Университет Шеффилда, BA (Hons), Archaeology and History

Year 1: European classical civilisations; pagans, Christians and heretics in medieval Europe; paths from antiquity to modernity; world civilisations. Year 2: archaeology and text; archaeology of the Graeco-Roman world; colonising America: Europeans and the new world, 1450-1763; disease, medicine and health care in early modern Europe; early historic Europe; from households to empires; frontiers and failures: lost nations of the 18th century; gender, culture and society: Britain 1689-1837; historians and history; later historic Europe; later prehistoric Europe; reconstructing ancient landscapes; research skills in archaeology; sacred violence in the medieval Mediterranean; the Carolingians and the birth of Europe; the European reformation; the fall of the Roman empire in the west; the struggle for England’s soul: politics, religion and cultural conflict 1560-1640; tolerance and dissent in Europe (12th-16th centuries); warriors, saints and heroes in early medieval Britain. Year 3: archaeology and texts in the age of Homer; archaeology, ethnicity and nationalism; Athens, empire and the classical Greek world; becoming America: Britain’s 18th century American colonies 1; becoming America: Britain’s 18th century American colonies 2; dark age Britain; death and burial in Anglo-Saxon and medieval England; dissertation (archaeology and history); funerary archaeology; Gregory of Tours and his world 1 and 2; makers of a new world: merchants, scholars and commoners in late medieval Europe 1 and 2; material life and culture in the medieval and early modern world; Mediterranean landscapes; misrule and Magna Carta: the reign of King John 1 and 2; Rome: capital, hinterland and periphery; social transformations in Britain from the 4th to 2nd millennium BC; swords and sorcery: northern Europe 1000 BC-AD 500; the coming of the French revolution, c. 1770-1790 1 and 2; the making of the modern home: gender and domesticity, 1650-1800 1 and 2; the road to civil war: England 1621-1642 1 and 2; work place learning.