For the 2020-2021 Academic Year this course is being taught remotely. This means there will be no face-to-face teaching and you will not need to be present in person in Cambridge. The course content will be delivered, and the learning outcomes met, through the use of video-based teaching platforms and a dedicated course Virtual Learning Environment. ”
To transition to remote delivery of the course our academic staff are updating the course structure and timetable. This will allow the course to be academically engaging and of the quality expected from the Institute. A course guide will be available containing this detailed information no later than the end of July. Details of the Unit start dates and assignment submission deadlines are under the Teaching & Assessment tab. For an overview of the course scroll down this page.
Who is this course for?
No previous experience in the subject is necessary and the course is open to anyone with an interest in the subject area.
What will I be studying?
The Certificate is divided into three termly units taught via remote delivery. Students are expected to attend all of the scheduled teaching sessions.
Unit 1: Prehistoric and Roman sites, monuments and landscapes
This unit will look at the archaeology of prehistoric, Roman and Romano-British landscapes. Each session will examine a different aspect of the prehistoric and Romano-British landscape through a number of case studies, focussing on land use, evidence and interpretation, and will discuss how the landscape contributes to the corpus of knowledge of prehistoric and Roman Britain and its use in modern archaeology.
Unit 2: Continuity and change in the Anglo-Saxon and medieval landscape
This unit examines the initially sparse and later more plentiful and detailed archaeological and other evidence for continuity and change in the Anglo-Saxon origins and development of, and post-Conquest expansion in, the medieval landscape, focussing particularly (but not exclusively) on settlement and agricultural production. Key contextualising debates will be those around the changing character of Anglo-Saxon society, the development of political and religious institutions, the importance of market and/or subsistence economies, and the extent to which any or all may or may not have contributed to the emergence of characteristic regional pays.
Unit 3: Interpreting post-medieval landscapes
The unit explores radical transformations of countryside and towns from the later 1300s to today. History, archaeology, architecture and field studies are combined to explore population, political and social structure, the development of urbanism, the privatization of land and everyday life, the rise of capitalism and the industrialization of agriculture and other forms of production.
What can I go on to do?
The Institute offers a number of award bearing and short courses in the field of archaeology and history. For further information about the courses we offer please visit the Archaeology and History subject pages of our website.
Credit awarded by the Institute can be transferred into the degree programmes of other higher education providers. However the amount of credit which can be transferred into degree programmes varies from institution to institution and is always at the discretion of the receiving institution.
Additional information
This course will require a minimum number of students in order to run. Applicants for this course will be notified by 18 September 2020 if the course is not going to be running at which point students will be offered a refund of the fees they have paid so far (please see our Cancellation policy).
