BSc Archaeology and Geography

Comments about BSc Archaeology and Geography - At the institution - Sheffield - South Yorkshire

• Objectives
  This dual-honours degree will encourage you to explore the complex and varied ways that human beings have organised the spaces, architecture and landscapes in which they have lived. This degree combines two disciplines that support and complement each other very well. It combines Archaeological Science and Physical Geography to allow students to investigate the relationship of people with the environment in the past and the present.
• Entry requirements
  -GCE/VCE A Levels - BBB -BTEC National Diploma - 3 Distinctions and 3 Merits -Two GCE A Levels plus two GCE AS Levels - BB+AB -Scottish Highers - AABB -Irish Leaving Cert. - ABBBB -International Baccalaureate - 32 points -Core Requirements - Grade B in GCE A Level Geography or a relevant social science (e.g. Sociology, Politics, Economics).
• Academic title
  Archaeology and Geography BSc
• Course description
  This is a list of modules that have been offered in the past. We expect similar modules to be offered for courses starting in 2009.
  
  
  Typical First Year Modules
  Module/Unit    
  
  -Archaeology in the Laboratory    
  -The Origins of Humanity    
  -Earth's Changing Surface    
  -Information and Communication Skills for Geographers    
  -Physical Systems At The Global Scale    
  -Practical Methods for Physical Geography    
  -Statistical Data Analysis in Geography    
  
  
  Typical Second Year Modules
  Module/Unit    
  
  -Thinking through Archaeology
  -Research Design in Physical Geography    
  -Archaology of the Graeco-Roman World    
  -Bioarchaeology
  -Early Historic Europe    
  -Early Prehistoric Europe    
  -Environmental Change    
  -Experimental Archaeology    
  -From Households to Empires    
  -Later Historic Europe    
  -Later Prehistoric Europe    
  -Palaeoenvironments
  -Reconstructing Ancient Environments    
  -Reconstructing Ancient Landscapes    
  -Environmental Modelling    
  -Introduction to Geographic Information Systems    
  -Introduction to Remote Sensing    
  
  
  Typical Third Year Modules
  Module/Unit    
  
  -Dissertation (BSc Archaeology and Geography)    
  -Aerial Photography in Archaeology    
  -Archaeozoology    
  -Contemporary Climate Change and Processes    
  -Drylands Environments Fieldclass    
  -Environmental Archaeology    
  -Environmental Impact Assessment    
  -Ethnohistory and Anthropology of Modern Hunter Gatherers    
  -Funerary Archaeology    
  -GIS and the Environment    
  -Geological Hazards    
  -Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology    
  -Innovation, Production and Consumption: material culture in context    
  -Marine Environments    
  -Mediterranean Landscapes    
  -Optical and Geophysical Surveying in Archaeology    
  -Palaeolithic Archaeology    
  -Planetary Geoscience    
  -Primate Evolution and Behaviour    
  -Social Transformations in Britain From the 4th to 2nd Millennium BC    
  -Swords and Sorcery: Northern Europe 1000 BC-AD 500    
  -Work Place Learning

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