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performance. (c) On no account should you contact your examiners or assessors directly. 12. The Proctors will indicate what further action you can take if you are dissatisfied with the outcome of a complaint or appeal considered by them. 4.10 Illness If illness interferes seriously with your academic work, make sure that your tutors know about it. If at all possible choose a Fellow or Lecturer of your college in whom to confide; otherwise it will be difficult for the college to help. Help may involve: excusing you from tutorials for a period; sending you home; asking the University to grant you dispensation from that term's residence (to qualify for the BA you must reside and study in Oxford for nine terms - or six if you have Senior Status - and a term for that purpose means forty-two nights); or permitting you to go out of residence for a number of terms, with consequent negotiations with your funding body. If illness has affected you during an examination, your college must report the fact to the Vice- Chancellor and Proctors, who will pass the information to your examiners 'if, in their opinion, it is likely to assist the examiners in the performance of their duties.' Your college also reports to the Proctors if illness or disability has prevented you from attending part of a University examination, or makes it desirable that you should be examined in a special place or at a special time. The college officer concerned is the Senior Tutor. You, therefore, must deal with your Senior Tutor, never with the examiners. Give the Senior Tutor as much notice as possible; in particular, examinations specially invigilated in a special place (usually your college) take a lot of organising. If you anticipate difficulties (e.g. in the case of dyslexia), you should inform your tutor at the beginning of the term of the examination, or preferably before. You will probably need a medical certificate; college doctors have the right University forms. 4.11 Crises You will often hear people talking jocularly about their 'essay crisis'; you may even hear your tutor talking about his or her 'lecture crisis'. But if you find yourself in real difficulties with your work, or any other difficulties, do not hesitate to contact your tutor (or any other tutor, especially your college adviser or 'Moral Tutor' if your college appoints one). They may look busy, but they will not be too busy to discuss your problems, many of which may get miraculously better just by being discussed with someone sympathetic. 'Nightline' (16 Wellington Square, Tel: 270270) offers a confidential source of advice for the small hours, and both University and Colleges offer many other channels of help, comfort, and care: further details are given in the Essential Information for Students (Proctors’ and Assessor’s Memorandum). 4.12 Vacations British degree courses are among the shortest in the world. They hold their own in international competition only because they are full-time courses, covering vacation as well as term. This is perhaps particularly true of Oxford, where the official terms occupy less than half the year. Vacations have to include holiday time too; and everyone recognises that for many students they also have to include earning money. Nevertheless vacation study is vital, and for Classical Archaeology and Ancient History the long vacation is particularly important. It is also when you should fulfil your field work requirement. In term you will mostly rush from study of one particular site, monument or section of a text to 14
another, from one article or chapter to another, pick their bones, and write out your reactions. Vacations are the time for less hectic attention to complete books, ancient and modern. Tutorials and classes break a subject up, vacations allow consolidation. They give depth and time for serious thought, and they are vital for the full reading of set texts and of key secondary works for the following term's tutorial work. 4.13 The Ioannou Centre The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies in located at 66 St Giles’, OX1 3LU. The Classics Office and some Research Projects are based in the building, including the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. There is also a common room, seminar rooms and lecture theatre. The Classics Office The Classics Office is in the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and is the administrative section of the Classics Faculty. Office hours are 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m., Monday to Friday (Tel: 288388 or email undergraduate@classics.ox.ac.uk). The Classics Office can provide information about scholarships, grants, prizes, study tours, summer schools, conferences and seminars in and outside Oxford. Entry to the Ioannou Centre There is an intercom box on the doors of the Ioannou Centre with connections to individual offices. You can also operate the doors with your University card. Your card should already be registered for entry to the Ioannou Centre, but if you experience any difficulties please contact Reception on 288372 or email reception@classics.ox.ac.uk. 4.14 The Administration The administration of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History lies with the Board of the Faculty of Classics and the Committee for the School of Archaeology. These bodies are elected, like other Faculty Boards in the University, by and from members of their associated Faculties. The Classics Faculty comprises the Sub-faculties of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, Philosophy, and Classical Languages and Literature. Classical Archaeology is also part of the Sub-faculty of Archaeology. The members of the Sub-faculties are, roughly, those employed in teaching or research within the University. The Faculty Boards meet twice each term, and the Sub-faculties meet once or twice each term. 4.15 Libraries and Electronic Resources In comparison with most universities, library provision at Oxford is generous. OLIS, the University’s online library information service, contains catalogues of many University and some college libraries. It is accessible from any workstation on the University network (http://library.ox.ac.uk). Your college library will probably have a wide range of borrowable books and a narrower range of periodicals. Find out how to suggest new purchases. You have no access to college libraries other than your own. There are many different University libraries. The most useful to you will be the Sackler Library, which contains the Classics Lending Library, and the Bodleian Library. The Bodleian Libraries website is the most useful place to find information on using the library system: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. The Sackler Library was formally opened in September 2001. It is located at 1 St John Street, 15
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