Doctorate in Digital Heritage and Landscape Archaeology
Aglantzia, Cyprus
DURATION
8 Semesters
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
31 Mar 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 4,000
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
The M.Sc. and Ph.D. Program Digital Heritage and Landscape Archaeology of the University of Cyprus is a unique postgraduate program that offers a concrete interdisciplinary academic course platform dealing with the application of spatial technologies and GeoInformatics in the wider domain of Digital Humanities. The program will act as an interface between New Technologies and the Humanities, exposing students to the latest spatial technological developments, providing hands-on training on different instrumentation and software, and promoting a critical perspective of their application in terms of addressing archaeological- and historical- oriented questions and opening a dialogue between different disciplines.
The M.Sc. and Ph.D. Program “Digital Heritage and Landscape Archaeology” contests the mainstream of the traditional graduate studies in the Humanities and it is targeting the following objectives:
- Open a dialogue and create a concrete platform of collaboration between the technological and humanities disciplines.
- Develop a dynamic environment of theoretical and practical training for highly qualified students.
- Provide synergies between research, museums, academia, and public and private agencies, where students will be able to apply their knowledge and carry out their research.
- Offer an international educational setting, where students and researchers will interact productively and enhance the level of the research.
- Create a new generation of Archaeologists and Historians that can deal with the current trends of geospatial technologies and geo-information systems.
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Ideal Students
Prospective students must have completed an undergraduate degree in Archaeology, History, Anthropology, or other related fields of research (e.g. History of Art, Architecture, Geography, Geology, Topography, Environmental Sciences, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering).
Graduates of the University of Cyprus and Universities of Greece must have an undergraduate diploma with a cumulative grade of 6.5 or higher. The equivalent is required for graduates from other Universities.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
A number of fee-waiver scholarships will be offered to the best full-time registered candidates admitted in the graduate programme. The scholarships are mainly offered by the Sylvia Ioannou Chair and the Digital Humanities GeoInformatics Lab.
Curriculum
Core Module
- Introduction to GIS Technologies (GIS I)
- Geospatial Analysis and Modelling in GIS
- Applications of GeoInformatics in Archaeology
- Computational & Analytic Techniques
- Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities
Elective
- Settlement and Landscape Archaeology
- Maritime Cultural Landscape
- Mediterranean Island Landscapes
- Introduction to Cultural Heritage Management
- Practical Training in Field Archaeology
Program Outcome
Through the specific graduate program, students will be able to:
- Comprehend the relation between environment, climate, and anthropogenic activities of the past with an emphasis on the settlement patterns and the exploitation of environmental resources.
- Obtain state-of-the-art skills that can be used in both field campaigns and laboratory analysis of surface survey and excavation results.
- Understand how the different spatial analysis tools operate to address questions related to the habitation patterns and the intra- and inter-spatial distribution of finds.
- Acquire knowledge of the creation of maps (distribution of finds, geophysical measurements, geological and topographic maps, environmental maps, etc.) and comprehend the different spatial statistic algorithms to analyze them.
- Familiarize themselves with the actual research questions and take a critical stand on the statistical and spatial statistical results.
- Obtain practical hands-on training in software (GIS, network analysis, statistical analysis, mapping, etc.) and instrumentation/hardware (geophysical instruments, drones, cameras, GPS, etc.) that will make them competitive in their future profession (academia, cultural resources management, practical archaeology, etc.)and boost their career opportunities.