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Tutorials: 9 credits
The tutorial is the heart of undergraduate teaching at Oxford. It is an hour long conversation between a tutor who is engaged in research and one student who has spent the week reading and writing an essay in answer to an assigned, searching question.
The tutorial gives students the chance to read in depth, to formulate their views on a subject, and to consider those views in the light of the detailed, analytical conversation in the tutorial. Students may choose their tutorials from a range of topics within the disciplines of classics, English language and literature, history, philosophy, and theology.
Students attend University lectures in conjunction with their primary and their secondary tutorials.
Primary tutorial: 6 credits
Each week during the University term students have their primary tutorial.
Secondary tutorial: 3 credits
Students have their secondary tutorial every second week during the University term and they choose a different subject from that studied for the primary tutorial: but in all other respects secondary tutorials have the same characteristics as primary.
Tutorials are equivalent to upper-division courses, not introductory courses. Students normally need to have sufficient preparation for the subject chosen so that they can work at the expected advanced level. Students wanting to study British history, for example, need to have done some history work, though not necessarily in British history. Similarly, students wanting tutorials in Latin may never have studied Latin, but will have an aptitude for languages and experience of literary studies.
Tutorial topics
For help on which tutorials to choose go to Putting together a programme of study at Oxford.
Detailed descriptions of each available tutorial topic are provided in the following five lists:
More information
For more information on tutorials download the following pdf: SSO Tutorials.
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