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UCAS Course Code: LV64

Brief Course Outline

Duration of course: 3 years
Degree awarded: BA
Average intake: 23
Applications shortlisted for interview: 62.3%
Successful applications: 24.5%

Open days

26 and 27 June, and 20 September 2013

Contact details

Administrator, School of Archaeology,
36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PG
+44 (0) 1865 278246
Please email us at: administrator@arch.ox.ac.uk
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Archaeology and Anthropology

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Work placements/international opportunities

As part of your course you are required to undertake at least three weeks of fieldwork on a project that you will select for yourself. Advice is available from your college tutor and from members of the Schools of Archaeology and Anthropology. Your fieldwork, which must be approved by the Standing Committee that runs the degree, may be anywhere in the world – South Africa, the Andes and Georgia are recent destinations. For most people it is likely to take an archaeological form on either an excavation or as part of a field-survey team, but museum-based work and participation in primatological or social anthropological fieldwork are also possible. Further archaeological fieldwork may be provided by the School of Archaeology in the form of a compulsory training excavation. Financial support for this fieldwork is available from the University and may also be available from your college. In the first term of your second year you will write a report on the fieldwork that you have undertaken. You may also engage in fieldwork as part of your final year dissertation, while other opportunities may exist for work-based learning in the University’s museums.

A typical weekly timetable

Your work is divided among lectures, tutorials and practical classes. In the first year, you will spend about six hours a week in lectures, closely tied to the course’s core papers. Lectures for core and option papers take up about ten hours a week in years 2 and 3. Throughout the course, there are one or two tutorials per week (normally a total of 12 in each term).

1st year
Courses

Four core courses are taken:

  • Introduction to world archaeology
  • Introduction to anthropological theory
  • Perspectives on human evolution
  • The nature of archaeological enquiry

Practical classes
Fieldwork

Assessment

First University examinations:
Four written papers

2nd and 3rd year
Courses

Four core courses taken:

  • Social analysis and interpretation
  • Cultural representations, beliefs and practices
  • Landscape and ecology
  • Urbanization and change in complex societies
Options (three from a broad range of anthropological and archaeological courses)

Thesis

Assessment

Final University examinations:
Seven written papers; thesis

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