Students earn a total of 18 hours of Rhodes credit distributed among History, International Studies, Business, Economics, Philosophy, Art, and Foriegn Languages. Students earn a total of eighteen hours of Rhodes credit, distributed among History, English, Art History, and Philosophy or Religious Studies. For six weeks in the summer, students live and study in the historic buildings of St. John's College, Oxford, England, founded in 1555. Each year a different period of British history and culture is chosen as the focus, from the earliest times to the present day. Interspersed with the seminars are lectures by leading British academics.
All participants take part in specially arranged study excursions and a number of theater visits.
Many participants travel extensively before or after the program, the structure of which also enables long weekend trips. Six or nine hours of Rhodes credit may be earned in the program. A total of four credit hours can be earned for one of these programs. The Coral Reef Ecology program is an intensive two-week field study in this unique environment. Students enroll in the first of the two courses of this program during the spring semester on campus, taught by two Rhodes faculty members.