Taught courses

You will take several courses across two semesters of teaching, including a compulsory course and a range of optional courses, worth a total of 120 credit points.

Core courses

The compulsory course provides a general introduction to graduate study in archaeology and helps you enhance your research skills.

Course nameCredits
Research Sources and Strategies in Archaeology20

Option courses

You will choose a further 100 credits from a wide selection of optional courses, subject to availability. 

Option Courses 2024-2025

* * Please note that the list of courses below is provisional and subject to change.  

 

Course nameCredits
Archaeological Illustration20
Archaeology of 'Celtic' Europe: Communities and Interactions20
Biomolecular Archaeology: the appliance of science20
Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece20
Conceptualising the Neolithic20
Conflict archaeology: materialities of violence20
Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Suleyman the Magnificent20
Issues in Egyptian Archaeology: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)20
Marine Archaeology20
Mariners, Monks and Mobility: the archaeology of the early medieval Atlantic Archipelago20
Quantitative Methods and Reasoning in Archaeology20
Scottish Archaeology: Topics in recent research, analysis, and curation20
Social Bioarchaeology: Living Conditions, Lifestyles and the Impact of Disease in the Past20
The Archaeology of Children and Childhood20
The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation20
Themes in Egyptian archaeology: the foundations of the state to the end of the Middle Kingdom20
Egypt and its neighbours during the New Kingdom (1550-1069 BCE) (online)*20
Etruscan Italy, 1000-300 BC (online)*20

*A maximum of one online course can be chosen.

Courses for those studying from September 2025 will be available from April 2025.

Teaching and assessment

You will take a variety of seminar-style courses in small groups.

Most courses are assessed by means of an extended piece of written work, while some courses may also assess non-written skills. 

Further information

You can see more details about the 2024/25 programme structure on the Degree Programme Table for the MSc in European Archaeology. We expect the 2025/26 programme structure to be available from May 2025.

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