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Admissions

UCAS Course Code: V118

Brief Course Outline

Duration of course: 3 years
Degree awarded: BA

Course statistics for 2012 entry

Intake: 13
Applications shortlisted for interview: 59.5%
Successful applications: 18.9%

Open days

23 August 2013
This open day is designed for History and all its joint courses. Places must be booked for this day. Please download the booking form from the History Faculty website, or contact the Schools Liaison Officer at: schools.liaison@history.ox.ac.uk

27 June and 20 September 2013
The History Faculty will be open to visitors from 2pm with no need to book.

Contact details:

History
Schools Liaison Officer,
History Faculty, The Old Boys School, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL
+44 (0) 1865 615020
Please email us at schools.liaison@history.ox.ac.uk
View History website


Classics
Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU
+44 (0) 1865 288391
Please email us at enquiries@classics.ox.ac.uk
View Classics website

 

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History (Ancient and Modern)

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A typical weekly timetable

Your work is divided between lectures and classes, tutorials (one or two a week), and private study (including preparing essays for your weekly tutorials).

1st year
Courses

Four courses are taken:

  • One period of either Greek or Roman history
  • One of the periods of General (non-British) history offered by the History Faculty
  • The world of Homer and Hesiod; or Augustan Rome; or one of the History optional subjects
  • A text-based paper on Herodotus; or Sallust; or Approaches to history; or Historiography: Tacitus to Weber, from the History syllabus or Greek/Latin language paper
Assessment

First University examinations:
Four written papers

2nd and 3rd years
Courses

Six courses are taken:

  • A period of Greek or Roman history
  • A period of general history or one of the periods of the history of the British Isles
    Further subjects including work on primary sources, textual or archaeological
  • A choice of further subjects (either the further or the special subject must be ancient (they can both be ancient, if you wish)) from the History syllabus; or an ancient further subject, including: Athenian democracy in the classical age; Politics, society and culture from Nero to Hadrian; Religions in the Greek and Roman world c.31 BC–AD 312; The Greeks and the Mediterranean world 950–500 BC; Art under the Roman Empire AD 14–337; The Hellenistic World: societies and cultures, ca. 300 BC-100 BC
  • Special subjects (either the further or the special subject must be ancient (they can both be ancient, if you wish)) (including work on primary sources, textual or archaeological). A choice of special subjects from the History syllabus; or an ancient special subject, including: Alexander the Great and his early successors; Cicero: politics and thought in the late Republic
  • Disciplines of history
  • Thesis
  • Optional Greek/Latin language paper
Assessment (2nd year)

Final University examinations:
Six written papers (or five written papers and one extended essay); one thesis

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