Presentation
Applied Critical Archaeology and Heritage brings the study of the past and heritage to the future. With completely innovative options, designed specifically for this degree and dealing with aspects as diverse as critical archaeology, landscape, digital tools, and heritage studies, ACRA will provide students with all the skills needed to successfully forge their path within the professional sector and the international academic one alike.
Aim
The aim of ACRA is to provide an academically sound, critical and practice-oriented knowledge of archaeology and cultural heritage, with a global geographic focus.
The students that will successfully accomplish the program will be able to:
- identify and actively engage with major debates within archaeology and related sub-disciplines, helping them to further their subsequent research career, enabling them to design and conduct independent research,
- promote the role of archaeology and related heritage in the broader society, through a variety of communication strategies,
- effectively work in the field with critical awareness, mediating interests and stakes of different actors and interest groups connected to cultural heritage.
Careers
Depending on the modules undertaken students of this program will be able to effectively forge their own career. While scientific and area-specific options will allow them to continue a research path, critical/heritage-oriented options can result in alternative placements within agencies and institutions working in the broad and burgeoning heritage sector at a private, public, national and supra-national level. The presence of a considerable amount of practice lead activities (on the field and in labs) will equally enable students to pursue more traditional pathways as well as to be well trained towards a modern development-led archaeology.
