Corpus Christi College Oxford
About Us:
Founded in 1517, Corpus Christi is one of Oxford's older colleges. Its ancient buildings are some of the most beautiful in Oxford, and it enjoys an unrivalled position, overlooking gardens and meadows yet within five minutes walk of the city centre and the Bodleian Library. The College is smaller than most, having 240 undergraduates and 115 graduate students. The staff includes 40 academic Fellows, all of them distinguished teachers and researchers in their fields. The remarkable sixteenth-century library, with its early furnishings and beautiful plaster-work, is fully equipped with modern networking facilities and contains 80,000 books and 80 runs of journals.
Up-to-date accommodation, including internet access in every room, is provided for all undergraduates and for most postgraduates. The College also possesses excellent facilities for sport, music and drama. Corpus is proud of its reputation for sustaining academic excellence in a pleasant and tolerant atmosphere, and we aim to attract the most talented and committed students, irrespective of origin or background.
History: Corpus was founded in 1517 by Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester and a trusted diplomatic and political adviser to King Henry VII. Bishop Fox had originally intended the College for the training of monks; if he had followed through with this plan, Corpus would probably have been dissolved in the Reformation of the next generation. Instead, he decided that it should be a place of Renaissance learning for the education of young men in the humanities and the sciences. The beautiful main quad, with its tower, dining hall, library and adjoining chapel were planned and completed under Fox's guidance. Queen Catherine (of Aragon) was a friend of the College's first President, John Claimond, and would visit him in his College lodgings while her husband, Henry VIII, hunted at nearby Woodstock. Another early visitor was the great humanist scholar, Erasmus, who wrote admiringly of the College's library.
The College played a central role in the religious disputes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. One of its earliest Fellows, Reginald Pole, was Archbishop of Canterbury under Queen Mary and narrowly missed becoming Pope. One of its early graduates was the renowned Protestant scholar Richard Hooker. The College's seventh President, John Rainolds, was a key organizer and translator of the 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible.
Subjects and Courses:
Corpus Christi College specialises in the following subject areas:
- Biochemistry
- Materials Science
- Biomedical Sciences
- Mathematics
- Chemistry
- Medicine
- Classics
- Philosophy
- Classical Archaeology & Ancient History
- PPE
- Economics
- Physics
- English
- Politics
- History
- Psychology
- Law
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