Introduction

Introduction

Williams at Exeter Programme in Oxford provides an unique opportunity for twenty-six Williams students to spend a year fully immersed in student life at Exeter, the University of Oxford's fourth oldest college. WEPO students are full members of Exeter College, and enjoy all the privileges and access to libraries, lectures, facilities, dining, computing privileges, tutorials, extracurricular activities, and so on, that are available to other Exeter students. 

All twenty-six WEPO students live together, in Ephraim Williams House, a campus of four buildings and gardens owned by Williams College. A resident director, who is a member of the Williams faculty, administers Ephraim Williams House together with the administrative director, oversees the academic program, and serves as the primary academic advisor to Williams students in Oxford. Members of the WEPO community share living and learning space, and form strong bonds while integrating into the larger Exeter and Oxford context. While the main goal of the program is academic and intellectual, students are strongly encouraged to engage in extracurricular activities and have a rich social life. It is expected that all students will be good citizens of the WEPO and of the Oxford community; this handbook will outline specific expectations and regulations. This handbook provides information for Visiting Students in the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford (WEPO). It covers rules and regulations at Ephraim Williams House (EWH), as well as general useful information and advice about living and studying in Oxford. We hope that it will help to make your year in Oxford a memorable and rewarding one. We look forward to working with you, and we hope that you enjoy your experience here in Oxford.

This year goes by fast. The chance to live in another country for a year is a rare one. Use it well. Explore the University, the wonderful city of Oxford, and the surrounding area - London is just an hour away, for example. Your academic work will be more intense and more focused than at Williams, and significantly more independent. We encourage you to immerse yourself in it - you'll be surrounded by people doing the same thing - and to pursue especially those interests that you cannot pursue at Williams. Both in terms of breadth and in terms of depth, you can find at Oxford lectures and tutorials that you could not take at Williams.