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Undergraduate
Programme
General Information
History Major
History Minor
History Special
History/ Archaeology Major
History/Archaeology
Special
Guide to Biliographical
and Reference Style
Undergraduate Prizes
History Archaeology Special

Admission to History/Archaeology Special is strictly by interview with the Head of Department.

Students are required to read at least twenty (20) 3 credit courses for a total of 60 credits in History/Archaeology and recommended Geography and Geology courses. A prerequisite for taking these courses is a pass in CXC Geography.

 
LEVEL I - Six Courses (18 credits) as follows
HIST1304

Africa in World Civilisation to 1800

HIST1405 Economy and Society in Early Modern Europe
HIST1505 The Asian World Prior to 1600
HIST1601

The Atlantic World 1400-1600

HIST1703 Introduction to History
HIST1801

Introduction to Archaeology

   

LEVEL II

 

 

 

 

AT LEAST

Seven Courses (21 credits), including:
HIST2801 Research Methods & Techniques in Archaeology
HIST2804 Survey of World Pre-history
HIST2006

Conquest, Colonization and Resistance in the Caribbean, 1600-the end of Slavery

HIST2007

Freedom, Decolonization and Independence in the Caribbean since 1804

1 History Course in Concentration
2 History Courses from outside a Concentration
 

 

 

Seven Courses (21 credits), including

LEVEL III HIST3801

Historical Archaeology

HIST3803

Archaeology of Africa

2 Level III Caribbean History Courses
2 History courses in a concentration
1 other history course from outside a concentration

 
     
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