Architecture, Heritage, and Urban Planning summer course in Oxford, by Lady Margaret Hall University of Oxford.
How can we see cities and their buildings as a means of understanding history and society?
In this course you will examine the everyday built environments of cities in Britain (and beyond). Through careful engagement with architectural history, we can read the planning and development of urban spaces as a reflection of the identities of the social groups who use them. This course explores the hidden histories of both the beautiful and the seemingly banal, comparing the desire to preserve and protect heritage sites with the development of ‘Brutalist’ urban sprawl. While Oxford is renowned as a medieval place, both the design of the city and many of the Colleges’ buildings today are exemplary, ambitious, and creative cases of modernist architectural imagination.
In this course you will explore a wealth of ‘behind-the-scenes’ sites and resources in Oxford to facilitate your understanding of the built environment, and you will benefit from special access to extraordinary buildings and their designs, working with architects and urban planners and learning from Oxford academics and world-leading experts.
LMH Summer Programmes are designed and delivered by experienced academics from Lady Margaret Hall and across the University of Oxford, and are taught using the Oxford teaching model, which emphasises personalised small-group learning.
In a series of thought-provoking lectures and lively seminar discussions you will learn about cutting-edge research, expand your core knowledge, and explore new ideas and concepts among peers with diverse international perspectives and academic backgrounds.
Tutorials, the conclusion of each week’s study, are an intellectual thrill. They are a unique opportunity for focused and personalised attention from an expert academic and a space for enthusiastic debate of important ideas. Alongside no more than two to three other students, you will present and discuss your work, accept constructive criticism, and engage with the ideas of your fellow students. These rigorous academic discussions help develop and facilitate learning in a way that cannot be done with lectures alone.
On a three-week LMH Summer Programme students produce one piece of assessed work every week, which is submitted to the tutor and then discussed in a tutorial. At the end of each week you will receive a percentage grade for your submitted work. Each week’s work counts for a third of your final percentage grade, so your final grade is an average of the mark received for each piece of work. Students who stay for six or nine weeks will receive a separate grade for each 3-week course.
Lady Margaret Hall will provide a transcript of your assessed work, and can send this directly to your home institution if required. LMH Summer Programmes are designed to be eligible for academic credit, and we will communicate with your home institution to facilitate this as needed. As a guide, we recommend the award of 15 CATS / 7.5 ECTS / 4 US Credits for each 3-week course.
Experience Oxford University’s world-renowned tutorial teaching system, explore fascinating subjects with experts in the field, and gain new skills to take you further in your future academic or professional career.
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