Awards, Scholarships and the Greek Field Trip
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Information on Awards, Scholarships and Exchanges is available on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences' website or on the Scholarships website.
Greek Field Trip
Based in Athens and Kolumbari, Crete, CLAS 320/420 is a study of Greek archaeological sites with special emphasis on sites in Crete. The course is offered full time for 5 weeks in November/December.
As of 2010, this course will be offered every 2 years. The next trip runs in 2012.
The course is limited to 20 students total for CLAS 320 and 420.
Awards and Scholarships
Art History
Osborne Prize
The Osborne Prize in Art History, a book prize, is awarded annually to the top Art History student at 100-level.
Photography by Woolf Post-Graduate Scholarship in Art History
The Photography by Woolf Post-Graduate scholarship shall be awarded to a PhD or Master of Arts (by thesis) student studying Art History at Victoria University of Wellington.
Chartwell Trust Student Art Writing Prize
The Chartwell Trust Student Art Writing Prize of $500 is awarded annually for a review or essay addressing an exhibition at the Adam Art Gallery or a work from the Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection. The prize is open to all Victoria students studying Art History, Classics, Religious Studies, Museum and Heritage Studies, English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies. It is administered by the Adam Art Gallery.
Classics
Alex Scobie Research Prize
The Alex Scobie Research Prize is awarded annually to the student in Classics who has completed the best substantial piece of writing contributing to research in an area of Classics.
The amount is decided from time to time by the Academic Board.
Erasmus Scholarship
This scholarship is offered to the best student in Latin in the Universities Bursary exam who intends to complete a major in Latin, Greek or, preferably, both, at Victoria University. The value of the scholarship is $700 per annum for three years, irrespective of other awards.
Essay Prizes in Classics
One prize is awarded each year to a student in any faculty submitting the best essay on one of a number of topics prescribed for this purpose by the Classics programme.
A second prize is awarded to the student submitting the best CLAS, LATI or GREE essay at 300 or Honours (400) level (excluding research essays).
The current value of these prizes is approximately $400.
Rankine Brown Prize in Classics
This prize arises from a fund subscribed in 1946 by the ex-students and friends of Victoria to commemorate the work of Professor Sir J Rankine Brown in the Chair of Classics 1899-1945.
The prize shall be open to any student completing a first year of Greek or Latin, i.e. completing GREE 113 or LATI 104 (LATI 214 in the case of a student entering 200-level Latin directly). The prize shall be offered annually and shall be awarded to the student worthy of the award.
H A Murray Prize in Classics
This prize is awarded to the best student at second year level in LATI, GREE or CLAS courses. The prize, valued at approximately $150, may only be held once.
Batterbee Prize in Greek
The Batterbee Prize, valued at approximately $220, is awarded to the best student with first or second class Honours in Greek.
Religious Studies
William Wallace Scholarship
The William Wallace Scholarship is available biannually to post graduate students in Religious Studies.
Museum and Heritage Studies
Museum Graduate Internship Programme
Graduates from the Museum and Heritage Studies Programme are eligible to apply to The Museum Graduate Internship Programme (MGIP). MGIP is a National Services Te Paerangi initiative that enables a recent museum studies graduate to work on a project at a museum or gallery, guided by a professional mentor from the museum or gallery.
MGIP is a national project which has been created to:
- provide small to medium sized museums and galleries with trained personnel (the interns) who will bring in new knowledge and complete a specified short-term project at the museum or gallery; and
- provide museum studies graduates with the opportunity to take up practical projects in a museum or gallery for three months.
During the internship, which is a paid position, the intern is guided by a mentor, who is a museum professional either based on site, or at a larger museum nearby.