Hi I would like to have the details of the Undergraduate Certificate in Archaeology course offered by Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford?

If you are fascinated by archaeology and want to learn more and acquire practical fieldwork skills, then taking the Certificate in Archaeology is an excellent way to begin.

The Certificate is an introductory, part-time undergraduate course designed for adult students with little or no previous experience of academic or practical archaeology. The Tuesday evening classes and Saturday field trips, fieldwork and workshops are taking by University teaching staff and professional archaeologist.

Open evening Tuesday 7 February 2017
There will be an Open Evening on Tuesday 7 February 2017 at Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA from 6:30pm-8:30pm. You are invited to visit the Department, meet the Course Director and tutors, and discuss the course. If you would like to attend, please email ppaward@conted.ox.ac.uk.

Course requirements

Attendance
• A bare minimum of 80% of the teaching sessions (including classroom and practical sessions)
• A bare minimum of 2 tutorials
• A 1-week practical fieldwork programme or equivalent at the end of the first year
• A 2-hour examination in the first year
Assessment
• 5 assignments every year of up to 2,000 words in length (the first assignment in Year 1 is formative and does not count towards the final assessment)
• A practical fieldwork journal at the end of the 1st year of up to 2,000 words
• A 2-hour written examination in the first year
• An extended assignment of up to 5,000 words in the 2nd year

Course structure
This is a two-year course beginning in October 2017. Each year has three terms, each of those with Tuesday evening classes and Saturday field trips, fieldwork and workshops. At the end of the first year there is a one-week programme of practical fieldwork.

Charges

The charge for the primary year of the course (2016-2017) is £2,305 (EU understudies) or £4,335 (non-EU understudies). There might be a little expense increment in 2018-2019, for the second year of the course. A non-refundable store of £200 is required when you acknowledge an offer of a place and the rest of the expense is payable in portions. The expense incorporates educational cost for the reasonable hands on work.

Ist Year

Provisional teaching programme
Term 1 (2017)
• 3 October What is archaeology? Current organisation and purpose of the modern discipline
• 17 October The birth of the discipline: Key archaeologists
• 31 October Archaeological evidence
• 14 November Archaeological theory
• 18 Nov (Sat) Tutorials day at Rewley house, 10am-3pm
• 28 Nov Key site: Troy
• 12 Dec Visit to Oxford Archaeology, 4.00-5.00pm
The work of Oxford Archaeology, 7.00-8.00pm (Rewley House)
Term 2 (2018)
• 16 January Finding sites from the air
• 30 Jan The devlopment of urban archaeology
• 13 Feb Landscape archaeology in the field
• 17 Feb (Sat) Workshop: Artefacts
• 27 Feb Artefacts in archaeology
• 13 Mar Key sites: Palmyra and Petra
• 17 Mar (Sat) Museum Visit
Term 3 (2018)
• 24 April Survey in archaeology: topography and geophysics
• 5 May (Sat) Workshop/fieldwork
• 8 May Excavation in practice
• 19 May (Sat) Fieldwork
• 22 May Relative dating and stratigraphy in archaeology
• 2 June (Sat) Fieldwork
• 5 June Key site: Oxford
• 17 June (Sat) Field trip

2nd Year

Provisional teaching programme
Term 1 (2018)
• Introduction to prehistoric periods: farming in prehistory
• Saturday field trip to Avebury
• Landscapes of prehistoric monumentality
• Saturday workshop at the Ashmolean Museum: metalwork and hoards
• Dating in prehistory
• Saturday tutorials day at Rewley House
• Theory in prehistory
• Saturday visit Oxford Museum store, Standlake
• Key site: Çatalhöyük
Term 2 (2019)
• Rural and urban Roman landscapes
• Animal, bird and fish bone in archaeology: Roman economy and society
• Saturday workshop and Rewley House: human bone in archaeology
• Roman material culture
• Saturday field trip Chedworth Villa
• Mapping evidence (case studies): preparation for extended projects
• Saturday fieldwork near Oxford: building survey
• Saturday visit: The British Museum
• Key sites: Pompeii and Herculaneum
Term 3 (2019)
• Post-Roman and Medieval agricultural and religious landscape
• Saturday fieldwork near Oxford: geophysical survey
• Environmental archaeology: medieval sites
• Saturday workshop at Rewley House: identifying ecofacts
• Post excavation and report writing
• Saturday fieldwork near Oxford: test pit excavationl
• Saturday field trip: Godstow Abbey, Port Meadow and University Parks
• Student presentations of extended assignments

Contact information

Course Director, Dr David Griffiths
david.griffiths@conted.ox.ac.uk01865 280764
Applications and admissions
ppaward@conted.ox.ac.uk 01865 280154 / 270369

Contact

Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford
Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square
Oxford OX1 2JA
Telephone 01865 270360
+44 1865 270360 from abroad