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29th Anniversary Year! August 25-September 8, 2012
Alumni Lifelong Education

This two-week lifelong education program takes you on a rare adventure to Oxford, "city of dreaming spires" and to the University of Oxford, famous as a great center of learning since the 12th century and the oldest University in the English-speaking world. Once England's capital, Oxford is located in the heart of England just 50 miles northwest of London.

Michigan State University, the University of Iowa, and Oxford's Department for Continuing Education have joined together to offer this outstanding lifelong learning opportunity. Open to all adults, each participant enrolls in one personal enrichment noncredit course of study taught by an Oxford tutor. Each course has its own field trips and group excursions are planned for the entire group of participants.

Courses for 2012 include

• British Scientists and Inventions: Two Centuries that Shaped the Modern World
• Paradise in an English Garden
• English Novels of Sensation: Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens and
• British Spies in Fact and Fiction: 1900-2012.

Group excursions for 2012 include visits to Bletchley Park, the site during WWII of the United Kingdom's main decryption establishment and where enemy country codes were decrypted and to Highclere Castle, film site of Masterpiece Classic's Emmy-award-winning period drama series Downton Abbey. An optional weekend day excursion to Warwick Castle (called "the finest medieval castle in England") is planned for your mid-program weekend enjoyment.

There will be ample time during the two weeks and at mid-program weekend break to enjoy breathtaking architecture, art, and gardens of many of the university's 38 colleges, explore the historic town of Oxford, or visit the surrounding countryside. The city of Oxford offers a diversity of museums, bookshops, theatres, restaurants, pubs, shops, and natural settings to explore.

For a detailed brochure on Odyssey to Oxford 2012, please call MSU Alumni Lifelong Education/Evening College at (517) 355-4562 or email evening_college@msualum.com

ODYSSEY TO OXFORD TESTIMONIALS

"If only I could speak 14 languages, I could give you a very special thank-you for each day we were on our Oxford trip. Everything about it was wonderful: our leaders, our tutors, our courses, our expeditions, our fellow students, my room, and the sinfully delicious food! Put it this way. On a scale of 1-10, this trip was a 15!"

- a 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 participant