St. Clare's, Oxford

Accommodation Options

The course is made up of the following:

Advanced English Language Skills

• 10 lessons per week
• Includes: 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 enrolment
• Each course will include at least two study visits in and around Oxford.

Students select 3 subject classes from the following options:

Introduction to Film Studies

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).

Studio Art

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.

Cross-Cultural Communications: Producing a Student Magazine

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.

Urban Sociology of Oxford

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.

Global Issues: Tolerance and Diversity

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.

To apply

You can contact us for more detailed information about the course, the subjects on offer, how to enrol or any other questions you may have.

Email manuela.williams@stclares.ac.uk or call +44 1865 517707.