Undergraduate Reading Lists

Please download the reading list for your subject using the links below. If you are reading for a joint school please ensure you download the list for each subject in the school. Please note that reading lists are not intended for exhaustive study but rather, in your own interests, to improve your background knowledge of the field you propose to pursue at Oxford.

If there is no document currently showing for your subject, please check back periodically to see if it has been added.

• Archaeology and Anthropology
• Biochemistry
• Biology [NB please note response required]
• Chemistry: Letter; Tutorial 1; Thermodynamics 1; Assumed Knowledge; Study Skills
• Earth Sciences
• Economics (for PPE and E&M): Reading list; Maths workbook
• English
• Engineering: information will be sent directly to Freshers by a tutor
• French: Letter, Prelims Handbook
• Geography: information will be sent directly to Freshers by a tutor
• German
• History [NB please note response required]
• History of Art: information will be sent directly by the department
• Italian
• Linguistics
• Law: Letter; Survival kit; Induction pack; Lamond article; Chapter 1; Chapter 3; Chapter 5; Chapter 7
• Management: information sent directly to Freshers by a tutor
• Mathematics
• Medicine
• Modern Greek: information sent directly to Freshers by a tutor
• Music
• Philosophy
• Physics: Incoming Freshers' Guide; Induction Programme; Introduction to Computing; Maths and Mechanics
• Politics
• Portuguese
• Spanish: information will be sent directly to Freshers by a tutor
• Theology and Religion