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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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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Built on a fortune: British status homes
Huge wealth lies at the root of many imposing British homes and gardens. Funding sources - enhanced in many cases by suc...
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British politics and political thought, 1800 to the present
We focus on the ideas and actions that accompanied the period in which Britain gradually became a modern democracy. Look...
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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...
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Literature and society in the Age of Chaucer
In the later Middle Ages, poetry was used not only to express personal emotions but also to explore ideas about society,...
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Philosophy of literature: cognitive and moral value
This course explores philosophical questions about the nature of literary fiction by asking: What is literature? What is...
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Cold War flashpoints
From its origins and early problems, including the Berlin Blockade, we assess some of the main flashpoints, such as the ...
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