BA Ancient History and Classical Archaeology
Course Overview
This BA in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology uniquely integrates the study of historical texts with material artifacts, offering a comprehensive understanding of the ancient world through our expert distance learning platform. You will develop the skills to decipher ancient alphabets and critically analyze both written and physical evidence from antiquity. The program is designed to provide maximum flexibility, allowing you to pursue a full degree or shorter certificate options based on your goals.
Key Program Highlights
- A unique interdisciplinary curriculum that blends ancient historical texts with hands-on archaeological evidence
- Learn to decipher and work directly with ancient Greek and Latin alphabets and short texts
- World-leading research and teaching delivered through a flexible, proven distance learning format
- Gain highly valued transferable skills for successful career development or further academic study
- Multiple entry and exit points, including Certificate, Diploma, and Associate study options for interest
Course Overview
This BA in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology uniquely integrates the study of historical texts with material artifacts, offering a comprehensive understanding of the ancient world through our expert distance learning platform. You will develop the skills to decipher ancient alphabets and critically analyze both written and physical evidence from antiquity. The program is designed to provide maximum flexibility, allowing you to pursue a full degree or shorter certificate options based on your goals.
Key Program Highlights
- A unique interdisciplinary curriculum that blends ancient historical texts with hands-on archaeological evidence
- Learn to decipher and work directly with ancient Greek and Latin alphabets and short texts
- World-leading research and teaching delivered through a flexible, proven distance learning format
- Gain highly valued transferable skills for successful career development or further academic study
- Multiple entry and exit points, including Certificate, Diploma, and Associate study options for interest
Requirements
Modules
- Approaching Ancient Evidence (Greek)
- Introduction to Greek History
- An Introduction to World Archaeology BC
- Archaeology: The Essentials
- Approaching Ancient Evidence (Roman)
- Introduction to Roman History
- An Introduction to World Archaeology AD
- Debates in Archaeological Heritage
- Sources, Method, and Theory for Ancient History
- Fieldwork 1
- Theory in Archaeology
- The Age of Augustus
- Roman Religion
- The Many Falls of the Roman Empire
- Classical and Hellenistic Greek States
- The Ancient Near East
- Greek History in 40 Lives
- The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
- Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age Britain and Ireland
- Heritage Skills
- Environmental Archaeology
- Artefact Analysis
- The Medieval Mediterranean World
- Archaeology of the Roman Empire
- Archaeological Survey and Geomatics
- Living in Towns: Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Urbanism
- YEAR ABROAD
- Fieldwork 2
- Archaeology Dissertation (double module)
- Oracles. Dreams and Omens: Divination in the Greek World
- Archaeology and Ancient History in Education
- Conflict, Heritage and Archaeology
- Archaeology and Materials
- Lived Experience in Imperial Rome
- Late Antique North Africa
- Great Greek Monuments
- My Empire Reborn: Justinian and his Age
- Babylonian Sources
- Zooarchaeology (the archaeology of animals)
- Human Skeletal Analysis
- The Archaeology of Human Evolution
- Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
- The Archaeology of Colonialism in the Americas
