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ARCO6002: Approaches to Deep Time
2024 unit information
The unit outlines the issues of the key theoretical tools for approaching Deep Time in the Humanities and the Sciences and appraises the logical and analytic relationships between them. Theoretical tools such as Rationalism and Romanticism, multiscalarity and non-correspondence between scales, evolutionary theories in culture and biology, indeterminacy and uncertainty, and uniformitarianism both substantive and operational will be discussed. The course will assist researchers who are combining the Humanities and the Sciences in their theses and engages with the University's interdisciplinary focus.
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Archaeology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Theoretical perspectives in academic research into the past, their historical background and issues of contextual and ethical relevance.
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