Archaeology And Geography (Ba): 4-Year, Part-Time

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 6,935 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 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 fieldwork 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 programme is also available for full-time evening study over three years.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

Start date

On request

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 assess each individual application for potential and talent and admission is by a combination of application and interview.

Awarding Body
University of London

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Subjects

  • GIS
  • Climate
  • Humanities
  • Writing
  • Climate Change
  • Hydrology
  • Archaeology
  • Politics
  • Credit
  • Information Systems
  • Sociology
  • Geographical Information Systems
  • Teaching
  • International
  • Global
  • Project
  • Systems
  • Part Time
  • Human Geography
  • Research Literature
  • Architecture landscape

Course programme

COURSE STRUCTURE

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 three compulsory modules, including a fieldwork module.

In Year 2, you take one compulsory module and choose two Level 5 options.

In Year 3, you take one compulsory module and choose one Level 5 option and one Level 6 option.

In Year 4, you choose one Level 6 option and write a dissertation in either archaeology or geography.

YEAR 1 COMPULSORY MODULES
  • Approaching the Past
  • Discovering Archaeology: From Field to Finds Room
  • Thames through Time: Birkbeck/MOLA Field School
YEAR 2 COMPULSORY MODULE
  • Introduction to Spatial Thinking
YEAR 3 COMPULSORY MODULE
  • Exploring the Past
YEAR 4 COMPULSORY MODULES (CHOOSE ONE)
  • Research Project
  • Writing the Past: Dissertation
INDICATIVE LEVEL 5 OPTION MODULES
  • Beginnings: The Archaeology of Prehistory
  • Environmental Processes
INDICATIVE LEVEL 6 OPTION MODULES
  • 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
Birkbeck makes all reasonable efforts to deliver educational services, modules and programmes of study as described on our website. In the event that there are material changes to our offering (for example, due to matters beyond our control), we will update applicant and student facing information as quickly as possible and offer alternatives to applicants, offer-holders and current students.

Additional information

Course Fee - 
Part-time international students: £10710 pa

Archaeology And Geography (Ba): 4-Year, Part-Time

£ 6,935 VAT inc.