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

Postgraduate Certificate in Archaeology

Course Code | 001725

This new one-year, part-time course is an introduction to archaeological research methods, culminating in a 10,000 word dissertation.

The course tackles a variety of primary evidence, introducing the appropriate skills needed to prepare you to carry out a piece of your own research in a guided and supported environment. The third term is devoted to the dissertation.

Dissertation topics are developed by students themselves in conjunction with the course team. Students will be assigned a personal dissertation tutor and will have a series of tutorial meetings with them during the year.

The course is available to graduates in any subject, and may act as a preparation for those who have not yet completed a dissertation in Archaeology and are interested in progressing to study Archaeology at Masters level.

The course is taught via a series of weekend practical all-day sessions, including field, museum and archive visits, backed up by online session guides provided via the course Weblearn site and by 1:1 tutorials. Most teaching takes place on Saturdays between mid-October and the end of May, and dissertation supervision continues until the submission date in July.

• Length of programme: One year, part-time
  

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.