| Director of Studies: |
Dave
Beard |
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| Administrator: |
Shirley Fawdrey |
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| Secretary: |
Jacqueline Darvill |
To live and study at historic Christ Church,
Oxford, is considered by many to be the experience of a lifetime.
Courses making up "The Oxford Experience"
are selected to reflect the interests of adults, regardless of formal educational
accomplishments. Students participate in small seminar groups led by tutors
specially selected for their teaching skills by the University's Department
for Continuing Education. Within any week participants may choose one of
several different subjects. These cover the history of Britain from Roman
times, literature, art and art history, the history of Oxford and many
other topics.
THE COLLEGE
As you walk through the main gate at the
foot of Christopher Wren's Tom Tower and view the great quad with its Mercury
statue and lily pond, you enter the unique academic world of Oxford's largest
college, Christ Church. You may be lodging in the remarkable Peckwater
Quad, one of Britain's finest examples of Palladian architecture, or your
room may be in one of the other interesting buildings within the college.
While at Christ Church you will dine in hall and sit under portraits of
the college's famous former students. You may like to stroll in Christ
Church Meadow beside the River Thames, listen to the Cathedral Choir in
evensong or sit quietly in the garden where the original Alice in Wonderland
played.
THE PROGRAMME
The programme comprises a total of 36
week-long seminars spread over six weeks. Each week starts with lunch on
the Sunday and finishes with breakfast on the following Saturday. All meals
will be provided, except where the meal-time in question coincides with
an excursion.
Tutorials will normally contain a maximum
of 15 students and will meet each weekday morning, with afternoons free
for course-related field trips, individual study or exploring the many
beautiful places in and around the city. Details of the courses offered
are set out on the following pages.
ACCOMMODATION
You will be accommodated in the student
rooms of Christ Church which are arranged up a staircase; each room is
serviced by a house-keeper and has a wash-basin and tea and coffee making
equipment. Bath, shower and toilet facilities on each staircase are shared.
A limited number of rooms with private bathroom facilities are available
for an additional fee. It is also possible for two people to share if they
so wish and normally this would be in a "set" which has two single bedrooms
that open off a shared sitting room.
The majority of the bedrooms in Christ
Church are on upper floors and are accessible only by climbing a staircase.
Please note on the application form if stairs will be a problem for you.
Applicants should note that due to
the historic nature of many of the buildings, there may be difficulties
of access for those with some kinds of disability. For further information
please contact the Programme Administrator.
EXCURSIONS
Most of the courses include excursions.
The destinations of these excursions are shown in the course descriptions.
Please note that when a course includes excursions with a supplement, these
excursions form an integral part of the course and students are expected
to participate in them. The Department for Continuing Education does, however,
reserve the right to change any excursions if circumstances require.
ENROLMENT
The deadline for enrolment is 1 May 2000.
Places may, however, be available after this date; please contact the Programme
Administrator for details. Please read the brief course descriptions on
the following pages and, when you have come to a decision, fill out the
application form at the back of this brochure.
Please complete the enrolment form
and indicate (if possible) two course choices in any one week. We will
endeavour to place you in your first choice; however, as there is a limit
on the number of places on each course, this may not be possible.
FURTHER INFORMATION
If you have any
further questions please contact:
The Programme
Administrator, The Oxford Experience, University of Oxford Department for
Continuing Education, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JA, UK; Tel: 01865
280351 (+44 1865 280351, if outside UK), Fax: 01865 270314 (+44 1865 270314,
if outside UK), e-mail: ipoxexp@conted.ox.ac.uk
Course List
| (1) Film Art |
Tony Aldgate |
| (2) The Colleges of Oxford |
Julian Munby |
| (3) Drawing at Christ
Church |
Peter Rhoades |
| (4) An Age of Innovation:
Restoration to Regency |
Dinah Reynolds |
| (5) Great Artists of the
20th Century |
Mary Acton |
| (6) Inspired by Oxford:
A Creative Writing Course |
Angela Hassall |
| (1) The Crusades: Reality and Myth |
Jonathan Phillips |
| (2) Anglo-Saxon Art |
Dave Beard |
| (3) The Cotswolds |
Mike Breakell |
| (4) Oliver Cromwell: Myth and Reality |
Rosemary Kelly |
| (5) Learning to Look at Modern Art |
Mary Acton |
| (6) Oxford: Town and Gown |
Tom Hassall |
| (1) The English Country House |
Malcolm Airs |
| (2) The Tudor Age |
Jackie Duff |
| (3) The Rise and Fall of the British Empire |
Chandrika Kaul |
| (4) The Architecture and History of Oxford |
Nicholas Doggett |
| (5) The History of British Gardens |
Toby Musgrave |
| (6) English Cathedrals |
Athene Reiss |
| (1) From Wordsworth to Hardy: Ten Romantic and Victorian
Poems |
Rikky Rooksby |
| (2) The English Face in the 16th Century |
Rosemary Kelly |
| (3) Music at the Court of Queen Elizabeth I |
Jonathan Darnborough and Claire-Louise Lucas |
| (4) Stonehenge and Avebury |
Paul Garwood |
| (5) Oxford Murder |
Michael Harrison |
| (6) The English Pub through the Centuries |
Toby Musgrave |
| (1) Elizabethan England |
Jackie Duff |
| (2) English Castles |
Michael Hughes |
| (3) Writing Oxford Murder |
Michael Harrison |
| (4) Defining Style: English Furniture, 1500-2000 |
Antony Buxton |
| (5) King Arthur: Fact and Fiction |
Dave Beard |
| (6) Seeking the Good: The Novels of Iris Murdoch |
Janfarie Skinner |
| (1) Jane Austen: Realist or Romantic |
Rikky Rooksby |
| (2) The Royal Palaces of England |
Steven Brindle |
| (3) Four Statesmen of the Victorian Age |
Ian St John |
| (4) Medieval Saints |
David Farmer |
| (5) Towns through the Ages |
Dave Beard |
| (6) Exploring Stars and Planets |
Christopher Taylor |
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