Course list for the Archaeological Science Single Major

Information valid for students commencing 2016

Archaeological Science (Major)

Prerequisites required for progression in this major:

Course Code Units Course Title
ARCA1000 2 Discovering Archaeology
ARCS1001 2 Doing Archaeology

Major Requirements (#14)
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Course Code Units Course Title
ARCA3100 2 Critical Studies in World Prehistory
ARCS2000 2 Science in Archaeology
ARCS3040 2 Environmental Archaeology

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Course Code Units Course Title
ARCS2003 2 Forensics: The Archaeology of Death & Crime Scenes
ARCS2010 2 Ancient Technologies: Experimental and Analytical Approaches to Understanding Past Technologies
ARCS2011 2 Lithic Analysis: Current and Future Directions for Research and Heritage Management
ARCS2060 2 Archaeology Field School
ARCS2168 2 Human Evolution

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Course Code Units Course Title
ARCA2020 2 Archaeology of Australasia
ARCA2025 2 Archaeology of the Pacific Islands
ARCS2050 2 Historical Archaeology
BIOL2201 2 Evolution
ERTH2002 2 Palaeobiology
ERTH2003 2 Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironments
ERTH2005 2 Mineralogy
GEOS2100 2 Environmental Systems
GEOS2103 2 Biogeography & Geomorphology

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Course Code Units Course Title
ARCS3001 2 Advanced Research in Archaeology
ARCS3010 2 Field Archaeology
ARCS3020 2 Animals and Archaeology: analytical approaches to understanding past human-animal relationships
BIOL3209 2 Biodiversity Analysis, Discovery and Systematics
ERTH3103 2 Sedimentary Environments
ERTH3205 2 Geochemistry and Geochronology
GEOS3107 2 Plants, People and the Environment
PSYC3262 2 Evolutionary Approaches to Human Behaviour