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Degree Programme Table: Geography and Archaeology (MA Hons) (UTGGPAR)

Jump to: Year 4

Year 4 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

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

Course options

Courses from School of Geoscience & History Classics and Archaeology- Geography and Archaeology (BSc)- Level 9

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Archaeology Dissertation
ARCA10040 40 credits
Geography Dissertation
GEGR10053 40 credits
AND

Geography Joint Honours Options

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Topics in Global Change
ENVI10001 20 credits
Catchment Water Resources
GEGR10023 20 credits
Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change
GEGR10055 20 credits
Glacial Processes and Geomorphology
GEGR10075 20 credits
People, landscape change and settlement: the last 15,000 years
GEGR10107 20 credits
Development and Decolonization in Latin America
GEGR10114 20 credits
Space, place and sensory perception
GEGR10116 20 credits
Writing Landscape
GEGR10118 20 credits
Ice and Climate
GEGR10119 20 credits
Environmental Justice
GEGR10123 20 credits
Land and Landscape: Explorations in Society and Nature
GEGR10125 20 credits
Geographies of the Border
GEGR10126 20 credits
Capital, Land and Power
GEGR10127 20 credits
The Blue Humanities: Studying the Sea
GEGR10128 20 credits
Geographies of Mobility
GEGR10129 20 credits
Eroding Landscapes: Mountains, Hills and Rivers
GEGR10136 20 credits
Volcanoes, Environment and People
GEGR10139 20 credits
Geographies of Food
GEGR10140 20 credits
Queer Geographies: Spatialising Sexuality and Gender
GEGR10141 20 credits
Problematising Environment and Society
GEGR10142 20 credits
Global Hydrology
GEGR10146 20 credits
Black Geographies
GEGR10147 20 credits
Principles and Practice of Remote Sensing
PGGE11233 20 credits
GIS and Spatial Analytics for Health
PGGE11272 20 credits
Remote Sensing for Disaster Management and Risk Mitigation
PGGE11307 20 credits
AND

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Archaeology Year 4 Honours Courses

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students intending to take the fourth year option Archaeological Fieldwork are required to undertake 10 weeks approved practical archaeological work in the vacations between the end of their second year of study and the beginning of their fourth year of study.
The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A World between Empires
ANHI10117 20 credits
Archaeological Fieldwork
ARCA10013 20 credits
Archaeological Illustration
ARCA10014 20 credits
Ritual and Monumentality in North-West Europe: Mid-6th to Mid-3rd Millennium BC
ARCA10034 20 credits
Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece
ARCA10047 20 credits
The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation
ARCA10063 20 credits
Theoretical Archaeology
ARCA10064 20 credits
Archaeology in Practice
ARCA10065 20 credits
Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology
ARCA10077 20 credits
Archaeology of Architecture
ARCA10082 20 credits
Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past
ARCA10083 20 credits
The archaeology of animal remains
ARCA10084 20 credits
GIS for Archaeologists
ARCA10086 20 credits
The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)
ARCA10088 20 credits
Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond
ARCA10091 20 credits
The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes
ARCA10093 20 credits
Marine Archaeology
ARCA10097 20 credits
The Archaeology of Children and Childhood
ARCA10098 20 credits
Ancient Bodies: Archaeological Human Remains in their Social and Cultural Context
ARCA10099 20 credits
Island Worlds in Mediterranean Prehistory
ARCA10100 20 credits
Archaeomaterials Analysis
ARCA10102 20 credits
Heritage Studies and the Archaeology of the Contemporary World: Investigating How the Past Shapes the Present
ARCA10103 20 credits
Data Science for the Past: from points to pictures
ARCA10105 20 credits
Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire
CACA10007 20 credits
The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World
CACA10042 20 credits
Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages
HIST10433 20 credits
OR

Classical Art and Classical Archaeology Honours Courses

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students intending to take the fourth year option Archaeological Fieldwork are required to undertake 10 weeks approved practical archaeological work in the vacations between the end of their second year of study and the beginning of their fourth year of study.
The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A World between Empires
ANHI10117 20 credits
Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire
CACA10007 20 credits
The Athenian Akropolis
CACA10026 20 credits
The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World
CACA10042 20 credits
Death and Burial in the Greek World
CACA10048 20 credits
Roman Archaeology Seminar 1
CACA10059 20 credits
Mediterranean interactions in the Late Middle Ages: The Visual Culture of Byzantium, the Ottomans and the Italian penins
CLGE10016 20 credits
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