Module 1 - Aims and Methods in Archaeology

1. What is archaeology?
2. Chronologies I: Historical dating
3. Chronologies II: Scientific dating
4. Finding archaeological sites
5. Excavation: theory and practice
6. Archaeology and artefacts: material culture studies
7. How was it made? How was it used?
8. Trade and exchange
9. Environment and subsistence
10. The archaeology of people 

Module 2 - Early Prehistory

1. Introduction to early prehistory: definitions and orientation
2. Human evolution: Out of Africa?
3. Leaving Africa: Homo erectus and the Neanderthals
4. The emergence of Homo sapiens sapiens and the peopling of the globe
5. Living in the Ice Age: the late glacial hunters of Europe
6. Mesolithic societies in Europe
7. The Americas
8. The 'agricultural revolution' in the Old World
9. Transitions to farming in Europe
10. Monuments and ancestors in Neolithic Britain

Module 3 - Later Prehistory

1. Introduction to later prehistory: definitions and orientation
2. The Copper Age dawns: metallurgy, elites and chiefdoms in Europe
3. The High Bronze Age in Europe
4. Europe in the later first millennium BC
5. Later prehistory in the Americas
6. Later prehistory in SE Asia
7. The urban revolution: Mesopotamia and Egypt
8. The urban revolution: The Indus Valley and China
9. Early states in the Mediterranean: Minoans and Myceneans
10. Early states in the Americas

Module 4 - Introduction to Classical Archaeology

1. Archaic Greece (1000 to 479 BC)
2. The rise of the Polis
3. Classical Greece (fifth and fourth centuries BC)
4. Athens: a case study
5. Hellenistic archaeology
6. Introduction: Rome from Republic to Empire
7. Towns of Roman Italy: Rome, pompeii and Ostia
8. Introduction to Romanisation
9. Understanding provincial development
10. The later Roman world

Module 5 - Medieval Archaeology

1. Introducing medieval archaeology
2. Germanic Europe and the Anglo-Saxons
3. The Age of Charlemagne and the Vikings
4. Medieval Europe – the face of the town
5. Building Christian Europe
6. The face of the medieval countryside
7. Arabs, early Islam and the Near East
8. Medieval kingdoms in Africa
9. Early civilisations in Africa
10. Western and southern Africa

Module 6 - Historical (Post-Medieval and Industrial) Archaeology

1. Introduction
2. Artefacts in historical archaeology
3. Colonialism and contact
4. Slavery and other forced labour
5. Buildings
6. The Industrial Revolution
7. Landscape and gardens
8. Towns and cities
9. Belief, death and burial
10. The archaeology of us: contemporary historical archaeology

Module 7 - Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Middle Nile

1. Introduction to the archaeology of Egypt and the Nile Valley
2. Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Egypt, the Sudan and the Saharan connection
3. The emergence of early farming – grain and cattle
4. Predynastic and early Dynastic Egypt
5. Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt and the rise of Kush
6. Imperial Egypt and the New Kingdom
7. New Kingdom Nubia
8. 25th Dynasty, Napata and Late Period Egypt
9. Meroitic Archaeology
10. Medieval Nubia and beyond