BA (Hons) Archaeology and Criminology
at University of the Highlands and Islands

Inverness, United Kingdom

Program Overview

This joint degree covers:

Archaeology: exploration of a range of archaeological skills such as fieldwork, surveying and post-excavation, mapped to the current occupational standards for archaeology
Criminology: the changing nature of crime and the social, political, historical and individual forces behind these changes

Course Content
Modules:
- Sustainability past and present
- Vikings and Norse archaeology in the North Atlantic
- Funerary and burial archaeology
- Landscape archaeology
- Neolithic Orkney
- The Iron Age of Scotland c800BC-800AD
- Peoples, plants and animals
- Biomolecular archaeology
Entry Requirement
- 3 Scottish Highers at grade BBC or above OR
- 2 A levels at grade BC or above
- Applicants with other relevant qualifications or experience will be considered on an individual basis
- This is a Category 2 PVG course: PVG Scheme membership is required for specific optional modules/unit(s), where there is guaranteed contact with vulnerable groups in optional module/unit(s), but an alternative pathway exists to achieve target qualification.
Fees & Scholarships
International Students:
£13,020
Career Prospect
Once you have completed your degree you might like to consider careers in:
- Archaeological contract units
- Consultancy
- Archives and museums
- Social policy and management
- Government agencies and local authorities
- Policing
- Tourism and heritage management
- Teaching
- Research
- Community development worker
- Social worker
- Youth worker

Interest rates as low as 8.9% ^*

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