Hi, I'm Ben Jennings and I lead the Bsc
Archaeology programme at the University of
Bradford.
I'm really proud of a staff group that
we have on our programme, they've been
repeatedly recognised by the University
for their excellent teaching provision
and support for our students. If we look
at recent NSS scores i've got a
fantastic result of
student satisfaction in the school, which
really demonstrates how how good the
staff are in their teaching and
support of students.
Our programme of study combines a range of
cultural
theoretical scientific and practical
aspects of archaeology
to provide a degree experience which has
got strong employability skills
and direct relevance to the sector. You
can really see this
in the recent accreditation we've had
from the Chartered Institute for
Archaeologists
and we're actually only one of seven
programmes in the uk but it's got
um that chartered status, it's a really
good
employability characteristic of a
programme.
Aligned with that we've got a
opportunity to undertake a professional
placement during your degree this
normally occurs between my second and
final year of study.
During this placement you can build on
connections
which we have from a staff or
connections you have in your own wider
network,
to go on placement within the industry
for a year and then bring back those
skills
new experiences, networks that you've
created to the final year your study
before you then go off to seek
employment and we've had students over
past
few years go on placement in the uk
In Europe and
further afield around the world and
they've had really good success on those
placement positions.
Now you could be wondering if
Archaeology is actually the subject
that you want to undertake,
if you've got the right background for
Archaeology, for example is it too
sciencey
is it not sciencey enough. The really
good thing about archaeology
is that actually the topic is so broad
and so encompassing
you can come from a really diverse
background and there are loads of routes
which you can go off to investigate,
and that can be a very sciency route if
you want to, for example like your
magnetic dating looking at stable iso
analysis, looking at chemicals and
material identification
or you could go into computer science
and look at angel based modeling
or visual display for for public access
or you could go down to more traditional
archaeological subjects looking at
artefact analysis and environmental
reconstruction.
At Bradford you'll be exposed to all of
these different sorts of um
approaches and methods and investigative
techniques throughout your
degree programme
and then in a final year dissertation
you have the opportunity to really go
into depth in one one area
you're interested in and study it much
greater detail produce a nice original
piece of research at the end.
So if you'd like to discuss the BSc
Archeology programme further,
please do feel free to contact
myself or any of the team Bradford
Archeology school and we'll be happy to go
into more detail with you
and explore what the options might be
for study at Bradford, thank you.
