4-Term Pathway - Foundation Certificate for Science and Engineering - Continue to Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Evolutionary Anthropology

This University of Liverpool multidisciplinary programme is the only one of its kind available in the UK and offers an opportunity to study an in-depth programme that explores what it is to be human. This is based on the study of three major areas of evolutionary anthropology: the archaeology of human evolution, palaeoanthropology, and primatology. Students can choose to study all three elements or focus on two areas and add modules in life sciences and earth sciences. They will be required to complete four weeks of fieldwork including two weeks in Liverpool's department field school at the end of Year One. In Year Two, many students work on overseas staff research excavations, currently these are based in Zambia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Jordan, Greece, Egypt as well as the UK.

Year One modules introduce the archaeology of human origins, archaeological techniques and methods, human anatomy, evolutionary psychology and human and animal behavior. These topics are taken to an advanced level in Year Two via core and optional modules in early technology, art and language, extinction and migration events and responses to climate change. In Year Three students will continue to develop their expertise through the detailed study of early human ancestors and evolution, and increase their breadth of knowledge through modules such as primate biology and African archaeology.