UCL Institute of Archaeology

Undergraduate courses

Please note not all courses are available every year. For the latest information, including terms, times and classrooms, please see the Teaching timetables page.

ALL UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
course code	course title	units
ARCL1002	Introduction to Roman Archaeology	0.5
ARCL1003	World Archaeology: the deep history of human societies (formerly Past Societies)	1
ARCL1003A	World Archaeology: evolutionary origins to the earliest states	0.5
ARCL1003B	World Archaeology: from early states to globalization	0.5
ARCL1004	Introduction to Greek Archaeology	0.5
ARCL1006	Introduction to Archaeological Field Methods & Techniques	1
ARCL1007	Interdisciplinary approaches to archaeological problems	1
ARCL1008	Introduction to social anthropology	0.5
ARCL1009	Introduction to Egyptian and Near Eastern Archaeology	0.5
ARCL1010	Introduction to European prehistory	0.5
ARCL1011	Texts in archaeology	0.5
ARCL1014	Introduction to Archaeology	0.5
ARCL1015	Field Methods	0.5
ARCL1016	Sites and Artefacts	0.5
ARCL1017	People and Environments	0.5
ARCL1018	World Archaeology: an outline of the deep history of human societies (for BA Arch & Anth students only)	0.5
ARCL2001	Roman Coinage	0.5
ARCL2003	Conservation for archaeologists	1
ARCL2004	History and Archaeology of Roman Britain	1
ARCL2005	Structure and Change in Later European Prehistory	0.5
ARCL2007	Greek art and architecture	0.5
ARCL2008	Roman art and architecture	0.5
ARCL2009	Plants and Archaeology	0.5
ARCL2012	Archaeology of Ancient Egypt	1
ARCL2014	Zooarchaeology	0.5
ARCL2017	Geoarchaeology	0.5
ARCL2018	Early medieval archaeology of Britain	1
ARCL2019	Public archaeology	0.5
ARCL2020	Pyrotechnology	0.5
ARCL2021	Archaeological surveying	0.5
ARCL2022	The Prehistoric Mediterranean	0.5
ARCL2024	Middle Egyptian language and texts	0.5
ARCL2025	Early Hominin Societies in Africa	0.5
ARCL2026	The emergence and spread of modern humans	0.5
ARCL2028	Current issues in archaeological theory	0.5
ARCL2029	The archaeology of Mesoamerica	0.5
ARCL2031	Advanced Field Techniques	0.5
ARCL2032	From First Farmers to Metallurgists in Prehistoric Europe	0.5
ARCL2033	Archaeology of the Near East: prehistory – 2000 BC	0.5
ARCL2034	Archaeology of the Middle East from 2000 to 300 BC	0.5
ARCL2035	Archaeological photography	0.5
ARCL2036	Archaeological illustration and imaging	0.5
ARCL2037	Interpreting archaeological data	0.5
ARCL2038	Research and presentation skills	0.5
ARCL2039	Ancient Civilisations of Andean South America	0.5
ARCL2040	Studies in African field archaeology	0.5
ARCL2041	Organic materials in prehistory	0.5
ARCL2042	Digital Imaging in Archaeology	0.5
ARCL2044	Theory and Method for the Archaeology of the Ancient World	0.5
ARCL3001	Archaeometallurgy	0.5
ARCL3004	Archaeological Ceramics	0.5
ARCL3009	Intermediate Middle Egyptian Texts	0.5
ARCL3024	Dissertation	1
ARCL3026	History, Ethnography and Archaeology of African States	0.5
ARCL3031	The Archaeology of Human Remains	0.5
ARCL3033	Bronze and Iron Age Britain	0.5
ARCL3035	Archaeology of Early South Asia	0.5
ARCL3036	Indigenous archaeology	0.5
ARCL3038	Archaeological approaches to standing buildings	0.5
ARCL3040	Archaeology and Art of Early Historic Asia	0.5
ARCL3043	Maya civilization	0.5
ARCL3045	The Aztecs	0.5
ARCL3046	Lithic Technology	0.5
ARCL3047	Archaeological Law and Project Management	0.5
ARCL3049	Caribbean Archaeology	0.5
ARCL3050	Issues in the Archaeology of Nubia	0.5
ARCL3051	The Archaeology of Mesopotamia	0.5
ARCL3052	Archaeology of the African Diaspora	0.5
ARCL3053	Livestock and Pastoralism in Archaeology	0.5
ARCL3056	Field Archaeology	0.5
ARCL3057	Field Study Tour	0.5
ARCL3059	Archaeology of Chiefdoms	0.5
ARCL3060	Ancient Societies of Amazonia	0.5
ARCL3062	Art & Archaeology of Ancient China	0.5
ARCL3063	Art & Archaeology of Early Imperial China	0.5
ARCL3065	Archaeology of the Later Roman Empire	0.5
ARCL3068	Aspects of the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Britain	0.5
ARCL3071	The archaeology of Neanderthals and their ancestors	0.5
ARCL3072	The Archaeology of the Levant	0.5
ARCL3073	The Early Prehistory of the Near East	0.5
ARCL3074	The Emergence of Bronze Age Aegean States	0.5
ARCL3075	Understanding complex societies: Egypt and Mesopotamia in 3rd millennium BC	0.5
ARCL3082	Late Bronze Age Aegean in the Mediterranean world	0.5
ARCL3083	Painting and Society in Archaic and Classical Greece	0.5
ARCL3084	From Alexandria to Pompeii: representing humans and the world of nature in Hellenistic and Roman painting	0.5
ARCL3086	The Archaeology of Etruscan Italy	0.5
ARCL3092	Economy and trade in the Mediterranean Iron Age	0.5
ARCL3093	Microscopy and dating of archaeological materials	0.5
ARCL3094	Archaeology of Human Evolution	0.5
ARCL3096	Iron Age Europe	0.5
ARCL3098	The Age of Stonehenge	0.5

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