BA Archaeology and History VV14

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1 Core modules include:

• From Rome to the Reformation: an introduction to historic archaeology
• Landmarks in History 1
• Landmarks in History 2
• Practising Archaeology: methods and approaches

Optional modules include:

• Bones, Bodies and Burials: the archaeology of death
• Museum History, Policy and Ethics
• Approaches to History
• Directed Study in History
• Museum Communication and Interpretation
• Primates to Pyramids: an introduction to world prehistory
• Study Skills in History

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

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

Year 2 Core modules include:

• Careers for Archaeologists

Optional modules include:

• Period in Early Modern History: Cradle to Coffin: Living and Dying in Early Modern England, c.1580-1720
• Period in Early Modern History: Europe 1450-1600: Religion, culture and belief
• Period in Medieval History: Crusading in the High Middle Ages, 1095-1291
• Period in Medieval History: Kingship and Crisis in England, c.1154-1330
• Period in Modern History: Under the Red Flag: Labour and British Politics, 1880-1939
• Period in Modern History: Warrior Nation: Prussia and Germany, 1740-1945
• Power, Poverty and Protest: The Social History of Rural England, 1800-2000
• Society, Thought and Art in Modern Europe
• The Colonial Experience: Africa, 1879-1980
• Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe
• Archaeological Science
• Archaeological Thought
• Celts and Romans: Northern Europe and Britain
• Curatorship and Collections Management
• Human Activity and Environmental Change
• Intellectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
• Introduction to Zooarchaeology
• Later Medieval Europe
• Later Prehistoric Europe
• Museum Learning and Engagement
• Peoples and Societies of the Ancient Near East
• Period in Early Modern History: Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
• Period in Medieval History: Women of the Medieval World
• Period in Modern History: American History: From Colonial times to the late Twentieth Century
• Period in Modern History: Europe in the Twentieth Century
• Period in Modern History: Rebel Girls - the influence of radical women 1795-1919
• Post Roman and Early Medieval Europe
• 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
• ‘The Greatest of Terrestrial Kingdoms’: France at the crossroads of the world in the High Middle Ages

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:

• From Darwin to Death Camps? Evolution and eugenics in European society, 1859-1945
• Gothic: Architecture, Money and Cultural Identity
• Hominins, Hearths and Handaxes: Studies in the Lower Palaeolithic of North-Western Europe
• Industrialization and its Discontents: City, Country and Utopia in England, 1800-2000
• People, Plants and Environmental Change
• Popular Protest and Political Change in America, 1930-1980
• Race, Ethnicity and citizenship in America
• The English Nobility, 1500-1642
• The Rise and Fall of Settler Colonialism in Southern Africa, 1890 to 1998
• Archaeology of the City of Rome
• Archaeology of the Dark Ages
• Coastal and Maritime Archaeology
• Discovering Archives and Collections
• Dissertation
• Dissertation in History
• Emergence of Civilisation in Mesopotamia
• European Case Studies (3)
• Expansion or Contraction in the Twelfth Century?
• France and Europe since 1945
• History Education
• Holocene Climate Change and Human Society
• La Belle Epoque: France 1880-1914
• Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain
• Palaeopathology
• Political Extremism in Britain between the Wars
• Popes and Emperors: Contests for Power in the Central Middle Ages
• Revolution in Britain and Ireland: 1603-1649
• Roman Material Culture Studies
• Science and the Dead: Taphonomy and Molecular Analysis of Human Remains
• The Archaeology of Crusading
• The Archaeology of Early Iran
• The Archaeology of Food and Nutrition
• The Artefacts of Medieval Daily Life
• The Sixties: Politics and Culture in a Divided World

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

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