Ready to create your personalised summer learning programme? To explore, search for topics, or use the filters to refine by week, number of sessions or subject. Once you click ‘Apply to the programme’, you’ll go through to our student portal. And from there you can start building your own programme of summer courses at Cambridge.
You need to commit to at least one week, and attend courses in the morning and in the afternoon. The dates for this year's programme are:
Week 1: 13 – 19 July
Week 2: 20 – 26 July
Week 3: 27 July – 2 August
Week 4: 3 – 9 August
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War, peace and intervention
We may think we know what peace is. It’s when the fighting stops, isn’t it? Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. Notwith...
Week 2
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The Making of the Modern Middle East
Why does the Middle East continue to be so complex, fragmented and highly contested, never more so than today? Rupert Wa...
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Nature Poetry: romanticism to climate emergency
This course will explore the depiction of nature in a range of poetry from different periods and places. We will read fr...
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The making of a dictatorship: Stalin's Russia
After Vladimir Lenin’s death in 1924, Josef Stalin became leader of the Soviet Union and constructed a system that was e...
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Roman Britain: conquest and settlement
This introduction to Roman Britain begins with a look at Britain before the arrival of the Romans. We then move on to th...
Week 2
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E M Forster in Italy: *A Room With a View*
Italy and its sun, its art and its people have always fascinated visitors from the cold north, and such travels have bro...
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Criminal minds? A crash course in explaining crime
Do offenders choose to commit crime? Or are they driven to it by factors beyond their control? Are some people more like...
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An introduction to autism
Despite 60 years of research, autism remains a puzzle: many people remain unclear about what it actually is. Even a lead...
Week 2