StudyQA — Bachelor: History Ancient and Modern

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This course enables students to study history from the Bronze Age Mediterranean and Near East, through the Roman Empire, middle ages and early modern period, right up to British, European and world history in the present day. Fruitful comparisons between societies abound, and the methods by which we study them are mutually illuminating.

This Oxford course offers an extraordinary range of choices (more than 90 options) reflecting the breadth of interests of those who teach here. The Oxford Classics and History Faculties are world famous for teaching and research. Most of the people who will teach you here will be leading researchers in their field, and lecturers are encouraged to put on new courses which reflect their own interests. The study of original sources forms the basis of Further and Special Subjects.

History (A&M) Careers

Oxford historians typically move on to careers in fields as varied as law, investment banking and consultancies, advertising, accountancy, the Civil Service, publishing, journalism and the media, global charity work, museums, librarianship and archive work, and teaching.

Recent Ancient and Modern History graduates include a civil servant, a librarian and a charity campaign manager. Mary-Kate says: ‘Through my joint course I developed skills in working flexibly and under pressure, enhanced my analytical skills and learnt to be independently minded. These have all proven to be invaluable assets in my career as a Fast Streamer for the Home Office. Being a Fast Streamer means that you follow an accelerated training and development graduate programme.’

Heather now works as a Lecturer in British History at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She says: ‘Learning to work independently and under time pressure as an undergraduate was the perfect preparation for an academic career. It gave me the skills I needed to teach successfully at a university level and the self-confidence necessary to publish and present my research before my peers.’

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 (at least one of the further or the special subject must be ancient) 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 c31 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, c300 BC–100 BC

Special subjects (at least one of the further or the special subject must be ancient) (including work on primary sources, textual or archaeological). A choice of 31 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

The curriculum for this course is currently under review and is likely to change. For the latest information on all course details and options see the History and Classics websites.

Attestat o Srednam Obrazovanii (Certificate of Secondary Education) would not be sufficient for candidates to make a competitive application. If your qualification is listed as being insufficient to make a competitive application to Oxford, then you will need to undertake further study if you wish to apply.You could take British A-levels (the British Council may know where you can take A-levels in your country), the International Baccalaureate (IB), or any other qualifications listed as acceptable on this page. The first year of a bachelor's degree from another university could also be an acceptable alternative.
IELTS: overall score of 7.0 (with at least 7.0 in each of the four components)
TOEFL (paper-based): overall score of 600 with a Test of Written English score of 5.5
TOEFL (internet-based): overall score of 110 with component scores of at least: Listening 22, Reading 24, Speaking 25, and Writing 24.
Cambridge English: Advanced, also known as the Certificate of Advanced English (CAE): grade A if taken before January 2015, or a score of at least 185.
Cambridge English: Proficiency, also known as the Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE): grade B if taken before January 2015, or a score of at least 185.
English Language GCSE, or O-level: grade B (for IGCSE, please see below)
International Baccalaureate Standard Level (SL): score of 5 in English (as Language A or B)
European Baccalaureate: score of 70% in English.

Scholarships

Hill Foundation Scholarship

Russian nationals wishing to study for a second undergraduate degree. Application deadline: 12 noon (UK time) on 15 February 2017

Palgrave Brown Scholarship

Students must be ordinarily resident in and/or educated in the following countries:

Albania; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Czech Republic; Estonia; Georgia; Hungary; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyz Rep.; Latvia; Lithuania; Macedonia; Moldova; Montenegro; Poland; Romania; Russia; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; Uzbekistan. Application deadline: 12 noon (UK time) on 15 February 2017

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