Online Brochure Available for “The Oxford Experience”
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One Week Courses at Historic Christ Church Popular with Americans
Oxford, England, November 1, 2006 – It’s never too late for Anglophiles who wish they had gone to the University of Oxford. The Oxford Experience—a residential program designed for anyone who would enjoy a one week course at Oxford—will take place during five weeks, July 1 to August 4, 2007 at Christ Church, one of the most prestigious and beautiful of Oxford colleges. The brochure is available online now.
The courses cover some 50 subjects as varied as The Public and Private Lives of British Prime Ministers, Enjoying the Cotswolds, Five Centuries of British Poetry, The Crusades, William the Conqueror and the Normans, Cathedrals of Britain, English Choral Music, William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement, Shakespeare’s Romances and An Introduction to Philosophy.
Summertime “Oxford students” will get a thrill passing through Christ Church’s main gate beneath Christopher Wren’s Tom Tower, which was named for Cardinal Wolsey, who founded the college in 1525. Sipping sherry in the Masters Garden in the golden light of an English summer evening is also rather special. Participants in The Oxford Experience not only have access to the college gardens, chapel, picture gallery and riverside walks in Christ Church Meadow, but actually stay in student accommodations (some with private bath) and dine in the magnificent Hall made famous by the Harry Potter movies. Three meals daily are included in the program: a full English breakfast, a buffet lunch and a served three-course dinner. Each week starts with lunch on Sunday and finishes with breakfast on the following Saturday.
Most courses include excursions to, for example, stately homes, cathedrals and museums, and on some afternoons there are tours of Christ Church, the Bodleian Library and the city of Oxford (including Bill Clinton’s old college). In the evening there may be a pub walk, a lecture, a whisky tasting, a performance by traditional Morris dancers, or Evensong in the college chapel, which is also the Oxford Cathedral. On the final night everyone gathers for drinks in the flowering Cathedral Garden and a sumptuous celebratory dinner in the Hall.
It’s easy enough to get to Oxford: The Oxford Bus Company offers frequent service to Oxford from London as well as Gatwick and Heathrow airports. The journey from Heathrow by bus or rental car takes about 70 minutes. There are also trains from London’s Paddington Station.
The price of a one-week course—including tuition, accommodations and all meals (except those on excursions)—is £980, or approximately $1,850. Excursions and private bathrooms are extra. Anyone attending for two or more weeks is given free room and meals over the intervening weekends. The deadline for registration is April 1, 2007, but early application is recommended as courses fill quickly. For more information, go to www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/international/oxfordexperience.asp, or write to The Oxford Experience, OUDCE, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JA, U.K.
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published Nov 03, 2006
