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List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One AAP107 The Origins of Humanity AAP113 Revealing the Past 20.00 Credits AUTUMN 20.00 Credits SPRING Aims/Description: What do we understand about the Aims/Description: This module introduces core archaeological evoutionary history of our own species, Homo sapiens? What principles and field skills of survey, excavation and recording do the fossil and archaeological records tell us about our remote that students practice during a two-week field project embedded ape-like ancestors, or about the early modern human hunters and within a research project. The practical environment enhances gatherers that lived in the last 200 thousand years, or those learning of field skills, understanding of safe working, and immediately after the last ice age? How and when did the employability through a structured programme of interactive earliest farming populatons evolve? This module provides an classes introducing professional practice. Students complete a introduction to these and other questions about the origins of basic Skills Passport which can be developed in future field and humanity, and introduces the methods used by other practical experience.The majority of contact hours are set palaeoanthropologists and archaeologists who study fossil, in the field and laboratory, where students work collaboratively archaeological, and environmental evidence to investigate the on an original programme of archaeological research. Lectures climatic and environmental conditions under which humans and provide additional guidance on the methods employed and the our extinct ancesters lived up to the development of farming. context for the fieldwork. Staff Contact: Kevin Kuykendall Staff Contact: Colin Merrony Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Fieldwork, Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work Independent Study Assessments: Course work, Field work, Skills passport AAP108 World Civilisations AAP115 Emerging Europe: From Storage to 20.00 Credits SPRING Stonehenge & States Aims/Description: The popular image of archaeology is captured by the fictional Indiana Jones in his search for the lost 20.00 Credits AUTUMN secrets of ancient civilisations. This module explores some of the most famous early civilisations, including Mesopotamia, Aims/Description: 'Emerging Europe' explores debates Egypt, and classical Greece and Rome in the Old World, and the concerning the spread of farming, storage-based subsistence and Inca, Maya and Aztecs in the New World. Similarities and 'property' in southwest Asia to Europe; subsequent development differences in the development of these civilisations are of European society from first farming villages, through the evaluated, as are the contentious roles of colonisation, diffusion, early states and literate civilisations of Bronze Age southern trade and world systems. The classic civilisations are placed in a Greece, to Phoenician and Greek colonisation in the Early Iron wider context by looking at human cultures as diverse as Age Mediterranean and the associated developments in lithic, Zimbabwe, the Plains Indians and Easter Island. In conclusion, ceramic and metallurgical technology. The module also the module discusses the relationship between the decline of provides an introduction to the wide range of materials and European colonialism and changing understandings of what it methods that archaeologists use to study the past. The practical may have meant to be 'civilised'. laboratory-based classes provide 'hands-on' experience in basic identification, observation, recording and interpretation of Staff Contact: Hugh Willmott archaeological evidence. The lectures contextualise these Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study practical sessions by illustrating how information generated in Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work the laboratory contributes to the understanding of early human history. AAP110 Classical World and Its Legacy Staff Contact: Paul Halstead Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent 20.00 Credits SPRING Study Aims/Description: Greco-Roman classical civilisation Assessments: Formal Exam, Lab work (particularly the 'high' culture of art, architecture, literature and political institutions) has long been seen as the inspiration for, AAP116 Towards modernity: anthropology, and yardstick against which to judge, modern European culture. archaeology & colonialism The rich and varied evidence of modern archaeology is used to explore how this high culture was supported and experienced by 20.00 Credits AUTUMN ordinary people. The module will consider the nature of Early Aims/Description: This module explores how anthropoloogy Iron Age Greece and its Bronze Age background, the nature of and archaeology developed in early modern Europe, and how its colonies in the Mediterranean, and the development of the this development was shaped by, and mirrored, the cultural and Athenian Empire. The exploration of Italy will begin with the political history of Europe, through the Renaissance, Iron Age peoples of the Italian peninsula, following on to trace Reformation and especially European colonial expansion into the rise of Rome and her empire in the East and the West. The other contenents. Anthropology and archaeology developed to late Roman Empire will be examined with reference to the rise explore European encounters with the 'other' cultures of distant of Christianity and other eastern religions, and this will be places and times. These disciplines have widely served to traced through to the Early Medieval Period in Europe. The role legitimise European exploitation of other continents and to of Islam in the formation of Europe, and the dissemination of promote particular groups and causes within Europe, but latterly Islamic culture, will be considered. The module will conclude have also critiqued such trends. by exploring the place of the Classical world in both modern Europe and the New World. Staff Contact: Paul Halstead Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work Staff Contact: Maureen Carroll Teaching Methods: Lectures, Tutorials, Independent Study Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work ACE1360 Ideas That changed The World 20.00 Credits Academic Year Aims/Description: This interdisciplinary module examines the ideas of innovative thinkers and movements within the List of Unrestricted Modules at Level One humanities and social sciences. It assesses the wider impact of their work upon contemporary understanding, behaviour and ACE1887 Exclusion and Inclusion in the society. The module explores periods of radical innovation, for Community example the Enlightenment thinking of the late eighteenth 20.00 Credits SPRING century or societal and cultural changes that came about in the 1960s through the civil rights and women¿s movements. In Aims/Description: This module looks at the social processes exploring these theoretical and practical forces for change that shape inclusions and exclusions in community life. Students (intellectual, social, political, cultural) it considers how different will consider the impact of oppression and marginalisation on approaches to the dissemination of knowledge can individuals and groups, making use of current discourse to fundamentally change our thinking and the ways that we interact identify the causes of unfair treatment and injustice and the with the world we live in. solutions that can be found for communities to transcend and succeed. Students are encouraged to take a critical view of the policy that impacts on inclusion and apply their reading to Staff Contact: Naomi Hetherington explain the experience of exclusion and the opportunities for Teaching Methods: Seminars, Tutorials, Independent Study greater inclusion within their own community context. Assessments: Course work, Oral Presentation 15 mins Staff Contact: Jo Mutlow ACE1361 Time and Humanity Teaching Methods: Seminars, Tutorials, Independent Study Assessments: Course work, Online group task revealed over 3 20.00 Credits Academic Year weeks with group discussions and agreement on a group Aims/Description: In this module, we explore how different summary (presented as a document) cultures have ordered, represented and experienced time, and consider how different approaches to time can be understood. APS119 Animal and Plant Physiology We trace how historical shifts from the agrarian to the industrial may have changed peoples¿ experience of time and the world 10.00 Credits SPRING we live in. We look critically at the ways humans have interpreted time and history through the creation and adaptation Aims/Description: This course is an introduction to the of language, texts and material culture. We also examine physiology of animals, plants and fungi. The course will imaginative representations of past and future time through compare and contrast the ways in which animals, plants and literary analysis, including narratives of the future such as fungi acquire and process energy, nutrients and water, with science fiction and dystopian/utopian fiction. particular attention paid to the relationship between structure and function. Staff Contact: Anthony Warde & David Vessey Staff Contact: Professor Richard Leegood Teaching Methods: Seminars, Tutorials, Independent Study Restrictions: This module cannot be taken in conjunction with Assessments: Formal Exam, Course work APS136 or APS137 Teaching Methods: Lectures, Laboratory work, Independent ACE1362 Understanding