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Bournemouth University, Archaeology & Historic Enviroment Group

 
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Contact name Fern Barrow
Contact Address School of Conservation Sciences
Talbot Campus
Fern Barrow
Poole, Dorset
BH12 5BB
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Telephone +44 (0)1202 524111
Fax +44 (0)1202 962736
Website http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/caah/

Details

Staff 14
Members / Students 200
Founded 1992

Ratings

RAE 1996 3b
RAE 2001 3a
RAE 2008 2.15
TQA 2001 22

Courses

Undergraduate Courses Archaeological and Forensic Sciences, BSc (Hons)
Archaeology, BSc (Hons)
Archaeology and Anthropology, BSc (Hons)
Archaeology and Prehistory, BA (Hons)
Field Archaeology, BSc (Hons)
Marine Archaeology, BSc (Hons)
Practical Archaeology, FdSc
Roman Archaeology, BA (Hons)
Postgrad courses Osteoarchaeology, MSc
Zooarchaeology, MSc
Forensic Archaeology: Crime Scene and International Investigations, MSc
Human Osteoarchaeology, MSc
Mode: Full-time, Part-time
Maritime Archaeology, MSc

Undergraduate programmes include: Foundation Degree in Field Archaeology, BSc Archaeology, BSc Archaeological and Forensic Sciences, BA Archaeology and Prehistory, BA Roman Archaeology, BSc Field Archaeology, BSc Heritage Conservation, BSc Heritage Conservation & Tourism and BSc Marine Archaeology. A wide range of MSc programmes available. Projects include: Billown Neolithic Landscape project, Isle of Man; Allen Valley project, Dorset; Neolithic Sussex project, Bronze Age Greece. There are opportunities on all these for non-students. Archaeology is a strong feature of the university's "Opportunities for life-long learning" programme.

What they say:

"We are concerned with all aspects of the Historic Environment as evidence of past human activity and its associated consequences that people can find, see, hear, understand, feel, debate, and contest in the present world. Archaeology provides a systematic study of human cultures through material remains asking who did what? When? Where? How? And Why? Physical and biological Anthropology both informs archaeological studies and assists in crime-scene investigations, the preparation of evidence for use by courts of law, and the application of technical and scientific knowledge to legal problems. Heritage, both cultural and natural, tangible and intangible, focuses on the things inherited from the past that we choose to investigate, document, manage, interpret, use, and represent in various ways."

Editor review

Bournemouth

Overall rating: 
 
7.7
Reviewed by Andrew Selkirk
August 07, 2007
 
Bournemouth is the big success of the 1990s. Bournemouth University was not founded until around 1990 - it was one of the jumped-up polytechnics - but the Department of Archaeology, has taken off like a rocket to become one of the leading and largest undergraduate departments in the country. Admittedly, it is not called archaeology, but 'Conservation Sciences'. But Professor Tim Darvill has not put a foot wrong and has taken every trick in the book (to mix metaphors). They have a very large undergraduate department, a growing graduate side, they encourage mature students, and they have an arrangement with Yeovil college where by those whose A levels are disappointing can go to Yeovil for a year, and if they survive, can then go on to Bournemouth.
 
 


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