Archaeology (Continuing Education)

DPhil in Archaeology (part-time)

Course Code | 000040 

It is possible to study for a doctorate by part-time research in the areas of Professional Archaeology or Applied Landscape Archaeology.

Admission is either as a Probationary Research Student (PRS), in which case the minimum time of study is six years, or via successful completion of the MSc in Applied Landscape Archaeology or another appropriate Master’s course, in which case the minimum time of study is four years.

Anyone wishing to discuss possible part-time DPhil topics should contact the Director of Studies for Archaeology, David Griffiths.

Places on this programme are limited, and as a result new applications may sometimes be temporarily suspended: please check the departmental website for availability.

MSc in Applied Landscape Archaeology

Course Code | 000030 

• Length of programme: Two years, part-time, and teaching largely takes place on Saturdays
• Core and optional courses: Core papers deal with research methods and the management of historic landscapes.
• Advanced papers cover particular aspects of landscape archaeology, such as:
  • prospection
  • artefact distributions
  • historical landscape archaeology
  • digital mapping and data-processing
• Students develop their own project leading to a 15,000-word dissertation
• Instead of one advanced paper, students may opt to take a placement based on 14 days spread over a period of up to one year, at an organisation involved in an aspect of landscape archaeology
• Survey training week and no written examinations

Graduate students in the Department for Continuing Education receive a University of Oxford Card which gives access to the Bodleian Library. Specialist libraries include the Department for Continuing Education Library and Sackler Library. OUDCE Archaeology has close links with the School of Archaeology.

A range of survey equipment is available for student use.

• Academic staff for the MSc in Applied Landscape Archaeology
• Academic staff for the PGCert in Archaeology

Enhanced career prospects in Archaeology; internal promotions, successful applications for positions in government and private organisations, EPPIC scheme placement in survey at English Heritage.

See the entries under Archaeology (Social Sciences) and Archaeological Science for details of other (full-time) programmes available.