Combined Arts/Social Sciences at Durham University

Hey Josh!
I also got rejected from Oxford for History and Politics (St. John's) after interviewing and am applying for combined social sciences I think at Durham. I haven't recieved an offer yet, but hopefully that's just because of lots of time being wasted on clearing up my fee status (I'm English but live in the USA). I have however heard great things from people I know doing social sciences/history at Durham, so I'm sure you'll like it. Like you I'm looking forward to the chance to do something outside of the usual subjects (I'd love to continue my Spanish). I applied to St. Chad's. Durham, which hopefully I'll receive an offer from soon, is most likely my first choice seeing as I doubt I have a chance in hell of getting into LSE.


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I have an offer for social sciences, but I will probably reject it in favor of UCL ESPS. That, or LSE, if they ever get back to me.

Following my rejection from Oxford for History & Politics, I am probably going to accept my offer to do Combined Arts at Durham, unless I feel like I really want to re-apply next year.

Is anyone else studying this course and has anything to say about it? Positive things, criticism, general comments on the course and the university...

And who else is also holding an offer for this and probably accepting it?



I'm looking forward to being able to study Theology/Philosophy and Anthropology alongside History and Politics. Visited the university and liked it quite a lot (although it was outside of term-time and seemed a lot quieter than it probably is). Applied to Trevelyan College.

I'm currently studying Combined and it is a very good course, and flexible...the only downside is you have to plan your pathways for the next years quite early on because a lot of the 2nd and 3rd year modules have prerequisites, and a minimum number required for a dissertation. So although you can do 4 subjects in the first year (I wouldn't recommend it however, especially with Perspectives on Human Nature - you will be seriously spread too thinly!) I think you haveto cut down to 2 or 3 in final year anyway. The director is really big on theology though so I imagine he will favour your cause.

Thanks for the advice- do most people only do 2+2+1 or 2+3 combinations in their first year then? How are you enjoying it/Durham in general?
Sorry for the miniature interrogation

I've got an offer for Combined Honours SOcial Sciences. DO you guys already know which subjects you'll choose? Or does someone know when we'll have to make a decision?

Hi

I currently study Combined Honours in Arts (English Lit and Spanish) and am in second year so feel free to ask me any questions! Further to above discussions though, I feel like I should point out that the Perspectives module won't be running next year which will offer more flexibility and balance, especially for 2+2+2 combinations. The English department are also now planning to be more flexible with module requirements as a the dissertation has become a double module rather than a single so takes up yet another module choice.

Interesting. Are they replacing Perspectives with something else, or just dropping the idea of a compulsory core module altogether? The website still shows it prominently as part of the course. I'd also be interested to hear from anybody who can advise which history, ancient history or archaeology modules tend to get oversubscribed.

This is fairly hot off the press and I only know from having been in a meeting about it, but it's being got rid of altogether for next year at least. This is because currently the module is taught jointly by the head and deputy head of department but next year the deputy is leaving. This means that they can't plan the module as they don't even know yet which department his replacement will be from so can't count on how the module might end up looking. It's a kind of trial run though and depending on what happens there's always the chance that it will reappear in later years, or that a different module taught by the department will take its place (ie. a cross-department dissertation or an optional module).

Any idea how flexible the French department would be on grades? I'm confident I can meet the requirements for the programme, but I study French as well and I'm not sure if I'm going to get an A, would they still let me take two french modules if I were to get a B, do you think? I know I can study some modules but I REALLLY want to integrate a year abroad

Any idea how flexible the French department would be on grades? I'm confident I can meet the requirements for the programme, but I study French as well and I'm not sure if I'm going to get an A, would they still let me take two french modules if I were to get a B, do you think? I know I can study some modules but I REALLLY want to integrate a year abroad