Changes

[[Category:Academics]][[Category:Academic programs]]For now, the Website [http://www.williams.edu/dean/oxford/index.php website] is probably your best bet.

Oxford is run on a [[tutorial ]] system. That means you, one partner, and someone with a doctorate or close to it. Sometimes you have no partner. For a full tutorial, you meet one hour a week for eight weeks, with an essay prepared for class. For a half tutorial, it's every other week, four meetings total. Both types culminate in a final exam, essay, or presentation.

Oxford students don't get grades. Williams students studying at Oxford do get grades...usually better grades than they would have gotten had they stayed at Williams.

Alumni: let's try to get sections for as many subjects as we've taken, and comment on them. This is the most important part, probably.

====Political Economy====Although Joe Cruz may try to convince you not to come (if what you are seeking is preparation for philosophy graduate study in the US), studying philosophy at Oxford makes you a more intellectually independent thinker. You probably won't get reading lists, and you might not even get a topic. Get ready for some quality hours slugging out in the Merton Street philo library. You'll have access to every philosophy book or article ever written -- a far better collection than Williams -- and access to the best lecturers in the world. Have fun! Philosophers can't prove they do it. Philosophers do it <i>ponderously</i>.