Bachelor's Degree in Archaeology

Field(s) of education and training (ISCED-F)

• History and archaeology (0222)

Main focus

Students of this degree programme will achieve the following objectives:
– Successfully apply the knowledge acquired to their professional work.
– Develop skills by formulating and defending arguments as well as by problem solving.
– Have the ability to collect and interpret relevant data in order to make judgements that involve a reflection on relevant social, scientific, and ethical issues.
– Learn how to communicate information, ideas, problems, and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
The degree provides general as well as specific training in Archaeology and associated disciplines with a view to enabling students to respond to the social demands of knowledge, conservation, management, and dissemination of the territory and the historical and archaeological heritage. Graduates will have a basic understanding of the concepts, categories, theories, and issues relevant to the different branches of archaeological research and an awareness that the interests and concerns of the archaeological record can change, depending on political, cultural and social contexts.

Competences

1. Understand the meaning of time in the transformation of social processes.
2. Develop a positive and responsible attitude to the quality control of the results of archaeological work and its presentation.
3. Communicate archaeological issues in both oral and written form.
4. Systematically collect, organise, select, and present information, using technical instruments applicable to archaeology, with a sensitivity to different cultural and environmental settings, equality issues, environmental preservation, peaceful coexistence, and non-discrimination.
5. Interpret theoretical developments in the field of Archaeology and relate them to other disciplines.
6. Critically and expertly analyse the ethical and legal implications of archaeological work.
7. Use archaeological knowledge and skills to design a comprehensive integrated research-management project as well as education projects at different levels of learning.

Name of title awarded in original language

Graduado o Graduada en Arqueología por la Universidad de Granada; la Universidad de Jaén y la Universidad de Sevilla

Qualification requirements

‘- The student must prove the level B1, in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
– The student has to complete the ECTS credits of the study program distributed as follows:
Basic Formation (60 ECTS)
Obligatory (114 ECTS)
Optional (60 ECTS)
Practicum (6 ECTS)
Final degree project (6 ECTS)
– The student has to complete the ECTS credits of the study program distributed as follows:
Basic Formation (108 ECTS)
Obligatory (264 ECTS)
Practicum (6 ECTS)
Final degree project (18 ECTS)

Specialisation name

‘- Recent Prehistory Of The Southern Iberian Peninsula
– Classical Archaeology Of The Iberian Peninsula
– Archaeology Of Al-Andalus
– Bio-Archaeology and Geo-Archaeology
– Models and Applications In The Prehistory Of The Southern Iberian Peninsula
– Archaeology Of Ancient Hispania
– American Archaeology
– Iberian Archaeology
– Archaeology Of Architecture
– Industrial Archaeology

Admission information

Access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is granted to students with the following degrees/ diplomas or studies, or any other recognized as equivalent to these:
A.1. Spanish Bachiller, European Baccalaureate or International Baccalaureate.
A.2. Baccalaureate from European Union Member States’ education systems or other countries withinternational agreements.
A.3. Advanced Technician in Vocational Training, Advanced Technician in Plastic Arts and Design orAdvanced Technician in Sports Education, from the Spanish Education System.
A.4.Studies carried out in European Union Member States or in other countries with international reciprocal agreements which meet the academic requirements in those States to access their university studyprogrammes.
A.5. Official Spanish university degrees of Diplomado, Arquitecto Técnico, Ingeniero Técnico, Licenciado, Arquitecto, Ingeniero, Graduado or Máster Universitario.
A.6. Partial (foreign or Spanish) university studies.

Access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is also possible for:
B.1. People over twenty-five after successfully passing a specific access test.
B.2. People over forty with work or professional experience related to a university field of knowledge.
B.3. People over forty-five after successfully passing a specific access test.

Likewise, access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is granted to:
C.1. People meeting the requirements to enter university according to the Spanish Education Systemregulations prior to Ley Orgánica 8/2013, of December 9.

Grading scale
In the Spanish university system, modules/courses are graded on a scale of 0 to 10 points with the following qualitative equivalence:
0-4,9: «suspenso»; 5-6,9: «aprobado»; 7-8,9: «notable»; 9-10: «sobresaliente». A special mention, «Matrícula de Honor» may be granted to up to 5% of the students in a group provided they have got a «sobresaliente». To pass a module/course is necessary to get at least 5 points.
In cases of recognition of ECTS, professional experience, cultural or sports activities, or student representation no grading will be recorded but, where appropriate, the word «Apto».

UGR Examination Regulations
https://docencia.ugr.es/sites/vic/docencia/public/inline-files/Normativa_de_evaluacion_y_calificacion_EN.pdf

More info on academic regulations at: 

https://ugrcat.ugr.es/en/about-ugr/#regulations