Visiting students can apply to study arts, humanities, and social science subjects in which Mansfield accepts regular degree students, namely Modern History, English, Theology, Geography, Economics, Politics, Philosophy, Classics. It may be possible to study tutorials in other subjects within this broad area: in the past students have studied subjects including art history, anthropology, oriental studies, and development studies.  

Mansfield’s Visiting Student Programme allows students the flexibility to take tutorials in subjects other than their major.  Oxford does not have a course catalogue. The lists below and in the prospectus aim to give an idea of the courses visiting students normally take, but they are not comprehensive.  Applicants may request tutorials in non-syllabus subjects, although no guarantee can be made of their provision.  For details of courses offered to regular undergraduates, please consult the departmental pages at www.ox.ac.uk.  Given Oxford's status as an international research institution, tutors can often be found in quite unusual subject areas. The earlier an interested student makes an enquiry, the greater the likelihood of a tutorial match being made.

All tutorial requests should be cleared with advisers at the applicant’s home institution. Prospective students should bear in mind that the tutorial system is not suitable for the study of subjects at an introductory level and that they will be expected to select tutorial options which build on knowledge which they have already acquired at their home institutions. This does not mean, of course, that a student wishing to study Early Modern English history needs to have studied the period before, but the student should have some background in the discipline.  

Provision of tuition is subject to current availability of teaching resources and no guarantee can be given or implied that particular subjects will be available in any given term. Prospective students are therefore asked to list alternative subjects on the Tutorial Request Form, which should have been discussed with advisers at their home institutions.

Classics
Individual authors including Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Cicero, Herodotus
Roman Comedy
Tragedy
Epic
Ancient Roman History
Ancient Greek History

Economics
Please note that most Economics courses are available as primary tutorials only.  Because of the way that economics teaching is organised within the University, it is unlikely that other courses will be available.  The majority of Economics options are taught in Michaelmas and Trinity Terms. Please contact the VSP Director if you need more information about this.

British Economic History Since 1870  
Classical Economic Thought
Command and Transitional Economies
Comparative Demographic Systems
Econometrics
Economic Decisions within the Firm
Economic Theory
Economics of Developing Countries
Economics of Industry
Finance
International Economics
Labour Economics
Money and Banking
Public Economics
Statistical Methods in Economics

English
The English Language
Shakespeare
Old English/Middle English Language and Literature
English Literature 1100-1509; 1509-1642; 1642-1740; 1740-1832; 1832-1900; 1900-present day
Special Authors including Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens, Yeats, Eliot, Woolf, Heaney, Emerson, Dickinson, Faulkner, Roth, Morrison
Oxford Authors i.e. C S Lewis, Tolkien, Pullman
Postmodernist Literature
American Gothic
Modern poetry
Literature of the 1950s
20th-century Drama
The Rise of the Novel
Post-Colonial Literature
Women’s Writing
Literary Theory
Creative Writing

Geography
The Geographical Environment: Human
The Geographical Environment: Physical
The Philosophy, Nature, and Practice of Geography
Climate Variability and Change
Geography of Southern Africa
Environmental Policy

History
History of the British Isles: c.300-1087; 1042-1330; 1330-1550; 1500-1700; 1685-1830; 1815-1924; since 1900.  
General History: periods from 285-present day.
Special subjects including:
The Crusades
The French Revolution
Intellect and Culture in Victorian Britain
Imperialism and Nationalism, 1830-1980
Culture, Politics and Identity in Cold War Europe, 1945-1968
Nazi Germany
Churchill and the Second World War

Management [starting 2011]

Introduction to Management
Strategic Management
Marketing
Global Marketing
Strategic Marketing
Human Resources and Leadership
Corporate Governance
Business Ethics
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
Global Management Strategies
Marketing Strategy
Introduction to Marketing
Corporate Responsibility in Developing Markets
Emerging Markets Strategies

Philosophy
History of Philosophy from Descartes to Kant
Knowledge and Reality
Ethics
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Science and Social Science
Philosophy of Religion
The Philosophy of Logic and Language
Aesthetics
Medieval Philosophy
Continental Philosophy from Descartes to Leibniz
Post-Kantian Philosophy
Theory of Politics
Ancient Philosophy
Individual Philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Sartre

Politics
Comparative Government
British Politics and Government in the Twentieth Century
Theory of Politics
International Relations
Political Sociology
Modern British Government and Politics
Government and Politics in Western Europe
Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa; Latin America; South Asia; the Middle East
International Relations in the Era of the Two World Wars
International Relations in the Era of the Cold War
Classical Political Thought
Foundations of Modern Social and Political Thought
Politics of EU Integration
British Foreign Policy in the 20th Century

Theology
Old Testament
New Testament
Early Church History and Theology
Augustine
Aquinas
Reformation
19th-Century Christian Thought
Modern Theology
Liberation Theology
Philosophy of Religion
Hinduism
Buddhism
Ethics