REGISTERED VISITING STUDENT PROGRAMME HERTFORD COLLEGE, University of Oxford APPLICATION FORM ACADEMIC YEAR

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1 Please complete this form in block capitals and black ink and return to: Ms Caitlin Kennedy, International Programmes Office, Hertford College, Catte Street, Oxford, OX1 3BW, UK. PHOTO (Please attach a passport sized photograph) Applications must arrive at Hertford via postal mail no later than Friday 9 th February Please also ensure that a scanned copy of your application is sent to caitlin.kennedy@hertford.ox.ac.uk. PERSONAL INFORMATION: TITLE: LAST NAME: FIRST NAME: DATE OF BIRTH: NATIONALITY: CURRENT UNIVERSITY: YEAR OF STUDY: START DATE AT UNIVERSITY: EXPECTED END DATE: DEGREE MAJOR: CURRENT GPA: GPA IN MAJOR: PERMANENT HOME ADDRESS: CURRENT ADDRESS: (If different) Page 1

2 PLEASE INDICATE ANY DISABILITIES OF WHICH THE PROGRAMME SHOULD BE AWARE: FITNESS TO STUDY: Applicants should be aware of and meet the fitness to study criteria set by Oxford University. Please refer to the following link: TERM DATES: Please circle the dates you wish to attend: 1. Whole academic year: Michaelmas 2018 term to Trinity Term 2019: Arrival date for new students: Sunday 30 th September 2018 Final departure date: Sunday 23 rd June Two Term Option: Hilary Term and Trinity Term 2019: Arrival date for new students: Sunday 6 th January 2019 Final departure date: Sunday 23 rd June One term Option (Autumn): Michaelmas Term 2018 only: Arrival date for Humanities seminar and Princeton History Seminar (in addition to 8 week term): Sunday 2 nd September 2018 Arrival date for students coming for the 8 week term only and not attending September pre-sessional seminars: Sunday 30 th September 2018 Final departure date: Sunday 2 nd December 2018 Final Departure date for Princeton students: Sunday 9 th December 2018 ACADEMIC REFERENCES (2): NAME: NAME: DEPARTMENT: DEPARTMENT: Page 2

3 PROPOSED PLAN OF STUDY: You can choose your tutorial options from a wide range of topics within the humanities and social sciences. Please list the tutorial topics that you would like to pursue having discussed your choice of tutorials with your Study Abroad Office and your academic advisors. Your tutorial topics should be related to your major or your minor. If you look on the Oxford University subject department websites you will get a clearer idea as to what topics are offered within the Oxford University degree courses. There are also examples of tutorial options on our website (discover-hertford/visiting-students). Please note that if you have little background in a subject then you should opt for a first year (prelims. or mods.) course. If you know what your senior year thesis topic will be on then you can choose a set of tutorials on that subject to help you begin your research. What is important at this stage is to let us know the overall subject areas you wish to study (for example English or Philosophy). If you get accepted on the programme the Tutor for Visiting Students will be in touch with you later on in the year to help you narrow down the exact topic of your tutorials. It is important that you discuss your choices with your academic advisors to ensure you can get home university credit for your topics. MICHAELMAS TERM HILARY TERM TRINITY TERM Page 3

4 PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU ENCLOSE THE FOLLOWING WITH YOUR APPLICATION: 1. The original version of your most recent transcript from your University. 2. A letter, from a Faculty Member of your Home University, supporting your proposed plan of study and how this will relate to your current degree. 3. Personal Statement: a one page account of your academic and personal goals and your reasons for applying to Oxford University. This would be expected to focus on the subject areas you are studying, your intellectual interests and how these topics and interests link in to the tutorial topics requested in your application form. Finally, why have you chosen to apply to the University of Oxford to study? 4. Two academic references. These should be written on University notepaper, signed by your referee and placed in a sealed envelope. The referee should sign their name across the seal. 5. Two samples of written work which have been handed in to academic tutors at your home university and which those tutors have marked. Each essay should therefore contain the respective tutor s handwritten feedback comments. The written work should ideally be in the subject area that you wish to study whilst at Hertford College. 6. For applicants who are not from an English speaking majority country or have not been solely educated in English throughout the past two years at the time of application (educated in English for 2 years by February 2018), we are required by the Home Office and Oxford University to assess your English language ability. These applicants will need to arrange to sit an IELTS test before the time of application and include the test certificate, detailing the results, with the application. All teaching at Oxford University is carried out in English (with the exception of some language-specific teaching) and tutors must be convinced that you have sufficient fluency in written and spoken English to cope with your course from the start. Therefore, the Hertford College Visiting Student Programme requires the following from a non-native English-speaking applicant: IELTS: overall score of 7.0 (with at least 7.0 in each of the four components) 7. A passport sized photograph. Page 4

5 SIGNATURE OF APPLICANT: DATE: Signature of either the Director of the applicant's home university Study Abroad Office or a Faculty member at the home university, to authorise application. The application should also be stamped with the home university stamp: Name: Official Title: Signature: Date: Page 5