Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Critically analyse complex issues.
- Present research to a range of different audiences, using a range of different output methods.
- Undertake research on a specific theme, both pre-defined, and personally defined.
- Evaluate and synthesise complex bodies of data.
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Identify classes of material culture associated with seafaring.
- Apply theoretical models to specific aspects of maritime trade and technological exchange
- Synthesise and offer critical analysis of the results of current research in written and oral form
- Evaluate the arguments of others based on the evidence being cited.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the key theories and sites relating to ancient seafaring
- the different modes and motivations for people’s engagement with water in the past
- the different types of evidence that contribute to an interpretation of the patterns of maritime exchange, the form and development of water transport, and the capabilities of the vessels and seafarers from a particular period and region
- the variety of ways in which we can investigate this form of activity in the past.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Integrate the analysis of different kinds of archaeological and historical data
- Develop arguments addressing past understandings of space through analysing archaeological evidence
- Make connections between sequences, patterns and underlying historical processes
- Describe archaeological assemblages associated with different forms of economic and seafaring activity
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Wider reading or practice | 40 |
Seminar | 10 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 20 |
Follow-up work | 20 |
Lecture | 20 |
Completion of assessment task | 40 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Journal Articles
Duncan Garrow, Fraser Sturt (2011). Grey waters bright with Neolithic Argonauts? Maritime connections and the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition within the ‘western seaways’ of Britain c. 5000-3500 BC. Antiquity, 85(327), pp. 59-72.
Cemal Pulak (1998). The Uluburun shipwreck: an overview. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 27, pp. 188-224.
Helen Farr (2006). Seafaring as Social Action. Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 1(1), pp. 85-99.
Textbooks
John Mack (2011). The Sea: A Cultural History. London: Reaktion Books.
Lionel Casson (1971). Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. OR.
Jon Adams (2013). A Maritime Archaeology of Ships: Innovation and Social Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Oxford: Oxbow.
Ole Crumlin-Pedersen (2010). Archaeology and the Sea in Scandinavia and Britain. Roskilde: Viking Ship Museum.
David Strachen (2010). Carpow in Context. A late Bronze Age Logboat from the Tay. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries for Scotland.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
Assessment will be 100% by coursework and will comprise two separate components. The first is a more traditional pieces of written work to test your research and analysis skills, whilst the second assessment allows you to choose how you would like to share your learning.Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Short answer questions | 50% |
Optional assessments | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Research essay | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External