Oxford Courses & faculty

At Oxford, you have the opportunity to take one, two or three courses. Your choice. Grades will be transferred directly to your St. Bonaventure transcript and degree audit.

Many courses do not have prerequisites. However, if you plan to take an upper-level course, be sure all prerequisites have been met or secure permission through the associate director.

When the weather is nice, classes are often held outside in the gardens.

The following is the tentative list of courses for 2025. Plan your Spring on-campus schedule accordingly.

HIST 394. Foundation of the Western World: From the Rise of Democracy to the Crisis of Multiculturalism.
Tutor: Dr. Clemena Antonova
An introduction to the historical, intellectual, and religious roots of Western culture intended to serve as a basis for developing a comprehensive understanding of that culture and of other cultures that are linked to or influenced by it. The course will present a historical perspective tracing major changes in the development of Western culture from ancient times to the present. (3 credits)

BIO/BIOL 490. Exploration of Infectious Disease w/Lab
Tutor: Dr. Adam Ritchie
This course communicates the importance of scientific practices, their application and impact on lives. Focusing on a specific infectious disease, students will apply learning about the philosophy of science, history of science, nature of evidence, and ethics to their own scientific investigation. On completion of this course, students should be able to appreciate how science is carried out and why; describe the significance and history of scientific advancement; explain how science impacts on society; understand key concepts of disease, genetics, and immunology; judge questions of scientific ethics. (4 credits)

VA 399. Age of Shakespeare
Tutor: Dr. Clemena Antonova
Interdisciplinary course brings together material from literary texts (theology, poetry and drama) and the visual arts (painting and architecture) with a focus on the aesthetic and thematic connections of text and image. The course will emphasize the common elements of literary and artistic expression, and the integral nature of the students’ aesthetic response to both literature and the arts. (3 credits)

JMC/WS 482. Women, Minorities and the Media
Tutor: Professor Anne Lee
The course has two main themes: the history of women and minority journalists working in the U.S. media from the colonial era to the present day and the portrayals by the media of these collective groups often left outside the mainstream. In Oxford, students also look at English and European media, and former Jandoli School faculty member/Lenna scholar Barbara Mackenzie usually appears as a guest lecturer. Films and primary source materials are used. (3 credits)

JMC 483. Media and Democracy
Tutor: Dr. Richard Lee
This course uses a seminar format to explore the external factors that impact the content and quality of news and the media's relationship with a healthy democracy. It examines conflicts between the media's responsibility to keep citizens informed and to serve as a watchdog over powerful interests with news organizations' roles as profit-making businesses. The growth of the Internet and social networks and their impact on journalistic form and content also are explored. In Oxford, course is expanded to look at British media and government. (3 credits)

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Dr. Clemena Antonova is a historian of art and literature with degrees from Edinburgh (M.A.) and Oxford (Ph.D.) universities. She has held research fellowships in France, Germany, Belgium, and Austria and has taught at universities in Bulgaria, Morocco, and Britain. At present, she is the research director of the "Eurasia in Global Dialogue" Programme at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria. She is also affiliated with the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies at Cambridge. Her fields of research and teaching interest include art history and theory; English and American literature; religious studies, theology, and political theory.

Mike Jones-Kelley, director of the Francis E. Kelley Oxford Program, teaches advertising and strategic communication courses in the Jandoli School of Communication. As teacher and advisor to the student advertising agency, he has seen his students win the National Student Advertising Competition in New York City twice in recent years. He is a graduate of Georgia State University and holds an M.S. in newspaper journalism from the Medill School of Communication at Northwestern University. He speaks four languages and has traveled to 65 countries.

Anne Lee, associate director of the Francis E. Kelley Oxford Program, teaches journalism in the Jandoli School of Communication at her alma mater, St. Bonaventure University. She worked at Mercer County (New Jersey) Community College as a reference librarian, English composition instructor, Learning Center tutor, and mentor for the DREAM program for intellectually disabled students. She wrote, edited and assigned news feature stories at Dorf Feature Service, an affiliate of The Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s largest newspaper, and was acting communications director for the County of Mercer, New Jersey’s capital county. She holds an MSLIS from Pratt Institute.

Dr. Richard A. Lee, assistant director of the Francis E. Kelley Oxford Program, is is a professor of journalism and mass communication in the Jandoli School of Communication at St. Bonaventure University and executive director of the Jandoli Institute, which he defines as “a forum for academic research, creative ideas and constructive debate on the intersection between media and democracy.” He is an alumnus of St. Bonaventure, holding a B.A. in English. He also earned an M.A. in public media arts from Montclair State University and a Ph.D. in media studies from Rutgers University. Lee was a visiting professor at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, teaching a course in Media and Elections in 2010. From 2006 to 2011, he taught Media and Government at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and, from 1996 to 2008, taught Public Relations and English composition at Mercer County (N.J.) Community College. He was the communications director and a founding member of the Hall Institute of Public Policy-New Jersey; a deputy communications director for two New Jersey governors; a public information officer for the Township of Woodbridge and for the New Jersey Assembly majority. Prior to those positions, he worked as a journalist, writing about news, education and politics for The Montclair Times and The News Tribune of Woodbridge and about rock music for The Aquarian.

Dr. Adam Ritchie is Senior Vaccinologist at the Jenner Institute and Lecturer in Human Science at St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford. His expertise is in immunology and infectious disease, and he has worked on a range of diseases including HIV/AIDS, rabies and malaria. Dr. Ritchie was involved in the development of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, playing a leading role in the manufacturing process for the vaccine that has seen at least 6 million lives saved through the manufacture and distribution of over 3 billion doses in 170 countries. He also works on projects to develop a new rabies vaccine and technologies to improve vaccine manufacturing, as well as being involved in teaching and admissions across the university. Adam has a B.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a post-graduate diploma in education from the University of Oxford. He has received the St. Bonaventure University Medal of Honor for services to education, a Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Oxford, and has received the following awards related to his COVID-19 vaccine work: Royal Society Copley Medal; Pride of Britain Award; BSI Global Impact & Innovation Award; GQ Men of the Year Awards-Heroes of the Year, and the NHS Parliamentary Awards-The Excellence in Healthcare Award.

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