University of Oxford - Department For Continuing Education
Oxford University Department for Continuing Education provides part-time learning opportunities for people from a wide variety of backgrounds to benefit from the University’s rich and unique resources. It is an ambitious and forward-thinking department, with a strong sense of identity and community. Embedded in an 800-year-old world-class university, there are hundreds of different courses offered each year across a broad spectrum of subjects, and many courses offered provide the opportunity to earn certification, sometimes leading to a degree. Our vision is to be a global centre of excellence for lifelong learning and our goal is to deliver courses that are underpinned by the best teaching, research and support to enable our students to share knowledge at a global and local level, transforming individuals, organisations, business practice, and society.
'The Pencil of Nature’: History of the Art of Photography
Photography is a medium so ubiquitous that we perhaps take its presence in our lives for granted. Yet its original public advent in 1839 was widely hailed as a scientific wonder – and was feared as posing a direct threat to the artistic status of painting in oils. After all, now that Louis Daguerre’s invention could capture the visual world in pin-sharp ...A Brief History of Physics from Galileo to the 20th Century and Beyond
Physics is all around us from understanding GPS systems to remote controlled television sets. However, the development of Physics was incremental with many varied and inspirational figures being responsible for great leaps and often blunders in Physics.The course will capture the essence of some of these great figures and will highlight reasons for ...A History of British and Irish Poetry from Barrett Browning to Paul Muldoon
Have you ever wanted to know more about poetry but didn't know where to start? If so, this lively and accessible course is for you. Together, we will close read a selection of poetry from c.1850 to now, from Britain and Ireland, in relation to its wider contexts, considering formal issues such as word choice, rhyme, metre and metaphor alongside wider ...A History of British Poetry from Shakespeare to Blake
Have you ever wanted to know more about poetry but didn't know where to start? If so, this lively and accessible course is for you.Together, we will close read a selection of poems in English from the mid 16th to the late 18th centuries, in relation to their wider contexts and in terms of formal issues such as metaphor, rhyme, metre, rhetorical patterning, ...A History of European Furniture and Interiors
Beginning with the courts of fifteenth-century Flanders, Burgundy and Italy, furniture design reflected contemporary architectural forms and ornament from the late Gothic period into the classical Renaissance. During the seventeenth century, the magnificence of Baroque art was echoed in the design of luxurious suites of furniture to serve the imperatives ...A History of Folklore
This course provides an historical introduction to the development of folklore studies in Britain. It will review historical conceptions and approaches to folklore from the seventeenth-century antiquarians to the present.A Tale of Three Cities: London, Paris and Berlin in the Nineteenth Century
In the turbulent history of the nineteenth century the three capital cities of Berlin, London and Paris played key roles in the development of their respective states and in the huge changes experienced in the hundred years between 1800 and 1900.London was the world’s greatest trading centre, thriving on a vast network of overseas commerce and driven ...A Troubled Britain: Two Centuries of Protest since 1815
From political agitation and religious discord to single-issue demands, British society has often been confronted by dissenting voices. Starting in 1815 we will examine these protests, seeking to understand the nature of challenges to the status quo.Academic Literacy: An Introduction
Studying at undergraduate level is an exciting and rewarding experience, but if you are new to higher education, or have not studied for some time, you may find it useful to brush up your reading, note-making and essay-writing skills, and to revisit the basic rules of punctuation and grammar. The course will teach you to:
improve your time management ...Academic Reading: Approach and Critique
Being able to effectively read large amounts of academic literature as well as reading beyond the descriptive and being critical of what is written are essential skills for the researcher. This session will consider techniques for reading effectively in different contexts and then invite you to think critically through seminal papers from different ...
