The MSt provides the flexibility to allow you to choose from a wide range of periods (from Prehistoric Aegean through Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and various Roman periods to Later Antiquity), which provide broad overviews, and detailed options focusing on different specific aspects of the subject. At least one period option and one subject option must be chosen, while the choice for the third option can be from either group. You may also be allowed study an unlisted topic within Classical archaeology, or directly related to it, provided that the topic is appropriate and teaching is available. If you are seeking a broader course then you may, if you wish, select the third subject from among those offered a number of cognate disciplines.
You will have a supervisor in their main area of interest, who may provide some of your teaching but will advise on option choices and monitor overall progress. Each member of the academic staff in Classical archaeology offers a different subject in his or her areas of specialism in each of the first two terms, so you can normally choose from about eight different subjects each term; these cover major topics from the Bronze Age to the Late Roman period. Not all courses listed will be available every year. Teaching is mainly through small-group tutorials or classes of one to five students, for which you prepare short essays on a weekly basis, supplemented by a wide range of lecture courses and graduate seminars. These subject options are examined by pairs of pre-set essays, submitted early in the following term, or students may choose to prepare a 10,000-word dissertation in place of one subject, submitted in the middle of the final term. The final term is devoted to the broad study of a particular period, which is assessed by written three-hour examination at the end of the term. There is also a compulsory viva voce examination for the whole course.
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
The MSt provides the flexibility to allow you to choose from a wide range of periods (from Prehistoric Aegean through Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and various Roman periods to Later Antiquity), which provide broad overviews, and detailed options focusing on different specific aspects of the subject. At least one period option and one subject option must be chosen, while the choice for the third option can be from either group. You may also be allowed study an unlisted topic within Classical archaeology, or directly related to it, provided that the topic is appropriate and teaching is available. If you are seeking a broader course then you may, if you wish, select the third subject from among those offered a number of cognate disciplines.
You will have a supervisor in their main area of interest, who may provide some of your teaching but will advise on option choices and monitor overall progress. Each member of the academic staff in Classical archaeology offers a different subject in his or her areas of specialism in each of the first two terms, so you can normally choose from about eight different subjects each term; these cover major topics from the Bronze Age to the Late Roman period. Not all courses listed will be available every year. Teaching is mainly through small-group tutorials or classes of one to five students, for which you prepare short essays on a weekly basis, supplemented by a wide range of lecture courses and graduate seminars. These subject options are examined by pairs of pre-set essays, submitted early in the following term, or students may choose to prepare a 10,000-word dissertation in place of one subject, submitted in the middle of the final term. The final term is devoted to the broad study of a particular period, which is assessed by written three-hour examination at the end of the term. There is also a compulsory viva voce examination for the whole course.
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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