Majors and Curriculum

There are six majors offered through the Oxbridge Honors Program.  All are traditional liberal arts majors, emphasizing the western European intellectual tradition and the connection between past and present.  Oxbridge tutorial study is in the major.  Core curriculum and elective courses are taken in regular William Jewell classes.  Some Oxbridge majors also require non-tutorial courses as background for the more focused and intensive tutorial.  All Oxbridge majors expect a minimum of 48 credit hours, and all Oxbridge majors position your learning easily between undergraduate and graduate curricula.

English Language and Literature
A traditional canon of English literature focusing on Shakespeare, another major writer, the history of literary genres and two periods of literary history.

History
Students develop expertise in specific subareas of US History, British history, modern and premodern European history.

History of Ideas
Traces the evolution of ideas on justice, human nature, God and similar concepts through the great books of the western intellectual tradition.  A new option is becoming available focusing on ethics in personal, social, and political contexts.

Institutions and Policy
The political and economic institutions of today’s world and formulation of policy for them.  The major includes study of economics, political science, and philosophy.

Music
For students with keyboard skills and proficiency in the basics of music theory.  Enriched study of music literature and analysis.

Science (Molecular Biology)
An interdisciplinary science major with a heavy emphasis on chemistry and focusing on molecular biology.