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The Scholars' Semester in Oxford
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British Landscape
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For this thematic concentration select one primary tutorial, one secondary tutorial, and one integrative seminar (normally from the discipline of your primary tutorial).  These courses are in addition to the British landscape course for which you choose case studies appropriate to your thematic concentration when in Oxford.

 

More information on each tutorial is available by clicking on the disciplinary list and scrolling down to the tutorial description.

 

Tutorials from English language and literature

Beowulf and its Cultural Background
Old English Literature
English Literature, 1100–1509

Medieval and Renaissance Romance

English Literature, 1509–1642

Special Authors: Chaucer, Donne, Milton

 

Tutorials from history

The Age of Bede, c.660–c.740  
The Crusades, 1095–1291

Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe

Tutorials from theology and the study of religion

Islam I: The Classical Period of Islam

Augustine: Life and Thought
English Church and Mission, 597–754
History and Theology of the Church in the Byzantine Empire from 1000 to 1453
The History and Theology of Western Christianity, 1050–1350

History and Theology in Western Christianity, 1500–1619

 

Seminar

  • English language and literature
  • History
  • Theology and the study of religion