Not offered in 2021
The Bachelor of Letters (Archaeology) is a 108-unit program that must be studied concurrently with another Bachelor degree at an approved Australian higher education institution, for which 72 units of block credit will be awarded on completion of the requirements of the other degree. The Bachelor of Letters (Archaeology) is normally studied part-time concurrently with the other Bachelor degree, thus adding one extra year to the overall study program. It is offered by the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
The specialisation undertaken by the student will be identified on the student’s transcript of academic record and on the parchment presented to the student on completion of the course.
Students who complete 36 units of Flinders topics according to the program of study below but who do not complete the requirements of their other Bachelor degree may be eligible to exit with a Diploma of Letters (Archaeology).
To gain entry into the Bachelor of Letters an applicant must be enrolled in a Bachelor degree (AQF level 7) at an approved Australian higher education institution.
The course aims to:
It is envisaged that the graduate qualities embedded in these aims will be introduced at first level, consolidated at the second level and mastered at the third level.
On the completion of the Bachelor of Letters (Archaeology), students will be able to:
To qualify for the Bachelor of Letters (Archaeology), a student must complete the required program of study for his/her other bachelor degree at Flinders University, and 36 units according to the program of study set out below, with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic.
No topic may be counted towards both the Bachelor of Letters and the student’s other bachelor degree, if that degree is studied at Flinders University. Students who have previously completed core topics below will be required to undertake additional option topics from the list below, or other topics agreed on with the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences to complete 36-units of study.
Students are not normally permitted to undertake cross-institutional study or exchange study within the Bachelor of Letters (Archaeology).
Not all topics are necessarily available in a given year.
Core Topics
9 units comprising:
ARCH1001 Discovering Archaeology (4.5 units)
ARCH2202 Archaeology of the First Australians (4.5 units)
Option – Year 1 topics
Select 9 units of topics from the following list:
ARCH1002 From the Paleolithic to Pompeii: An Investigation of World Archaeology (4.5 units)
ARCH1006 Sex, Death and Ritual in the Ancient World (4.5 units)
ARCH1007 Ancient Egypt to the Aztecs: Foundations of Urban Life (4.5 units)
BIOL1103 Human Evolution (4.5 units)
Option – Year 2 topics
Select 9 units of topics from the following list:
ARCH2106 Archaeological Field Methods (4.5 units)
ARCH2203 Australian Historical Artefacts (4.5 units)
ARCH2204 Australian Maritime Archaeology (4.5 units)
ARCH2207 The Archaeological Imagination: Fact, fantasy, fiction in archaeological interpretation (4.5 units)
ARCH2208 The Museum (4.5 units)
ARCH2209 The Archaeology of Art (4.5 units)
ARCH2212 Archaeology of Modern Society (4.5 units)
ARCH2213 Human Evolution and the Fossil Record (4.5 units)
ARCH2214 Europe before Europe: From Mesolithic to Medieval (4.5 units)
ARCH2216 Seafaring in the Ancient World (4.5 units)
ARCH2109 Cultural Anthropology (4.5 units)
ARCH2110 Lands Beneath the Winds: Archaeology of Southeast Asia (4.5 units)
Option – Year 3 topcs
Select 9 units of topics from the following list:
ARCH3107 History of Archaeological Thought (4.5 units)
ARCH3109 Environmental Archaeology (4.5 units)
ARCH3204 Archaeology of Native North America (4.5 units)
ARCH3208 History and Issues in Maritime Archaeology (4.5 units)
ARCH3214 Forensic Anthropology of the Human Skeleton (4.5 units)
Every effort has been made to ensure the information published on the Course Rule pages is accurate at the time of publication. Flinders University reserves the right to amend its curriculum without prior notice, and will update the Course Rules to reflect any amendments at the earliest opportunity.
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