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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2018/2019

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Year 1 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: September

Courses will run in either Semester 1 OR Semester 2, subject to staffing availability. The range of option courses available may vary. Students complete six courses and the MSc Dissertation over the duration of the degree.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

This core course MUST be taken in either Year 1 or Year 2.

Research Sources and Strategies in Archaeology

AND

1. Depending on their first degree, students may be recommended to take Theoretical Archaeology.
2. Further to discussion with the programme director a student may also choose an option from the suite of courses offered by the School.

Frontiers in Archaeology: Research Seminars

Archaeological Illustration

Gallia from the Third Century BC to Augustus

Late Hunter-Gatherers in Europe

Ritual and Monumentality in North-West Europe: Mid-6th to Mid-3rd Millennium BC

Human Evolution

Roman Archaeology

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

Island Worlds: Prehistoric Societies in the Mediterranean Sea from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age

Theoretical Archaeology

Space, Place and Time: the archaeology of built environments

Biomolecular Archaeology: the appliance of science

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Suleyman the Magnificent

Conflict archaeology: materialities of violence

Practical Zooarchaeology

GIS and Spatial Analysis for Archaeologists

Year 2 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: September

Courses will run in either Semester 1 OR Semester 2, subject to staffing availability. The range of option courses available may vary. Students complete six courses and the MSc Dissertation over the duration of the degree.

Compulsory courses

Archaeology Dissertation

Course options

This core course MUST be taken in either Year 1 or Year 2.

Research Sources and Strategies in Archaeology

AND

1. Depending on their first degree, students may be recommended to take Theoretical Archaeology.
2. Further to discussion with the programme director a student may also choose an option from the suite of courses offered by the School.

Frontiers in Archaeology: Research Seminars

Archaeological Illustration

Gallia from the Third Century BC to Augustus

Late Hunter-Gatherers in Europe

Ritual and Monumentality in North-West Europe: Mid-6th to Mid-3rd Millennium BC

Human Evolution

Roman Archaeology

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

Island Worlds: Prehistoric Societies in the Mediterranean Sea from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age

Theoretical Archaeology

Space, Place and Time: the archaeology of built environments

Biomolecular Archaeology: the appliance of science

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Suleyman the Magnificent

Conflict archaeology: materialities of violence

Practical Zooarchaeology

GIS and Spatial Analysis for Archaeologists

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