Online courses in archaeology
Study from anywhere in the world with an online course.
Our short online courses in archaeology include online courses with live-time sessions, flexible online courses, and day and weekend schools.
Credit earned from some of these courses is transferable towards our Certificate of Higher Education - a part-time undergraduate course in which you study a main subject discipline, but also undertake study in other academic subjects.
Browse below to find the online archaeology course for you.
Upcoming courses
Online - live • Short courses • Professional development • Hybrid - in person or online
How can design codes support more popular and sustainable development? How can local character be used to enhance cities? This course explains the concept of design codes and gives practical advice creating successful codes. Join us online or in Oxford.
- Fri 28 Nov 2025
- 1 meetings
- 09:00- 16:30
Online - live • Short courses • Hybrid - in person or online
Examine how ordinary people in medieval England (1000-1550 CE) used religious and ritual objects in daily life in this hybrid lecture. Drawing on finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme, learn how material culture shaped faith and community.
- Fri 28 Nov 2025
- 4:45 – 6:15pm
Online - live • Short courses • Professional development • Hybrid - in person or online
Can we re-frame heritage loss? This transdisciplinary course will explore how to manage transformative change in the historic environment to generate both ecological and cultural benefits. Join online or in-person to stay on top of emerging ideas.
- Tue 09 Dec 2025
- 1 meetings
Online - flexible • Short courses
What are Greek myths? Who told them and why? How can we interpret them? Why are they still so powerful? How much history do they contain? This course will explore these fascinating tales from the past and attempt to make sense of them.
- Mon 12 Jan 2026 – 27 Mar 2026
Online - flexible • Short courses
What do we really know about the Celtic world? These ancient communities left us captivating artefacts and imposing earthworks, but also with more subtle clues from which we can tease out the origins of the peoples who have come to be known as the Celts.
- Mon 12 Jan 2026 – 27 Mar 2026
Online - live • Short courses
In World Archaeology we explore the emergence of past societies in multiple regions of the Earth. Some are mysterious and lost in the mists of time, while others underpin cultures that exist in our world today.
- Mon 12 Jan 2026 – 23 Mar 2026
- 10 meetings
- 4:00 – 5:00pm
Short courses and qualifications:
Archaeology
Short courses and part-time programmes in archaeology, ancient history, Egyptology and anthropology at Oxford University.Cultural heritage training
Expert CPD tuition for those with a keen interest, professional or personal, in archaeology, historic buildings and cultural heritage.Undergraduate Certificate in Archaeology
An introductory part-time undergraduate course for adults with little or no previous experience of academic archaeology. Taught at first-year undergraduate level, this two-year course introduces ideas, approaches, sites and methods.Undergraduate Diploma in Archaeology (2027 entry)
Unearth humanity's past from a truly global perspective, with this two-year part-time undergraduate Diploma in Archaeology.Advanced Diploma in British Archaeology
This one-year part-time advanced diploma consists of a taught module on one of three periods of British archaeology and includes a 10,000-word dissertation. The course is taught at third-year undergraduate level.MSc in Applied Landscape Archaeology
The MSc in Applied Landscape Archaeology is a part-time modular course over two years.