BA Ancient History and Archaeology

at Durham University

Year 1
 

Compulsory modules:
 

• Archaeology in Britain

• Cities in Antiquity.
   

Archaeology:
 

Choose one module from:
 

• Applied Archaeological Methods

• Discovering World Prehistory

• Medieval to Modern: An Introduction to the Archaeology of the Medieval to Post- Medieval World

• Ancient Civilisations of the East

• OR: a language module.
   

Ancient History:
 

In Ancient History, you will take two interdisciplinary modules that serve to give you a grounding in the central periods of Greek and Roman culture.
 

Modules have previously included:

• Introduction to the Greek World

• Monuments and Memory in the Age of Augustus

• One more module in Ancient History or a language module.

Year 2
 

Three modules in Ancient History OR: two modules in Ancient History and a language module.
 

Three modules in Archaeology from:

• Professional Training (includes three weeks of excavation in the summer preceding Level 2)

• Developing Archaeological Research

• Prehistoric Europe

• Becoming Roman

• Ancient Mediterranean Civilisations: East and West

• Archaeology of Medieval and Post-Medieval Britain

• East Mediterranean in the Bronze Age

• Or a language module.

Year 3
 

Compulsory modules:
 

• Dissertation (double module) registered in eitherClassics or Archaeology.
   

Examples of optional modules:
 

Choose two modules from Archaeology:
 

• Specialised Aspects in Archaeology (double module)

• Specialised Aspects in Archaeology (single module)

• Current Archaeology

• Advanced Professional Training

• Interpreting Heritage

• Museum Representation

• Two modules in Ancient History or one module from Ancient History and a language module.

A level - AAB.
 

BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma/OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma – DDD.
 

International Baccalaureate score - 36 to include 665 in higher level subjects.
 

In addition to satisfying the University’s general entry requirements, please note:
 

• We welcome applications from those with other qualifications equivalent to our standard entry requirements and from mature students with non-standard qualifications or who may have had a break in their study.

• If you do not satisfy our general entry requirements, the Foundation Programme offers multidisciplinary degrees to prepare you for a range of specified degree courses.

• We are pleased to consider applications for deferred entry.
   

Science A levels
 

Applicants taking Science A levels that include a practical component will be required to take and pass this as a condition of entry. This applies only to applicants sitting A levels with an English examination board.

The tuition fees shown for students are for one complete academic year of full time study and are set according to the academic year of entry. Fees for subsequent years of your course may rise in line with an inflationary uplift as determined by the government.

 

Of those students who graduated in 2019:
 

• 75% are in paid employment or further study 15 months after graduation across all our programmes
   

Of those in employment:
 

• 75% are in high skilled employment

• With an average salary of £22,000

(Source: HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey. The survey asks leavers from higher education what they are doing 15 months after graduation. Further information about the Graduate Outcomes