The Oxford Prep Experience offers an exceptional academic journey for students in grades 8 and 9, situated at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, with its rich history dating back to 1517 and esteemed past visitors like Catherine of Aragon and Erasmus of Rotterdam. This program allows students to choose both a Major and a Minor course, utilizing Oxford’s unique heritage as a teaching tool. The comprehensive fees, starting at $12,225 for the June 29 to July 25 session, encompass accommodation, classroom instruction, workshops, field trips, two daily meals, and all program-organized activities. An optional Barcelona Connection add-on provides four extra days of exploration in the vibrant city of Barcelona. Beyond classes, students can participate in a range of optional activities, including tours of iconic sites, sports, Shakespearean productions, and field trips to places like Stonehenge and London. Accommodation offers an authentic Oxford experience, and upon program completion, students receive comprehensive grade reports, valuable for future college applications. Embrace a transformative month of academic enrichment and cultural immersion in the heart of historic Oxford through the Oxford Prep Experience.
Courses
Courses offered as part of this Program.
Photography MINOR ONLY (The Oxford Experience)
Photographers of all levels of expertise spend much of their time in the field, pursuing assignments designed to improve their landscape, portraiture, art, and fashion photography skills. Students exhibit their best work at the end of the program. They require their own DSLR camera with USB cable, charger, manual, and at least one 8 GB memory card.
Psychology (The Oxford Experience)
Students investigate a wide range of psychological topics, including dreams, memory, consciousness, anxiety, body language, gender, and sexuality. Alongside, they uncover the history of the science itself, complete case studies, and are introduced to various disorders and different research methodologies. They go on to design their own experiments under the guidance of research specialists and practicing clinicians.
Skills for Success MINOR ONLY (The Oxford Experience)
This syllabus is drawn from the sort of course typically taught on MBAs. Students learn to organize their lives, to create realistic schedules, to manage timetables, and to define priorities. They learn how to collect and manage information, how to take notes, and how to condense and file them. They learn how to build their profiles to leverage their growing experience and expertise as they take their first steps into higher education.
Speech and Debate MINOR ONLY (The Oxford Experience)
Students explore major debating styles and strategies, engage in daily speaking exercises, orations, and dialogues, and prepare and present regular debates. The culmination of the course is a formal debate in the historic debating chamber of the Oxford Union Society - founded in 1823, it is one of the oldest university debating societies in the world.
Studio Art MINOR ONLY (The Oxford Experience)
Beginners and more advanced students receive instruction in a variety of media. They spend much of their time outside, sketching medieval towers, capturing pastoral landscapes, practicing their portrait skills, or discovering masterpieces in locations such as the Christ Church Picture Gallery. Students exhibit their best pieces at the end of the program.
Theater (The Oxford Experience)
Taught by actors and directors and working with individuals in areas as diverse as theory, technique, improvisation, voice, mime, movement, and script analysis, students discover and master the nuances of different genres as they prepare for a class performance at the end of the program.
War in World History (The Oxford Experience)
War has been one of the greatest forces for change in human history and continues to shape the world. War has been one of the greatest forces of change in human history and continues to shape the world. From the global 'War on Terror' to civil wars and uprisings, this course will explore mankind's long history of conflict and combat. While covering military history, this course also examines war from other aspects: the political, economic, social, ethical, and psychological. It examines how and why wars are fought, what has changed and what has remained the same, from Ancient Greece to modern day conflicts.
International Relations (The Oxford Experience)
This course focuses on key issues of the day. Subjects covered include globalization and its political, economic, and social effects; environmental challenges; new forms of war and peace; the changing nature of security challenges; peacekeeping operations; regional complexities of areas like the Middle East, Africa, and South-East Asia; and the relationships and rivalries that define global order today.
Law (The Oxford Experience)
Students examine the British and American legal systems and how these systems reflect the values and institutions of their respective societies. Emphasis is placed on legal history and modes of thought, precedent-setting cases, current controversies, and the kind of first-hand courtroom observation that brings these cases to life. Each course includes visits to a court and sessions with lawyers. Major courses culminate in a formal moot court competition.
Medical Science (The Oxford Experience)
This hands-on course introduces students to key aspects of medicine and modern medical practice. Combining specialist lectures with experiments and class discussions, students learn the main principles of human anatomy and physiology, the pathology and significance of certain diseases, the main challenges that medical science faces today, and the variety and changing nature of careers in medicine.