This 6 week course combines English language classes with academic subject classes. This course is for students with an advanced level of English; IELTS 6.0 is recommended.
Compact Course - dates - 6 weeks - 2013 | Tuition Fees - 2013 |
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Sunday 5 May - Saturday 15 June | £2,592 |
Compact Course - accommodation options | Costs |
Self catering | |
Single Superior | £1,854 |
Single Standard | £1,512 |
Twin Superior | £1,422 |
Twin Standard | £1,176 |
Homestay | |
Single Superior - with private bathroom | £1,548 |
Single Standard - with shared bathroom | £1,176 |
Homestay includes | breakfast and dinner every day |
Meals included option | |
Monday - Friday - breakfast and lunch | £342 |
Advanced English Language Skills
10 lessons per weekIncludes: exploration of contemporary issues through the medium of English
Internal assessment and external assessment (CAE, CPE, or IELTS)
Academic Subject classes
2 or 3 lessons per week depending on enrolmentEach course will include at least two study visits in and around Oxford.
Students select 3 subject classes from the following options:
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the theory, history and criticism of film, focusing on the complex language of the medium (how film communicates). Excerpts from a diverse range of exemplary films will be shown in class – both classic and contemporary, and from Hollywood as well as from Europe. The core texts will be Apocalypse Now (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) and Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Welles, 1941).
This course will introduce and develop the students' practical artistic abilities: students will draw from observation, both outdoors and in Oxford's museums and galleries as well as working in St Clare's well appointed art studio.
This course is designed for students interested in working as a team to produce a student magazine. Students will develop a range of skills including the ability to work as a team and make collective decisions regarding the content and layout of the magazine. Students as a group will be responsible for every aspect of production, including evaluating layout options, design, photography and researching and writing articles. Students will be expected to actively contribute to all production deadlines completely, correctly, and on time.
The overwhelming majority of Oxford's varied population live outside its centre of ‘dreaming spires' where the university is located. This course will quickly establish the theoretical basis of urban sociology and how space works and use examples from a city that is both ancient and modern to examine both its historical development and its contemporary existence. The emphasis will be on field trips outside the seminar room, including an Oxford college where the medieval and the modern co-exist, the multiculturalism of the eastern part of the city that reflects both Britain's colonial past and its European integration and a site in North Oxford where the class relations and property relations of the 1930s led to a wall erected in the centre of a road to separate public from private housing. Other sites will include religious sites, commercial sites, industrial sites and sites that are now dedicated to a leisure and service economy.
In the globally connected world in which we live, many issues (political, economic, religious, etc.) divide peoples. Among the issues that divide peoples, identity and diversity are arguably the most difficult to resolve. This course considers how issues of identity, diversity and tolerance are pivotal in defining and shaping interrelations among people.