Best The Oxford Tradition Summer School for Grades 10-12 Summer Camps 2025
The best The Oxford Tradition Summer School for Grades 10-12 summer camps taking place in summer 2025
Studio Art MINOR ONLY (The Oxford Tradition)
Designed for all levels of expertise, this course explores a variety of media through which students engage imaginatively. They receive formal instruction in, oils, watercolor, pastel, pencil, charcoal, clay, video, photography, and collage, among others, and spend most of their time outside the studio, capturing Oxford. Students exhibit their best pieces at the end of the program.
Theater (The Oxford Tradition)
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.
The Biology of Disease (The Oxford Tradition)
HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis are thought to result in ten percent of all deaths every year around the world. Students will explore the biology of disease, using case studies of current outbreaks of diseases such as Ebola, SARS, and Zika. This interdisciplinary medical course investigates the biology of disease. Topics include animal models of human disease; cancer; conventional therapy and treatment strategies; the genetics of complex and simple traits; the interaction between environment and genetics; Karyotypic analysis; the molecular and cellular basis of genetic diseases; and the role of oncogenes in tumor initiation and treatment.
War in World History (The Oxford Tradition)
War has been one of the greatest forces for change in human history and continues to shape the world. Violence in the Middle East and Africa, guerilla conflicts in South America and the Far East, and the global 'War on Terror' are the most recent examples of 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 conflicts in Ancient Greece to the war in Syria.