Archaeology, Geography & History (LSS2)

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The BSc Archaeology, Geography and History provides a unique interdisciplinary combination of natural and cultural perspectives on the formation, cultural significance and management of the landscape. Students will bring together the disciplinary skills of archaeology, geography and history whilst developing their understandings of how the landscape shapes humans at the same time as humans shape the landscape. The programme is based in the classroom, field, laboratory and archives, and combines the archival strengths of history, the spatial expertise of geography, and the material analytical approaches of archaeology. The programme will utilise Irish case studies in international perspective. This programme has clear links to the rapidly expanding heritage sector and students will be trained in a range of scientific, social scientific and humanities methodologies.



This is an innovative and relevant degree programme that aims to challenge students to grow as independent learners and researchers. Across our schools, we provide a learning environment that supports and encourages the development of a range of knowledges, skills and attitudes. We encourage students to be engaged, analytical and reflective through the use of independent reading, critical thinking, real-world examples, case studies, fieldwork and practical projects.


1 - Possess knowledge, and demonstrate understanding, of the relationship between landscape and society
2 - Have a detailed knowledge of the character and formation of Ireland’s internationally-renowned landscape in comparative global context
3 - Develop discipline specific skills including competencies in fieldwork, cartography, spatial analysis, laboratory analyses, archival research and application of digital technologies;
4 - Gather, evaluate and interpret data, transforming this into knowledge by locating it within its interdisciplinary context
5 - Communicate effectively through written, visual and oral media to specialist and non-specialist audiences both within and beyond the classroom
6 - Be an inquisitive, flexible and creative thinker with an ability to apply knowledge and skills to a range of contexts
7 - Develop into engaged and responsible global citizens that understand and apply principles of ethical practice
Stage 2

Students are required to take at least four option modules in Stage 2.

Module ID Module Title Trimester Credits
Stage 1 Core Modules
     
GEOG10140 Mapping a Sustainable World Autumn 5
LSOC10010 Making the Irish Landscape Autumn 5
SSCI10010 Societal Challenges in the 21st Century Autumn 5
HIS10390 Creating History Autumn and Spring (separate) 5
ARCH10050 Intro archaeology of Ireland Spring 5
Stage 1 Core Modules
     
Stage 1 Options - A)MIN2OF:
Select a minimum of two of the following option modules
     
ARCH10010 Exploring Archaeology Autumn 5
ARCH10160 The Human Past Autumn 5
ARCH10150 Anthropology: an introduction Spring 5
Stage 1 Options - A)MIN2OF:
Select a minimum of two of the following option modules
     
Stage 1 Options - B)MIN2OF:
Select a minimum of two of the following option modules
     
GEOG10130 Geography Matters Autumn 5
GEOG10080 Dynamic Earth Spring 5
GEOG10100 People, Places, Regions Spring 5
Stage 1 Options - B)MIN2OF:
Select a minimum of two of the following option modules
     
Stage 1 Options - C)MIN2OF:
Select a minimum of two of the following option modules
     
HIS10070 The Making of Modern Europe: 1500-2000 Autumn 5
HIS10320 The Making of Modern Ireland, 1800-2000 Autumn 5
HIS10440 The United States, 1776-1991 Autumn 5
HIS10080 Rome to Renaissance Spring 5
HIS10310 Ireland's English Centuries Spring 5
HIS10450 Radicals and Revolutionaries Spring 5
Stage 1 Options - C)MIN2OF:
Select a minimum of two of the following option modules
     
Stage 2 Core Modules
     
ARCH20520 How Archaeologists Think: an introduction to archaeological theory Autumn 5
GEOG20170 Global Historical Geographies Autumn 5
HIS21140 History Today Autumn 5
ARCH20500 Archaeology of Things Spring 5
GEOG20210 Fieldstudies in Ireland Spring 5
HIS21260 From the Goldmines to Trump: A global history of nativism and anti-immigration since the mid-19th c. Spring 5
Stage 2 Core Modules
     
Stage 2 Options - A)MIN1OF:
Select a minimum of 1 of the following option modules.
     
GEOG20040 Rivers, Estuaries and Coasts Autumn 5
GEOG20150 Quaternary Environmental Change Autumn 5
GEOG20220 Introduction to GIS for the Social Sciences Autumn 5
GEOG20060 Weather, Climate and Climate Change Spring 5
GEOG20130 Cities in a Global World Spring 5
GEOG20140 Geography, Politics and Media Spring 5
Stage 2 Options - A)MIN1OF:
Select a minimum of 1 of the following option modules.
     
Stage 2 Options - B)MIN1OF:
Select a minimum of 1 of the following option modules.
     
HIS20460 Islam and Christianity in the Middle Ages Autumn 5
HIS20950 European Statecraft, Strategy & Culture, c. 1470-c.1770: Personalities & Power Autumn 5
HIS20960 Living Loving & Dying in 19th Century Ireland Autumn 5
HIS21320 Sport and the modern world Autumn 5
HIS20820 Nazi Germany Spring 5
HIS21120 Northern Ireland, 1920-2010: from partition to Paisley Spring 5
HIS21170 The Making of the Middle East Spring 5
HIS21240 Celts, Romans and Vikings: The Formation of Early Ireland Spring 5
HIS21330 Global Asia Spring 5
Stage 2 Options - B)MIN1OF:
Select a minimum of 1 of the following option modules.
     
Stage 2 Options - C)MIN2OF:
Select a minimum of two of the following modules.
     
ARCH20510 Archaeology of Landscapes Autumn 5
ARCH20570 Cultural Heritage Autumn 5
ARCH20600 Archaeological Science Autumn 5
ARCH20630 Archaeological Field Skills Autumn 5
ARCH20610 Historical Archaeology Spring 5
ARCH20620 People in Prehistory: key themes and problems Spring 5
Stage 2 Options - C)MIN2OF:
Select a minimum of two of the following modules.
     
Stage 2 Options - D)MIN0OF:
Students may select this module in place of an elective
     
SSCI20030 Building Resilience Autumn 5
Stage 2 Options - D)MIN0OF:
Students may select this module in place of an elective
     
Stage 3 Options - A)MIN2OF:
Please ensure that you register to a minimum of 50 credits in total of History, Archaeology and Geography modules. Select a minimum of 15 credits from the History option list below. Please note that there are 5 and 10 credit modules available.
     
HIS31280 Rise, Fall, Rise of Modern Japan Autumn 10
HIS31320 The Irish Revolution, 1910-1923 Autumn 10
HIS31850 Contested Histories in Australia Autumn 10
HIS32430 Florence 1200 - 1400 Autumn 10
HIS32460 Conquering Ireland, 1579-1691 Autumn 5
HIS32620 US Pivots To Asia, 1890s-1950s Autumn 10
HIS32720 Frontiers of Empire Autumn 10
HIS32730 The Digital Humanities Autumn 10
HIS32860 Jonathan Swift and Ireland Autumn 10
HIS32900 Questions in History Autumn 5
HIS32950 Weimar Germany Autumn 10
HIS32970 The 1641 Rebellion Autumn 10
HIS31900 Roads to Heaven & Hell Autumn and Spring (separate) 10
HIS32710 Manufacturing Truth in the Modern World Autumn and Spring (separate) 10
HIS32850 Settler colonialism Autumn and Spring (separate) 10
HIS31310 Madness and Civilisation Spring 10
HIS31400 British Atlantic History, 1607-1776 Spring 10
HIS31760 Irish Foreign Policy, 1919-73: A Place Among the Nations Spring 10
HIS32230 Biography and History Spring 10
HIS32310 Revolutionary Russia, 1905-1921 Spring 5
HIS32330 A History of Decadence: Sex, Spectacle and Corruption in Eighteenth-Century Venice Spring 10
HIS32380 Genocide & Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century Spring 5
HIS32440 Florence 1400-1530 Spring 10
HIS32480 Anticolonial Thought in the Twentieth Century Spring 10
HIS32650 Migration Nation: The Irish Migration Experience since 1945 Spring 10
HIS32660 Conservative Political Activism in the United States, 1960-1980 Spring 10
HIS32800 History from below: Rural life in the middle ages Spring 10
HIS32870 Spectacle and the modern world Spring 10
HIS32920 Britain in the Islamic World: Themes of empire, religion, and resistance 1800-1950 Spring 10
HIS32940 Devolution, Dominion, Democracy: Ireland's constitutional history north and south, 1870-2007 Spring 10
HIS32960 Pills, Patents & Policies Spring 10
Stage 3 Options - A)MIN2OF:
Please ensure that you register to a minimum of 50 credits in total of History, Archaeology and Geography modules. Select a minimum of 15 credits from the History option list below. Please note that there are 5 and 10 credit modules available.
     
Stage 3 Options - B)MIN2OF:
Please ensure that you register to a minimum of 50 credits in total of History, Archaeology and Geography modules. Select a minimum of 15 credits from the Archaeology option list below. Please note that there are 5 and 10 credit modules available.
     
ARCH20510 Archaeology of Landscapes Autumn 5
ARCH20570 Cultural Heritage Autumn 5
ARCH20600 Archaeological Science Autumn 5
ARCH20630 Archaeological Field Skills Autumn 5
ARCH30170 Combat Archaeology Autumn 5
ARCH30500 Experiment Archaeology & Ancient Technologies Autumn 5
ARCH30720 Archaeology of Food Autumn 10
ARCH30820 The Archaeology of Collapse Autumn 10
ARCH20610 Historical Archaeology Spring 5
ARCH20620 People in Prehistory: key themes and problems Spring 5
ARCH30770 Environmental Arch in Practice Spring 10
ARCH30930 Archaeology of Communities Spring 5
ARCH30940 Archaeology and Climate Change Spring 5
ARCH30960 Mediterranean Early Prehistory Spring 5
Stage 3 Options - B)MIN2OF:
Please ensure that you register to a minimum of 50 credits in total of History, Archaeology and Geography modules. Select a minimum of 15 credits from the Archaeology option list below. Please note that there are 5 and 10 credit modules available.
     
Stage 3 Options - C)MIN2OF:
Please ensure that you register to a minimum of 50 credits in total of History, Archaeology and Geography modules. Select a minimum of 15 credits from the Geography option list below. Please note that there are 5 and 10 credit modules available.
     
GEOG30080 Geography of the Growth and Development of Dublin Autumn 5
GEOG30370 River Catchment Management Autumn 5
GEOG30820 Development Geographies Autumn 5
GEOG30920 Environment and Sustainability Autumn 10
GEOG31070 Social Geography Autumn 5
GEOG30780 Quaternary Environmental Change in Ireland Spring 5
GEOG30900 Overseas Fieldwork Spring 10
GEOG30940 Global Risks and Resilience Spring 5
GEOG31060 Population Geography Spring 5
Stage 3 Options - C)MIN2OF:
Please ensure that you register to a minimum of 50 credits in total of History, Archaeology and Geography modules. Select a minimum of 15 credits from the Geography option list below. Please note that there are 5 and 10 credit modules available.
     
See the UCD Assessment website for further details

Module Weighting Info  
  Award GPA
Programme Module Weightings Rule Description Description >= <=
BHSOC010 Stage 4 - 50.00%
Stage 3 - 30.00%
Stage 2 - 20.00%
Standard Honours Award First Class Honours

3.68

4.20

Second Class Honours, Grade 1

3.08

3.67

Second Class Honours, Grade 2

2.48

3.07

Pass

2.00

2.47


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