Newcastle University

History and Archaeology BA Honours
UCAS Code: VV41 (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
• ARA1030 The Archaeology of Britain from the Romans to the 20th Century
• HIS1029 Varieties of History
• HIS1030 Evidence and Argument

You choose a module from either the History or Archaeology pathway below.

History pathway

• HIS1025 World Empires
• HIS1044 Aspects of British History
• HIS1045 Themes in European History
• HIS1046 The History of the Americas

Archaeology pathway

• ARA1026 Introduction to Archaeological Science
• ARA1028 Prehistoric Britain
• ARA1031 Archaeological Observation and Recording

You choose one further module. We recommend the following:

• SOC1027 Comparing Cultures

At the end of Stage 1 you complete at least two weeks of excavation fieldwork.

Stage 2

Compulsory modules

• ARA2100 Fieldwork Methods and Artefact Analysis

You choose one of the following modules:

• ARA2097 Historical Archaeology of the Modern World (Post-1492)
  
• ARA2098 Understanding Historic Landscapes: From the Early Middle Ages to the 21st Century

Optional modules

You choose two modules from the History pathway and one further module from either the History or Archaeology pathway.

History pathway

• HIS2014 Japan since 1868
• HIS2019 The End of Imperial China
• HIS2021 Slavery and Antislavery in the Atlantic World, c. 1740-1863
• HIS2031 Between Revolutions: Britain, 1688-1789
• HIS2037 Progress and Plenty? British History, 1815-1918
• HIS2039 The Modern Caribbean
• HIS2047 Twentieth-century Cuba: From Jose Marti to the Buena Vista Social Club
• HIS2050 The European Enlightenment, 1700-1789
• HIS2077 Russia Under Lenin and Stalin, 1917-1953
• HIS2084 Europe’s Reformations
• HIS2085 Pre-Columbian and Spanish America
• HIS2086 Twentieth Century France 1914-1995
• HIS2102 The Making of the Two Irelands, 1801-2000
• HIS2103 The Dark Ages: Early Medieval Europe and its Neighbours, 500-900
• HIS2113 Italian Unification: Nation, Religions, Revolution, 1796-1871
• HIS2114 Death, Dying and the Dead in Early Modern England 1500 - 1800
• HIS2117 Modern Colonial Empires, 1783-1975
• HIS2124 A History of Contemporary Britain
• HIS2126 The Difficult Fatherland: Germany’s Past
• HIS2132 The Criminal Atlantic in the Long Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Convicts and Rebels
• HIS2133 Society and Politics in Colonial India, 1880s - 1947

Archaeology pathway

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

At the end of Stage 2 you complete a further two weeks of fieldwork.

Stage 3

Compulsory modules

• ARA3031 Historical Archaeology of Britain 1500-Present

You choose one of the following modules:

• ARA3001 Dissertation in Archaeology
• ARA3003 Dissertation in Archaeology and History

Optional modules 

You choose one module from the History pathway in Semester 1 and one module from either the History or Archaeology pathway in Semester 2.

History pathway

• HIS3004 The English Revolution, 1640-1660
• HIS3021 Birth Control in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• HIS3023 Japan and the Maritime World, 1884-1905
• HIS3024 War and Revolution in China, 1895-1949
• HIS3025 May 1968: All Power to the Imagination
• HIS3040 Civil Rights in America, 1948-1975
• HIS3078 England 1714-1820: Birth of a Consumer Society
• HIS3079 Popular Politics and Reform in Britain, 1811 - 1850
• HIS3081 The American Civil War, 1861-1865
• HIS3083 The Russian Revolution
• HIS3084 The Mexican Revolution
• HIS3085 Post-Revolutionary Mexico: From Zapata to the Zapatistas
• HIS3086 Genocide
• HIS3096 Nazi Germany
• HIS3103 Madness, Nerves and Narratives in Georgian Britain, c.1714-1830
• HIS3105 Fascism in Italy, 1914-1945
• HIS3108 Coffee, Chocolate and Tobacco
• HIS3118 Hogarth! The Artist and his Life in Georgian London 1697 - 1764
• HIS3121 Viking-Age Scandinavia
• HIS3128 France and the Maghreb, 1830 - Present

Archaeology pathway

• ARA3049 Churches of Early Medieval Europe
• ARA3115 Regionality and the Fall of Rome