BA (Hons) History and Archaeology

... United Kingdom
... University of the Highlands & Islands

Course Overview

If you’re interested in delving into the past using different methods, this joint-honors degree gives you an excellent grounding in the study and practice of history and archaeology.

In the BA (Hons) History and Archaeology, you will explore history from the medieval to the modern period, focusing on the cultural, political, social, and economic history of Scotland, Britain, Europe, and the Atlantic World. In addition, you can choose to specialize in Scottish History at the upper level, enabling you to graduate with a BA (Hons) in Scottish History and Archaeology. 

You will also develop a wide range of archaeological skills such as fieldwork, surveying, and post-excavation, which are mapped to the current occupational standards for archaeology, increasing your employability after graduation.

General Eligibility

  • 3 Scottish Highers at grade BBC or above, or

  • 2 A levels at grade BC or above

  • At least two should be from the list of relevant academic subjects

  • Applicants with other relevant qualifications or experience will be considered on an individual basis

Advanced entry to year two:

  • HNC Social Sciences (12 SQA credits) with 3 additional SQA credits at level 7 which is equivalent to 120 degree credit points, and at least grade C in the Graded Unit will be considered for direct entry to year two

Part Time Work Details

20 hours work permit for international students

Language Requirement

  • Applicants must have an IELTS score- 6.0 or equivalent

    English (PTE) Academic-58 average with 51 in each component

    TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) iBT4-Min 80 or above with min 18 in each section

Programme Information
...
Course Category

Human Resource Management and Psychology


...
Campus Name

Argyll, HTC, Inverness, Moray, North, West and Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland


...
Course Level

Undergraduate


...
Duration

Full-Time, 4 Years, Part-time: 8 Years


...
Available Intake

September


...
IELTS Score

6.0


...
Tuition Fees Range

9250,

13980, (INT)


Subject Recommendations for You
Campus

London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Berlin

Entry Score

0.0

Course Level

Undergraduate

Total Course Fee

Berlin: €10,500 & Online: £5,500

Campus

Bangor, Wales

Entry Score

4.0

Course Level

Undergraduate

Total Course Fee

£ Home full-time: £1,350, International full-time: £16,500

Mchem Chemistry for Sustainable Energy
University of Liverpool
Campus

Liverpool, England.

Entry Score

6.0

Course Level

Undergraduate

Total Course Fee

26100

Discover Your Next Read
...
Why you will go UK for better study ? Learn more from this blog...
...
Why you will go UK for better study ? Learn more from this blog...
Request history8.1.11PHP Version1.55sRequest Duration2MBMemory UsageGET course-details/{id?}Route
  • warninglog[10:28:26] LOG.warning: Calling static trait method App\Traits\Service::get_intake_with_next_year is...
  • Booting (26ms)time
  • Application (1.53s)time
  • 1 x Application (98.33%)
    1.53s
    1 x Booting (1.67%)
    26.00ms
    4 templates were rendered
    • course-detailscourse-details.blade.php#?blade
    • ajax.homejshomejs.blade.php#?blade
    • layouts.appapp.blade.php#?blade
    • ajax.menusearchjsmenusearchjs.blade.php#?blade
    uri
    GET course-details/{id?}
    middleware
    web
    controller
    App\Http\Controllers\CourseController@details
    namespace
    prefix
    where
    file
    app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:130-145
    13 statements were executed, 3 of which were duplicates, 10 unique. Show only duplicated1.5s
    • Connection Establishedstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Backtrace
      • 15. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 16. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 17. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 18. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 19. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `courses` where `id` = 'f9cef2ed7f3f42c998923dfc420afc6d' limit 1
      7.93msstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: f9cef2ed7f3f42c998923dfc420afc6d
      Backtrace
      • 16. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 17. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 18. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 19. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 20. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `institutes` where `institutes`.`id` in ('91')
      3.77msstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 91
      Backtrace
      • 21. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 22. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 23. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `represent_countries` where `represent_countries`.`id` in ('1')
      800μsstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 1
      Backtrace
      • 26. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 28. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 29. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 30. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `countries` where `countries`.`id` in ('235')
      560μsstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 235
      Backtrace
      • 31. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 32. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 33. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 34. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 35. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select `id`, `course_level_name` from `course_levels` where `course_levels`.`id` in ('1')
      570μsstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 1
      Backtrace
      • 21. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 22. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 23. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `categories` where `categories`.`id` in ('12') order by `category_name` asc
      600μsstaging_liveCourseController.php#131
      Bindings
      • 0: 12
      Backtrace
      • 21. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:131
      • 22. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 23. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `courses` where `course_level_id` = '1' order by RAND() limit 3
      1.47sstaging_liveCourseController.php#138
      Bindings
      • 0: 1
      Backtrace
      • 15. app/Http/Controllers/CourseController.php:138
      • 16. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • 17. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
      • 18. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:260
      • 19. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
    • select * from `institutes` where `institutes`.`id` = '19' limit 1
      4.78msstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#258
      Bindings
      • 0: 19
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:258
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    • select `id`, `course_level_name` from `course_levels` where `course_levels`.`id` = '1' limit 1
      630μsstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#274
      Bindings
      • 0: 1
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:274
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    • select * from `institutes` where `institutes`.`id` = '38' limit 1
      940μsstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#258
      Bindings
      • 0: 38
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:258
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    • select `id`, `course_level_name` from `course_levels` where `course_levels`.`id` = '1' limit 1
      510μsstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#274
      Bindings
      • 0: 1
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:274
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    • select * from `institutes` where `institutes`.`id` = '101' limit 1
      710μsstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#258
      Bindings
      • 0: 101
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:258
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    • select `id`, `course_level_name` from `course_levels` where `course_levels`.`id` = '1' limit 1
      460μsstaging_livecourse-details.blade.php#274
      Bindings
      • 0: 1
      Backtrace
      • 22. view::course-details:274
      • 24. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
      • 25. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
      • 26. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:72
      • 27. vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/View.php:207
    App\Models\Course
    4Course.php#?
    App\Models\Institute
    4Institute.php#?
    App\Models\CourseLevel
    4CourseLevel.php#?
    App\Models\RepresentCountry
    1RepresentCountry.php#?
    App\Models\Country
    1Country.php#?
    App\Models\Category
    1Category.php#?
        _token
        4efV1JeJZ2WVI3obpOTNevHlACVw2DVc0eagImTV
        current_url
        https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/f9cef2ed7f3f42c998923dfc420afc6d
        _previous
        array:1 [ "url" => "https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/f9cef2ed7f3f42c998923dfc420afc6d" ]
        _flash
        array:2 [ "old" => [] "new" => [] ]
        PHPDEBUGBAR_STACK_DATA
        []
        path_info
        /course-details/f9cef2ed7f3f42c998923dfc420afc6d
        status_code
        200
        
        status_text
        OK
        format
        html
        content_type
        text/html; charset=UTF-8
        request_query
        []
        
        request_request
        []
        
        request_headers
        0 of 0
        array:16 [ "cookie" => array:1 [ 0 => "XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6ImdHMkw4S0E0RXR0ck82VmtOaiswdGc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiVzVTTENSdS91cTA0YVk3WUxzTm5oaEcwa2o3ZXB4MDZzbnRRZnZKZ3RGV0gwaUkxL1cwblZyOWhOU3JYUnI2ZFp1b2ZZbWhjdnpjOVFXeDVjaHhxQlN6MVBtcTl6aURSMmpGayt4b0NVQVIwWGRIdnlsSVdNSDMvQzdIbU00Rm0iLCJtYWMiOiIyMjI2YTBkOWM0ZDQ1MzBmOTA5MjdhZDM0NTNkZDY4ODI5YTliMjYwNTYxYThhZTkyY2UzZWU5MzFiYjQ4OTI4IiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; bhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6ImV2R0gzTmJITVRKUEYvSldQN1JaTlE9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoia1k5N0d0U0E3dStNOGpVZWpoN2FDU3lJTnhLcUVJbFRndllpWkZRcVc0d0RrWitCRldyM3dUNmo4cktVcGZmRGNNVnpadWZPY1Q0cGZjMk9ISnZwWlF6anR5WmtPcWlYVGRkTjduVjgrV0JjMy9EZlZFZENpdmtCSURWMm1VWEYiLCJtYWMiOiJjYTE0YzIwZTAzZTA4YWY0MDE3MjY0MmRiNmRiYjhkYmQ3NTYyNzY1OWY3YjJkOTI3OWJlM2VhNDE2ZjFlM2IyIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; _tt_enable_cookie=1; _ttp=01JX4YYDSD0P53B37X8AC4W4YP_.tt.1; _fbp=fb.1.1749292103560.160723462112618517; ttcsid=1749292103474::9wTAb-LDioRwIx2x5cpm.1.1749292104178; ttcsid_CLKVGJRC77U3V0M5NEGG=1749292103473::C0YXYPLzFbHB-1SDXD76.1.1749292104398XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6ImdHMkw4S0E0RXR0ck82VmtOaiswdGc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiVzVTTENSdS91cTA0YVk3WUxzTm5oaEcwa2o3ZXB4MDZzbnRRZnZKZ3RGV0gwaUkxL1cwblZyOWhOU3JYUnI2ZFp1b2ZZb" ] "priority" => array:1 [ 0 => "u=0, i" ] "accept-encoding" => array:1 [ 0 => "gzip, deflate, br, zstd" ] "sec-fetch-dest" => array:1 [ 0 => "document" ] "sec-fetch-user" => array:1 [ 0 => "?1" ] "sec-fetch-mode" => array:1 [ 0 => "navigate" ] "sec-fetch-site" => array:1 [ 0 => "none" ] "accept" => array:1 [ 0 => "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7" ] "user-agent" => array:1 [ 0 => "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)" ] "upgrade-insecure-requests" => array:1 [ 0 => "1" ] "sec-ch-ua-platform" => array:1 [ 0 => ""Windows"" ] "sec-ch-ua-mobile" => array:1 [ 0 => "?0" ] "sec-ch-ua" => array:1 [ 0 => ""Chromium";v="130", "HeadlessChrome";v="130", "Not?A_Brand";v="99"" ] "cache-control" => array:1 [ 0 => "no-cache" ] "pragma" => array:1 [ 0 => "no-cache" ] "host" => array:1 [ 0 => "staging.bheuni.io" ] ]
        request_cookies
        0 of 0
        array:7 [ "XSRF-TOKEN" => "4efV1JeJZ2WVI3obpOTNevHlACVw2DVc0eagImTV" "bhe_uni_session" => "dQTayl6KYKaXdzBz2C05HwzchodpcBx3uWTNrGPM" "_tt_enable_cookie" => null "_ttp" => null "_fbp" => null "ttcsid" => null "ttcsid_CLKVGJRC77U3V0M5NEGG" => null ]
        response_headers
        0 of 0
        array:5 [ "content-type" => array:1 [ 0 => "text/html; charset=UTF-8" ] "cache-control" => array:1 [ 0 => "no-cache, private" ] "date" => array:1 [ 0 => "Sat, 07 Jun 2025 10:28:26 GMT" ] "set-cookie" => array:2 [ 0 => "XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IlFkK3pBMlNRdmFLKzl2MFkzT0xFanc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoicVhNb3dtSzZtM2svVFlOS0dhN3lIa1J0NDRoWEM1bmFrZ0RGNFRrMFluNVdzQU9rWkJNcldFbExNOEpyZ0x1bnF5WndGQklTb3ZPZ1I5anBCb0NPR0syVlFYb1I4RGpxbk16RTJ6Ny8ybzV2NytHZGh4Z1V1azhVT2FwYVRIL1ciLCJtYWMiOiJjNDRiYzU3NWY3ZmM1N2IyOGE4MjQzN2UwY2Y4YjE0MDMzYmU5ZDkzMjM4NzMyMWU1ZjhkOTcxMTAyMzJiMjg2IiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Sun, 08 Jun 2025 06:28:26 GMT; Max-Age=72000; path=/; domain=.bheuni.io; secureXSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IlFkK3pBMlNRdmFLKzl2MFkzT0xFanc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoicVhNb3dtSzZtM2svVFlOS0dhN3lIa1J0NDRoWEM1bmFrZ0RGNFRrMFluNVdzQU9rWkJNcldFbExNOEpyZ0x1bnF5WndGQ" 1 => "bhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6Ik4zemt5SHVFbEdPZUdmQUZ6d1ZqMWc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiVUJsUGVIYTlHSFdINElDaFNWU3padyswZk91b1J3dUFhNzNzSFVLUUFia2xUVmhoMmN3c2JkRThEamhqMHV3NVRoV1NVZzJmWDM2WXFsVU9UTlVWTnFrWjRvaTUvNW01UjBIbGVnWnF6ejV4OThVcDJ5eVRaVXBuZHY5cWpLUEQiLCJtYWMiOiJjODk5ZjdmNDk3MDU0MTUxZTVkMDYzOTNkYWI4ODdiZDRlN2UzNjcxMzgyM2UwZGI4NDA5YTMyYTljOWFmYzM2IiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Sun, 08 Jun 2025 06:28:26 GMT; Max-Age=72000; path=/; domain=.bheuni.io; secure; httponlybhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6Ik4zemt5SHVFbEdPZUdmQUZ6d1ZqMWc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiVUJsUGVIYTlHSFdINElDaFNWU3padyswZk91b1J3dUFhNzNzSFVLUUFia2xUVmhoMmN3c2JkRThEamhqMHV3NVRo" ] "Set-Cookie" => array:2 [ 0 => "XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IlFkK3pBMlNRdmFLKzl2MFkzT0xFanc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoicVhNb3dtSzZtM2svVFlOS0dhN3lIa1J0NDRoWEM1bmFrZ0RGNFRrMFluNVdzQU9rWkJNcldFbExNOEpyZ0x1bnF5WndGQklTb3ZPZ1I5anBCb0NPR0syVlFYb1I4RGpxbk16RTJ6Ny8ybzV2NytHZGh4Z1V1azhVT2FwYVRIL1ciLCJtYWMiOiJjNDRiYzU3NWY3ZmM1N2IyOGE4MjQzN2UwY2Y4YjE0MDMzYmU5ZDkzMjM4NzMyMWU1ZjhkOTcxMTAyMzJiMjg2IiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Sun, 08-Jun-2025 06:28:26 GMT; domain=.bheuni.io; path=/; secureXSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IlFkK3pBMlNRdmFLKzl2MFkzT0xFanc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoicVhNb3dtSzZtM2svVFlOS0dhN3lIa1J0NDRoWEM1bmFrZ0RGNFRrMFluNVdzQU9rWkJNcldFbExNOEpyZ0x1bnF5WndGQ" 1 => "bhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6Ik4zemt5SHVFbEdPZUdmQUZ6d1ZqMWc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiVUJsUGVIYTlHSFdINElDaFNWU3padyswZk91b1J3dUFhNzNzSFVLUUFia2xUVmhoMmN3c2JkRThEamhqMHV3NVRoV1NVZzJmWDM2WXFsVU9UTlVWTnFrWjRvaTUvNW01UjBIbGVnWnF6ejV4OThVcDJ5eVRaVXBuZHY5cWpLUEQiLCJtYWMiOiJjODk5ZjdmNDk3MDU0MTUxZTVkMDYzOTNkYWI4ODdiZDRlN2UzNjcxMzgyM2UwZGI4NDA5YTMyYTljOWFmYzM2IiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Sun, 08-Jun-2025 06:28:26 GMT; domain=.bheuni.io; path=/; secure; httponlybhe_uni_session=eyJpdiI6Ik4zemt5SHVFbEdPZUdmQUZ6d1ZqMWc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiVUJsUGVIYTlHSFdINElDaFNWU3padyswZk91b1J3dUFhNzNzSFVLUUFia2xUVmhoMmN3c2JkRThEamhqMHV3NVRo" ] ]
        session_attributes
        0 of 0
        array:5 [ "_token" => "4efV1JeJZ2WVI3obpOTNevHlACVw2DVc0eagImTV" "current_url" => "https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/f9cef2ed7f3f42c998923dfc420afc6d" "_previous" => array:1 [ "url" => "https://staging.bheuni.io/course-details/f9cef2ed7f3f42c998923dfc420afc6d" ] "_flash" => array:2 [ "old" => [] "new" => [] ] "PHPDEBUGBAR_STACK_DATA" => [] ]
        ClearShow all
        Date ↕MethodURLData
        #12025-06-07 10:28:26GET/course-details/f9cef2ed7f3f42c998923dfc420afc6d141315