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This course begins with the premise that the plays of Shakespeare are too often taught in the classroom as difficult and rather obscure sacred texts. The aim of this course is to remind you that Shakespeare was not only a great poet, but also a great dramatist, and to show that his plays are still exciting and dynamic as theatre. Consequently, this course is structured around the Shakespeare plays which are currently in production in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, so that Shakespeare can be seen and heard as well as read.

This class will explore the complex and intertwined history of soccer in Spain and Spanish America from the late nineteenth century to present times, using nationalism as the core thematic focus. We will study the origins of soccer in both Spain and Spanish America, the ways in which it intersected with political and ideological projects of nation-state formation, and its centrality as a powerful symbol of national and regional identities.

Social entrepreneurship is an attempt to use business techniques to develop innovative solutions for the world’s most pressing problems. England has a vibrant community of social entrepreneurs that will allow our students to explore innovative solutions to some of the world’s seemingly intractable problems.

Four quarter credits.Readers of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities experience characters going to and fro, from London to Paris. You will do the same as you examine two cultures, with distinct languages, histories (sometimes as enemies), architecture, and cultural ethos. Walking the footsteps of those who did “study abroad” in London and Paris, you see the two cities as incubators of genius—and Oxford as a meeting place of genius loci in new literature, science, and arts.

Four quarter credits.Challenged in a different environment where one does not know it all, one can become new and different to oneself; such change leads to new thoughts and possibilities for what can be created and known. In this course, taught both online and on-site, we learn from models across disciplines how study abroad can be the agency of transformational learning.

Italy has a long history of fostering creativity and innovative art forms that build on the past but look toward the future. This studio class utilizes access to important historical artworks as an inspiration for creating art from a contemporary point of view. Through firsthand study of Italian masters and the practice and understanding of a variety of painting techniques, compositional devices and color mixing, students will develop a personal body of work that applies both traditional and innovative studio practices.

For centuries, artists and writers have created sketchbooks and journals inspired by Italy’s rich culture, physical beauty and history. Through direct observation and engagement with the natural landscape, architecture and culture of daily life of Tuscany and its surrounding regions, students will record their impressions and create personal travel journals that capture the “zeitgeist” (spirit) of Tuscany. We will explore a variety of writing, sketching, and mixed‐media techniques, both traditional and experimental, to help students find their personal voice.

This is an introductory course to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). In the first part of this course (about two weeks), you will learn the Arabic alphabet (both the script and the sound system). You will learn it through some basic vocabulary and situational dialogues. In the second part of the course, you will expand your vocabulary and use it to understand some basic structures of Arabic grammar. The course will enable you to develop both the linguistic and communicative competences at an early stage, which will help you confidently pursue subsequent Arabic study.

This course aims at expanding vocabulary and introducing some complex grammatical structures. This course will allow you to further develop the four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. More focus will be placed on reading comprehension and structure recognition. In this course, you will learn the next eight chapters of Al-Kitaab Part I. You will learn vocabulary related to hobbies, studies, jobs, telling the time, daily schedules and so on.

This is a lower intermediate course in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). In this course, you will be able to study the last six chapters of Al-Kitaab Part I. You will develop your lexical competence by learning new vocabulary and learning more about the Arabic morphological system. Thus, you will be introduced to the meanings of some verb forms in Arabic. You will also use your vocabulary knowledge to process difficult reading and listening passages and to guess the meaning of never-seen-before words from context or using morphological rules.