[See Undergraduate Prospectus entry for UCAS Code: VV41]
This degree is intended for those who seek an explicit integration between the written sources of the ancient Near East and the Classical world, and the material culture of civilisations in those areas. Archaeology and Ancient History are combined to investigate the Sumerians, Egyptians, Hittites, Phoenicians, Mycenaeans, Greece and Rome, for example.
Two
of the three courses in first and second
year are prescribed by the subject of the
degree: Archaeology 1 and a course
on the Greek and/or Roman world in year
one and Archaeology 2 and Classical
Archaeology in year two. Alongside
these four courses you take a third course
in each year. That course may be in one
of the languages and literatures of the
ancient world (for example, Latin or Greek
can be started from scratch) Alternatively
you may take your choice of many of the
courses available across the University.
The
pattern in junior and senior honours years
is similar to that for the Archaeology single
honours degree. The core courses on Theoretical
Archaeology and Archaeology in
Practice must be taken in third year,
together with option courses taught by Archaeology
and by Classics. These may include the fourth
year option, Archaeological Fieldwork
. You also write a dissertation in
final year which may be archaeological,
or historical, or on a topic which bridges
the disciplines. The optional courses are
chosen from courses taught by Archaeology
and Classics and include courses which are
more archaeological than historical and
vice versa , and cover the Classical
and Mediterranean world from prehistory
to late antiquity and Byzantium .
Students will gain practical experience of archaeology as a requirement of the course. In their first year, they either attend the first year archaeology field school, if this is available, and undertake a further two weeks practical work or undertake a longer period of practical work, as for the single honours Archaeology degree. At the end of the summer term of second year, when admission to honours is decided, students decide either to take the fourth year option Archaeological Fieldwork, or not to undertake any further practical work. Since this degree is concerned with the classical civilisations of the Mediterranean and the ancient civilisations of the Near East, students are encouraged to spend at least one of the practical work periods on a project in one of the appropriate countries. |
