Best The Oxford Experience for Grades 8-9 Summer Camps 2025
The best The Oxford Experience for Grades 8-9 summer camps taking place in summer 2025
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.