Academic Overview
- Small classes
- Highly-qualified faculty, many from Oxford University
- Challenging liberal arts curriculum
- Internships
- Education Programme, including school placements
- Course-related study trips
Welcome from Jonathan Hope, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs:
Welcome to ASE!
My principal job is to help Barbara White (the Dean and Director) look after your academic welfare.
Whether you choose to study in England for a semester, a full year, or just for the summer, ASE promises to offer you a challenging and unique educational experience, encouraging you to develop your academic skills and to widen your range of scholarly interests.
During the Autumn and Spring semesters, our regular courses are taught from Monday to Thursday in small seminar groups (classes are no larger than 13 and often much smaller) by a carefully selected, highly-qualified team of tutors, many of whom - like myself - hail from Oxford University. All are committed to our ideals of combining high teaching standards with personal involvement in students' academic goals. We also offer Tutorials, where teaching takes place singly or in pairs; an Education Programme; and a range of Internships.
Click here for a full outline of the ASE Curriculum.
The ASE Summer School operates in a slightly different fashion, with seminar and core courses taught each day from Monday to Thursday, and a maximum class size of 15. Click here to read more.
Barbara and I are on hand at Nelson House, the ASE study centre, to ensure you are supported academically throughout your stay, and to offer advice on your next steps after you leave ASE. Perhaps you will follow in the footsteps of former ASE students and return to England to take a higher degree at Oxford, or in London or Bristol? Or to train as a teacher in an English school? So many opportunities will beckon as a consequence of your time with us.
I look forward very much to meeting you.
