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NEW IN 2025: Undergraduate Oxford Summer School
We’re excited to announce that our Oxford Summer School, an offshoot of our “Revolutions” and “Constitutions” course sequence that we developed in partnership with the MU Honors College and Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute, will officially launch in Summer 2025, bringing up to 20 MU Honors students to the UK for an immersive four-week course of study that features work in and outside the classroom. Use the “Oxford Summer School” tabs below for more information.
We will also continue to offer our other two signature programs developed in partnership with Corpus Christi College: our “Global History at Oxford” seminar, which includes a week of study in the UK over spring break and will be back in 2026, and our yearlong Oxford Fellowship, which provides students with an opportunity to spend a full year reading history at Corpus Christi College. Fellowship applications open every spring with a deadline of early April. Contact Kinder Institute DUGS Thomas Kane, KaneTC@missouri.edu, for complete details.
Oxford Summer School
The newest partnership between the Kinder Institute and the Rothermere American Institute at University of Oxford, our Oxford Summer School provides MU Honors students with the opportunity to undertake a uniquely immersive four-week program of study each July in the U.K. Participants will pursue a bespoke curriculum delivered by Oxford faculty, live and dine in the halls of Corpus Christi College, and benefit from real insider access to the university’s buildings and resources.
Anyone with questions about the new summer school can contact Dr. Billy Coleman, Kinder Institute Associate Director, at colemanw@missouri.edu
IN THE CLASSROOM
Designed to complement the Kinder-Honors sequence in “Revolutions and Constitutions,” the Summer School will zero in on a single case of their convergence with a three-credit hour class on the history and legacies of the Glorious Revolution, all while inhabiting several of the places and spaces that it happened.
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
Alongside the 3000-level “Glorious Revolution in Oxford seminar,” students will enroll in the one-credit hour “Experience Oxford” class, which offers a suite of intellectually complementary field trips and excursions to places of interest in Oxford and its surrounds. Students will also choose between taking one or two practicums (two-credit hours each) that leverage the opportunities of place-based leaning at Oxford and the RAI in innovative ways.
HOW TO APPLY
All Honors students returning to campus for undergraduate coursework in the fall are eligible to apply, though preference will be given to students who have completed all or part of the Kinder-Honors “Revolutions and Constitutions” sequence. Students interested in applying can do so through the MU International Center with a deadline on or around November 1. The timeline for applying to the inaugural summer school is below, for context.
Application deadline: November 1, 2024
Scholarship notification date: November 22, 2024
Decision date: December 6, 2024*
*Note that this is the date when students with offers are required to commit to the trip.
Oxford Summer School FAQs
Q: Are scholarships available?
A: Need- and merit-based, Kinder Institute-specific scholarships *are* available to help defray costs. Anyone who applies for the program by the November 1 deadline will automatically be considered for one of these scholarships, and we will outline any awards being offered to students when they receive notice of admission into the program by November 22. After receiving this information, students will have until December 6 to decide to commit to the trip.
In addition, a selection of centrally-located study abroad scholarships not administered by or affiliated with the Kinder Institute can be found here.
Q: Okay, but how much does it cost?
Beyond scholarships, the Kinder Institute offers a significant subsidy to the costs associated with this study abroad experience. Our $494.50 “program fee” covers four full weeks of accommodation, a meal plan (including formal dinners), several field trips, and all administrative costs associated with program delivery. While students are still required to cover the cost of tuition and airfare, the scholarships are designed precisely to help reduce these expenses?
Q: Wait, do I enroll for six or eight credit hours?
Everyone admitted into the program will undertake a six-credit hour program of study, which includes the three-credit hour Glorious Revolution seminar, the one-credit hour “Experience Oxford” class, and a two-credit hour practicum course. Students can take an additional two-credit hour practicum, but that is entirely optional, and this decision does not at all have to be made at the time that students are applying to the program.
Q: And when, exactly, is this program happening?
The dates are likely July 6 to August 2, 2025, but we will be able to 100% confirm this by the time students are asked to commit to the trip (December 6).
Q: Okay, I’m in. Where do I apply?
Here! (By November 1)
Global History at Oxford
The first program of its kind at Mizzou, “Global History at Oxford” is both an intellectually rigorous, on-campus experience for students and an immersive study abroad opportunity. The core component of the program is the “Global History at Oxford” undergraduate seminar (HIST 4075 or 4075H), a four-credit hour, spring semester course that asks students to consider why national history emerged as the default method of studying the past and to examine the new, more complex narrative that is un-earthed by taking a more transnational approach.
Studying the rise of global empires and the development of global history prepares students for the program’s second component: a week spent embedded at Corpus Christi College. Over spring break, all students in the class traverse the Atlantic to spend five days attending seminars with distinguished faculty at Oxford and neighboring colleges, soaking in the rich social fabric of the campus and city, and touring the British countryside.
Oxford Fellowships
While a week spent studying at Oxford is certainly an invaluable experience, as we found out from the first “Global History” cohort, it also leaves students wanting more. Through the Oxford Fellowship program, ‘more’ is possible. The very best MU undergraduates will be able to spend an academic year as a fully-integrated, second-year student of history at Corpus Christi College. Oxford Fellows will have access to the full, three-term range of Corpus’ tutorial curriculum for history students and will be immersed in the culture and traditions of the College.
Rising juniors and seniors of any major at MU are eligible to apply for the Oxford Fellowship, though priority will be given to applicants with demonstrated aptitude for the study of history. Oxford Fellowship applications open with the beginning of each spring semester with a deadline of early April. Application materials consist of unofficial transcripts, a writing sample of 10-15 pages from a course in the humanities or social sciences, and a letter of recommendation from a full-time faculty member in the humanities or social sciences. Application materials and questions can be sent to Dr. Thomas Kane, KaneTC@missouri.edu.