Information for undergraduates

What to do in Welcome Week 2023

Welcome Week is the start of your time at the University of Edinburgh when you'll meet the staff who will teach you and support you throughout your studies and your fellow new students.

HCA Statue of Venus holding a Welcome frame
Welcome from Venus!

Welcome to our School

Thank you for accepting your offer to study in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. We hope that you enjoy this opportunity to begin to explore the University and meet your classmates. We look forward to meeting you soon. 

Welcome Week starts on Monday 11 September 2023.

Attend our School Welcome events

We strongly encourage you to attend our School events during Welcome Week, as they will give you important introductory information to your degree programme and to the School community. 

School Welcome events

All events will be recorded and made available to students on these events pages, in case anyone wasn’t able to attend and/or wants to re-watch the event at a later date. As there will, however, be some delay between the event and uploading the recordings, we strongly recommend that you attend the live event where you can. 

If you're unsure which events you should attend, check the list of degree programmes below to find out whether your degree is part of the History, Classics or Archaeology subject area.

History Classics Archaeology
MA History MA Classics Ancient Mediterranean Civilisations
MA History and Archaeology MA Ancient History MA Archaeology
MA History and Classics MA Ancient and Medieval History MA Archaeology and Ancient History
MA History and Economics MA Classical Studies MA Archaeology and Social Anthropology
MA History and History of Art MA Ancient History and Latin  
MA History and Politics MA Ancient History and Greek  
MA History and Scottish History MA Classical Archaeology and Ancient History  
  MA Classical Archaeology and Latin  
  MA Classical Archaeology and Greek  
  MA Greek Studies  
  MA Latin Studies  

Essential sources of information

Undergraduate Students Learn site

Learn is the University’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) platform and as an HCA student you will automatically be enrolled on it. It contains help and advice for your studies and regular updates and alerts sent directly to you. Your year group meetings - which are very important sources of information and advice - will also be accessed from this site.

Access Learn

Undergraduate student website

This page sits on the School of History, Classics and Archaeology's website.  It provides you with essential information for your studies in the School. This includes information on programmes and courses, coursework and assessment, deadlines, support for your studies, essential forms, important news and links to other sources of information.

UG student website