Admissions

UCAS Course Code;

History and:

Celtic VQ15
Beginners' Czech VR1R
Czech VR17
French VR11
German VR12
Beginners' Modern Greek VR1X
Modern Greek VQ17
Beginners' Italian RV31
Italian VR13
Beginners' Portuguese VR1N
Portuguese VR15
Russian VRC7
Spanish VR14

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Brief Course Outline

Duration of course: 4 years (including compulsory year abroad)
Degree awarded: BA

Course statistics for 2012 entry

Intake: 17
Applications shortlisted for interview: 71.6%
Successful applications: 21.0%

Open days

See History
See Modern Languages
Tutors from the History Faculty will be available at the Modern Languages open day on 27 April 2013 to discuss this joint course.

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

Modern Languages
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages,
41 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF
+44 (0) 1865 270750
Please email us at reception@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
View Modern Languages website

History and Modern Languages

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Work placements/international opportunities

You study History and Modern Languages as a four-year course with a compulsory year abroad in your third year. Please see Modern Languages for further information. We encourage you to spend as much as possible of your vacations in the countries whose language you are studying. Financial support, including travel scholarships, may be available from your college.

A typical weekly timetable

Your week’s work will include tutorials in history and in the literature and culture of the language you study, language classes involving different skills, and about three or four lectures per subject. You will prepare essays for your weekly tutorials.

1st year
Courses Six courses are taken: Modern Language: Two language papers: translation and comprehension Two literature papers History: General history (four options: 370–900; 1000–1300; 1400–1650; 1815–1914) Either a British history period, or a historical methods paper, or a foreign text or an optional subject	Assessment First University examinations: Six written papers
2nd and 4th years
Courses A period of literature A paper on prescribed authors, or linguistics, or medieval texts Two language papers A bridge essay on the relationship between history and literature A period of general history Either a special subject in History (two papers, see History), with one additional history or literature option; Or three papers selected from history (British history, further subject, thesis) or literature (period papers, prescribed authors, extended essay) An optional additional thesis in History	Assessment Final University examinations: Nine written papers (including at least one extended essay); Oral examination in the modern language