University Oxford Blog

Oxford University holds each year a summer program for people. The participants live in the dorms of the university campus, eat traditional English meal, visit famous sights of seeing and take part in the traditional English activities. The University of Oxford consists of 39 colleges, but the summer program is holding each year in the Christ Church of the Oxford University. The program was establishes in 1990 and is very popular nowadays among the people. The age of the participants is from 22 to 95 and all people are different: they have different interests, native cities, professions, citizenships and nationalities. People from 25 countries can take part in this summer program. The program consists of 50 one – week seminars. The participation is quite expensive: one week fee is about $ 1000. The students study very interesting subjects, such as Tolkien, Cotswolds, British gardens, medieval monasteries, philosophy, film, etc. The teachers are usually from the Oxford University and have wide experience in the chosen field. The students live in the rooms which are decorated according to the British style. The students like the program very much and some of them participate several times.

In this article my experience at Oxford Christ Church is described. I and my husband are college professors. We took part in the summer program, in Oxford. There were many young people and we are in the age of retirement. According to the tradition of the Oxford University we lived in the dorms and had our meals in the dinner hall. We drank champagne and ate strawberries in the garden, where Lewis Carroll wrote the story about Alice in Wonderland. The students in our group were different people. We had British tutor. I had a course in arts and my husband was interested in cosmos science. It was wonderful experience in our lives.

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