MSU Alumni Association ::.. University of Oxford Online Courses

SPRING 2010 • Register NOW • MSUAA Member Savings

The University of Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education and the MSU

Alumni Association’s Evening College are offering MSU alumni and friends access

to a selection of Oxford’s online courses. Courses run for 10 weeks (100 study

hours) and cost approximately $400-500 U.S. dollars depending on daily exchange

rates. Participants will enroll in these noncredit personal enrichment courses

choosing from 27 topics in the arts and humanities ranging from English Poetry of the First World War; Islamic Art and Architecture; Shakespeare: An Introduction; Churchill: Soldier, Politician, and Statesman; to Philosophy of Science; Learning to Look at Western Architecture; and Pompeii and the Cities of the Roman World.

In a typical course, you will interact online with around 25 other students and your

Oxford tutor. A wealth of graphic and text material will be provided complementing your readings from one or more textbooks that you will purchase for the course. These stimulating courses will give you an in-depth knowledge of the topics chosen. Courses have limited enrollment with April and May start dates.

You can view full course descriptions and prices and register immediately for these courses on the University of Oxford’s website at www.conted.ox.ac.uk/msu. Oxford is offering these courses to MSU alumni and friends worldwide. MSU Alumni Paid Members save 20% on their registration fees. If you are not a member, join now!

Course topics include the following:

Archaeology:
           Exploring Roman Britain
           Origins of Human Behavior
           Pompeii and the Cities of the Roman World
           Ritual and Religion in Prehistory
           Vikings: Raiders, Traders, and Settlers

Art History:
            Durer to Breugel
            Islamic Art and Architecture
            Italian Renaissance Art
            Learning to Look at Modern Art
            Learning to Look at the Visual Arts
            Learning to Look at Western Architecture

Creative Writing:
            Writing Lives
            Writing Poetry

English Literature:
            Ancestral Voices: the Earliest English Literature
            Brontes
            Contemporary British Fiction
            English Poetry of the First World War
            Fiction by Victorian Women
            Jane Austen
            Shakespeare: An Introduction!

History:
            Churchill: Soldier, Politician and Statesman

Philosophy:
            Introduction to Philosophy
            Philosophy of Mind
            Philosophy of Religion
            Philosophy of Science
            Political Philosophy
            Reality, Being, & Existence: An Introduction to Metaphysics