Academic Requirements

• All students accepted into the St Hugh’s College Summer School are expected to do academic work.

• Students will be provided prior to the Summer School with a Programme Notebook containing essential information about the Summer School. It is expected that all students will familiarize themselves with the contents of this Programme Notebook prior to the beginning of the Summer School.

• Each student must select a specific area of concentration not later than 15 May (Session I) or 15 June (Session II).
  
  
• Examples of specific areas of concentration include but are not limited to: art/architecture, biology, computer science, economics, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, physics, political science, sociology, theology and zoology. The specific area of concentration is subject to approval. The student should, in consultation with the Director of the Summer School or his designee, begin to develop a reading list within the specific area of concentration prior to the beginning of the Summer School.

• Each student is required to attend all lectures and enrichment activities while at the Summer School and to record basic ideas, questions and reactions to lectures and enrichment activities in the Programme Notebook. Programme Notebooks must be submitted to the Director of the Summer School or his designee at the end of each week of the Summer School for evaluation.

• Each student will be required to sit three weekly examinations. These examinations will cover the academic contents of the Programme Notebook. Questions are open-ended, intended to explore the student’s ability to see his or her studies in the context of the course as a whole.

• Each student is required to prepare three tutorial essays of at least 1,000 words each. A hard copy of the first essay must be brought by the student to Oxford. The second and third essays are to be written during the course of the Summer School. (See below, “The Oxford Tutorial.")

• Students who successfully complete the foregoing requirements as judged by the student's tutor and the Director of the Summer School will receive a Certificate of Participation from St Hugh's College and are eligible for letters of recommendation.

• Students who demonstrate superior academic performance in their tutorial work, Programme Notebook and three weekly examinations may be invited to work towards a recommendation from St Hugh’s College for three semester hours of college credit. The achievement of this goal requires that the student further develop one of the three tutorial essays into a final essay of at least 2,000 words in length. This final essay must be submitted to the Director of the Summer School not later than 1 September (Session I) or 1 October (Session II) and will be assessed by a Fellow of St Hugh’s College.
  
  

Final assessment of a student’s work will be based on:

           1. the Tutor’s report, based on the three tutorials and tutorial essays;
           2. the Programme Notebook;
           3. the three weekly examinations and
           4. the College Fellow’s report, based on the final essay

To receive a Certificate of Completion and recommendation from St Hugh’s College for three semester hours of college credit, a student must receive a grade of excellent in each of the foregoing areas. Students who fail to achieve such a grade on the Tutor’s report, the Programme Notebook or the three weekly examinations will not be required to prepare a final essay.