Oxford Summer School Registration Online

11-18-2010

No Requirements, Exams or Papers--One-Week Course is Open to All

 

Oxford, England, November 18, 2010—If you’ve ever wished you had gone to England’s University of Oxford—and who hasn’t after watching Masterpiece Mystery’s Inspector Lewis or reading Brideshead Revisited—here’s your chance. The 2011 Oxford Experience, a one-week residential course at Christ Church, one of the most prestigious and beautiful of Oxford colleges, is an interesting and enjoyable way to spend a summer vacation.  The program takes place during five weeks,  July 10 to August 13, 2011,  and registration is now open at http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/details.php?id=134.

 

There are no requirements for a course and  no exams or papers.  The courses cover some 50 subjects as varied as The Brontës; Anglo-American Relations and the Making of Modern Britain; Cardinal Wolsey: Renaissance Prelate and Patron; The Novels of Thomas Hardy; Shakespeare’s Late Romances; William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement; Victorian Scandals; English Country Houses; Enjoying the Cotswolds; Opera in the Age of Bel Canto; The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England; and The British Empire.

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Summertime Oxford students get the whole Oxford Experience, entering Christ Church’s impressive Tom Gate (named for Cardinal Wolsey, who founded the college in 1525), staying in actual student accommodations (some with private bath), dining in the magnificent Hall (made famous by the Harry Potter films) and sipping wine in the Masters’ Garden in the golden light of an English summer evening.  Participants in The Oxford Experience also have access to the college gardens, chapel, picture gallery and riverside walks in Christ Church Meadow. 

 

Each week starts with lunch on Sunday and finishes with breakfast on the following Saturday.  Three meals daily are included in the program: a full English breakfast, a buffet lunch and a served three-course dinner.  Those who sign up for two or more weeks—and there are many who do—get free bed and breakfast over the intervening weekends.   Most courses include excursions to stately homes, cathedrals or museums, for example, and on other afternoons there are tours of Christ Church, the city of Oxford, Blenheim Palace and Broughton Castle available.  In the evening there may be a pub walk, a lecture, a whisky tasting, Pimms and croquet in the Masters’ Garden, a performance by traditional Morris dancers, or Evensong in the college chapel, which is also the Oxford Cathedral.   Each student is invited to dine once on “High Table” and on the final night everyone gathers for drinks in the flowering Cathedral Garden and a gala farewell dinner in the Hall.

 

The price of a one-week course—including tuition, accommodations and all meals (except those on excursions)—is £1,090, or approximately US$1,750.  Excursions and private bathrooms are extra.  The deadline for registration is May 1, but early application is recommended as courses fill quickly.  Information and an application form may also be obtained by writing to The Oxford Experience, OUDCE, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JA, U.K.

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