New Postgraduate diploma in Conflict Archaeology

[the_historian]

It's not available as a distance learning option yet though.

***ANNOUNCING A NEW POSTGRADUATE DEGREE IN CONFLICT ARCHAEOLOGY* **

The Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of Birmingham, UK, is proud to announce its new MA and Postgraduate Diploma in Conflict Archaeology, beginning October 2008.

This one-year programme at both MA and Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) levels offers intensive training in the invesigation, interpretation and management of the remains of warfare and sites of conflict from the most distant past to the present.
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Places of conflict, sites of remembrance

Drawing upon the wide range of skills and knowledge of staff of the Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity (IAA) at Birmingham University, many of whom are world leading experts in their chosen field, this course provides students with broad-based training in the archaeology of conflict from the Palaeolithic to the Cold War and beyond. Taking a global perspective, the course covers warfare in prehistory, battlefield and siege archaeology in the historic period, the preservation and study of the remains of war in our own age, and issues such as remembrance, conservation and the management of conflict sites.

Core modules cover the theory and practice of conflict archaeology in all periods, and a dedicated programme of field trips will introduce students to major sites of conflict as they appear to us today. The course is embedded within Birmingham Archaeology, the specialist fieldwork and research services division of the IAA, with acknowledged expertise in landscape archaeology and a tradition of working on conflict sites.

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Course structure and content
The course comprises six taught modules and (for MA students) a dissertation:

Core modules
Theoretical approaches to archaeology of conflict
The practice of conflict archaeology
Landscapes of conflict
Field survey

Optional modules
The heritage of warfare
Geophysical survey
Holocene landscapes and archaeology
Virtual landscapes
Material, objects and things: the archaeology of artefacts

(MA only) Dissertation

For further details, please contact in the first instance:

Dr John Carman
Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity
Arts Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7493
Fax: +44 (0)121 414 3595
Email: J.Carman@bham. ac.uk
www.iaa.bham. ac.uk/staff/ carman

[von Poop]

Gordon, have you got a direct link to the course details as it sounds very interesting but that link's dead & I'm lost on their website (I need a trowel perhaps)? :
The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity

Cheers,
Adam.

[the_historian]

Adam,
I actually got that as an email from the MILITARCH discussion group this afternoon, and cut and pasted it.
MILITARCH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
It's so new they don't appear to have put it on the website yet.
I emailed John Carman for more details, so I can only suggest you do the same.
Looks good though, doesn't it? There's a similar course on offer at Glasgow-
University of Glasgow :: Postgraduate prospectus :: Graduate Schools :: Battlefield & Conflict Archaeology

And then there is the Conflict Archaeology International Research Network-
CAIRN - Home Page which also has a discussion group.