MA in Medieval Archaeology

Comments about MA in Medieval Archaeology - At the institution - Reading - Berkshire

• Objectives
  The programme aims to foster a systematic, advanced understanding of the Middle Ages through the study and interpretation of archaeological evidence, and an ability to engage in independent research. It is designed to allow students to develop their specific interests in the medieval archaeology of Britain in the context of northern Europe, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary approaches to social archaeology. In the course of this programme, students will gain an ability to recognise current weaknesses in our understanding of the Middle Ages, either due to lack of evidence, poor methodology or inappropriate theory, and to propose means by which such weaknesses can be rectified, and strengths enhanced. It also aims to prepare students for doctoral study.
• Academic title
  MA in Medieval Archaeology
• Course description
  Programme content
  
  The profile which follows states which modules must be taken (the compulsory part) together
  with one or more lists of modules from which the student must make a selection (the option
  modules). Students must choose such additional modules as they wish, in consultation with
  their programme adviser, to make 180 credits. The number of credits for each module is
  shown after its title.
  
  Students must take three 10-credit modules in Research Skills including Research Resources and
  Skills and Issues and Debates in Medieval Archaeology and one technical optional modules (30
  credits overall), three specialist optional modules of 20 credits each (60 credits overall), and write
  a dissertation (90 credits). Students who have not previously studied Archaeology are advised
  to take Archaeological Thought as one of the Optional technical modules.
  
  Compulsory modules
  
  Dissertation
  
  Research Skills
  
  Compulsory modules
  
  Research Resources and Skills
  Issues and Debates in Medieval Archaeology
  
  Optional technical modules
  
  (Not all optional modules will be available in any one year. The availability of all optional
  modules is subject to availability of staff and will require a minimum number of participants.
  Admission to optional modules will be at the discretion of the Programme Director).
  
  ONE of:
  
  Archaeological Thought
  Archaeological Graphics
  Applications of Micromorphological Analysis
  Soils in Archaeology
  Field Methods and Experimentation in Geoarchaeology
  Geophysics for Archaeology
  Laboratory Methods in Geoarchaeology
  
  Optional specialist modules
  
  (Not all optional modules will be available in any one year. The availability of all optional
  modules is subject to availability of staff and will require a minimum number of participants.
  Admission to optional modules will be at the discretion of the Programme Director).
  
  THREE of:
  
  Burial Archaeology
  Palaeopathology
  Coastal and Maritime Archaeology
  The Archaeology of Food and Nutrition
  Information Molecules: Biomolecular Method for Archaeologists
  The Archaeology of Crusading
  Vikings in the West
  Later Anglo-Saxon England
  ‘Europe’ in the Later Middle Ages?
  Geographic Information Systems
  
  ONE of the following modules taught in the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies can be taken instead of a specialist module:
  
  Medieval Latin and Palaeography
  Special Topic