Curriculum

The Oxbow curriculum is sequential, project-based, experiential, and interdisciplinary. Courses are team-taught across disciplines and media. Academic and art projects are based on research, reading, writing and study skills that extend the students’ capabilities to fully engage with the topics through experimentation, testing, and revision. With a heuristic emphasis on taking risks and assuming responsibilities for decisions made, the sequence of the projects builds basic foundation skills so that at the end of twelve weeks, each student is prepared to embark upon a comprehensive, month-long Final Project on a topic of their choice, supported by research in relevant domains.

“At Oxbow, the eye and the hand are inseparable from the mind. And because their peers are also artists, students adopt fresh attitudes toward their work.”

— Charles Altieri Rachel Anderson Stageberg Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley