BSc Archaeology (with a Year Abroad) (4 years)
Bachelor's degree
In Southampton
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Southampton
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Start date
September
Introducing your degree
Travel abroad and discover the secrets of our ancestors with the BSc Archaeology with a Year Abroad degree course. Study fascinating modules on topics like 'Archaeology of the Roman Empire' and 'Human Origins'. A varied and diverse degree that provides a mix of field, lab and classroom work throughout the three years of campus study and an opportunity to study abroad at one of our partner institutions.
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Subjects
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- Archaeology
Course programme
Year 1
The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.
You will also be registered for a module to represent your fieldwork project (ARCH2037 Archaeological Method) – but this module is not credit bearing. This fieldwork is normally taken at the end of your first year.
Semester OneCompulsory
ARCH1057Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
The development of Archaeological and Anthropological Thought
ARCH2037
Archaeological Fieldwork
OptionalARCH1001Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Human Origins
ARCH1002Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Emergence of Civilisation: domesticating ourselves and others
ARCH1030Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Ancient and Medieval Worlds
HUMA1038Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Introduction to Ethnography: Food and Culture
Semester TwoCompulsory
ARCH1005Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Archaeological Methods for Fieldwork and Analysis
ARCH1047Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Debates and Issues in Archaeological Science
OptionalARCH1028Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Landscapes and Seascapes of Britain’s Past
ARCH1062Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Wonderful things: World history in 40 objects
Year 2
The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.
For year two, students must take at least two science based Archaeology modules from the list below or may choose to take a free elective from one of the Science disciplines but should do so in consultation with the Director of Programmes.
Semester OneCompulsory
ARCH2013Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Approaching the Past: Trends in Archaeological Theory
ARCH2029Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Digging Data: quantitative data analysis in Archaeology
OptionalARCH2017Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Maritime Archaeology
ARCH2033Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Pots and People: Ceramic Analysis in Archaeology
ARCH2036Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Critical Chronologies: Archaeological dating
HUMA2008Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
The Life and Afterlife of the Vikings
Semester TwoCompulsory
ARCH2028Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Advanced Methods of Archaeological Analysis
OptionalARCH2001Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Human Dispersal and Evolution
ARCH2003Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
The power of Rome: Europe’s first empire
ARCH2004Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Introduction to European Prehistory
ARCH2012Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Archaeology and Society
ARCH2024Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Archaeological Survey for Landscapes and Monuments
ARCH2027Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Bones, bodies and burials: osteology and comparative anatomy
ARCH2039Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Experimental Archaeology: the social prehistory of technology
Year 3
Year 3 (Students taking the Year Abroad will continue with the Level 3 curriculum on their return in their 4th year).
The Year Abroad will be spent at an international partner institution. More information can be found out on the Exchange partners page
Year 4
The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.
Semester OneCompulsory
ARCH3025Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Dissertation
LANG3011
Seeing and being seen: Study Abroad re-entry
OptionalARCH3008Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Stonehenge to Skara Brae: the Neolithic of Britain
ARCH3028Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Living with the Romans: Urbanism in the Roman Empire
ARCH3034Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Archaeology of Seafaring
ARCH3042Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Ecology of human evolution: biological, social and cultural approaches to hominin adaptations.
ARCH3044Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
GIS for Archaeology
ARCH3045Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
The Archaeology and Anthropology of Adornment
Semester TwoCompulsory
ARCH3025Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Dissertation
OptionalARCH3011Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Iron Age Societies
ARCH3014Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Seeing beneath the soil: geophysical survey for archaeology
ARCH3017Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Presenting the past: Museums and Heritage
ARCH3036Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Molecular Archaeology
ARCH3043Credit[?] Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).
Later Anglo-Saxon England
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BSc Archaeology (with a Year Abroad) (4 years)