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University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7JT College Special features of History at the University of East AngliaApplications Degree courses and options Contacts The University UEA's campus is a friendly environment with a real sense of community, with over 3,000 staff and students. Built on 320 acres if parkland sloping down to the Broad - an eighteen-acre expanse of water - the campus combines natural beauty and striking architecture. The School of History takes about 125 students each year. The School of History History at UEA is one of the top research rated schools in the country. There are twenty-eight historians attached to the School of History whose research interests range widely across the historical spectrum. You may pursue your interests in history across time, from the fall of the western half of the Roman Empire to the fall of the Berlin Wall. You may also choose to specialise in the history of a particular region, whether it be Britain, Europe and/or North America. You can also decide to follow units in different types of history, ranging from the more usual political, social and economic, to the less usual but still important ecclesiastical, archaeological, and theoretical. In addition, we have a Wellcome-funded History of Medicine Unit, which provides a focus for work in medical history from the Middle Ages to the NHS. Applications Entry requirement guidelines (2000): BCC-ABC (A Level) UCAS application course codes. Load the free UCAS CD-Rom. UCAS address: Rosehill, New Barn Lane, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL52 3LZ The details: History degree courses and options Degree programmes BA History, V100 BA Modern History, V130 BA Economic and Social History, V320 BA European History with a Language (single honours), V1T2 BA History with Landscape Archaeology, V1V6 BA English History and American History, V144 BA History and Politics, VM11 BA History and History of Medicine, VV15 BA History with Sociology, V1L3
Teaching and assessment You will begin your undergraduate career by taking units that introduce you to periods and types of history with which you may not be familiar. The plan is to give you a sound introduction to the range of possible histories, which you may follow at UEA. In your second year, you will be able to pursue your historical interests in a more focused way, being able to choose freely from a range of units both within and outside the School. In your third year, you will be able to specialise in your chosen field. You will follow a special subject with an historian who is an active researcher and expert in that area of history. In addition, you may also undertake a dissertation on a topic of your own choosing, which you will research and write under the supervision of a member of faculty. You will take six units in your first two years of your degree, and four units in your final year. Teaching will mainly be in the form of lectures and seminars with some tutorials for essay work. The assessment will vary between units, but in the main it will include coursework (essays and seminar presentations) and examinations. You might expect between 40 and 50 per cent of your final degree classification to be based on coursework. The first year work does not count towards your final degree classification, which means that you can experiment with different types of history during this period. Contacts Rowena Burgess, Recruitment Coordinator Telephone: 01603 592093 E-mail: rowena.burgess@uea.ac.uk Web site: For more information see the School website at http://www.uea.ac.uk/his |
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