University of East Anglia (UEA), BA, Archaeology, Anthropology, and Art History with a Year Abroad

This four-year version of innovative degree in Archaeology, Anthropology and Art History includes a year abroad at a university in Australia, New Zealand, Canada or the United States. This dynamic degree course examines the ways in which archaeology, anthropology and art history complement each other, especially in relation to visual and material cultures from around the world. It allows you to engage with a wide range of material, from the prehistoric through to the present day, and also equips you to study diverse cultures and societies.

Throughout your degree you will be encouraged to explore a wide range of cultures and to consider art as a cross-cultural practice. This course will familiarise you with the varied yet related ways in which human creativity has been approached by art historians, archaeologists and anthropologists. The degree programme incorporates study of the visual and material cultures of all continents. You are able to study the art and archaeology of the Ancient Near-East, Ancient Egypt, pre-Columbian America, Japan, as well as the art and material culture of contemporary African, South-Asian, Pacific, and South American societies.

The course also allows you to develop your practical skills of archaeological and anthropological fieldwork through participation in excavations and projects, in the UK and overseas (most recently, Cyprus, Cordoba and Peru).

You will have many opportunities to study works of art and artefacts first-hand; we are extremely fortunate to be housed in the world renowned Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts based on the UEA campus. It houses a world-famous collection of artworks from Asia, Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, as well as Europe enabling you to learn about the processes of collecting which have led such objects to enter museums.

A great deal of the collection derives from the Pacific and the American Northwest Coast, so the opportunity to study in these parts of the world will complement and enhance your studies at UEA.