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Our online courses extend the rigorous and engaging study for which the University is famous to students anywhere in the world.
Courses are structured as weekly online meetings; interaction with the course tutor and other students takes place in a virtual learning environment. The courses are designed to fit around your schedule; you access the course whenever it is convenient for you.
Choose from over 60 courses across a range of disciplines. Most are short courses of 5-10 weeks in duration. A few longer courses result in Oxford qualifications at the undergraduate, advanced diploma and postgraduate levels. Some courses are designed to help you acquire and update essential skills for your professional development.
New: use your online course credit for an Oxford Award
Credit earned from our online short courses is now transferable towards our new award programme, the Certificate of Higher Education. This course will launch in the Autumn of 2012, with applications being accepted in January 2012.
The Certificate of Higher Education is a part-time course, lasting between two and four years - depending on how intensively you wish to study. Students choose a main subject discipline in which they do most of their classes, but they combine this with study in other academic subjects. The course enables students to use the credit that they obtain from taking weekly classes, short online courses, linked day schools, practical weekends and attendance at the Oxford University Summer School for Adults to count towards gaining the award. Learn more on the course description page: http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/Y000-2
Online Highlights
Nineteenth-Century European Literature
Nineteenth-century European fiction includes some of the most exciting, innovative, and influential writing of the period. If you would like to discover what was coming out of Europe when Britain was producing works by the Brontes, Thackeray, Dickens, and Eliot, this course is for you. All texts will be read in English translations.
Age of Revolution
Revolution, the dramatic change in politics and society caused suddenly by collective action of rulers, or people, was a constant feature of European society from 1789 to 1848. It was both the engine of destruction, and the catalyst for growth and progress throughout the period. This course examines revolutions and revolutionaries, the events and the ideas, the people and their actions.