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 1 June 2010.
  
  
• 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 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 performance in their tutorial work may be invited to work toward a Certificate of Completion and recommendation from St Hugh's College for three semester hours of university credit. The achievement of this goal requires that the student successfully complete the following, additional requirements:
  

1. Participate in a written examination at the end of the three week academic programme. Questions are open-ended, intended to explore the student's ability to see his/her studies in the context of the course as a whole.
2. Further develop one of the three tutorial essays into a Final Essay of approximately 2,000 words in length. The Final Essay must be submitted to the Director of the Summer School not later than 15 September 2010 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 Examiner's Report, based on the written examination
   
3. 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 US university credit, a student must receive the grade of "excellent" on all three reports. Students who fail to achieve this grade on the Tutor's Report or the Examiner's Report will not be required to prepare a Final Essay.