Sunday, July 15, 2012

Re: A new Oxford online WWI course

Dear Meg,

It sounds interesting, doesn´t it? We discussed a bit of the factors behind the outbreak of the WWI in the English Poetry of the WWI course, but there is so much more to learn, the scenario is so very intricate before Gavrilo Princip fired his gun.

It feels very tempting to join you here, as this course would be the perfect companion course to the English Poetry one. The course doesn´t start until October 3, so there still is time to decide. As you say, it would indeed be nice if we were several of us to support each other on this course.

Over the last few years, I have done several of these Oxford on-line courses, mainly literature. I have enjoyed them immensely and found them very good value for money indeed: good tutoring, good course material - not least articles and web-links made available to us, - course mates from all over the world, lively forum discussions, and also those extra "off-pist" discussions that crop up, not least getting 10 CATS points for each new course. Also, I still keep in touch with several previous course-mates from all over the world.

I looked up the tutor Mark Philip Radford in the British Library catalogue and found his PhD thesis:
  • Title: A trial of strength : the policing of Belfast, 1870-1914 / Mark Philip Radford [electronic resource]
  • Author: Mark Philip Radford
  • Contributor: University of Liverpool.
  • Subjects: Dewey: 363.209416709034
  • Publication Details: Liverpool : University of Liverpool, 2002.
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: System number 013008440
  • Notes: Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Liverpool, 2002.
    Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  • Physical Description: 1 v. ; 31 cm.
  • Shelfmark(s): Document Supply SFX 402399
  • UIN: BLL01013008440
That´s all I managed to found about his academic career, is he now a Lecturer or Professor at Oxford? In vain, I tried to find him on the University of Oxford web-site,  would anyone else be more lucky?

Best

Elsa





From: Meg Crane <megmcrane@gmail.com>
To: ww1lit@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, 13 July 2012, 0:17
Subject: Re: A new Oxford online WWI course

Dear Elsa
 
Thank you for drawing our attention to this. It's not expensive as they go, and  I'm extremely tempted - I just wonder whether I've really got ten hours a week to spare, since I'm still teaching full-time  ....
 
It would be terrific if more than one of us did it, so that we could support one another ....
 
Does anyone know more about Dr Mark Philip Radford, who seems to be the tutor?
 
Meg

On 8 July 2012 08:36, Elsa Franker <elsafranker@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Dear all,

Next term, Michaelmas 2012, Oxford will be doing a new course on the WWI, the web-link is:


and the course is called:

The First World War in Perspective (Online), Wed 3 Oct to Fri 14 Dec 2012 and it gives 10 CATS points.

The course looks interesting, and I think it would be an excellent companion course to the English Poetry of the First World War course. 

It doesn´t say who is going to tutor the course, does anyone know who will be taking on his course?

Best wishes

Elsa



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