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The Exeter Award

Enhance your employability

FCH

  • combine subjects not otherwise possible at Exeter
  • cross-subject degrees to suit your interests and career ambitions
  • leads to a named degree title of the subjects you study
  • study two subjects, or sometimes three
  • create your own themed pathway
  • vary the proportion of the subjects each year
  • add vocational elements to your studies
  • opportunities for study and work abroad

 

Students outside DHSecond year study programmes are flexible, which is why the degree is called Flexible Combined Honours.

There is much choice in how you pursue your studies. You can, for example:

  • follow a prescribed route in each of your first year subject areas (use the subject links to the right to see what these routes consist of)
  • more freely select from available modules in your subject areas, subject to any pre-requisites
  • vary the balance of credits between the two subject areas compared to the first year (e.g. 90:30, 80:40) - this can be changed again in your final year
  • drop a first year subject and start a new one in your second year
  • add a third subject area, and even vary the proportion of this in each of the second and final years, e.g. for vocation benefits, add a language or modules to help you become a teacher or work with children
  • create a themed programme by taking related modules from several departments, e.g. a programme of Mediterranean Studies, with modules from Modern Languages, the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, History and Theology
  • get paid and gain credits for school classroom teaching - Student Associated Scheme (SAS)

In short, an exciting opportunity to study what interests you!

Talking through a study programmeAcademic guidance for your second (and final) years is given through individual discussions with the Director of FCH and the relevant subject co-ordinators during the summer term of the preceding year.

These discussions ensure that things are correct as regards you having any necessary pre-requisites for modules, timetabling, observing 'established' degree programmes, maintaining appropriate academic progression and coherence etc.

But thankfully there are few rules that must be followed.

Programme Approval

Because of many factors needing to be considered when planning a programme, you need to be aware that your proposed study programme may need some adjustment before it can be approved by the FCH Director.

Degree Title

Your degree title will reflect the composition of the subjects, following the FCH degree title conventions.