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Exeter University, Department of Archaeology

 
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Contact

Contact Position Departmental Administrator
Contact Address Department of Archaeology
Laver Building
North Park Road
Exeter
EX4 4QE
Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Telephone 01392 264350
Fax 01392 264358
Website http://www.exeter.ac.uk/archaeology

Organization

Staff 14
Members / Students 250
Founded 1947

Ratings

RAE 1996 3a
RAE 2001 5
RAE 2008 2.75
TQA 2001 24

Courses

Undergraduate Courses BA Archaeology, BSc Archaeology with Forensic Science, combined honours programmes in Archaeology & History, Archaeology & Ancient History and Archaeology & Anthropology
Postgrad courses MA Archaeology, MA Landscape Archaeology, MA Experimental Archaeology, MA Material Culture Studies, MSc Bioarchaeology and distance learning MA Archaeology and MA Archaeology and Heritage Management
Archaeology Society http://www.exeterguild.org/arcsoc/

Exeter has approximately 250 students in total, and currently offers five undergraduate programmes in Archaeology, and five taught Masters programmes.

What they say:

"The Archaeology Department is a vibrant academic community that provides a friendly and relaxed environment in which to study. It is housed in customised accommodation in the Laver Building. Here it has dedicated teaching and research laboratories, work rooms for postgraduate students and postdoctoral and other research staff, artefact storage and processing facilities, a drawing office, dark room and common room. The Department has recently been refurbished (£0.8M) and facilities now include a landscape research room, chemical laboratory facilities, facilities for experimental archaeology and finds processing and a microscope suite.

Our Single Honours BA Archaeology offers a great range of choice, while the BA Archaeology with Forensic Science is a groundbreaking degree looking at how archaeological and scientific techniques are used to investigate the past and in modern day crime investigations."

Editor review

Exeter

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9.0
Reviewed by Andrew Selkirk
August 07, 2007
 
At Exeter, Archaeology has a close link with the History Department. The present Professor of Archaeology, Bryony Coles, is an authority on Wetlands archaeology, and the college has a very strong presence in wetland archaeology.
 
 


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Friendly & supportive dept

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9.0
Reviewed by Jenny W
August 08, 2007
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I am currently a first year undergraduate at Exeter and would like to give you some more positive information as I don't feel your page does us enough justice! I'm not sure how recent your information is, but these are my thoughts...

The department is quite small but is extremely friendly and offers good support for students. We are in the School of Geography and Archaeology, rather than being tied with History as your page suggests. I feel that the course has a strong emphasis on the practical nature of archaeology and the department seems keen to make students familiar with artefacts, whilst also teaching a comprehensive range of mainly British-focussed thematic modules.

I hope some of these positive elements can be incorporated into your web page, although bearing in mind that I am only a student, and don't know what the 'official' line is of the dept!

 
 

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