Taught courses
You will take several courses across two semesters of teaching, including a compulsory course and a range of optional courses.
Core courses
The compulsory course provides a general introduction to graduate study in archaeology and enables you to develop your research skills.
The compulsory course for this programme is:
| Course name | Credits |
| Research Sources and Strategies in Archaeology | 20 |
Option courses
You will choose a further 100 credits from a wide selection of optional courses, subject to availability.
Option courses previously offered include those listed below. Option courses change from year to year and those available when you start your studies will be different from those shown in this representative list.
| Course name | Credits |
|
Ancient Egyptian Religion and the Afterlife |
20 |
|
Biomolecular Archaeology: the appliance of science |
20 |
| Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece | 20 |
| From Foraging to Farming: the Beginnings of Agriculture in the Mediterranean and Europe | 20 |
| Frontiers in Archaeology: Research Seminars | 20 |
| Archaeological Illustration | 20 |
| Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850. | 20 |
|
Theoretical Archaeology |
20 |
| Principles of GIS for Archaeologists | 20 |
| Archaeology of the Roman Economy | 20 |
| Etruscan Italy, 1000 - 300 BC | 20 |
|
Archaeology of 'Celtic' Europe: Communities and Interactions |
20 |
|
The Hittites: the Archaeology of a Near Eastern Civilization |
20 |
| Island Worlds: prehistoric societies in the Mediterranean Sea | 20 |
| Gallia from the Third Century BC to Augustus | 20 |
| Conflict archaeology: materialities of violence | 20 |
|
Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis |
20 |
Teaching and assessment
You will take a variety of seminar-style courses in small groups while developing your own research projects, supervised by experts in your field of study.
Most classes are assessed by means of an extended piece of written work, while some courses also assess non-written skills.
Further information
You can see more details about the 2022/23 programme structure on the Degree Programme Table for the MSc in Mediterranean Archaeology. We expect the 2023/24 programme structure to be available from May 2023.