BA in Archaeology in Boston United States | Boston University

Archaeology explores ancient and recent human societies, their cultures, and environments. Pursuing this major provides a worldwide outlook, deepens cultural understanding, and offers insights into heritage complexities and humanity's long history. Students collaborate with professors on fieldwork, lab analysis, and coursework to master both unique and universal cultural elements, heritage significance, and archaeology's modern applications in global affairs, land disputes, climate studies, nationalism, and more. The program teaches quantitative methods and their foundations through hands-on artifact work in labs and museums, plus archaeological excavations. Beyond discipline-specific abilities, courses enhance broadly useful analytical and writing skills. Given archaeology's interdisciplinary nature, students often pair it with majors like anthropology, biology, classics, computer science, environmental studies, art history, international relations, history, and others.

Learning Outcomes
Archaeology graduates will:

Show understanding of archaeological theory's evolution.
Display knowledge of archaeological findings across global regions.
Utilize analytical techniques on common archaeological materials.
Engage in substantial archaeological research projects.
Apply core archaeological knowledge to assess, through writing and speaking, current discussions about interpreting humanity's past.