Admissions

UCAS Course Code: LV21

Brief Course Outline

Duration of course: 3 years
Degree awarded: BA

Course statistics for 2012 entry

Intake: 46
Applications shortlisted for interview: 55.1%
Successful applications: 17.8%

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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
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Politics
Undergraduate Studies Secretary, Department of Politics and International Relations, Manor Road Building, Oxford OX1 3UQ
+44 (0) 1865 288564
ug.studies@politics.ox.ac.uk
View Politics website

History and Politics

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A typical weekly timetable

You will be expected to attend about five lectures a week during the first year, participate in regular meetings with tutors to discuss work, research in libraries, and write at least one essay a week. You will be required to submit a thesis which will enable you to do a piece of independent research during your second and third years. You are very much in charge of your own timetable, which means that if you are well organised you can easily fit in all the other activities for which Oxford students are renowned.

1st year
Courses Four examination papers and a short piece of assessed coursework are taken: Either any one of the seven periods in the history of the British Isles or any one of the four periods of general history Theories of the State (Aristotle, Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx) or Introduction to Political Theory One optional subject: choice of Quantification in History; Approaches to History; Historiography: Tacitus to Weber; or any of the optional subjects (see History, except Theories of the State), or any one of seven foreign texts Introduction to political institutions	Assessment First University examinations: Four written examinations
2nd and 3rd years
Courses The course has seven components: A period of the history of the British Isles A period of general history Any two of the five core subjects in Politics: Comparative Government; British Politics and Government since 1900; Theory of Politics; International Relations; Political Sociology One of the following combinations: • A special subject in History (two papers) and an optional subject in Politics (either a core paper not yet taken or a further subject) • A further subject in History and two optional subjects in Politics • A further subject in History, one optional subject in Politics and one special subject in Politics Each student is required to offer a thesis in either History or Politics, which substitutes either for the period of British or general history or for a Politics optional subject.	Assessment Final University examinations: Six written papers and a thesis in History or Politics