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The Facts
UCAS Code:
VR14
Standard Requirements:
A Levels: AAA IB: 38 with 666 at HL For other qualifications, check the Oxford University website.
Required Subjects:
Spanish.
Advisable Subjects:
History
None stated by the university.
Three pieces, according to the requirements of the History and Modern Languages faculties. Spanish requires one piece in English and one piece in Spanish. History requires one essay on a historical topic. Deadline: 10 November 2022.
All History and Modern Languages: 22 (84% interviewed, 22% successful)
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The Lowdown
History and Modern Languages make for a strong combination, allowing students to combine world history with a working knowledge of another language. Knowing a foreign language allows students to study sources in their original language, expanding their historical horizons. A historian must also be able to analyse the genre and style of a source, and the literature element of Modern Languages helps with this. A range of European languages can be studied, or alternatively, students can take up a new language as a beginner (Czech, Greek, Italian or Portuguese). It’s a small course with an intake of a little more than 20 each year.
There are a wide range of options available for study. On the history side, students can study different time periods and places, and a similarly extensive variety of linguistic and literary modules are available on the Modern Languages side.
All students on this course spend their third year abroad. There is a lot of flexibility for this year; some students decided to work as language assistants abroad, some as interns, and others choose to study at a foreign university.
In their final year, students will continue to study papers in both of their respective subjects, but must also complete a bridge essay, based on original interdisciplinary research.
An A Level or equivalent in a Modern Language (if not taking a beginners’ course) is required, and an A Level in History is recommended but not essential.
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