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This page contains information on the changes to Honour School of Oriental Studies since 1 July 2016

Gazette 20 October 2022

Changes as a result of renaming of the Faculty of Oriental Studies to the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Reorganisation of regulations for clarity. The FHS Oriental Studies is being replaced by Honour Schools in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies with both sets of regulations in place until 2025-26. See Humanities Divisional Board notice in Gazette for further information. 

Gazette 22 July 2021

(i) Changing mode of submission for thesis and take-home essays from in-person delivery to electronic submission. Moving generic information out of the subject specific sections and into section B of the examination. Move to gender-neutral pronouns throughout. Removal of links to footnotes. 

(ii) Provision for electronic submission via approved University online assessment platform for all taught programmes.

See the Education Committee and relevant division notices in the Gazette for further information.

Gazette 28 January 2021

Minor cosmetic changes to the current main section of the Egyptology part of the regulations and additional information for Sumerian in the subsidiary languages section. See the Humanities Divisional Board notice in the Gazette for further information. 

Gazette 14 January 2021

Minor spelling correction. See the Humanities Divisional Board notice in the Gazette for further information. 

Gazette 1 October 2020 - Correction notice

Correction of typographical error in notice published inthe Gazette of 24 September 2020 as HDB(20)145_U. See the Humanities Divisional Board notice in the Gazette for further information. 

Gazette 24 September 2020

Deletion of outdated instructions, shortening lengths of titles and removal of information that can be placed elsewhere to allow year-on-year flexibility. See the Humanities Divisional Board notice in the Gazette for further information. 

Gazette 19 March 2020

Rationalising teaching loads associated with different FHS papers; increasing all subsidiary language options in FHS to three papers. See the Humanities Divisional Board notice in the Gazette for further details. 

Technical Edit 20 September 2019

Removal of text marked for students starting before MT2017.

Gazette 04 July 2019

Removal of details to course handbook.  See the Humanities Divisional Board notice in the Gazette for furher information.

Technical Edit 28 January 2019

Removal of text marked for students starting before MT2016.

Gazette 6 December 2018

Minor correction to notice of 11 October 2018. See the Humanities Divisional Board Notice in the Gazette for further details.

Gazette 11 October 2018

Restructuring and renaming of a subsidiary language.  See the Humanities Divisional Board notice in the Gazette for further details.

Gazette 20 September 2018

Change of paper title.  See the Humanities Divisional Board notice in the Gazette for further details.

Gazette 19 July 2018

See the Humanities Divisional Board notice in the Gazette for further details.

  • (i) Dissertation made compulsory in Turkish only or with a subsidiary language.

  • (ii) Dissertation made compulsory for students of Arabic who elect to study a subsidiary language.

Gazette 28 September 2017

Amendment to description of essay requirements for Jewish Studies.

For further details see Humanities Divisional Board notice in the Gazette.

Technical Edit 13 June 2017

Removal of text marked for students starting before MT 2014.

Gazette 11 May 2017

1. Amended wording for second language options for Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies.

2. Amendment to assessment type and language options for Hebrew, Persian and Turkish.

For further information see Humanities Division notices in the Gazette.

Gazette 21 July 2016

The pathway in Turkish with Islamic Art and Archaeology was closed down in 2015. (See the Humanities Board notice on the Gazette website for more information.)