Undergraduate Diploma in British Archaeology
Bachelor's degree
Online
Price on request
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Methodology
Online
Gain a grounding in British archaeology with this part-time course, designed to suit adult students with busy lives.
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Subjects
- Archaeology
Course programme
- Introduction: an overview of chronology and the nature of evidence
- Landscapes: theory and practice
- Hillforts
- Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland
- Field Trip: Ridgeway Hillforts
- Lowland settlement and farming
- The Atlantic coastal zone
- Northern Britain
- Cross Channel connections and oppida
- Practical Weekend I
- Social re-ordering in the late Iron Age
- The conquest
- The role of the army: forts, frontiers and communications
- Establishing Roman rule: administration and the Roman system
- Towns of Roman Britain: the built environment
- Economic systems
- The Roman town of Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum)
- Field Trip: Silchester and Reading Museum
- Rural settlement patterns: farms, villas and villages
- Practical Weekend II
- Religion and ritual
- Religious sites
- The living and the afterlife
- Roman industry, engineering and technology
- Roman art and material culture
- Saturday Visit: British Museum
- Celtic art: craftsmanship and patronage
- Later Prehistoric and Roman metalworking
- Later Prehistoric pottery
- Roman ceramics: the industries and their economic impact
- Practical session: working with Roman ceramics
- Group Project presentations: the end of Roman rule
- Five out of six assignments of up to 2,500 words.
- In the first year, a practical logbook of up to 8,000 words, to include four tasks. The tasks usually involve a practical element, for example a field trip, museum visit and/or archaeological fieldwork.
- In the second year, either a practical logbook or an extended project.
- A statement of 200–300 words explaining why you wish to enrol on this course, including details of any previous experience in the subject and membership of relevant societies or groups.
- Proof of your English language ability if you are a non-native English-speaking applicant (see below for more information).
Undergraduate Diploma in British Archaeology
Price on request