• Mode: research
• Duration (in credits): between 60 and 120
• Qualification awarded: Master's Degree in Classical Archaeology
• Places available: 45
• Cost per credit
• Admission to doctoral programmes
• Contact

• Participating institutions
• Presentation
• Admission requirements
• Contents
• Modes
• Pre-registration

Participating institutions

- Rovira i Virgili University (coordinator)
- Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC)
- Autonomous University of Barcelona

Compulsory student mobility: YES. This master's degree takes place at UAB and  Catalan Institute of Classical Arqueology (CICA) collaborates with, so you have to attend CICA placed in Tarragona.

Presentation

This master's degree aims to make students critically aware of the field of classical archaeology. To this end, the course trains them in excavation techniques, and makes them aware of the experimental sciences of geological-scale archaeological analysis and the restoration of landscapes with their corresponding fauna. The course also deals with aspects of physical anthropology, and the physical and chemical analysis of the elements and data obtained, not forgetting technical drawing (materials), topographic and architectonic drawing (excavations), photography and learning how to use computer databases.

Admision requirements

The Master's Degree courses are open to anybody with an official university qualification, even Spanish or foreign (this foreign degree must enable you to be admitted to postgraduate studies in the country where you obtained it).

In addition, universities in charge of the organization of a Master can establish those procedures and requirements considered necessary to be finally admitted to the Master. Therefore, as well as having a previous official degree, you should get informed about additional conditions and selection criteria which may have been addittionally established by each Master.

Contents

Course taught in: catalan, spanish and others.

The programme that leads to the qualification of Master in Classical Archaeology has a total of 120 ECTS credits over a period of two academic years. The first year is organized in two semesters, while the second one in three trimesters.

First Year

First semester: Study Methods and Techniques in Archaeology. The issues dealt with in this first subject aim to provide the students with a basic knowledge of the theoretical and methodological aspects of archaeological science, and to introduce them to the various techniques used in archaeological analysis. Likewise, it is planned that students will take part in periods of fieldwork and laboratory work with professionals.

Second semester: Initiation in Research and Academic Training This module has been organized in accordance with the subject Archaeology in the degree in History in each of the participating faculties and schools. Depending on the faculty, the syllabus will be: 1. Basic archaeological-type knowledge that covers the time period stretching from protohistory to the late Middle Ages.. 2. Initiation in research and specialist seminars.

Second Year

(30 teaching credits + 30 credits for a report or research assignment)

The structure of the second year consists in a research work in Classical Archaeology realized during the academic course and having 30 ECTS, and 30 ECTS in courses divided over trimesters in order to facilitate the mobility of students. The study consists of the following courses, having 5 ECTS each:

-Economy, commerce and materials
-Artistic productions
-Architectural's archaeology
-Management of archaeologycal heritage
-Textual sources for antiquity interpretation
-Landscape archaeology from Protohistory to late antiquity
-City and territory in the ancient world

Report or research assignment: 30 credits 

Modes

- Research

Official Master's degrees offer specific Modes which will be effectively initiated -or not- depending on the number of students finally admitted.

Pre-registration

The preregistration period (1st phase) will begin on 1st March and end on 30th April.

If all the places available are not taken within this period, a new preregistration period will be opened (2nd phase) between 1st and 30th June.

The preregistration must be carried out on the Internet. The online form will become operative on the first day of the preregistration period. preregistration application.

For academic questions, please get in touch with the coordinator of the Masters. For administrative information, contact the secretariat of the faculty/school that teaches the Master's Degree; if you have been offered a place in the program on the strength of a foreign qualification, the Postgraduate and Doctoral School will inform you of the documents you will need.

Pre-registration on-line

Academic contact (coordinator)
Dra. Eva Subías Pascual  Department of History and History of Art  977 558 692  eva.subias(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat  Dr. Josep Maria Palet Martínez  Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica  977 249 133  ipalet(ELIMINAR)@icac.net  Dr. Josep Guitart i Duran  Departament de Ciències de l’antiguitat Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona  93 581 25 15

Administrative contact (secretary)
Secretariat of the Faculty of Arts  977 559 513  capsfll(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Postgraduate and Doctoral School
Edifici del Rectorat - Escala C, 1st floor - c/ Escorxador, s/n (Tarragona)   Tel: 977 558 478. Fax: 977 558 847   mastersoficials(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat  Office hours  Mornings: Mondays to Fridays from 8.30 to 14.30 Afternoons: Wednesdays and Thursdays from 15.30 to 18.00  July and August: Mondays to Fridays from 8.00 to 15.00

Further information

• Schedule for procedures involving students
• Admission regulations
• Programme

- Research

• Educational Guide
• Faculty/school for registration
• Administrative procedure
• Pre-registration on-line
• Documentation required for preregistration 
• Requirements for foreign documents 
• Frequently-asked questions
• Payment of fees from abroad