AR4002:12
Combined Honours (Archaeology)
Townsville
Prerequisites: BA or BSocSc in Archaeology with 12 units of level 3 AR subjects at Credit or higher
Inadmissable Subject Combination: AR4001 AR4101 AY4000
40 hours seminars; independent research project. Full year.
Staff: Dr S Greer, Assoc. Professor P Veth, Dr D Roe, Dr M Gibbs.
This is the appropriate level 4 Honours subject for courses which combine Archaeology with other disciplines in the Faculty of Arts. It examines advanced archaeological theory and method and it includes a program of specialised reading and study, as well as supervised research work on an approved archaeological and interdisciplinary topic, agreed with the other discipline and/or department.
Learning Objectives:
- become conversant with advanced archaeological theory and method;
- become conversant with archaeology’s links with other sciences, social sciences and humanities;
- design and carry out a research project;
- complete and write up the research project as a thesis;
- learn to work independently as a cross-disciplinary archaeologist.
Assessment by research essays (20%); seminars (20%); Honours thesis (60%).
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