
• Archaeological Science
• Experimental Archaeology and Heritage Outreach
• Techniques of Skeletal Interpretation
• Curatorship and Collections Management
• Greek History: Archaic Age to Alexander
• Roman History: From Republic to Empire
• Ancient Epic
• Classical Mythology in the Renaissance
• Egypt and Greece
• Greek Comedy
• Roman Satire
• Voices from the Roman Army
• Museum Learning and Engagement
• Ancient Greek 1
• Latin 1
• Ancient Greek 2
• Ancient Greek 3
• Latin 2
• Latin 3
• Ancient Greek 4
• Ancient Greek 5
• Latin 4
• Ancient World on Film
• Ancient Drama
• Modern Greek Literature Stories
• Ancient Sport
• Curatorship and Collections Management
• 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's website.

Year 3

This year course is made up of a number of compulsory modules that will give you a strong background in the subject, as well as optional modules that let you explore your own interests.

Options include:

• Dissertation in Archaeology
• Preparation for Dissertation in Classics
• Dissertation in Classics
• Medieval Townscapes: Understanding urbanisation
• Emergence of Civilisation in Mesopotamia
• Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain
• Archaeology of the City of Rome
• Human Activites in Settlements and Landscapes
• Palaeopathology
• Coastal and Maritime Archaeology
• Tropical Rainforests, Climate and Lost Civilisations
• Hominins, Hearths and Handaxes: Studies in the
• Lower Palaeolithic of North-Western Europe
• The Archaeology of Early Iran
• The Archaeology of Food and Nutrition
• Holocene Climate Change and Human Society
• The Archaeology of Crusading
• Coins, Power and Society in the Late Iron Age and
• Early Roman World
• Vikings in the West
• Archaeology and Topography of Ancient Greece
• British School at Athens UG Summer School
• British School at Rome Undergraduate Summer School
• Anatolia and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age. The
• Context for the Trojan War
• Alexander to Cleopatra: History and Culture of the
• Hellenistic World (c. 330-30 BC)
• Digital Silchester
• Transformations of Helen
• Ancient Biography
• Greek Art and Drama
• Ancient Egyptian Language and Hieroglyphs
• Xenophon's Anabasis
• Athenian Political Thought
• Carthage:The Rise and Fall
• Ancient Greek 1
• Latin 1
• Ancient Greek 2
• Ancient Greek 3
• Latin 2
• Latin 3
• Ancient Greek 4
• Ancient Greek 5
• Latin 4
• Latin 5
• IWLP Modern Greek Level 1

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

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