st hugh’s college oxford for history

hey i’m just wondering what st hugh’s is like for history (ie what is it’s reputation in the university, does it have a strong history faculty) and also generally what is it like to be a student there? thanks :smile:

Reply 1

thegeek888

Original post by Anonymous

The St. Hugh's College, Oxford library looks a lot a Waterstone's bookstore with multiple copies of the most in-demand books?! 😀 lol

Search on YouTube for more St. Hugh's College, Oxford videos. 😉

Also, be sure to check out: "The Oxford University - Alternative Prospectus."

Colleges - Oxford University Alternative Prospectus (oxfordsu.org)

PS: @Stiffy Byng studied History at Wadham College, Oxford in the early 1980s, so she should be able to tell you more about the History degree at Oxford perhaps?

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Reply 2

Stiffy Byng

The Oxford history degree has changed a bit since the 1980s. It remains delightfully wide in scope. Each undergraduate can take a different path to an Oxford history degree. There is a lot of scope for variety within the compulsory bits of the course, and there are plenty of optional bits.

OP, I suggest that you don't worry too much about the reputation of a college within the university. Every college that offers history is good for history. Oxford gossip and banter is just Oxford gossip and banter.

Colleges don't have faculties. There is one Faculty of History for the whole university. Different colleges have different numbers of Tutorial Fellows, Research Fellows, Stipendiary Lecturers and so on to provide teaching. Colleges make arrangements with other colleges for teaching to be provided so as to cover all options within a subject. Lectures (optional) are arranged by the University, although neither I nor any other Oxford historian whom I know has ever been to a single one of the lectures. I suppose that somebody must go, perhaps to catch up on sleep.

Some people suggest that St Hugh's is far away from the centre of Oxford, but all things are relative. Oxford is not a big city. St Hugh's is just over a mile from the Radcliffe Camera, and a short walk from the Cherwell Boathouse. I used to walk or cycle from Wadham to go to tutorials at St Hugh's, and I didn't die of exhaustion in the process.

This article has some useful insights into the history of history at Oxford -

https://academic.oup.com/past/article/261/1/259/7246025?login=false

Reply 3

tzipora butcher

Original post by thegeek888

The St. Hugh's College, Oxford library looks a lot a Waterstone's bookstore with multiple copies of the most in-demand books?! 😀 lol

Search on YouTube for more St. Hugh's College, Oxford videos. 😉
Also, be sure to check out: "The Oxford University - Alternative Prospectus."
Colleges - Oxford University Alternative Prospectus (oxfordsu.org)
PS: @Stiffy Byng studied History at Wadham College, Oxford in the early 1980s, so she should be able to tell you more about the History degree at Oxford perhaps?