Newcastle University

Heritage, History and Archaeology BA Honours
UCAS Code: 1T59 (3 Years)

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Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.

Please be aware that programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.

Stage 1

Compulsory modules

• ARA1027 Introduction to Archaeology
• ARA1001 Stuff: Living in a Material World
• HIS1029  Varieties of History
• HIS1030  Evidence and Argument
• ICS1001  Introduction to Heritage, Museum and Gallery Studies
• ICS1002  Heritage, Museums and Galleries in Local, National and Global Contexts 

Stage 2

Compulsory modules

• ICS2001  Interpretation and Display in Heritage, Museums and Galleries
• ICS2002  Media and Audiences in Heritage, Museums and Galleries

Optional modules

You choose 80 credits of optional modules from the following lists. You must take at least one module from each pathway.

Pathway A (Archaeology)

• ARA2001 Archaeological Theory and Interpretation
• ARA2011 Later European Prehistory
• ARA2012  Fieldwork and Archaeological Practice
• ARA2091  Archaeologies of the Roman Empire: The Roman World from Augustus to Justinian
• ARA2097  Historical Archaeology of the Modern World (post-1492)
• ARA2098 Understanding Historic Landscapes: From the Early Middle Ages to the 21st Century
• ARA2101 Artefacts

Pathway H (History)

• HIS2012  Clash of Civilisations: Islam, the Crusades, and the Mongol Invasions
• HIS2026  Japan since 1868
• HIS2039  The Modern Caribbean
• HIS2047  Twentieth-century Cuba: From Jose Marti to the Buena Vista Social Club
• HIS2072 Anglo-Saxon England: From Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest, 410-1066
• HIS2077  Russia under Lenin and Stalin, 1917-1953
• HIS2078 Approaches to the History of Western Medicine
• HIS2084 Europe's Reformations
• HIS2086 Twentieth Century France 1914-1995
• HIS2087 A Civilian's War: the Second World War, 1939-1945
• HIS2102 The Making of Two Irelands, 1801-2000
• HIS2103 The Dark ages: Early Medieval Europe and its Neighbours, 500-900
• HIS2117 Modern Colonial Empires, 1783-1975
• HIS2123 The Family, Sex and Society in Early Modern England
• HIS2124 A History of Contemporary Britain
• HIS2126 The Difficult Fatherland: Germany's Past
• HIS2128 Modern Greece
• HIS2131 American Slavery, American Freedom: Forging the United States of America
• HIS2132 The Criminal Atlantic in the Long Eighteenth Centry: Pirates, Convicts and Rebels
• HIS2133 Society and Politics in Colonial India, 1880s-1947

Stage 3

Compulsory modules

• ICS3001  Dissertation in Heritage, Museum and Gallery Studies
• ICS3002  Exhibiting Cultures in Heritage, Museums and Galleries
• ICS3003  Memory and Identity in Heritage, Museums and Galleries

Optional modules 

You choose 40 credits of optional modules from the following lists. 

Pathway A

• ARA3013 Early Medieval Britain: Anglo-Saxons, Celts, Vikings
• ARA3016 Byzantium and its Neighbours
• ARA3021 Frontier Communities of Roman Britain
• ARA3022 Themes in European Prehistory (Cosmology, Bodies, Persons and Art)
• ARA3025 Social Prehistory of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain
• ARA3100 Later Mediterranean Prehistory
• ARA3114 Regionality and the Fall of Rome

Pathway H