Technology Enhanced Learning represents a core means of delivery. Technology forms an important element of both our teaching and research at the Centre of Archaeology.

The online taught sessions will include a wide variety of media types and approaches. All teaching is done using a set of weekly readings and tasks on Blackboard; We use the available technologies to give DL students the opportunity to engage directly with staff and each other. The team’s approach to technology enhanced learning is to use it to close the distance between staff and students. Blackboard collaborate provides on-line meeting rooms where distance-learning students can meet with each other and with staff.

It also supports the various webinars we run on the Masters Programme. Audio feedback both on discussion board posts and assignments is given by some members of staff, and this has proved a popular way of ensuring a stronger sense of direct personal contact with tutors. Microsoft Teams calls will frequently replace phone calls and this direct form of communication with students around the world is an invaluable way of making all students feel part of the University and its learning community. Social media will also play an important role in the delivery of the module. The Centre of Archaeology Facebook page, the Centre of Archaeology website, and several specific project web platforms all contain a huge volume of material that is highly relevant to the content of this course and they will represent important resources for information, debate, and engagement.

Tutors will provide supporting materials and formative assessment activities to help you explore the topics further. Discussion and debate will be encouraged, and a number of different media types will be used throughout the course to allow you to engage with the subject matter. The self-directed study also makes up an important part of the module that will enable you to become a more independent learner and help prepare you for doctoral study or employment.

Module Learning Outcome
University Learning Outcome
1. Critically evaluate the methods that can be employed by archaeologists working on sites related to past and current conflicts and genocide, especially intelligence gathering, remote sensing, geophysics and excavation
Knowledge and understanding, analysis

2. Demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of how these methods can be adapted to account for site specific conditions and external factors
Problem solving, reflection

3. Apply desk-based methods to specific case studies in order to locate and analyse a range of evidence connected to genocide and mass violence
Application and analysis

This module provides understanding and practical experience of the wide range of desk-based methodologies used to investigate sites of genocide and mass violence. It also introduces a range of state-of-the-art technologies and field techniques used by forensic archaeologists and explores how they are applied within a range of scenarios and settings.

Topics covered include:

Introduction to forensic archaeology in genocide investigations
Resource management and assessing risks
Desk-Based Assessments
GIS and aerial imagery exercise
Remote Sensing
Search and geophysical survey
Methods of recovery
Recording objects of genocide
Photogrammetry and laser-scanning
Photogrammetry and laser-scanning practical
Post processing and data integration

This module will be assessed by:
1) Portfolio report demonstrating and evaluating a range of practical desk-based exercises undertaken throughout the module. [LO 1,2,3]

2) Engagement in discussion and online debates [LO 1,2,3]

Develop your competency through methodogical practice. This module provides understanding and practical experience of the wide range of desk-based methodologies used to investigate sites of genocide and mass violence. It also introduces a range of state-of-the-art technologies and field techniques used by forensic archaeologists and explores how they are applied within a range of scenarios and settings

Barone, P.M and, Groen, W. J. M (Eds.) 2018. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Forensic Archaeology. New York: Springer International Publishing.

Sturdy Colls, C. 2015. Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions. New York: Springer

Forte, M and Campana, S. 2018. Digital Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeology: Archaeology in the Age of Sensing (Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences). New York: Springer

Dupras, T, Schultz, J, Wheeler, S, Williams, L. 2016. Forensic Recovery of Human Remains: Archaeological Approaches, 2nd Edition. Boca Raton: CRC Press.

Supplied course packs of readings; ebooks and e-journals, relevant websites.
Blackboard VLE
GIS software and Adobe Creative Cloud Package
Computer with internet access; students’ own textbooks