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Archaeology: MA Heritage and Museum Studies

Seen from an archaeological perspective and in so far as they are relevant to heritage management and modern museum practices, the specialisation Heritage and Museum Studies combines academic and practical aspects of cultural and landscape studies, politics, cultural theory and the environmental sciences.

The programme will take you through current approaches and ethical issues and allows you to experience some of them in daily practice.

Heritage and Museum Studies

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

General part

Archaeological Theory 5

Career profile

Heritage Research: Methods and Approaches 5
Museums, Collections and Society 5
Community Heritage and Public Archaeology 5
Master Thesis Heritage and Museum Studies 20

Choose any 2 focus area courses (see 'Focus area courses' tab above) (2 x 5 ec)

Choose 2 elective courses (see 'Electives' tab above) (2 x 5 ec)

Focus area courses

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

General

The Archaeology of Hominin Diversity 5
Approaches to the Built Environment and Cultural Landscapes: Methods and Theory 5
Hunter-gatherer Archaeology 5

Europe

Area Specialisation Europe 10
Key Developments in European Prehistory 5

The Near East

Neolithisation in West Asia 5
Area Specialisation Eastern Mediterranean and West Asia 10
The Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire 5

The Mediterranean

Current Issues in the Archaeology of the Frontier Regions of the Roman Empire 5
The Archaeology of the Greek Mediterranean 5
The Archaeology of Daily Life in the First Millennium CE in the Mediterranean 5
Archaeology of the Crusades 5

The Americas

Area Specialisation Americas 10
Beings on the Move: Shamanism, Ontologies and Indigenous Imagery between the South American Mainland and the Caribbean Islands 5

Electives

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Current Issues in Applied Archaeology 5
Underwater Archaeology and Maritime Landscapes 5
Landscape Heritage: Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development in Past and Present 5
History of Construction and Heritage 5
Data Analysis With Python 5
Prospective Archaeology 5
Master Internship: Heritage and Museum 5

or: free choice from the rest of the focus area courses

or: free choice from the other profiles, or programmes outside Archaeology (after approval of Board of Examiners)