BA (Hons) Politics and Archaeology

You will study the following core modules:

Politics

• Introduction to politics OR ideas and ideologies in politics

• The evolving politics of the British Isles

Archaeology

• Archaeological theory and method

You will also choose two archaeology option modules, which may include:

• Historic landscapes

• World Archaeology

• European pre-histories

• Archaeology and the lab (subject to validation)

Plus one further option module from our range of humanities degrees.

You will study the following core modules:

Politics

• History of political ideas

• Scottish politics before and after the independence referendum

Archaeology

• Excavation skills (compulsory); normally taken during Summer or Easter vacation at a site location off-campus. You will be responsible for covering the costs of any travel and subsistence associated with your participation in this two-week module.

You will choose two archaeology option modules, which may include:

• Scottish archaeology

• Digital heritages

• Managing archaeology for contemporary society

• Wetland archaeology (subject to validation)

Plus one further option module from our range of humanities degrees.

You will study the following core modules:

Politics

• Advanced social research methods, plus two from the following:

• Challenging liberal democracy: political ideas in a changing world

• European politics

• Devolution, federalism, and territorial politics

• British military history in the 20th Century

• Wars in the Promised Land

• Political sociology (subject to numbers)

Archaeology

• Archaeology and interpretation

• Archaeological sciences

You will choose one archaeology option module, which may include:

• Pre-history of the Highlands and Islands

• Historical Archaeology of the Highlands and Islands

• Archaeology project

• Practical environmental archaeology (subject to validation)

You will complete a dissertation in politics or archaeology.

You will also study one option module from your chosen dissertation subject plus three option modules from the other subject.

Politics modules may include:

• Geopolitics: territory, security, strategy

• Political theory

• Terrorism and unconventional warfare

• Transforming regimes in Eastern Europe

Archaeology modules may include:

• Sustainability past and present

• Vikings and Norse archaeology in the North Atlantic

• Funerary and Burial archaeology

• Maritime archaeology and heritage of Northern Scotland

• Landscape archaeology

• Neolithic Orkney

• The Iron Age of Scotland c800BC-800AD

• People, plants, and animals