Archaeology/Theology & Religious Studies

Archaeology and theology and religious studies is a combination that shares a fundamental concern with how human beings make meaning, understand their place in the universe, and leave traces of those understandings behind in physical and textual form. Archaeology is the study of how people in the past interacted with their world, investigated through the detailed study of objects, sites, monuments, and landscapes, uncovering evidence of past lives that written sources cannot always reach. Theology and religious studies engages with the beliefs, practices, texts, and institutions through which human beings have sought to understand the sacred, the moral, and the transcendent, from ancient religious systems through to the world's major faith traditions as they exist today.

At the University of Glasgow, this part-time programme allows you to pursue both disciplines seriously alongside other commitments. Your archaeology studies will engage you with methods of field investigation, artefact analysis, and the interpretation of material culture, situated within the broad sweep of human history from prehistoric times through to the post-medieval period. Glasgow's location and the university's research strengths in Scottish and medieval archaeology provide a particularly rich context for this study.

Your theology and religious studies work will engage you with the major world religions, biblical studies, philosophy of religion, and the historical development of religious thought and practice. A year abroad is part of the programme, giving you the opportunity to study at a partner institution and to encounter both disciplines in a different academic and cultural environment.

Graduates go on to careers in heritage, museums, education, faith communities, chaplaincy, research, journalism, and public sector roles. Postgraduate study in archaeology, theology, heritage management, or related fields is a well-supported route.