Graduate modules

Further details of optional graduate modules via the UCL Module Catalogue are available below. Not all modules are available every year.

All optional graduate modules available in 2025-26

Code	Module Title	Credits
ARCL0135	Aegean Prehistory: Major Themes and Current Debates	15
ARCL0198	African Heritage	15
ARCL0126	Antiquities and the Law	15
ARCL0096	Archaeobotanical Analysis in Practice	15
ARCL0102	Archaeological Ceramic Analysis	15
ARCL0160	Archaeological Data Science	15
ARCL0153	Archaeological Heritage Management in Asia	15
ARCL0152	Archaeologies of Asia	15
ARCL0234	Archaeology and Nationalism	15
ARCL0154	Archaeology of Buddhism	15
ARCL0212	Archaeology of Early Human Origins	15
ARCL0157	Archaeology of Egypt and the Near East: a comparative approach	15
ARCL0213	Archaeology of the Roman Empire	15
ARCL0210	Archaeology of the Silk Roads	15
ARCL0098	Archaeometallurgy	15
ARCL0232	Biomolecular Archaeology	15
ARCL0161	Complexity, Space and Human History	15
ARCL0189	Critical Heritage Research Skills	15
ARCL0149	Critical Perspectives on Cultural Heritage	15
ARCL0121	Cultural Memory	15
ARCL0148	Digital Heritage: Applications in Heritage Management	15
ARCL0109	Dispersals, Extinctions, and Intensification in the Later Palaeolithic	15
ARCL0129	Environmental Archaeology in Practice	15
ARCL0131/ARCL0233	Exhibition Project	30
ARCL0087	Exploratory Data Analysis in Archaeology	15
ARCL0097	Geoarchaeology	15
ARCL0095	Geographic Information Systems Approaches to Past Landscapes	15
ARCL0094	Geographic Information Systems in Archaeology and History	15
ARCL0143	Geophysical Survey in Archaeology	15
ARCL0199	Heritage Ethics and Archaeological Practice in the Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa	15
ARCL0100	Interpreting Pottery	15
ARCL0159	Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Language	15
ARCL0113	Investigating and Understanding Objects	15
ARCL0170	Laboratory and Instrumental Skills in Archaeological Science	15
ARCL0108	Managing Archaeological Sites	30
ARCL0200	Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age of the Near East	15
ARCL0236	Museums without Walls	15
ARCL0080	Old and Middle Egyptian Texts	15
ARCL0101	Prehistoric Stone Artefact Analysis	15
ARCL0215	Presenting the Past to the Public	15
ARCL0128	Resources and Subsistence	15
ARCL0155	Social Complexity in Early China: From the Neolithic to the Early Empire	15
ARCL0103	Spatial Statistics, Network Analysis and Human History	15
ARCL0169	Technology within Society	15
ARCL0138	The Mediterranean World in the Iron Age	15
ARCL0147	Themes and Debates in Egyptian Archaeology	15
ARCL0178	Themes and Debates in Islamic Archaeology	15
ARCL0123	Themes in Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology	30
ARCL0134	Themes, Thought and Theory in World Archaeology: Current Topics	15
ARCL0133	Themes, Thought and Theory in World Archaeology: Foundations	15
ARCL0125	Zooarchaeology	15

Please note not all modules are available every year, and some modules have restrictions or are limited to specific degrees. For the latest information, including terms, times and classrooms, please contact Lisa Daniel.

THE FOLLOWING MODULES ARE NOT RUNNING IN 2025-26

Code	Module title	Credits
ARCL0145	Archaeologies of Modern Conflict	15
ARCL0082	Coptic Language and Culture	15
ARCL0156	Funerary Archaeology	15
ARCL0081	Late Egyptian Language and Texts	15
ARCL0162	Making and Meaning in Ancient Greek Art	15
ARCL0086	Medieval Archaeology: Selected Topics and Current Issues	15
ARCL0091	Public Archaeology	30

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