Museum Studies and Archaeology, BA (Hons)

Embark on a fulfilling career in heritage through the BA in Museum Studies and Archaeology at the University of Reading. This programme integrates museology with archaeological exploration, equipping students with essential curatorial skills such as researching, analysing, cataloguing, interpreting, and exhibiting museum objects, historic buildings, and landscapes. You will delve into archaeological methods, gain hands-on training in museum practices, ethics, and perspectives, and investigate human history via material artefacts, from early hominins to the present.The curriculum allows personalised learning across diverse modules, addressing global challenges like diets and health, identity and inequality, migration, environmental change, and cultural differences. Ranked in the top 100 worldwide for Archaeology (QS World Rankings by Subject 2023), the programme boasts 100% student satisfaction in teaching quality (National Student Survey 2023). Core modules include Revolutions and Transitions, Archaeology Today, and Presenting the Past, subject to final approval. For further details, visit the programme page.

The following modules have been approved in principle for delivery in 2025/26. Please note that as part of our current curriculum improvement process, all modules require final University approval and may be subject to change. Core modules for this course:

• Revolutions and Transitions: The Human Journey from 6 Million Years Ago to the Present Day

• Archaeology Today: Methods and Practice

• Early Empires: Mesopotamia, Egypt and Rome

• Presenting the Past: an Introduction to Museum Studies

• Archaeology and Heritage: Past, Present and Future

The University cannot guarantee that all optional modules will be available to all students who may wish to take them. Further information about the content of the final approved modules will be available in the summer of 2024. We suggest you regularly revisit our course page during this time to ensure you have the most up-to-date information regarding the modules offered on this programme. Check our website for more details about the course structure.