[laurenwxo]

I have been trying to find any sort of advice or just anything but I can't seem to find any on the history of art course at oxford!

If anyone can help me please comment!

I am completely confused with what I want to do as my career but I know that I want to do this course!

Anyone who is currently doing it or applying to anything about your a-level subjects, grades, work load ect anything would be helpful!!!

Thank you

[peachmelba]

I applied for HoA at Oxford a few years ago.

the course started the year before I applied, so is relatively new. Martin Kemp, the Leonardo expert who was the head of department has since left (suspiciously soon??)

Teaching and selection is department based rather than college based. Some courses are taught by other departments eg. classical art. Only a limited number of colleges offer HoA.

they only take around 12 students a year and the applicants/place ratio is high, even compared to subjects like english and history. It is vital therefore that you research your other uni choices thoroughly. Although the buildings/Ashmolean/Christ Church offer an amazing resource, there are other unis with bigger and arguably better HoA departments. Courtauld, UCL, York, St Andrews, Glasgow, Edinburgh, UEA and Warwick, for example.

Career-wise, there are vocational routes to pursue in academia, museums, galleries, auction houses. But these nearly always require further study and possibly years of volunteering/low paid work. In the current economic climate, jobs will be even harder to come by.

But HoA opens the same doors as any other humanities degree at a good uni. For example, I have completed a law conversion course and have a training contract with a top City firm.

Good luck

[laurenwxo]

thanks!
so did you go to oxford or somewhere else?
i looked up courtauld and ucl and going to the open day in september
thats probably what I want to do with the conversion course as i figured applying directly for law and doing 3 years of it as a degree wouldnt be as interesting!

thanks again

[peachmelba]

so did you go to oxford or somewhere else?

I was rejected after interview but had a very happy 3 years at York.

[AM95]

Has anybody applied this year, which college and have you heard anything yet?

[Lana_95]

(Original post by AM95)
Has anybody applied this year, which college and have you heard anything yet?

Hey, I applied this year too. Worcester college, and no I haven't heard anything about an interview yet. What about you ?