A great introduction to archaeology! A lot of people took this as an 'easy' elective but for the crowd that are actually interested in archaeology or majoring in it it is genuinely so much fun, content heavy, and requires your first look at how much research and engagement goes into this type of field. Tutorials are great if you actually engage with the content. Workshops are fantastic and let you get hands on with artefacts and other things. Tutorial and Workshop worksheets are simple and are each worth 5% of your grade. The major research project (split into 3 assessments) and debates are hefty but are interesting and you aren't left stranded if you need support. Classes are very short though so it is hard to make friends in this one if that is an important aspect to you. The LMS is full of extra resources and the lecturer/UC Alistair provides really cool podcasts with professional archaeologists from around the world on each weekly topic, which is such a great aspect to this unit. He has provided a lot of extra content to this unit so take full advantage of it while you can. If you get Laura as a tutorial lecturer and she seems blunt or harsh, she is a hard-working woman in a field dominated by men, give her a chance. She's got a wealth of knowledge and she's honestly so passionate about each topic, really learnt a lot from her when I stopped taking things personally. She gets her classes for 45 minutes each so you don't have a lot of time and neither does she, enjoy what you can! Loads of interesting content, a great textbook with really cool information, genuinely helped me realize archaeology is right for me.

This unit was a complete mess. The problems were many, but in short, it was terrible organised. Yes, it's easy to get marks by doing the bare minimum of weekly quizzes and worksheets, but the lectures are the most boring, unorganised 2 hours you can imagine. LMS was a total mess, with one continuous scrolling page for the whole semester, rather than folders for lecturers, worksheets etc. meaning that doing research for the essay was a nightmare. I actually met someone in this class who was doing ARCY for a major, and was dropping it because of how bad this class was. I cannot recommend it at all, even the tutors recognised how badly organised it was, though they were the only good part of the class, and were actually very helpful.

An easy unit to get high marks in. It is time consuming in terms of the weekly tutorial worksheets and the essay. However, those items are quite easy to get done. There is no exam for this subject! The lectures can be quite boring but do not need to be attended.