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Ancient History and History BA Hons
Our Ancient History and History BA allows you to combine the study of the classical world with medieval and modern history. This course will provide you with an understanding of societies and cultures
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member1229638
12th January 18
Ancient History and History, BA Hons FullTime
I graduated with a 1st class degree this July and have gone on to do a MA. Honestly while the teaching is good for some subjects, you'll be in good hands if you like Late Antiquity, it's not worth the money. I essentially paid 27k for a library. I only had 5 hours contact time in my final year. The schools (this is a joint degree) also do not communicate. In my first year I had to attend every 'intro to the uni' session twice. This problem only got worse, with little knowledge of what we were doing in other lectures gaps were created and opportunities for better learning missed. Sometimes we were expected to know information from modules we did not take as AHH students. E.g. Ancient History and History students did not take 'Percieving the Past' however some HS lecturers would reference this module during teaching, leaving us confused. Worst of all this issue seems to be down to a petty rivalry between the schools. This really soured my experience of doing my degree.
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member1229638
12th January 18
Ancient History and History, BA Hons FullTime
I graduated with a 1st class degree this July and have gone on to do a MA. Honestly while the teaching is good for some subjects, you'll be in good hands if you like Late Antiquity, it's not worth the money. I essentially paid 27k for a library. I only had 5 hours contact time in my final year. The schools (this is a joint degree) also do not communicate. In my first year I had to attend every 'intro to the uni' session twice. This problem only got worse, with little knowledge of what we were doing in other lectures gaps were created and opportunities for better learning missed. Sometimes we were expected to know information from modules we did not take as AHH students. E.g. Ancient History and History students did not take 'Percieving the Past' however some HS lecturers would reference this module during teaching, leaving us confused. Worst of all this issue seems to be down to a petty rivalry between the schools. This really soured my experience of doing my degree. read more
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member580759
9th March 23
Ancient History, BA Hons FullTime
my personal tutor Dr Jane has time and again gone out of her way to ensure that my experience is going well and has checked in frequently providing help when needed read more
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member477230
6th February 23
Ancient History and Archaeology, BA Hons FullTime
Profs are amazing and most of them are also very supportive people. Course is sometimes too Roman or Greek heavy but there are some unique modules hiding if you look read more
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member1169238
30th May 22
Ancient History and Archaeology, BA Hons FullTime
I did the distance Ancient History and Archaeology course. The good is that the personal tutors are pretty great. The teachers are hit and miss, when they are good it's great, they email once a week, respond quickly, provide extra support, provide excellent feedback and follow up help on essays and make extra resources exp. videos, extra reading materials to support etc. When they are bad you will hear nothing from them week to week, take a long time to respond (10 days was the longest I had to wait, not great when the question was regarding an essay) and give basic feedback The actual course is basic, some of it is interesting but the course books are a simplified version of the additional reading. You can simply focus on the essays and forgo the course entirely and your learning won't change. The DL team are simply incompetent in every aspect. If you want decent learning don't do this course, if you want the piece of paper and don't mind casual incompetence, this course is ok. read more
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member832587
28th June 18
Ancient History and Archaeology, BA Hons FullTime
I love the lecturers here at uni and theyre all down to earth people who genuinly want to help you and will go out their way to do so read more
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member417828
4th November 15
Ancient History and Archaeology, BA Hons FullTime
I know the names of all my lecturers and you find by the end of first year that you are relatively friendly with them all. The teaching quality is great and the warmth toward students is something I feel you wouldn't get everywhere read more
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On the whole the course is perfect for me. All the areas listed above are to an exceptional standard- it would be nice to see a bit more info on specific employability but we have begun to be dripfed info on this gradually throughout the year. My personal tutor has been very supportive and has been great this year. The content again is very enthralling and keeps me deeply interested read more
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31st July 18
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member1229638
12th January 18
Ancient History and History, BA Hons FullTime
I graduated with a 1st class degree this July and have gone on to do a MA. Honestly while the teaching is good for some subjects, you'll be in good hands if you like Late Antiquity, it's not worth the money. I essentially paid 27k for a library. I only had 5 hours contact time in my final year. The schools (this is a joint degree) also do not communicate. In my first year I had to attend every 'intro to the uni' session twice. This problem only got worse, with little knowledge of what we were doing in other lectures gaps were created and opportunities for better learning missed. Sometimes we were expected to know information from modules we did not take as AHH students. E.g. Ancient History and History students did not take 'Percieving the Past' however some HS lecturers would reference this module during teaching, leaving us confused. Worst of all this issue seems to be down to a petty rivalry between the schools. This really soured my experience of doing my degree. read more
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