Subjects
Students on the Visiting Student Programme study a wide range of subjects.
On this page is the list of courses available to Visiting Students in the 2020-21 academic year.
Please note that the provision of some course options depend on the availability of specialist teaching, and therefore may be subject to change.
Visiting students may choose courses from the following subject areas:
English, History, Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Politics, Economics, Geography, Human Sciences, Oriental Studies, Statistics.
Course Catalogue
If you have a particular interest in an area of study which you do not see here, please contact us at vsp@mansfield.ox.ac.uk, and we will ask our tutors for advice and guidance for you. You may also find it helpful to go to the subject website for the Oxford course you are interested in, to read about the range of options which are offered on the undergraduate degree at Oxford.
Before confirming your choice of topics we will look at your past qualifications and statement of interests to make sure we are providing the most suitable courses for you. These documents will be regularly updated as more information on courses becomes available.
Teaching at Oxford is primarily in tutorials, usually with one or two students working with one tutor, and writing an essay for each tutorial. Each student will take one primary (eight tutorials) and one secondary tutorial (four tutorials) a term. There may also be additional classes as part of a term's course, and most courses will be supported by lectures in the faculties and departments. We try to give you the same experience as our second and third year undergraduates, and as far as possible you will follow the same course of study as they do, except that you will not take examinations. You have the opportunity to follow a course of study in one subject, progressing through courses to more difficult and specialised work, or to pick from a range of disciplines.
Credits
Students on the Mansfield Visiting Student Programme study one primary course and one secondary course each term. The courses are equivalent to those taken by matriculated second and third year undergraduates, but are assessed by tutorial essay and participation rather than examination. A primary course is awarded 8 tutorial credits and secondary course is awarded 4 tutorial credits. Visiting Students study 36 tutorial credits in total during a full year of study, which is equivalent to 60 credits in the European Credit Transfer Scheme (ECTS).
Courses that are starred with a '*' have pre-requisites. Please check the course catalogue linked above for more information.
Course Listing
Economics
Note: available only as primary tutorials
ECO001: Introduction to Microeconomics
ECO002: Introduction to Macroeconomics
ECO003: Development of the World Economy since 1800*
ECO004: Economics of Developing Countries*
ECO005: Labour Economics and Industrial Relations*
ECO006: Public Economics*
ECO007: Economics of Industry*
ECO08: Game Theory*
ECO09: International Economics*
ECO010: Money and Banking*
ECO011: Econometrics*
ECO012: Microeconomic Analysis
ECO013: Finance*
English
ENG001: Old and Early Middle English 650-1350
ENG002: Literature in English 1350-1550
ENG003: Literature in English 1550-1660
ENG004: Literature in English 1660-1760
ENG005: Literature in English 1760-1830
ENG006: Literature in English 1830-1910
ENG007: Literature in English 1910-present day
ENG008: Shakespeare
ENG009: Special Authors
E.g.Beowulf Poet; Chaucer; Spenser; Milton; Ben Jonson; Marvell; Dryden; Eliza Haywood; Wordsworth;Jane Austen; Byron; Tennyson; Dickens; Wilde; Conrad; Yeats; Woolf ; Walcott; Joyce; Roth; Friel; Emerson; Dickinson; Faulkner
ENG010: Special Topics
The ode from Wordsworth to Hopkins; The Avant-Garde; Children's Literature; Comparative Literature; Early Modern Criminality; Fairytale, Fantasy and Myth; Hit & Myth: Reinventing the Medieval for the Modern Age; The Icelandic Saga; The Literary Essay; Literature and Science; Literature and the Mind; The Long Fin de siècle; Postcolonial Literature; Post-war American Fiction; Post-War British Drama; Styles of Political Criticism since 2000; Texts in motion: literary and material forms, 1550-1800; Tragedy; Writers and the Cinema; Writing feminisms/feminist writing; Writing War
Geography
GEO001: Climate Change
GEO002: Human Geography
GEO003: Earth Systems Processes
GEO004: Geographical Controversies
GEO005: Space, Place and Society
GEO006: Earth System Dynamics
GEO007: Environmental Geography
GEO008: Climate Change
History
HIS001: History of the British Isles II, 1042-1330
HIS002: History of the British Isles III, 1330-1550
HIS003: History of the British Isles V, 1685-1830
HIS004: History of the British Isles VI, 1815-1924
HIS005: European and World History 1000-1300
HIS006: European and World History 1300-1500
HIS007: European and World History 1830-1914
HIS008: European and World History 1750-1930
HIS009: European and World History 1914-1989
HIS010: Medieval Popular Politics
HIS011: Later Medieval Crime and Punishment
HIS012: The Black Death and Social Change, 1348-1450
HIS013: British Popular politics, 1780 – 1900
HIS014: The Victorians
HIS015: Women, Gender and Historical Change, Britain in the Long 19th Century
HIS016: Modern British Feminism
HIS017: History of Modern Israel
HIS018: Jews in Fin de Siècle Vienna
HIS019: Further Subject (see below)
Further Subjects are available in Hilary Term only. Please put HIS019 on your application form and specify which option you would like to take.
List of Further Subjects:
- Anglo-Saxon Archaeology c.600-750: Society and Economy in the Early Christian Period
- The Near East in the Age of Justinian and Muhammad, 527-c.700
- The Carolingian Renaissance
- The Crusades, c.1095-1291
- Culture and Society in Early Renaissance Italy, 1290-1348
- Flanders and Italy in the Quattrocento, 1420-80
- The Wars of the Roses, 1450-1500
- Women, Gender and Print Culture in Reformation England, c.1530-1640
- Literature and Politics in Early Modern England
- The Iberian Global Century, 1550-1650
- Writing in the Early Modern Period, 1550-1750
- Court Culture and Art in Early Modern Europe 1580-1700
- War and Society in Britain and Europe c.1650-1815
- The Metropolitan Crucible, London 1685-1815
- Medicine, Empire, and Improvement, 1720-1820
- The Age of Jefferson, 1774-1826
- Nationalism in Western Europe, 1799-1890
- Imperialism and Nationalism in Sub-Saharan Africa c. 1870-1980
- The Soviet Union, 1924-41
- Scholastic and Humanist Political Thought
- The Science of Society, 1650-1800
- Political Theory and Social Science c.1780-1920
Human Sciences
HUM001: The Biology of Organisms including humans
HUM002: Genetics and Evolution
HUM003: Society, Culture and Environment
HUM004: Sociology and Demography
HUM005: Quantitative Methods for the Human Sciences
HUM006: Behaviour and its Evolution
HUM007: Human Genetics and Evolution
HUM008: Human Ecology
HUM009: Demography and Population
HUM010: Anthropological Analysis and Interpretation
HUM011: Sociological Theory
HUM012: Anthropology of a Selected Region (e.g. Europe, China, Lowland South America)
HUM013: Anthropology of Medicine
HUM014: Cognition and Culture
HUM015: Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology
HUM016: Gender
HUM017: Health and Disease
HUM018: Physical and Forensic Anthropology
HUM019: Sociology of Post-Industrial Societies
Oriental Studies
OST001: Biblical History
OST002: Biblical Archaeology
OST003: Biblical Narrative
OST004: Biblical Prophecy
OST005: Second Temple Judaism
OST006: Haskalah
OST007: Modern Jewish Society
OST008: State of Israel
OST009: Modern Hebrew Literature
OST010: Yiddish Literature
OST011: History of Jewish Bible Interpretation
OST012: Biblical Religion
OST013: Modern Jewish History
OST014: Judaism
Philosophy
PHI001: History of Philosophy from Descartes to Kant
PHI002: Knowledge and Reality*
PHI003: Ethics
PHI004: Philosophy of Mind*
PHI005: Philosophy of Religion
PHI006: The Philosophy of Logic and Language*
PHI007: Aesthetics
PHI008: Medieval Philosophy*
PHI009: Post-Kantian Philosophy*
PHI010: Ancient Philosophy
PHI011: Wittgenstein*
PHI012: Theory of Politics
PHI013: Individual Authors
E.g. Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant
Politics
POL001: Comparative Government*
POL002: British Politics and Government since 1900*
POL003: Theory of Politics*
POL004: International Relations*
POL005: Political Sociology*
POL006: Modern British Government and Politics*
POL007: Government and Politics of the US*
POL008: Politics in Europe*
POL009: Politics in Russia and the Former Soviet Union*
POL010: Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa*
POL011: Politics in Latin America*
POL012: Politics in South Asia*
POL013: Politics in the Middle East*
POL014: International Relations in the Era of the Two World Wars*
POL015: International Relations in the Era of the Cold War*
POL016: Political Thought: Plato to Rousseau*
POL017: Political Thought: Bentham to Weber*
POL018: Marx and Marxism*
POL019: Government and Politics of Japan*
POL020: Politics in China*
POL021: Politics of the European Union*
POL022: Arab-Israel Conflict
POL023: Political Ideologies
Theology & Religion
REL001: Reformation
REL002: 19th-Century Christian Thought
REL003: Modern Theology
REL004: Philosophy of Religion
REL005: Nature of Religion
REL006: Hinduism
REL007: Buddhism
REL008: New Testament
REL009: Old Testament
REL010: Introduction to Mysticism
Statistics
Note: available only as secondary tutorials
STAT M2: Analysis II - Continuity and Differentiability
STAT M3: Statistics and Data Analysis
STAT M5: Fourier Series and Partial Differential Equations
STAT A1: Differential Equations 1
STAT A2.2: Complex Analysis
STAT A7: Numerical Analysis
STAT A8: Probability
STAT A9: Statistics
STAT A12: Simulation and Statistical Programming
STAT SB1.1: Applied Statistics*
STAT SB1.2: Computational Statistics*
STAT SB2.1: Foundations of Statistical Inference*
STAT SB2.2: Statistical Machine Learning*
STAT SB3.1: Applied Probability*
STAT SC.2: Probability and Statistics for Network Analysis*
STAT SC.7: Bayes Method*