The taught MSc in Archaeology of the North is the only degree of its kind in the world, reflecting the unique research focus of the Department of Archaeology at Aberdeen. Students are equipped with research skills to investigate the material culture and heritage of the far northern hemisphere, a region that includes Scotland, the North Atlantic, Scandinavia and Baltic Europe, northern Russia and the circumpolar region through Siberia, the North Pacific and high-latitude North America. With an emphasis on colonisation and culture contact, lifeways and world -views, every graduate is provided with a thorough knowledge of the theory and practise specific to northern archaeology , together with the foundation for further study of professional employment. In addition every graduate will have acquired detailed competence in a specialist region or chronological field, chosen from a range of options across the entire northern world.
