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The education of Irish, Caribbean, and South Asian immigrants in English schools. Defining the historical circumstances of each group¿s entrance to and reception by their new country. Special attention to two contrast cases: first, the social circumstances of minority education in the United States and, second, the history of Jewish education in England. Fieldwork in local schools, community groups, or families required.

Learning space designs through the centuries as seen in Oxford¿s architecture, from gothic and historical to modern, post-modern, and virtual spaces. Examination of the traditional Oxford tutorial and its environs, as well as learning pedagogies and spaces that are forward looking, to see how form and function meld to meet needs of teaching and learning. Reading, discussion, exploration, and design of spaces. Frameworks and methods that support breakthrough thinking about learning and space.

Case studies from different European countries addressing topics including success or failure of each country in responding to different religious traditions; influence of movements such as Sufism; debate over multi-culturalism.

Selection and combination; poetic language; metaphor and cohesion; setting and the pathetic fallacy; sentence variety; genres; dialogue; point of view; narrative positions; colors and senses; time management; plotting. Limited enrollment based on writing sample.

Changes in the social institutions, attitudes, and values in Britain over the past 20 years with specific reference to shifts in gender relations. Demographic, economic and social factors; review of theoretical ideas. Men's and women's shifting roles in a fast-moving society.

Close reading technique. Topics include the use of soliloquy, epilogues, alternation of prose and verse, rhetoric, meta-theatricality.