Subjects

Students on the Visiting Student Programme study a wide range of subjects. 

Visiting students may choose courses from the following subject areas:

English, History, Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Politics, Economics, Management, Geography, Human Sciences, Oriental Studies, Classics, History of Art, Statistics, Finance.

For Classics, Finance, History of Art, and Statistics, please write to  for a list of tutorial options.

If you have a particular interest in an area of study which you do not see here, please contact us at , 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, 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. 

Note: unfortunately we are no longer able to offer Music as an option from 2016 onwards.

Courses that are starred with a '*' have pre-requisites.  Please check the individual subject documents linked above for more information.

Course Listing

Economics
Please note that some courses are only available in some terms.  These are signified with 'MT Only' (Michaelmas Term, Oct-Dec), 'HT Only' (Hilary Term, Jan-Mar), or 'MT and HT Only'.

ECO001: Introduction to Microeconomics

ECO002: Introduction to Macroeconomics

ECO003: British Economic History since 1870*

ECO004: Command and Transitional Economies*

ECO005: Comparative Demographic Systems*

ECO006: Economics of Developing Countries* (MT and HT Only)

ECO007: Labour Economics and Industrial Relations*

ECO008: Public Economics* (MT and HT Only)

ECO009: Economics of Industry* (MT and HT Only)

ECO010: Game Theory* (HT Only)

ECO011: International Economics* (MT Only)

ECO012: Money and Banking* (MT Only)

ECO013: Econometrics* (MT Only)

ECO014: Mathematical Methods*

ECO015: Microeconomic Theory*

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: Geographical Research*

GEO009: 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: General History V

HIS006: General History VI

HIS007: General History VII

HIS008: General History X

HIS009: General History XII

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: Early 20th Century Irish history

HIS018: Modern Economic History

HIS019: Enlightenment History

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, Japan, South Asia, Tibet, West Africa)

HUM013: Anthropology of Medicine

HUM014: Cognition and Culture

HUM015: Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology

HUM016: Gender

HUM017: Health and Disease

HUM018: Language

HUM019: Physical and Forensic Anthropology

HUM020: Quantitative Methods

HUM021: Sociology of Post-Industrial Societies

HUM022: South and Southern Africa

Management

MGT001: Foundations of Strategy and Marketing

MGT002: Foundation of Management

MGT003: Strategic Management

MGT004: Marketing

MGT005: Organisational Analysis, Behaviour and Leadership

MGT006: Special Interest Courses

MGT007: Business Ethics

MGT008: Corporate responsibility in the majority world

MGT009: International Corporate Governance

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: The Theory and Practice of Democracy

POL002: Comparative Government*

POL003: British Politics and Government since 1900*

POL004: Theory of Politics*

POL005: International Relations*

POL006: Political Sociology*

POL007: Modern British Government and Politics*

POL008: Government and Politics of the US*

POL009: Politics in Europe*

POL010: Politics in Russia and the Former Soviet Union*

POL011: Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa*

POL012: Politics in Latin America*

POL013: Politics in South Asia*

POL014: Politics in the Middle East*

POL015: International Relations in the Era of the Two World Wars*

POL016: International Relations in the Era of the Cold War*

POL017: Political Thought: Plato to Rousseau*

POL018: Political Thought: Bentham to Weber*

POL019: Marx and Marxism*

POL020: Government and Politics of Japan*

POL021: Politics in China*

POL022: Politics of the European Union*

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