Keats thought it the finest city in the world.  Granted, it averages 172 rainy days a year, but it also breeds some of history's most notable people.  JFK had 16 Oxford graduates in his administration, 24 of Britain's 49 prime ministers studied at the University and the list of distinguished graduates grows ever longer.  Maybe it's all that time spent indoors, sheltered from the rain that leads to such genius.  Maybe it's that studying, learning and growing is the purpose of the place.  It's developing your grey matter that brings rejoicing in those moments of sunlight and understanding.

The programme is designed to accommodate your individual academic interests and requirements.  Apart from the five disciplinary concentrations (classics, English and literature, theology and religious studies, philosophy, and history), from Spring 2009 we will be providing 17 new thematic concentrations, including for example Religion and literature, History of art, and Colonialism and postcolonialism (see Putting together a programme of study at Oxford for more details).

Read, learn and live in the "City of Dreaming Spires."  The Scholars' Semester in Oxford allows you, as a member of Wycliffe Hall and a Visiting Student of Oxford University , to do intensive scholarship in this historic seat of learning.  Work with academic tutors to hone your skills and delve into the areas that interest you most.  Broaden your thinking by living and learning in this major crossroads of the academic world.

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for the spring 2009 term (9 January - 18 April 2009)