CAAH Mods 2011 - Balliol College - University of Oxford

available on the web at: www.arch.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate-fieldwork.html.
You should fill in as much of it as you reasonably can. For help with the kind of things that
might be listed in the Risk Assessment section (Section 7) and how they might be assessed,
please see www.admin.ox.ac.uk/safety/0507.shtml. Keep your entries simple! For the projects
most of you will be going on, the risks are likely to be at the 'Low' or 'Negligible' end of the
spectrum.
The form should be signed, in Section 8 ('Declarations'), by (1) you, the fieldworker, (2) your
college tutor, and (3) the Chair of the Standing Committee, who is the nominal 'Head of the
Unit' for this purpose. The fourth signature asked for, from the 'Head of the School', is
unnecessary. Your signed form should then be lodged with Administrative Officer, in the
Classics Office, 66 St Giles’, OX1 3LU by the end of 8th week in Trinity Term.
Please do not be affronted by this piece of bureaucracy! The main ideas of the form are (a) to
have on central file accurate details of where you are, and (b) to get all of us – students, tutors,
project directors – to think seriously about safety issues.
6.9 Fieldwork: Brief Reports and Directors’ Reports
All students are required to send the Standing Committee a report on their fieldwork of 1,000
(minimum) to 1,500 (maximum) words. You should devote most space to describing: (a) the
nature of the site you went to, (b) the nature of the research project investigating the site and
its main questions and most significant results, and (c) the role you played in the project and
the work you did on the site. You should include a short bibliography of the most important
publications of the project. You may also describe, more briefly, any particular good or bad
things about the project that the Standing Committee and future students might usefully know.
All students are also required to submit a satisfactory report on their work and progress on site
from their field director or project director. Standard forms can be obtained from the
Administrative Officer at the Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’; please have them completed before
you leave your site, and then return both reports to the secretary of the Standing Committee
with your fieldwork report by the end of 4th week of the Michaelmas Term following the
vacation in which the fieldwork was done. The reports will be read by the Standing Committee,
and unsatisfactory fieldwork reports will be returned for improvement. Although not an
examined part of your degree, these reports are an integral part of your fieldwork requirement.
6.10 Language Options in Second Year and Summer Schools
If you think you would like to do one of the language options in the second year of the course,
it is a good idea to prepare for it by attending a language Summer School in the long vacation.
This should be discussed with your tutor, and the decision to take a language needs to be
made in time to enrol for a Summer School by their deadline. The deadline for applications for
the Language Summer Schools is usually in March.
6.11 Second and Third Year Choices
Towards the end of your first year, the Standing Committee needs to do detailed planning for
the teaching of the core courses and special subjects in your second and third years.
Therefore, in your third term (Trinity Term) you need to have thought about your firm or
probable choices for years 2 and 3, and you need to send or email them to the Standing
Committee's secretary (undergraduate@classics.ox.ac.uk) by Wednesday of 4th week of
Trinity Term. The Finals Handbook with details of the courses and options will be available at
the beginning of Trinity Term.
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