Archaeology, BA (Hons)

This course offers an extensive overview of world archaeology in a general, wide-ranging degree providing teaching and training in a diverse array of social and scientific methods. With a broad range of modules on offer, this course will allow you to build subject and geographic specialisms suited to your own interests and career aspirations.Modules in British, European and World archaeology provide you with the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge of archaeology and heritage in different regions including Europe, the Near East, North Africa, and South and East Asia.Advanced skills training, practical, lab and field-based options, assist students in developing knowledge and expertise in, for example, data analysis, remote sensing, GIS and survey, materials analysis, 3-D modelling, museum and heritage skills and osteology.In the first year, students acquire a basic range of intellectual and practical archaeological skills. In the second and third years, students move to more in-depth study of particular topics and methods working closely with staff and developing their own independent research project in their third year.Students studying this course can also follow a route accredited by CIfA, the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists. Choosing an accredited undergraduate degree is widely recognised as the first step on a career pathway leading to professional status. To obtain a CIfA accredited degree, students study modules that equip them with the requisite theoretical and practical knowledge to act as a foundation for a career in the UK commercial archaeology sector.