2024/25
According to Ordinance no 67 of the Rector of the University of Warsaw of 12 June 2024 students who start their studies (Archaeology – Studies in English) in the academic year 2024/2025 are not paying the tuition fee.
The list of other payments (for repetition of classes and classes not included in the study curriculum) you can find on pages 6-7 of the mentioned ordinance.
2023/24
According to Ordinance no 62 of the Rector of the University of Warsaw of 17 April 2023 students who start their studies (Archaeology – Studies in English) in the academic year 2023/2024 are not paying the tuition fee.
The list of other payments (for repetition of classes and classes not included in the study curriculum) you can find on page 4 of the mentioned ordinance.
2022/23
According to Ordinance no 50 of the Rector of the University of Warsaw of 14 April 2022 students who start their studies (Archaeology – Studies in English) in the academic year 2022/2023 are not paying the tuition fee.
The list of other payments (for repetition of classes and classes not included in the study curriculum) you can find on page 9 of the mentioned ordinance.
2021/22
According to Ordinance no 63 of the Rector of the University of Warsaw of 31 March 2021 students who start their studies (Archaeology – Studies in English) in the academic year 2021/2022 are not paying the tuition fee.
The list of other payments (for repetition of classes and classes not included in the study curriculum) you can find on pages 11 and 12 of the mentioned ordinance.
2020/21
Archaeology – Studies in English is a fee-paying programme for students who are recruited in 2020/21. The list of payments has been announced by Rector in the Ordinance no. 64 from March 31st, 2020.
According to the Ordinance of the Rector no. 130 from September 30th, 2019, §4:
- The deadlines for paying fees are set by the Head of the Educational Unit (EUH)*
- The student pays all or the first rat of the fee listed in § 2 points 1, 3 and 5 before the commencement of the year of studies, however not earlier than after confirming the oath in writing. A foreign student may pay the fee before taking the oath in writing.
- A student using a student loan may pay the fee in monthly rates and on the payment dates of loan tranches, provided that the bank has documented order to transfer the loan rates to the University account.
*The EUH in the faculties is the vice-dean for students’ affairs.
And according to the same document, §5:
EUH may exempt a student from the fee in whole or in part, or spread the fee into installments on a justified and documented request of the student.*
*However, according to the Polish law, a student who is exempt from payment in whole or in part should pay the income tax.
More details concerning the rules of payments are available in the Ordinance no. 13 from September 30th, 2019 (English version available soon).
The payment deadline
According to § 4(1) of Rector’s Order No. 130 of September 30, 2019 and § 8(1), the Vice-dean for Student’s affairs set the payment deadline to 30/12/2020.
In the case of individual exemptions or reductions, the date and amount of fees will be established separately.
The text of the announcement is available here.
2024/25 academic year
University of Warsaw scholarships
Form and deadlines for submitting applications for students to be awarded the Rector’s scholarship, social scholarship, scholarship for disabled persons and a assistance grant in the academic year 2024/2025:
More information:
Rector’s scholarship https://bpm.uw.edu.pl/en/rectors-scholarship/
Social scholarship https://bpm.uw.edu.pl/en/social-scholarship/
Scholarship for students with disabilities https://bpm.uw.edu.pl/en/scholarship-for-people-with-disabilities/
Assistance grant https://bpm.uw.edu.pl/en/assistance-grant/
Rector’s Ordinance – the Rules of students’ benefits at the University of Warsaw
Allowance aid and social scholarship for foreign students
Minister’s scholarship
https://bpm.uw.edu.pl/en/ministers-scholarship/
Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA)
NAWA is set up to coordinate state activities driving the process of internationalization of Polish academic and research institutions. The mission of NAWA is to foster the development of Poland in the area of science and higher education.
Through developing the existing grant and aid programmes, NAWA aims at developing Polish students mobility and encouraging foreigners to start their studies in Poland at a number of fields to be conducted both in Polish and foreign languages.
NAWA coordinates scholarship programmes under terms set forth in agreements, with the collaboration of Polish diplomatic missions and institutes which will publish the offer for students on their websites. The grant amount will depend on the type of study course.
Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) – Foreign Students
More information: Scholarships delivered by the Government of Poland
Visegrad Scholarship Program
Visegrad scholarships support Bachelor, Master and post-Master students and researchers in all disciplines and in any language for up to four semesters at more than 190 higher education institutions across Central and Eastern Europe.
Detailed information: https://www.visegradfund.org/apply/mobilities/visegrad-scholarship/
Faculty of Archaeology Student Minigrants (edition from 2020/21)
The organiser of the Competition is the Faculty of Archaeology. The aim of the Competition is to support activities related to the educational process and the development of knowledge, competencies and skills of full-time students of the Faculty, and thus to improve their qualifications, by supporting tasks directly related to the implementation of the topics of their diploma theses. The competition is open to all full-time students in the Archaeology and “Archaeology (Studies in English)” courses conducted at the Faculty, who have obtained a grade point average of at least 4.0 at the end of the stage preceding the year in which the competition is announced. Only Faculty members holding at least a doctoral degree may act as the Supervisor of a project or projects carried out within the framework of the Competition. A seven-person Committee conducts an assessment of the merits of the project. The Committee is composed of the Dean and Vice-Deans of the Faculty, a representative of the Archaeology Faculty Students’ Self-Government, as well as one representative of full-time undergraduate, part-time undergraduate students from outside the Self-Government as suggested by the Self-Government. There is one edition of the Competition in a given academic year, the maximum amount of funding for one project in a given edition is 10 000 PLN, and the maximum project implementation time is 12 months.
Documents to download
- Competition Rules Faculty of Archaeology Student Mini-grants
- Annex no. 1 [application template]
- Annex no. 2 [formal assessment sheet]
- Annex no. 3 [implementation and qualitative assessment sheet]
- Annex no. 4 [statement and regulations acceptance]
- Załącznik nr 5 [umowa licencji niewyłącznej – minigranty]
- Załącznik nr 6 [sprawozdanie merytoryczno-finansowe]
3rd Edition 2022/23
We announce the call for applications in the 3rd edition of the Competition for the FA UW Student Mini-Grant in the academic year 2022/2023. The application should be submitted in electronic form with attachments by sending it from an account in the student.uw.edu.pl domain to the following address: wa.studia@uw.edu.pl with the heading “Competition Student Minigrants WA UW 3”.
- Applications should be submitted by January 8, 2023, at 23:59.
- Settlement of the competition – the date will be announced after the end of collecting applications.
2nd Edition 2021/22
We announce the call for applications in the 2nd edition of the Student Minigrant Competition at the University of Warsaw in the academic year 2021/2022. The next stages of the competition will be announced gradually. The application should be submitted in electronic form with attachments by sending it from an account in the student.uw.edu.pl domain to the following address: wa.studia@uw.edu.pl with the heading “Minigrant Student Competition WA UW 2”.
- Applications should be submitted by February 25, 2022, by 23.59.
- Competition adjudication – the date will be announced after the collection of applications is completed.
1st Edition 2020/21
Due to the implementation of a completely new competition system, this year’s edition is exceptionally delayed. Students who meet the competition criteria and who want to defend their diplomas on time, may apply for co-financing of activities supporting the creation of their diploma theses, such as the costs of trips, scans or graphics.
Applications should be submitted by May 18, 2021, by 23.59.
The formal evaluation will take place by May 21, 2021.
The adjutication will be announced on June 10th, 2021.
Qualified for the 2nd stage (after formal evaluation):
Damian Bursa
Paweł Rongies
Bartosz Placak
The Committee evaluating applications in terms of content and quality:
Dean, dr hab. Bartosz Kontny, prof. UW, Chairman of the Committee,
Vice-Dean for Research and Development, dr hab. Arkadiusz Sołtysiak, prof. UW,
Vice-Dean for Finance, Dr. Michał Starski,
Vice-Dean for Student Affairs. dr hab. Agnieszka Tomas,
Representative of the BA students, Ms. Gabriela Prejs,
Representative of the MA students, Ms. Joanna Pawlik,
Representative of the Student Council, Mr. Jan Chmielewski-Gill.
Student Minigrants (edition 2018/19)
Student mini-grants are awarded as part of the Education Individualisation Program (PIK). This is a special subsidy, which in previous years was awarded as part of the funds granted by the Minister of Science and Higher Education as part of the subsidy for co-financing pro-quality actions from the funds for the students who obtained the best results of their matura exams in the year of starting their studies. In the 2019/2020 academic year, on the basis of the so-called Act 2.0. such funds were not allocated to the universities, but the programme was continued from central funds by Rector.
More information in Polish can be found here.
Grants can be used to finance or co-finance participation in summer schools, workshops, courses, queries, conferences, archival research, analytical research for thesis, etc.
All expenses (included in the project cost estimate) should be consulted with the Faculty Finance Department (Sekcja Ekonomiczno-Finasowa, Ms. Krystyna Dudzińska), tickets should be purchased through the office servicing the University of Warsaw (currently WhyNotTravel), invoices should be issued for the University of Warsaw.
After completion of the project, all costs and effects in form of the report should be submitted in an electronical and paper form to the Vice-Dean for Student Affairs.
The completion of the projects approved in the 2019/20 academic year is extended until August 31, 2021.
ERASMUS+ Programme
The International Relations Office (Biuro Współpracy z Zagranicą, BWZ – in English IRO) is the office which coordinates the Erasmus+ programme at our University. In each faculty, including Faculty of Archaeology, there is a Mobility Coordinator who can advise on academic matters and the selection of proper courses, as well as sign the Learning Agreement. The students who arrive to study at our Faculty can participate courses held in English. If you want to choose the courses in English you should contact the Head of Archaeology (Studies in English).
LLP-Erasmus Coordinator: Artur Grabarek, e-mail: a.grabarek@uw.edu.pl
The Head of Archaeology (Studies in English): dr Katarzyna Pyżewicz, e-mail: k.pyzewicz@uw.edu.pl
Confirmation of Arrival
Some Universities require the confirmation of arrival. The document to be filled out by the IRO is always provided by your home institution. It will be signed at the beginning of your studies at the University of Warsaw. If you are not sure whether your institution requires such a document, please contact the IRO/Erasmus Office coordinator at your home University.
Learning Agreement
Within the first month of your exchange you should prepare your Learning Agreement “During the mobility” (part 2). This part should include all the changes in your courses: Any courses you will not attend should be removed or replaced with those you have chosen to attend. The document should reflect your registrations. When your LA is ready, please contact your directly. Once it is signed by all the parties, please provide us with a scan.
Remember that first you have to make changes in the registration and then sign the Learning Agreement. If you add or delete courses only in your Learning Agreement, it will not affect your registration!
Course Registration
Remember that you need to be registered for all the courses you are attending. Some units allow Erasmus & Exchange students to register by themselves, whereas at others you need to contact the Mobility Coordinator. The coordinator should accompany you to the Office for Students Affairs and to contact the he Head of Archaeology (Studies in English) at our Faculty.
Important: Learning Agreement is not registration. If you want to add/delete a course, make sure to do the changes in your registration as well!
Electronic Student Card validity and extenstion
Every University of Warsaw student can apply for an Electronic Student Card (ELS). Check how you can benefit from having the card and how to apply here.
Electronic Student Card is valid from the start of the semester. If you study at the University of Warsaw for two semesters, you will have to extend the validity of your ELS. At the beginning of the second semester, you will receive detailed information about the procedure.
Accomodation
The University of Warsaw offers 2500 places in six dormitories situated in various parts of Warsaw. Each residence hall has a quiet study lounge, a TV room, a computer room and a laundry facility. The monthly rent ranges from EUR 75 to 160 (PLN 315-670) per person, depending on the type of the room.
All the dormitories are located close to other University premises. [map]
Check how to apply for a place in a dormitory here and here.
You can also find some information here.
The Welcome Point
The Welcome Point is the central information service for international employees, visitors and students – both those who come to the UW for one semester exchange and to pursue the whole cycle of their studies. The Welcome Point cooperates closely with the Admissions Office, the International Relations Office, the Office for Student Affairs and other University units to provide the students with relevant and up-to-date information in matters related to the University, accomodation, student activities, and everyday life.
You can find the Welcome Point Office at Main Campus and Ochota Campus. It is opened open from Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to the last changes in the epidemic situation in Poland the Welcome Point offices remain open for visitors in urgent matters. However, please remember the sanitary rules – disinfection hands, wearing a mask and keeping an appropriate distance. The Welcome Point Team also asks you for prior appointments of visits by e-mail or phone. All matters which do not require in-person contact should be resolved by e-mail or phone.
The Please check the Welcome Point website here.
FAQs
If you have any questions, please check the IRO website where you can find some answers: FAQs
While studying at the University of Warsaw, you are asked to read the following documents:
Extension of Stay
Students coming for the first semester have the possibility of applying for an extension of stay for the second semester. In order to do so, they have to submit the Extension Form signed by the Mobility Coordinator of your receiving unit at UW and the coordinator at your home University.
The application deadline is November 30th.
Safety and Wellbeing
Studying at a new university in another country is a great opportunity but it can sometimes be a little challenging. Things may work not as smoothly as planned; different problems may occur.
We would like you to remember that the IRO UW Team and the University of Warsaw staff is there to assist with any difficulty, so feel free to contact us whenever you need support:
At the end of your stay, you should remember about the following :
Confirmation of Stay
Visit the IRO at the end of your stay to get the Confirmation of Stay – a document confirming the dates of your studies at the University of Warsaw.
Some institutions have their own forms to be filled out by the IRO.
If you received such a form, please make sure to bring it printed to the IRO. Otherwise, we will provide you with a document generated from our system.
Please remember that we can confirm your stay only until the day you come to visit the IRO!
Anonymous questionnaire about your stay at the University of Warsaw
Shortly before the end of the semester you will receive a link to an anonymous questionnaire about your stay at the University of Warsaw.
Clearance Slip
During your visit to the IRO we will activate your Clearance Slip.
You will find it in the common Section of the USOSweb.
Transcript of Records
Transcript of Records will be issued when you have all your grades in USOSweb. Please monitor your grades in USOSweb and inform your contact person at the IRO once the grades appear.
Before you get obtain the Transcript of records, you need to complete the previous steps: the Confirmation of stay, the Anonymous questionnaire and the Clearance Slip.
You don’t have to be in Warsaw to receive the document. We will provide you with a scan of your Transcript of Records as soon as it is ready.
More information for incoming students is here.
University of Warsaw offers help to those who experienced discrimination, sexual violation, mobbing or any unequal treatment and violation of student rights.
It is the duty of every employee of the University of Warsaw to respect the principles of equality in such a way that every student and employee of our University felt safe within the walls of our Faculty, convinced that his / her rights are properly respected.
First steps
If you are a student or employee and you experience unfair or degrading treatment, or you notice that someone around you is being treated badly, you can first contact Representative for Equality at our Faculty. If you are a student, you can contact the Student Council, the Vice-Dean for Student Affairs or 1st-year students tutor. These people can listen to your problems and help you to find the proper institution where you can receive professional support.
If you are in a crisis situation and you need immediate psychological support, contact the Warsaw Crisis Intervention Center or or 116sos.pl
The university also offers support to people who are in crisis. More information can be found here and in the institutions and persons described below.
Representative for Equality at the Faculty of Archaeology
It is the first contact person at our Faculty for matters related to unequal treatment, discrimination, sexual harassment, and other undesirable behavior. This person informs about training, equality courses, and anti-discrimination procedures.
A Representative for Equality cooperates with the Academic Ombudsman for student and employee affairs, the Equality Team, and the Team of Coordinators for counteracting unequal treatment, discrimination, mobbing and other undesirable behaviour.
Representative for Equality at the Faculty of Archaeology is Dr. hab. Katarzyna Pyżewicz
Conatct: k.pyzewicz@uw.edu.pl
Council of the Students’ Self-Government of the Faculty of Archeology (for students)
You can contact our Student Council for advice on problems and crisis situations that may arise at the Faculty, University or outside the university.
Contact: https://www.archeologia.uw.edu.pl/en/students-council/
1st-year tutor (for students)
The tutor is a person who helps new students to get acquainted with the University and Faculty, who can answer all questions concerning your first steps in archaeology. You can also contact this person if you feel that it is the best solution. Tutor will tell you what you can do and where to go with your problem. Dr. Julia Chyla is the 1st-year tutor of our students.
Contact: j.chyla@uw.edu.pl
Vice-Dean for Student Affairs (for students)
Although the main task of the vice-dean for student affairs is the organization of education at the Faculty, it is also a person to whom evry student may address a question or complaint regarding the violation of the rules of equality and tolerance and the student rights. Each case can be reported by e-mail or by contacting the vice-dean.
Contact: Dr. Elżbieta Jaskulska wa.student@uw.edu.pl, how to contact directly is described here
Ombudsman
The Academic Ombudsman is a person to whom students, academic and administrative employees can ask for help with matters related to the university and its community. The Ombudsman can be addressed with any mobbing and discrimination issue, which will be dealt with confidentiality (in regard to both information provided to the Ombudsman and identity of the person making the report), independence, neutrality and impartiality. The task of the Ombudsman is to support employees and students in the conflict resolution and to ensure that all members of the academic community are treated fairly and righteously.
Cases to the ombudsman can be reported both by individuals – employees, doctoral students and students, as well as organizational units of the University of Warsaw, and student and doctoral self-government bodies.
The reporting procedure is described here.
Contact: http://ombudsman.uw.edu.pl/en/contact/
Equality Team
The members of the Equality Team create and implement anti-discrimination policies, and activities for equal treatment and diversity; conduct research in the field of equality and coordinate, supervise, and support activities for equality education; undertake promotional activities and raise awareness of equality and diversity issues.
Anna Grędzińska
Equal opportunities chief specialist
Coordinator for counteracting unequal treatment, discrimination, mobbing and other undesirable behaviour
Dr. hab. Julia Kubisa, prof. UW
Chief specialist on equality research and education
Zuzanna Kaszuba
Equality classes specialist
Contact: https://rownowazni.uw.edu.pl/en/contact/
We encourage you to visit the UW Equality Website
Anyone who has experienced discrimination, unequal treatment, or other undesirable behaviour may report the incident directly to the members of the Equality Team, Ombudsman, or representative for Equality at the faculty.
Student Ombudsman (for students)
The competences of the Student Ombudsman include: all activities related to the student rights, activities to increase students’ awareness of their rights, help in solving problems and represent the student interest. The Student Ombudsman provides information on the student’s rights, indicates which procedure is most beneficial from the point of view of the student’s interests and intervenes before the competent body of the University.
Student Ombudsman – Zuzanna Bastek
Plenipotentiary for Equality- Magdalena Michałowska
The Psychological and Counselling Services Centre (CPP UW)
The Psychological and Counselling Services Centre is a university center that offers free assistance to students and UW employees with any personal, emotional, and psychological concerns they may be experiencing. The center provides single consultations and meetings focused on intervention, individual short-term psychotherapy, time-limited group psychotherapy, and the possibility of participating in workshops and psychoeducational work.
Contact: https://cpp.uw.edu.pl/en/contact-us/
Office for Persons with Disabilities (BON)
Office for Persons with Disabilities is an institution whose aim is to help and support people with disabilities, both students in the pursuit of their studies and employees of the university. Office for Persons with Disabilities can be addressed by anyone who, due to his/her disability, experiences inferior treatment or faces barriers in the course of studying or undertaking other important activities necessary for the proper functioning at the University.
Contact: https://bon.uw.edu.pl/contact/
Medical care and health insurance
University of Warsaw students and employees can use the healthcare provided by the CenterMed academic clinic free of charge.
More information about the medical care and health insurance system in Poland can be found here: https://welcome.uw.edu.pl/healthcare/
Academic Legal Advice Centre (for students)
The Academic Legal Advice Centre is an institution providing free legal aid to students, relating to student matters, as well as civil law, family and guardianship law, labour law, administrative law, and more. Individuals who provide counseling in the unit are generally students of the last years, graduates, and PhD students of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, who work with the support of advisers experienced in a particular field.
Contact: https://akademickaporadniaprawna.pl/kontakt/
Center for Dispute and Conflict Resolution at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw
The Center for Dispute and Conflict Resolution is an organisation whose statutory purpose is to promote amicable conflict resolution. The Center mediates cases directed by the courts, as well as cases in which the parties refer personally.
For more information, visit the Center’s website
Guides, training, campaigns
Guide to the prevention of sexual harassment at the University of Warsaw
Anti-discrimination Guidebook for students and employees of the University of Warsaw
Recommendations on non-discriminatory language at the University of Warsaw (2021) available in Polish
Guides for transgender people in academia created by the scholar society Queer UW (available in Polish):
- Handbook “Trans* – inclusive University. Creating a student-friendly university trans* people. A guide for universities”
- Handbook “Trans * – inclusive University. Creating a student-friendly university for trans* people. A guide for administration”
- Handbook “Trans * – inclusive University. Creating a student-friendly university for trans* people. A guide for trans* students”
The social campaign “We are all equal” is addressed to the entire community of the University of Warsaw. Its purpose is to strongly emphasize that there is no place for discrimination at UW and that people who experience it will find support at the university.
The social campaign “Mind your words” – for the promotion of dialogue and against hate speech. The aim of the campaign is to emphasize that there is no place for hate and hate speech at the UW, and that any person who has experienced or witnessed them will find support at the university.
The “Understanding Equality” course for Warsaw University employees and students is available in Polish and English on the Kampus e-learning platform.
Overview
The study programme extensively covers new trends in archaeological research and discusses archaeology’s social function. Our course focuses mostly on Mediterranean archaeology and providing students with the elementary knowledge and practical skills that will enable them to participate in excavations anywhere around the world.
The programme includes a wide range of courses on general topics in archaeology, as well as in-depth courses on prehistoric and ancient societies of the Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Roman Provinces and the Americas. Simultaneously, our course focuses on practical aspects; excavation methods, field documentation, data acquisition and processing techniques, all indispensable in modern academic practice, or museology, which prepares students for exhibition organisation and cooperation with cultural institutions.
A significant element within the programme is field training: field walking survey and excavation seasons. The excavations are conducted by researchers affiliated with the Faculty of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw, in Poland or abroad – in Egypt, Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, Italy, South America and many more locations.
During their studies, students acquire specialist knowledge in archaeology enabling their active participation in excavations at sites of diverse character – reading and documenting stratigraphy, handling measuring devices, preparing research or museum catalogue entries, searching archives, performing scholarly analyses and drawing conservation records, as well as realising exhibitions.
Professional and general knowledge developed in the course of their studies, as well as competencies in individual work and cooperation within a team, form a strong base for further studies at the second-cycle level in archaeology and other fields.
Programme
BA started in academic years: 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2024/2025
Printable version of programme: BA started in 2019-25
1st year
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- Introduction to Archaeology – Lecture, 60 hrs (4 ECTS)
- Archaeology of Egypt and Nubia – Lecture, 60 hrs (4 ECTS) and obligatory classes, 60 hrs (5 ECTS)
- Archaeology of the Ancient Near East – Lecture, 60 hrs (4 ECTS) and obligatory classes, 60 hrs (5 ECTS)
- Outline of Prehistoric Archaeology – Lecture, 60 hrs (4 ECTS)
- Environmental Archaeology – Obligatory classes, 30 hrs (2 ECTS)
- Bioarchaeology – Obligatory classes, 30 hrs (2 ECTS)
- Archaeological Excavation Methods and Surveying – Obligatory classes, 60 hrs (4 ECTS)
- Techniques of Data Acquisition and Processing – Obligatory classes, 30 hrs (2 ECTS)
- OGUN (General University Courses) – Selected from the offer, 60 hrs (5 ECTS)
- Intellectual Property Protection – Obligatory classes, 4 hrs (0.5 ECTS)
- Occupational Health and Safety – Obligatory classes, 4 hrs (0.5 ECTS)
- Sport – 30 hrs (no ECTS)*
- Excavations – 300 hrs (18 ECTS)
Sum of ECTS: 60
* Please check the information provided here
2nd year
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- Archaeology of Rome and the Roman Provinces – Lecture, 60 hrs (4 ECTS) and obligatory classes, 60 hrs (5 ECTS)
- Archaeology of Greece – Lecture, 60 hrs (4 ECTS) and obligatory classes, 60 hrs (5 ECTS)
- Outline of Archaeology of the Americas – Lecture, 60 hrs (4 ECTS)
- Museology, Conservation and Popularisation of Archaeology – Lecture, 60 hrs (4 ECTS)
- Ancient Technology: Stone, Pottery and Glass – Obligatory classes, 30 hrs (2 ECTS)
- Ancient Technology: Organic Materials – Obligatory classes, 30 hrs (2 ECTS)
- Archaeological Documentation Methods – Obligatory classes, 60 hrs (4 ECTS)
- Photography and Drawing of Artefacts – Obligatory classes, 60 hrs (4 ECTS)
- OGUN (General University Courses) – Selected from the offer, 60 hrs (5 ECTS)
- Ancient Language (Latin) – Obligatory classes, 60 hrs (4 ECTS)
- Modern Language– Classes, 120 hrs (4 ECTS)*
- Sport – 60 hrs (0 ECTS)**
- Excavations – 150 hrs (9 ECTS)
Sum of ECTS: 60
* Please check the information provided here
** Please check the information provided here
3rd year
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- Proseminar I: Egypt and Near East – 60 hrs (6 ECTS)
- Proseminar II: Classical Archaeology – 60 hrs (6 ECTS)
- Optional classes – Classes selected from the offer, 3 x 30 hrs (3 x 3 ECTS)
- Introduction to Methodology – Obligatory conversatory, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)
- Scientific Workshop – Obligatory conversatory, 30 hrs (4 ECTS)
- OGUN (General University Courses), Selected from the offer, 60 hrs (5 ECTS)
- Ancient Language (Greek) – Seminar, 60 hrs (4 ECTS)
- Modern Language – 120 hrs (4 ECTS)*
- Modern Language EXAM – 0 hrs (2 ECTS)*
- Sport – 60 hrs (0 ECTS)**
- Fieldwalking surveys – 30 hrs (1 ECTS)
- BA thesis – (16 ECTS)
Sum of ECTS: 60
* Please check the information provided here
** Please check the information provided here
Before you start attending the classes, please check whether you submitted all necessary application documents to the Students’ Affairs Office. As soon as all these documents are submitted, you will be able to log in to the USOSweb system with the same login and password as the IRK (application) system:
Then you can choose the classes and lectures according to your programme and schedule. Please note that OGUN lectures must be paid for with tokens, which are visible on your account. For any questions concerning the USOSweb system, visit the Welcome Point on the Main Campus:
For any questions concerning the BA programme, please contact the Head of Archaeology (Studies in English), Dr. Katarzyna Pyżewicz wa.head.archeology@uw.edu.pl
Foreign students have a right to learn the Polish language for free.
Students of the first cycle (Bachelor’s degree) can get:
• 240 tokens for Polish language classes
• 180 tokens for lectures organized by Polonicum
• 2 tokens for a state certificate examination
http://polonicum.uw.edu.pl/en/courses-during-the-academic-year
http://polonicum.uw.edu.pl/en/state-certificate-examinations
For more details, please contact the Head of Archaeology (Studies in English), Dr. Katarzyna Pyżewicz wa.head.archeology@uw.edu.pl
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Bioarchaeology and/or Eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archaeology
Overview
The programme is designed for candidates from all around the world who want to study bioarchaeology and Eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology. We offer in-depth courses in the excavation of human and animal remains as well as courses in osteology, bone taphonomy and archaeological chemistry. Our lecturers have substantial fieldwork experience in various areas of the Near East and specialist lectures and classes are accompanied by the general curriculum in the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East.
A significant element within the programme is field training: field walking survey and excavation seasons. The excavations are conducted by researchers affiliated with the Faculty of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw, in Poland or abroad – in Egypt, Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, Italy, South America and many more locations.
In the course of the programme, students will gain expertise in particular specialisations within archaeology, practical knowledge in excavating burial grounds as well as handling animal and human remains. At the same time, they will receive general humanistic knowledge enabling them to engage in interdisciplinary cooperation with researchers from other fields of study.
Our graduates will become professional excavators of cemeteries and animal bone deposits, with training in osteology sufficient for fieldwork macroscopic analyses of human remains, including sex and age assessment, basic palaeopathology, stress markers, metric measurements and basic odontology. They will be able to place results of bioarchaeological research in a wider historical and ecological context, as well as carry out various kinds of more specific laboratory research. Graduates of this second-cycle course will be prepared for independent research, as well as working for research and educational institutions, museums and conservation laboratories.
Programme
MA started in academic year 2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2024/2025
Printable version of programme: MA started in 2022-25
1st year
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- Seminar I: Bioarchaeology – 60 hrs (9 ECTS)*
- Seminar II: Near East Archaeology – 60 hrs (9 ECTS)*
- History of Archaeology: Birth of Archaeology – Lecture, 30 hrs (2 ECTS)
- Introduction to Bioarchaeology – Lecture, 60 hrs (4 ECTS)
- Methodology of Archaeology – Lecture, 60 hrs (4 ECTS)
- Scientific Writing Workshop – Obligatory class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)
- Obligatory courses – Class, 2 x 30 hrs (2 x 3 ECTS):*
- Obligatory course I: Basic Human Osteology – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
- Obligatory course I: Advanced Human Osteology – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
————————————OR————————————— - Obligatory course II: Selected Problems of Mediterranean Archaeology – Class, 60 hrs (6 ECTS)*
- Obligatory workshops – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
- Obligatory workshop I: Bioarchaeology – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
————————————OR————————————— - Obligatory workshop II: Archaeological Geophysics in
Practice – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
- Obligatory workshop I: Bioarchaeology – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
- Facultative courses – Class, 2 x 30 hrs (2 x 3 ECTS)
- Selected General University Courses [OGUN] – 60 hrs (5 ECTS)
- Intellectual Property Protection – Lecture, 4hrs (0 ECTS)
- Occupational Health and Safety – Lecture, 4hrs (0 ECTS)
- Excavations – 150 hrs (9 ECTS)
Sum of ECTS: 60
* Students decide the specialisation they want to choose for their Master Thesis (either I. Bioarchaeology or II. Near East Archaeology). According to this choice they have to choose the appropriate obligatory courses (Obligatory courses I if Bioarchaeology is chosen or Obligatory courses II if Near East Archaeology is chosen) and, similarly, the appropriate obligatory workshop (either Bioarchaeology or Archaeological Geophysics in Practice). The course that a student is not obliged to pass as a part of their specialisation can be chosen as a facultative course (e.g. a Bioarchaeology student can choose Selected Problems of Mediterranean Archaeology as a facultative course).
The list of available courses is presented each year in the course schedule.
For the students who start their studies in the academic year 2023/2024 – the course “History of Archaeology: Birth of Archaeology” will be held in the second year
2nd year
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- Seminar – 60 hrs (9 ECTS)
- Seminar I: Bioarchaeology – 60 hrs (9 ECTS)
————————————OR————————————— - Seminar II: Near East Archaeology – 60 hrs (9 ECTS)
- Seminar I: Bioarchaeology – 60 hrs (9 ECTS)
- Facultative courses – Class, 5 x 30 hrs (5 x 3 ECTS)
- Visualisation of research results (workshops) – class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)
- Obligatory workshops – Class, 30 hrs (2 ECTS)*
- Obligatory workshop I: Bioarchaeology – Class, 30 hrs (2 ECTS)*
————————————OR————————————— - Obligatory workshop II: Archaeological geophysics in practice – Class, 30 hrs (2 ECTS)*
- Obligatory workshop I: Bioarchaeology – Class, 30 hrs (2 ECTS)*
- Selected General University Courses [OGUN] – 60 hrs (5 ECTS)
- Field survey training – 30 hrs (2 ECTS)
- MA thesis – (24 ECTS)
- Seminar – 60 hrs (9 ECTS)
Sum of ECTS: 60
The list of available courses is presented each year in the course schedule.
MA started in academic years: 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022
Printable version of programme: MA started in 2019-2022
1st year
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- Seminar I: Bioarchaeology – 60 hrs (9 ECTS)*
- Seminar II: Near East Archaeology – 60 hrs (9 ECTS)*
- History of Archaeology: Birth of Archaeology – Lecture, 30 hrs (2 ECTS)
- Introduction to Bioarchaeology – Lecture, 60 hrs (4 ECTS)
- Methodology of Archaeology – Lecture, 60 hrs (4 ECTS)
- Scientific Writing Workshop – Obligatory class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)
- Obligatory courses – Class, 2 x 30 hrs (2 x 3 ECTS):*
- Obligatory course I: Basic Human Osteology – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
- Obligatory course I: Advanced Human Osteology – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
————————————OR————————————— - Obligatory course II: Selected Problems of Mediterranean Archaeology – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)
- Selected Problems of Ancient Egyptian Culture – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
- Obligatory workshops – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
- Obligatory workshop I: Bioarchaeology – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
————————————OR————————————— - Obligatory workshop II: Exploring Academic Research Papers – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
- Obligatory workshop I: Bioarchaeology – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
- Facultative courses – Class, 2 x 30 hrs (2 x 3 ECTS)
- Selected General University Courses [OGUN] – Lecture, 60 hrs (5 ECTS)
- Occupational Health and Safety – Lecture, 4hrs (0 ECTS)
- Excavations – 150 hrs (9 ECTS)
Sum of ECTS: 60
* Students decide the specialisation they want to choose for their Master Thesis (either I. Bioarchaeology or II. Near East Archaeology). According to this choice they have to choose the appropriate obligatory courses (Obligatory courses I if Bioarchaeology is chosen or Obligatory courses II if Near East Archaeology is chosen) and, similarly, the appropriate obligatory workshop (either Bioarchaeology or Exploring Academic Research Papers). The course that a student is not obliged to pass as a part of their specialisation can be chosen as a facultative course (e.g. a Bioarchaeology student can choose Selected Problems of Mediterranean Archaeology as a facultative course).
The list of available courses is presented each year in the course schedule.
2nd year
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- Seminar – 60 hrs (9 ECTS)
- Seminar I: Bioarchaeology – 60 hrs (9 ECTS)
————————————OR————————————— - Seminar II: Near East Archaeology – 60 hrs (9 ECTS)
- Seminar I: Bioarchaeology – 60 hrs (9 ECTS)
- Facultative courses – Class, 6 x 30 hrs (6 x 3 ECTS)
- Obligatory workshops – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
- Obligatory workshop I: Bioarchaeology – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
————————————OR————————————— - Obligatory workshop II: Archaeological geophysics in practice – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
- Obligatory workshop I: Bioarchaeology – Class, 30 hrs (3 ECTS)*
- Selected General University Courses [OGUN] – Lecture, 60 hrs (5 ECTS)
- Field survey training – 30 hrs (1 ECTS)
- MA thesis – (24 ECTS)
- Seminar – 60 hrs (9 ECTS)
Sum of ECTS: 60
The list of available courses is presented each year in the course schedule.
PLEASE NOTE: When the number of students is low, the general programme may be modified each year. Students who are interested in other areas of archaeology may be allowed to enrol in some of our Polish seminars as external students (knowledge of Polish required). Some facultative courses and monographic lectures may be available on a bi-annual basis. Please consult the Head of Archaeology (Studies in English), Dr. Katarzyna Pyżewicz (wa.head.archeology@uw.edu.pl) if you would like to modify the schedule planned for the next semester.
Foreign students have a right to learn the Polish language for free.
Students of the second cycle (Master’s degree) can get:
• 240 tokens for Polish language classes
• 180 tokens for lectures organized by Polonicum
http://polonicum.uw.edu.pl/en/courses-during-the-academic-year
For more details, please contact the Head of Archaeology (Studies in English), Dr. Katarzyna Pyżewicz wa.head.archeology@uw.edu.pl
FOR STUDENTS
1) First check the information provided on this website, then contact the Instructor for detailed information regarding all arrangements. You will find a lot of information on the Information Boards by the entrance to the Faculty – including dates of organizational meetings during which you will learn everything you need to know about the field training.
2) Register for participation with the Instructor, unless stated otherwise in the instructions. Registration in USOS will be open ahead of the starting date. If you register with the Instructor, he/she will provide the list to be registered in USOS.
Please note: Not all of the field training instructors accept foreign (non-Polish speaking) students due to various reasons. This decision, because of very specific character of the field training and safety reasons, is always left to their discretion. Students of BA and MA English Programmes with good command of Polish may register for the surveys and excavations appearing also in the Polish version of the website (after contact and acceptance from the Instructor). This is why the field training offer differs on the Polish and English versions of the website.
3) In order to receive a grade for participation in the excavations required by the study programme, every Participant should be inscribed in USOS and fill out FIELD training form_EN together with the Instructor. This document includes some basic info on the site and lists all required activities and grades to be obtained by the Participant.
4) Additionally, by the end of the field walking survey or excavations, all the Participants should evaluate them, just as Students evaluate every class they take. The evaluation documents are here: Evaluation sheet of excavation field training and Evaluation sheet of field survey training and the rules specifying how the evaluation procedure should be implemented (for Instructors) here in Polish: procedura oceny zajęć .
Both documents should be delivered via email to the address: wa.student@uw.edu.pl by one of the students or in paper to the vice-Dean of the students’ affairs before the end of the academic year.
For information on the field training contact either the Head of Archaeology (Studies in English) or vice-Dean for students’ affairs.
Field walking survey -“powierzchniówki”- is compulsory field training for all students of undergraduate and Master’s degree programmes. It consists of 30 hrs of classes, cumulated in one week.
Students interested in taking part in a field walking survey should report to the instructor, after the dates for the survey are published.
The conditions of participation vary depending on the group – detailed information is provided by the instructor.
For information on the field walking survey contact either the Instructor or the Head of Archaeology (Studies in English).
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Field walking survey – autumn 2024, 21-27 October 2024
Site: Ćmielów (Duży Gawroniec), gm. loco, woj. świętokrzyskie
Instructor: dr Artur Grabarek
Date: 21-27.10.2024
Limit: 8
Contact: a.grabarek@uw.edu.pl
Site: Jezioro Jezuickie k. Bydgoszczy
Only for sudents with diving license.
Instructors: mgr Artur Brzóska, dr hab. prof ucz. Bartosz Kontny
Limit: 4
Contact: a.brzoska6@uw.edu.pl
Excavations training is an essential part of the Archaeology study programme. Participation is obligatory.
At BA level, the requirement is 450 hrs (ca. 3 months)
At MA level, the requirement is 150 hrs (ca. 1 month)
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For information on the excavations contact either the Instructor or the Head of Archaeology (Studies in English).
Excavations training – summer 2024
Polish-speaking students may register for all excavations. Foreign students should contact individual instructors for detailed information (not all instructors accept non-Polish speaking students).
The list of excavations for students (constantly updated):
Site: Novae – Bulgaria (Roman legionary fortress and late Roman town)
Instructor: dr hab. Agnieszka Tomas, prof. UW
Date: 5/08-31/08/2024
Number of places: 6 (for 4 weeks) – 1 place for 3 weeks and one place for 2 weeks (first half of August) are still available
Information: own transport; accommodation in double rooms and houses; the cost of food and accommodation is fully covered by the student allowance granted by the Faculty.
Contact: agnieszka.tomas@uw.edu.pl
Place: Dudka, gm. Wydminy, pow. Giżycko, Mazury
Instructors: dr hab. Witold Gumiński, dr Karolina Bugajska
Date: 30 June – 27 July 2024
Limit: 10- 12 students
Contact and registration: w.guminski@uw.edu.pl
Place: Jaskinia Raj, woj. świętokrzyskie
Instructors: dr hab. Małgorzata Kot, dr hab. Claudio Berto
Date: 28 June – 25 July 2024
Limit: 5 students
Contact: m.kot@uw.edu.pl
Place: Zwoleń, woj. mazowieckie
Instructors: dr hab. Katarzyna Pyżewicz
Date: 1 July – 26 July 2024
Limit: 8 students
Currently no places available.
Contact:k.pyzewicz@uw.edu.pl
Place: Puck
Instructors: dr Michał Starski, mgr Maciej Miścicki
Date (July) 1-26 July 2024
Date (August) 5-30 August 2024
Limit : 15 students for July and 15 students for August
Contact: m.starski@uw.edu.pl
Place: Zaborów, gm. Leszno, woj. mazowieckie
Instructors: dr hab. Adam Cieśliński, prof. UW, mgr Marek Baczewski
Date: 29 July- 23 August 2024
Limit: 12 students
Contact: m.baczewski@uw.edu.pl
Place: Ciepłe, pow. gniewski, woj. pomorskie
Instructors: dr Sławomir Wadyl, mgr Weronika Bałdyga
Date: 30 June-27 July 2024
Limit: 12 students
Contact: s.wadyl@uw.edu.pl
https://cieple.edu.pl/, https://www.facebook.com/Cieplepkp
Place: Itac, Chuquibamba-Arequipa Peru
Instructors: dr Maciej Sobczyk
Date: from August 26 to the end of September
Limit: 4 students
Contact: m.sobczyk@uw.edu.pl
Condition: knowledge of basic Spanish
Place: Podlesie st. 6, gm. Oleśnica. woj. świętokrzyskie
Instructor: mgr Artur Grabarek
Date: 1 – 28 July 2024
Limit: 10 students
Contact: a.grabarek@uw.edu.pl
More information in Polish you can find here
Diploma process for students – presentation in pdf
Diploma process for students – recording of the meeting (provided by Google Drive, required to log in with a student account)
For the guide how to proceed please contact your supervisor.
1. Before defending a thesis all the students have to be sure they are qualified (i.a. obtained all the necessary grades and are not in arrears with payments).
2. The thesis supervisor shall submit to the Vice-Dean for Student Affairs, using electronic means, the request to establish the Committee:
together with the student’s details:
– first name and surname,
– record book number,
– field of study,
– title of the diploma thesis,
and the proposition of:
– at least one reviewer,
– examination date.
The exam may be held remotely at the request of the thesis supervisor.
3. After the Vice-Dean for Student Affairs appoints the thesis reviewer and sets the examination date, the employees of the Faculty Office for Students shall notify the student and the thesis supervisor of the possibility to submit the thesis in APD.
The employees of the Faculty Office for Students:
– introduce the information delivered by students in the APD system,
– open access to the electronic clearance slips in the USOSweb system.
4. APD
The student shall submit the degree thesis in the form of a PDF file in APD, no later than 14 days before the scheduled date of the examination.
The student adds the title of the thesis in Polish, English abstract and keywords into the APD system. After approving the changes, the student opens a new set, upload the diploma thesis into the APD system in the form of a PDF file (not larger than 20 MB). Then the student approves the whole set.
APD – Basic rules for the use of the Theses Archive
5. Students should complete Electronic Clearance Slips, including library clearance slip (no later than 14 days before the scheduled date of the examination)
Access path: USOSweb – Common Section – Clearance slips
6. First-cycle (BA) students who started their studies in the 2019/2020 academic year and second-cycle (MA) students who started their studies in the 2020/2021 (or later) academic year – are exempt from the diploma fee. (DZ.U.2021.661; rozdz.9, par.36).
Other students – during the process please make a payment 60PLN for the diploma (on each personal account bank number).
To collect your diploma, please report to the Faculty Office for Students.
As of June 5, 2020, a Rector’s new ordinance No. 120 on the submission of the thesis and the remote diploma examination procedure is in force. Please read it and apply the bachelor’s and master’s theses for upcoming defenses.
What is the Students’ Self-Government of the Faculty of Archeology at the University of Warsaw?
The Students’ Self-Government of the Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw consists of all students of our Faculty.
The Council of the Students’ Self-Government of the Faculty of Archeology represents all students, regardless of the course of their studies.
Regulations of the Students’ Self-Government of the Faculty of Archeology PDF
What are we doing?
The Council of the Students’ Self-Government of the Faculty of Archeology helps to solve all your problems, organizes cultural and, of course!, non-alcoholic events, exhibitions, occasional meetings. Briefly speaking, it deals with making the student’s “archeological” life easier and more pleasant.
We organize regular events, most of them with University Student Clubs, e.g. Otrzęsiny (party for the 1st year students), Połowinki (mid-term party), Christmas Eve party and Archaeological Juwenalia (yearly student carnival), or „DNI ARCHEOLOGA” (“Days of Archaeologists”).
What else are we doing?
We also have student representatives in the Faculty Council and the Teaching Council, who can submit applications on matters related to, for example, proposed changes to the program, regulations related to the study process, etc.
We are also represented in the Students’ Parliament of the University of Warsaw, where the problems of all students of the University are discussed.
Where to find us?
The Students’ Self-Government of the Faculty of Archeology is on duty at:
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, room 0.35
tel. (022) 5522846
e-mail: zssiauw@gmail.com
The Students’ Self-Government of the Faculty of Archeology (2023/2024):
1. Banach Karol
2. Chmielewski-Gill Jan
3. Góralewski Kazimierz
4. Gron Olivia-Giselle
5. Wiącek Bernadetta
Contact via Facebook: Rada Samorządu Studentów Wydziału Archeologii UW and via private accounts of the members of the Self-Government.
Representatives in the Council of the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw: Banach Karol, Góralewski Kazimierz, Konofał Kacper, Mońka Paulina
Representatives in the Teaching Council of the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw: Krajewski Maciej, Kurjan Izabella