This course introduces you to Old English literature: from tales of heroism, courage and fellowship, to poignant elegies of love and loss.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
The course explores the reigns of English queens regnant and consort from 1485-1642, with a focus on gender: did Mary I and Elizabeth I perform and rule differently from kings? What kinds of influence did the wives of kings exert?
This course introduces the key characteristics of creative writing. You will be supported with stage-by-stage guidance as you assimilate and employ a range of critical and creative methods. The course includes tutor feedback and participant discussion.
Explore Impressionism and modern life in nineteenth-century France through the work of Monet, Manet, Degas and their contemporaries. This course examines Impressionist techniques, women Impressionists, critical responses to the exhibitions, and the moveme
In this course we shall study five key novels of the twentieth century - by Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Silko, Morrison and Roth.
This day event explores 1940s film noir, which will be read through the contexts of the genre including their relationship to German expressionism, the legacy of fascism, and the pulp noir fiction of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and James M. Cain.
This guided viewing in the Ashmolean Museum will centre on twelve of Michelangelo’s drawings, from which we will also consider relationships with his sculptures and paintings. It will cover key periods of his career, techniques and working methods.
What does the human body reveal about the soul? Explore Michelangelo’s masterpieces and discover how art, faith, and Renaissance thought come together in his powerful vision of the human form.
'What is Jazz? Dude, if you have to ask, you'll never know.' – Louis Armstrong. After exploring and analysing jazz music on this course, looking at its origins and development, and acquiring some strategies for listening to it, you will never have to ask.
Explore the histories of African art & archives in Oxford. From medieval collections to contemporary works, this course examines collecting practices, colonial histories, gender, ethics & repatriation. Includes object-based sessions at Pitt Rivers Museum.
This course will offer an opportunity to explore Seamus Heaney's earliest poems in depth, and discover the particular contexts in which they were written, and the figures who played such a foundational role in his making as a poet.
This guided viewing in the Ashmolean Museum will discuss key drawings by Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo individually and comparatively. Focusing on style and techniques, we will also consider relationships with their paintings, sculptures and writings