The Liberal Arts Programme at St. Clare's helped build my confidence in my academic ability through the small classes and close interaction with the professors. It gave me the opportunity to live in a new culture among people from all over the world. This taught me to view situations and people with a more open perspective and enabled me to take advantage of many new opportunities. Rebecca McClure, USA

Tutorial Courses enable students to take more specialised courses. In the tutorial, students are taught singly or in pairs which allows them to progress at their own best speed, and extend their academic experience on a more individual basis.
Students are reminded that Tutorial courses make different demands on them in order to extend their academic experience on a more individual basis. The emphasis in the Tutorial is on argument, discussion and effective communication, and not solely the transfer of factual information. Considerably more reading, research and individual preparation are required from students for this intense form of teaching.
Students enrolled in the Liberal Arts Programme at St. Clare's take a course load of 4 Core courses plus either 1 Tutorial course or 1 Language Tutorial Course.
All Tutorial and Foreign Language Tutorial courses are normally offered in each semester. You are advised to take note of the prerequisites listed against the course and you are advised to discuss these courses with your advisor at your home institution prior to listing your preferences on your application form. Syllabii are available upon request in advance, if you or your advisor needs further detail, from the Liberal Arts Programme office email:lib-arts@stclares.ac.uk.
U = upper level
L = lower level
U/ L = Either Upper or Lower level (additional assignments would be set
in the case of Upper division designation

Tutorial Courses
Art History / Studio Art Prerequisite:Lower level or introductory course in Art History		Course level
AHIT2	English Country Houses and Gardens	U/L
AHIT3	Oxford Art and Architecture	U/L
AHIT4	Modern Art and Primitivism	U
AHIT5	History of Photography	U
AHIT7	Special Topics: (a study of an individual artist, movement or group	U
AHI8	Critical Methods in Art History and Visual Art This is an introduction to current and historical art methodologies, scholars, theorists and `cultural producers'. It will examine the theory and philosophy of art history and its application in the past and present. Consideration will be given to the ways in which Marxism, Feminism, Deconstruction, Visual Linguistics and other critical methodologies have questioned and re-interpreted the `exclusivity' of western cultural practices. Fundamental questions concerning the nature and value of artefacts, exhibition practice, viewership and identity will be addressed.	U
Economics and Business Prerequisite: Lower level course in Economics
EBT1	Product and Labour Markets	U
EBT2	Public Sector Economics	U
English Literature Upper Level Tutorials are primarily intended for English Majors. Prerequisite: Lower level or introductory course in English beyond Freshman English
ELT4	Special Topics or Authors (a study of 1 or 2 authors or special topic)	U
ELT5	Contemporary British Fiction	U
ELT7	Twentieth Century British Poetry	U
ELT8	Playwriting	U/L
ELT10	Making Sense of Poetry This tutorial is about learning to read, appreciate and find ways of talking about poetry. Aimed at the beginner, the emphasis will be on the experience of poetry, rather than on classification by date, genre or technique.	L
ELT11	A Taste for Travel Reading a range of texts from the 18 th c to the present day. Beginning with the Grand Tour (forerunner of Study Abroad), moving onto the explorations of the Romantics, later 19 th c accounts of British travellers in America, the ‘last wave' of British travellers between the World Wars and ending with contemporary writers who have reinvented travel writing	L
History These Tutorial Courses are primarily intended for History Majors. Prerequisite: normally a lower level or introductory course in History
HIT1	Fascism and Communism	U
HIT2	Empires	U
HIT3	The Cold War	U
HIT4	Czarism to Leninism	U
HIT5	From Stalinism to Democracy?	U
HIT6	Merrie England	U
HIT7	Europe of the Renaissance, Reformation & Counter-Reformation	U
HIT8	Irish History	U
HIT9	The English Civil War: Rebellion and Revolution 1640-1660	U
HIT10	Africa since 1885	U
Mathematics Note: specific Tutorial Courses by arrangement with the individual student and institution concerned. Prerequisite: normally a lower level or introductory course in Algebra and Calculus
MAT1	Special Topics: ( a study of a mathematical topic)	U
Philosophy Prerequisite: Lower level or introductory course in Philosophy
PHLT2	Medical Ethics	U
PHLT5	Mind, Death and Immortality	U
PHLT6	Ancient Philosophy	U
PHLT8	Special Topics: ( a study of 1 or 2 philosophers or specialist philosophical topics)
PHLT9	Philosophy and Ethics of Education This tutorial focuses on the aims, content and methods of education appropriate to contemporary society. We will consider the work of contemporary theorists as well as theories of classic philosophers of education, such as Plato, Locke, Rousseau and Dewey. In so doing we will address such crucial questions as: What is the purpose of education? What are the ethical rights and responsibilities of students and teachers? Should education be multicultural? Should ethics and religion be taught in schools? Should mathematics and science be taught as neutral truths or as culturally specific approaches to understanding the world?	U
Religion Prerequisite: Lower level or introductory course in Religion
RELT1	The Philosophy of Religion	U
Social Science Prerequisite: Introductory course in Political Science or Sociology, as appropriate
SST1	Sociology of Crime and Deviance	U
SST2	20th Century War Studies	U
SST3	20th Century British (UK) Government & Politics	U
SST4	Special Topic: a particular aspect of Political Thought	U