MSci Archaeology (4 years)

University of Southampton

Bachelor's degree

In Southampton

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Southampton

  • Start date

    September

Introducing your degree
Take a journey into the past using scientific methods and discover one of the most exciting subjects available! Archaeology at Southampton takes you on a scientific journey from the earliest human ancestors to the reception of the past in the modern world using state of the art scientific techniques. Southampton is home to world-leading scholars in Archaeological Science, and we have special interests in maritime and underwater archaeology, human origins and human evolution, bioarchaeology, radiometric dating and isotopic analyses. We are passionate about sharing our enthusiasm in our teaching, and our Faculty provides a stimulating and engaging environment in which you will thrive and develop skills in debate, critical thought and analysis.
Your first three years will follow the track of the BSc in Archaeology, but the fourth year gives you the chance to develop your strengths and interests with an integrated Masters degree. During your fourth year, you can either focus on a particular research area or you can opt to maintain a broad and diverse curriculum. Whether you decide to focus on your own special interests or choose to maintain a wide breadth of experience and expertise, you will develop enhanced skills and knowledge. All the modules offered provide appropriate skills for transferring our into the wider job market or for progression on to a research degree..
Archaeology studies the human past through its material remains such as buildings, monuments, artefacts, biological remains, written sources and the landscape. The Integrated Masters in Archaeology offers a unique perspective on the human past in a broad geographic and temporal context, providing you with an understanding of how the human species evolved, how human societies came into being, and how and why they changed over time

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Southampton (Hampshire)
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University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Subjects

  • Credit
  • Archaeology
  • University

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.

  1. You may choose to substitute up to TWO (i.e. 30 credits) of the non-compulsory courses for selected alternate courses of equivalent value from across the university.
  2. In addition you must complete 3 weeks’ fieldwork training on an approved field project (ARCH2037). This will normally be undertaken in the summer between Parts 1 and 2.

Semester OneCompulsory

ARCH1057Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The development of Archaeological and Anthropological Thought

Optional

ARCH1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Human Origins

ARCH1002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Emergence of Civilisation: domesticating ourselves and others

ARCH1030Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Ancient and Medieval Worlds

Semester TwoCompulsory

ARCH1005Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Archaeological Methods for Fieldwork and Analysis

ARCH1047Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Debates and Issues in Archaeological Science

Optional

ARCH1028Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Landscapes and Seascapes of Britain’s Past

ARCH1062Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Wonderful things: World history in 40 objects

Core [?]

A core module is a module which must be taken and passed.

ARCH2037

Archaeological Fieldwork

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.

  1. You may also choose to substitute up to TWO (i.e. 30 credits) of the non-compulsory modules for selected alternate modules of equivalent value from across the university.
  2. At least two of your option choices must be science-orientated.
  3. You may choose to take science options from outside the Discipline of Archaeology.

Semester OneCompulsory

ARCH2013Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Approaching the Past: Trends in Archaeological Theory

ARCH2029Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Digging Data: quantitative data analysis in Archaeology

Optional

ARCH2017Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Maritime Archaeology

ARCH2033Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Pots and People: Ceramic Analysis in Archaeology

ARCH2036Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Critical Chronologies: Archaeological dating

HUMA2008Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The Life and Afterlife of the Vikings

Semester TwoCompulsory

ARCH2028Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Advanced Methods of Archaeological Analysis

Optional

ARCH2001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Human Dispersal and Evolution

ARCH2003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The power of Rome: Europe’s first empire

ARCH2004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Introduction to European Prehistory

ARCH2012Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Archaeology and Society

ARCH2024Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Archaeological Survey for Landscapes and Monuments

ARCH2027Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Bones, bodies and burials: osteology and comparative anatomy

ARCH2039Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Experimental Archaeology: the social prehistory of technology

Year 3

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.

  1. You may also choose to substitute up to TWO (i.e. 30 credits) of the non-compulsory courses for selected alternate modules of equivalent value from across the university.
  2. At least three of your option choices must be science-orientated.
  3. You may choose to take science options from outside the Discipline of Archaeology.

Semester OneCompulsory

ARCH3025Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Dissertation

Optional

ARCH3008Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Stonehenge to Skara Brae: the Neolithic of Britain

ARCH3034Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Archaeology of Seafaring

ARCH3028Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Living with the Romans: Urbanism in the Roman Empire

ARCH3042Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Ecology of human evolution: biological, social and cultural approaches to hominin adaptations.

ARCH3044Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

GIS for Archaeology

ARCH3045Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The Archaeology and Anthropology of Adornment

Semester TwoOptional

ARCH3017Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Presenting the past: Museums and Heritage

ARCH3011Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Iron Age Societies

ARCH3014Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Seeing beneath the soil: geophysical survey for archaeology

ARCH3036Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Molecular Archaeology

ARCH3043Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Later Anglo-Saxon England

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

ARCH6415Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Archaeology Dissertation for Integrated Masters

Optional

HUMA6012Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Jerusalem: City and Symbol

ARCH6112Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Materials, Technology and Social Life

ARCH6114Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Maritime Aspects of Culture

ARCH6115Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Human Skeletal Studies

ARCH6110Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Zooarchaeology

ARCH6121Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Contexts for Human Origins Research

ARCH6126Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Bioarchaeology of Human Remains

ARCH6127Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Analysis of archaeological faunal remains

ARCH6412Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Professional Practice

Semester TwoOptional

ARCH6106Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Osteoarchaeology and Palaeopathology in Context

ARCH6119Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Applied Maritime Archaeology

ARCH6120Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Maritime Museums and Heritage Management

ARCH6122Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Ancient Mediterranean Seafaring

ARCH6128Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Cultural Heritage within Environmental Impact Assessment

ARCH6410Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Maritime Connections of the Ancient Mediterranean

ARCH6411Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The Analysis of Palaeolithic Stone Tool Assemblages

ARCH6413Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Professional Placement in the Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Sector

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