Entry requirements

A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognised university. The main field of study must be within the humanities or social sciences. Also required is 60 credits in archaeology.

Learning outcomes

After passing the course, the student should be able to:

• formulate and delimit a research question of relevance within archaeology
• discuss strengths and weaknesses inherent in different methodological proceedures and theoretical standpoints
• communicate and process constructive critique on scholary texts
• individually and in group critically review and discuss student theses as welll as published reports and articles within archaeology

Content

The craft of research in archaeology is multilayered in that the discipline exist at the interface between the humanities, the social sciences and natural sciences. Investigations can contain both qualitative and quantitative components grounded in material, textual and oral sources. Participants in the course practice to formulate and delimit a relevant scholarly question and to write scientific texts. Drafs or finished text sections autorhed by the participants are reviewed and discussed with the aim to broaden their methodological and theoretical perspectives and offer support in the forthcoming thesis work.

Instruction

The teaching consists of seminars and lectures with written and oral assignments. All teaching is offered in English.

Assessment

Assessment is ongoing through oral and written presentations in seminars. If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.

Other regulations

The course cannot be included in a degree together with 5AR751 Writing Course for a Magister Level Thesis, 7.5 hp