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Visiting Student Programme - Courses

There are many different courses for you to choose from and study during your time in Oxford. Some students study six tutorial courses in Theology and Philosophy, but others take three tutorial courses in Theology and Philosophy, and three from one of the other subject areas offered at Blackfriars.

Theology & Philosophy

Students take either three or six of the following courses, depending on whether they have chosen to study another subject alongside Theology and philosophy.

TH01 General Old Testament Study

TH02 Old Testament: Prophecy

TH03 Old Testament: Historical Books

TH04 Old Testament: Pentateuch

TH05 Old Testament: Wisdom & Apocalyptic

TH06 General New Testament Studies

TH07 New Testament: Synoptic Gospels

TH08 New Testament: Luke—Acts

TH09 New Testament: The Fourth Gospel

TH10 New Testament: Pauline Studies

TH11 Christian Art & Archaeology

TH12 Early Christian Doctrine

TH13 Early Christian Writers: Apostolic Fathers to Augustine

TH14 Augustine

TH15 Early Church History

TH16 Theology of Aquinas

TH17 Early Church History

TH18 Renaissance & Reformation

TH19 Modern Church History

TH20 20th Century Theologians

TH21 Documents of Vatican II

TH22 Major Topics in Christian Doctrine

TH23 God and Creation

TH24 The Most Holy Trinity

TH25 Christology & Soteriology

TH26 Grace & Original Sin

TH27 Ecclesiology

TH28 Sacraments

TH29 The Mother of God

TH30 Eschatology

TH31 Christian Ethics

TH32 Spirituality

TH33 Canon Law

TH34 World Religions

PH01 Major Topics in Philosophy

PH02 Philosophy of Religion

PH03 Moral Philosophy

PH04 Philosophy of Mind

PH05 Ancient Philosophy

PH06 Plato

PH07 Aristotle

PH08 Stoics & Epicureans

PH09 Mediaeval Philosophy

PH10 Philosophy of Aquinas

PH11 Descartes to Kant

PH12 Heidegger

PH13 Wittgenstein

PH14 Theory of Politics

PH15 Metaphysics

PH16 Epistemology

PH17 Science and Religion

PH18 Anthropology

PH19 Health-Care Ethics

PH20 Business Ethics

English Literature

Those studying English Literature take three of the following courses:

EL01 Shakespeare

EL02 Elizabethan & Jacobean Drama

EL03 18th & 19th Century English Novel

EL04 19th Century Fiction

EL05 20th Century English Novel

EL06 Chaucer & Contemporaries

EL07 16th & 17th Century Poetry

EL08 Poetry of Milton

EL09 Romantic Novelists & Poets

EL10 20th Century English Fiction and Poetry

EL11 Women & Literature: 19th Century

EL12 Women & Literature: 20th Century

EL13 An Introductions to the 19th and 20th Century French Novel (in translation)

Classics in translation

Those studying classics take three of the following courses:

CL01 Homer

CL02 Greek Tragedy

CL03 Aristophanes

CL04 Virgil

CL05 Principate

CL06 Late Empire

British history / Church history

Those studying British history or Church history follow a fixed pattern of three tutorial courses:

BH01 British History I

BH02 British History II

BH03 British History III

CH01 Church History I

CH02 Church History II

CH03 Church History III