BA (Hons) Archaeology and Literature

Core modules are:

• Archaeological theory and method

• Travelers in the wilderness: literature and exile

• Literary theory: history and practice

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

• Historic landscapes

• World Archaeology

• European prehistories

• Archaeology and the lab (subject to validation)

Plus one literature option module, which may include:

• Coming out: late 19th and 20th Century theatre

• Literary discoveries: an introduction to prose fiction

• World real and imagined: an introduction to poetry

• Introduction to Gaelic Prose

You will study the following core module:

• Excavation skills (residential): should be taken in semester 2 of year 2, as well as a compulsory field school in the summer, at a site location off-campus

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 three literature option modules, which may include:

• Introduction to Gaelic poetry

• Male ideals and female desires in Medieval poetry

• Theatrical powerplay: classical and modern tragedy

• Heroic literature: epic from classical to contemporary

Core modules are:

• 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)

Plus three literature option modules, which may include:

• Gaoir nam ban: Gaelic women's poetry 1644-1746

• Children's Literature

• Psychogeography and the city

• Romantic genius

• Modern times: popular culture and modernism

• Imagining new worlds: Renaissance literature and thought

You will complete a dissertation in archaeology or literature. You will also study one option module from your chosen dissertation subject plus three option modules from the other subject.

Archaeology option 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

Literature option modules may include:

• Pushing boundaries

• Avant-garde literature

• Past and present: historiography

• Postmodernism