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ABOVE: Christ Church College in Oxford. Vacationing Americans can study at Oxford University'The Oxford Experience' Offers Short Courses at Christ Church Oxford, England – Anyone who has seen Brideshead, Inspector Morse, or Harry Potter and wished they’d gone to Oxford, will have the chance this summer when The Oxford Experience takes place at Christ Church, one of the most beautiful and prestigious of Oxford colleges. This one-week residential program runs from July 1 to August 4, with each week starting on a Sunday and finishing the following Saturday, though anyone attending for two or more weeks gets free room and board over the intervening weekends. It attracts not only vacationing Americans, but a cosmopolitan mix of Europeans, Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans who range in age from thirty-something to ninety. There is a choice of some 50 courses as varied as English Castles; Spies, Treasons and Plots; Great Britons and Their Houses; Creative Writing—The Art of Lying; Shakespeare’s Romances; Jewish Life in Medieval England; Enjoying the Cotswolds; and The Public and Private Lives of British Prime Ministers. Participants in The Oxford Experience stay in student
accommodations—though rooms with private bath are available—and dine in
the magnificent Hall, which gained fame as the Hogwarts dining room.
Three daily meals are included in the price: a full English breakfast, a
buffet lunch and a served three-course dinner. On the final night
everyone gathers for champagne in the flowering Cathedral Garden and a
celebratory dinner in the Hall. Throughout the week there are excursions
to stately homes and such, tours of Oxford, pub walks, whisky tastings,
lectures, drinks in the Masters’ Garden and Evensong in the college
chapel, which is also the Oxford Cathedral. The price of a one-week course—including tuition, accommodations and all meals (except those on excursions)—is £980, or approximately US $1,934. There are additional charges for excursions and rooms with private bath. The registration deadline is April 1, 2007, but early application is recommended as courses fill quickly. A brochure is available
online (click
here) or from The Oxford Experience, OUDCE, 1 Wellington
Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA, U.K. |
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