MA Historic Buildings
Course Overview
This course provides expert training in the systematic research, recording, analysis, and interpretation of historic structures. You will develop a foundational knowledge of UK architectural history and gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge digital recording techniques. The program is designed to equip you with the specialized skills required for a professional career in building conservation and heritage management.
Key Program Highlights
- Master practical skills in photogrammetry, 3D recording, and CAD drawing
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of UK architectural history from 1000 AD to the present
- Learn the principles of conservation legislation, policy, and professional practice
- Develop expert abilities in archival research and theoretical interpretation of buildings
- Learn from a multidisciplinary team of experts in survey, research, and computer modeling
Course Overview
This course provides expert training in the systematic research, recording, analysis, and interpretation of historic structures. You will develop a foundational knowledge of UK architectural history and gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge digital recording techniques. The program is designed to equip you with the specialized skills required for a professional career in building conservation and heritage management.
Key Program Highlights
- Master practical skills in photogrammetry, 3D recording, and CAD drawing
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of UK architectural history from 1000 AD to the present
- Learn the principles of conservation legislation, policy, and professional practice
- Develop expert abilities in archival research and theoretical interpretation of buildings
- Learn from a multidisciplinary team of experts in survey, research, and computer modeling
Requirements
Modules
- Buildings Recording
- Researching & Analysing Historic Buildings
- Heritage Principles and Concepts
- Histories of Conservation
- Making the Nation
- Presenting Historic Houses
- Virtual Reality and 3D Modelling
- Ancient Biomolecules
- Animal Bones for Archaeologists
- Archaeologies of Colonialism in the British Atlantic World
- Artefacts and Materials Analysis
- Becoming Human
- Building Conservation Projects
- Contemporary Issues in Museums
- Critical Approaches to Archaeological Practice
- Data Science for Archaeology
- Death, Burial and Commemoration in the Roman World
- Debates in Funerary Archaeology
- Digital Approaches to Archaeology
- Digital Creativity
- Experimental Archaeology
- GIS and spatial analysis
- Landscape Survey and Geophysics
- Life and Death in Iron Age Britain and Ireland
- Medieval Settlement and Communities
- Mesolithic Life and Death
- Museums, Audiences & Interpretation
- Prehistoric Art: Origins and Transitions
- Roman Archaeology: Ancient pasts, current issues
- Roman Europe
- Skeletal Evidence for Health in the Past
- Sustainable Buildings
- Sustainability I: definitions of sustainability & methods of assessment
- Sustainability II: understanding sustainability as change through time
- Sustainable Conservation Challenges
- The Ancient Celts: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe
- The Archaeology of the Human Skeleton
- The Archaeology of Roman Religion
- The Viking Age: People, Places, Things
- Thinking through Material Culture
- Zooarchaeology in Context
- Understanding & Interpreting Historic Buildings
- Heritage Principles and Concepts
- Histories of Conservation
- Making the Nation
- Presenting Historic Houses
- Virtual Reality and 3D Modelling
- Ancient Biomolecules
- Animal Bones for Archaeologists
- Archaeologies of Colonialism in the British Atlantic World
- Artefacts and Materials Analysis
- Becoming Human
- Building Conservation Projects
- Contemporary Issues in Museums
- Critical Approaches to Archaeological Practice
- Data Science for Archaeology
- Death, Burial and Commemoration in the Roman World
- Debates in Funerary Archaeology
- Digital Approaches to Archaeology
- Digital Creativity
- Experimental Archaeology
- GIS and spatial analysis
- Landscape Survey and Geophysics
- Life and Death in Iron Age Britain and Ireland
- Medieval Settlement and Communities
- Mesolithic Life and Death
- Museums, Audiences & Interpretation
- Prehistoric Art: Origins and Transitions
- Roman Archaeology: Ancient pasts, current issues
- Roman Europe
- Skeletal Evidence for Health in the Past
- Sustainable Buildings
- Sustainability I: definitions of sustainability & methods of assessment
- Sustainability II: understanding sustainability as change through time
- Sustainable Conservation Challenges
- The Ancient Celts: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe
- The Archaeology of the Human Skeleton
- The Archaeology of Roman Religion
- The Viking Age: People, Places, Things
- Thinking through Material Culture
- Zooarchaeology in Context
- dissertation