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Teaching

We offer you research-led teaching. That means that the content of our modules is often at the cutting-edge of ongoing research. Our teaching combines lectures, seminars, practical work, language classes and lab experience. You will have extensive contact with staff through our small-group tutorials. 

Fieldwork

Fieldwork experience is a vital element of the Archaeology course, and there are many opportunities for students to join Department-based research projects. 

Students can take part in a fully-funded week-long fieldtrip. In recent years this trip has gone to places as varied as Alpine Italy, Montenegro, the Channel Islands and Serbia. 

The Department provides excavation training at no charge. The Department also provides funding for the four weeks of fieldwork required of students on the Archaeology tracks in Year 2 and 3. If students wish to participate in a project that costs more than the funded options available, they will need to find additional funding elsewhere. 

Community

As a student of Archaeology in Cambridge, you will work closely with and alongside teaching staff, postdoctoral researchers and postgraduate students. You will be able to experience a dynamic and diverse research environment. With your dissertation or lab projects you might have the opportunity to contribute to one of the big research projects hosted by our Department. We are a friendly Department with students and staff members from all over the world.

Throughout your undergraduate course you will have a Director of Studies - commonly referred to as 'DoS' - at your College, who will advise you on course choice options and arrange supervisions. Supervisions are the small-group teaching sessions provided by Colleges that characterise a Cambridge undergraduate education. See the Archaeology People Overview for a list of Directors of Studies.

Our excellent resources include the Cambridge Archaeological Unit, a well-equipped IT suite, purpose built laboratories and the Haddon Library of Archaeology and Anthropology. In addition, the Duckworth Collection of human and primate skeletal remains and fossil hominin casts, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Fitzwilliam Museum provide access to extensive collections of primary sources of world importance. 

 

General Enquiries to the Department

Please contact the Undergraduate Administrator