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British Culture Studies

This course examines themes from the British past and their traces in present day Britain. Students attend lectures, field trips, and a tutorial, but spend most of their time doing independent study to produce detailed, scholarly essays.

Study Abroad Oxford Christian Student Reflecting

I loved the amount of ways we were able to look at British culture through the course: through examining ideas and preoccupations, through doing individual research and writing essays, and through visiting the places where history actually occurred.

Michaelmas term (spring semester) 2019

The course

The teaching for the course is given through lectures, a tutorial, and field trips. Assessment is by the submission of essays examining in detail particular aspects of British life. The field trips change from year to year, and in past have included Stonehenge and Salisbury cathedral, Winchester cathedral, Bath, and the HMS Victory moored in Portsmouth.

The course is taught by specialists in each of SCIO’s major academic concentrations. Students may receive credit in one of 11 disciplines by submitting work in that discipline. Part of the objective of the course is to help you understand British people (dead and alive) through an appreciation of their past and present, and so better understand this country that you are living in while on the programme.

Allocating credit

The course is structured to be highly flexible, and while everyone does the course together, you can earn credit in different disciplines by choosing different tracks.

Apart from earning credit in history, through this course you can instead earn credit in:

History of art
Classics
English language and literature
Gender studies
History of science
Musicology
Philosophy
Psychology
Political science
Theology

Field trips

Scio Study Abroad Stonehenge — Stonehenge

Scio Study Abroad Roman Baths Testing The Waters — Testing the waters at the Roman baths

Scio Study Abroad Hampton Court Palace — Hampton Court Palace

Scio Study Abroad Jane Austens Tomb Winchester Cathedral — Jane Austen's resting place, Winchester cathedral

Scio Study Abroad Inside The Victory — Inside the Victory

Scio Study Abroad Portchester Castle View — View from the Norman Portchester Castle

Scio Study Abroad Salisbury Cathedral — Salisbury Cathedral

Scio Study Abroad Victory — The Victory, Portsmouth

Scio Study Abroad Wells Cathedral Library — Cathedral library at Wells

Amber Taylor Sso Tayloramber8 Old Sarum — Old Sarum

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