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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5 sessions
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1776: American Revolution, British Civil War and Anglo-French World War
Was the quarrel between Britain and its American colonies really about issues of taxation and representation or was ther...
Week 2
5 sessions
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In search of venerated landscapes: hunters and farmers from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age
For thousands of years people held a close connection with the landscapes they lived in. They imbued it with meaning: st...
Week 2
10 sessions
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Short stories for writers
Participants on the course will read, discuss and learn from six classic short stories. They will produce their own stor...
Week 4
10 sessions
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International development: past present and future
This course provides an introductory review of international development discourses since the 1950s and critically exami...
Week 4
10 sessions
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Cryptography: unlocking the future
Cryptography is all around us and has major historical connections. This course explores the mathematics of cryptography...
Week 4
10 sessions
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Nanomedicine: the future of targeted therapies
The study of nanometre-scale functional materials and their interactions with biological systems has had a profound impa...
Week 4
10 sessions
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Shakespeare: fusions of Comedy and Tragedy
Shakespeare learned early to be a great generic engineer, testing forms to breaking-point and playing with audience expe...
Week 4
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The pillars of business success: key considerations
Business is inherently risky and challenging. Successful organisations plan for and respond to likely and unlikely situa...
Week 4