Archaeological Architectures
Overview
- Credit value: 30 credits at Level 6
- Convenors and tutors: Professor Jennifer Baird, Dr Lesley McFadyen
- Assessment: a 3000-word essay (25%), a presentation (25%) and a three-hour examination (50%)
Module description
This module will give you an opportunity to explore architecture in archaeological contexts from the prehistoric and classical worlds to its reception. You will be able to develop interdisciplinary research skills in the field, based on a critical understanding of architectural history and an analysis of its legacy in archaeology. The syllabus examines the transformative possibilities of construction and the ways in which processes of building have meaning.
Indicative syllabus
- Design
- Labour
- Materials
- Reception
- Monumentality
- Transformation
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- understand the key issues and debates in archaeology
- discuss the history, culture and politics of the prehistoric and classical world
- understand the relationship between the disciplines of architecture and archaeology
- assess the dynamic ways in which materials are assembled within archaeological accounts of architecture
- engage critically with explanatory models and conceptual arguments in architecture and archaeology.