Ceramic and Lithic Analysis for Archaeologists MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This programme builds on our established international reputation in ceramics and lithics; the School supports scientific and socially oriented research, with intensive practical teaching, and a dynamic and innovative approach to assemblages, integrating theory and methodology; this is an ideal entry to commercial archaeological ceramics/lithics analysis, or to further academic research.(read more)

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Conflict Archaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course provides a broad-based training in the archaeology of conflict from the Palaeolithic to the Cold War and beyond; taking a global perspective, the course covers warfare in prehistory; battlefield and siege archaeology in the historic period; the preservation and study of the remains of war in our own age; and issues of conservation and remembrance.(read more)

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Archaeological Practice MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This programme is designed to allow those with a good practical or theoretical background in field work and other archaeological procedures to develop their interests and expertise; the principal element of the programme is the dissertation on a subject agreed by a member of staff with appropriate research interests.(read more)

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Bioarchaeology MSc

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course provides students with a practical, methodological and theoretical grounding in bioarchaeology, allowing them to develop the skills necessary for a career in the fields of archaeobotany or zooarchaeology; the course is suitable for students with and without an archaeology background; the course can form the foundation for a research career.(read more)

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Social Anthropology (Museums and Material Culture) PgDip

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This pathway draws on modules in Anthropology, Museum Studies and Archaeology to examine the cultural, economic and political contexts in which the conservation, display and interpretation of material objects takes place; these objects range from prehistoric artefacts excavated by archaeologists to the objects from the more recent past, both natural and human-made, scientific as well as artistic, that are held in metropolitan museums.(read more)

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Field Archaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Core course: field techniques in archaeology; theory-based or regional course; 7,500-word dissertation; 3 practical-based options; placement.(read more)

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Visual and Material Culture PgDip

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The programme has the following specific aims: to undertake a thematic examination of recent visual and material cultural practices and theories; to analyse the major strands of theory and criticism that have informed institutions involved with visual and material cultural practices; to explore some of the principal critical and theoretical positions informing the interpretation of visual culture and its organisational contexts.(read more)

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Material Culture Studies MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course focus is on material culture and its increasingly sophisticated methodologies for studying artefacts, materiality remains seriously under-theorised; assesses the ways in which we encounter, categorise and valorise artefacts; evaluate the social and cognitive life of things.(read more)

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Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy MSc

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course offers a range of closely integrated core modules, which enable students to develop their experience and understanding of the method and theory of environmental archaeology and palaeoeconomy; students learn to think critically and are trained in a range of problem solving and analytical skills.(read more)

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Ancient Visual and Material Culture MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: 1 core module; optional modules allow students to develop their interests in particular aspects of the subject: Art; numismatics; or epigraphy; in more depth; language component; 15-20000 word dissertation.(read more)

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Bioarchaeology MSc

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Bioarchaeology is an exciting and fast-advancing field that combines archaeology with branches of the natural sciences to study key topics such as past health, diet, ecology, subsistence strategies and environmental impacts. This MSc allows students to develop a broad understanding of these issues through the study of human remains, as well as the analysis of floral and faunal evidence.(read more)

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Social Anthropology (Museums and Material Culture) MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This pathway draws on modules in Anthropology, Museum Studies and Archaeology to examine the cultural, economic and political contexts in which the conservation, display and interpretation of material objects takes place; these objects range from prehistoric artefacts excavated by archaeologists to the objects from the more recent past, both natural and human-made, scientific as well as artistic, that are held in metropolitan museums.(read more)

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Material Culture and Artefact Studies PgDip

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This programme is designed to provide a broad grounding in the fields of artefact and material culture studies.(read more)

All archaeological practice courses at University Of Glasgow

Archaeological Materials MSc

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The application of scientific techniques to the study of archaeological materials is pivotal to our understanding of material culture and the people who made it; this course provides students with training in the principles and application of such analytical techniques.(read more)

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Biological Archaeology (Bioarchaeology) MSc

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The archaeology of human bone; ancient biomolecules; plus 1 option from topics including: zooarchaeology; field survey; historic and prehistoric archaeology; 2 research skills modules including at least 1 human bone practical skills modules, or alternative including animal bone modules, topographic survey, working on the web, GIS, geoarchaeology; dissertation.(read more)

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Material and Visual Culture MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The MA in Material and Visual Culture is an innovative and wideranging programme exploring the relationship between people and material and visual forms across time and space.(read more)

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Archaeological Research MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course is designed for students who wish to prepare themselves for research in any aspect of archaeology; the course provides the preliminary training year for students intending to proceed to doctoral studies, and appeals especially to those students whose chosen field requires specific or concentrated teaching unavailable through other taught Master courses.(read more)

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Skeletal and Dental Bioarchaeology MSc

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Core courses: morphology and palaeopathology of the human skeleton; variation and evolution of the human skull; dental anthropology; methodology and issues in bioarchaeology and palaeoepidemiology; 1 option from a wide choice; plus 15,000 word dissertation.(read more)

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Field Archaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This course has been devised to meet the demand from home and abroad for professional training at postgraduate level, as recommended by the UK's Institute of Field Archaeologists; it is suitable both for in-service training and for graduates who intend to specialise in fieldwork professionally.(read more)

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Forensic Archaeology (Crime Scene Science and International Investigations) PgDip

Study modes: Part time evening

Course description: The course provides invaluable expertise in the search, location and recovery of buried victims and material evidence and integrates archaeological, anthropological and legal disciplines; the course is delivered by experienced archaeologists, anthropologists and forensic practitioners with an emphasis on developing varied, employable, professional capabilities.(read more)

All archaeological practice courses at Bournemouth University