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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Embattled Empire - Britain and its Empire in the Second World War
Despite the rhetoric of 'Britain Alone', Britain was very much not alone in the Second World War: rather it was Britain'...
Week 3
10 sessions
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Writing fiction for children
In this course we’ll consider children as an evolving audience from baby to young adult, suiting different kinds of book...
Week 3
10 sessions
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Contemporary War: can law regulate the use of force?
To Clausewitz, 'War is the continuation of politics by other means'. World history is punctuated by wars of conquest. Af...
Week 3
5 sessions
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Forms of happiness: hedonism, individuality, and virtue in 18th-century literature
This course delves into competing ideas of happiness in the 18th century, focusing on hedonism, individuality, and virtu...
Week 3
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Evolution through Natural Selection: the growth of an idea
‘Development repeats evolutionary history’ was a dominant idea in the late 19th century. ‘Development drives evolutionar...
Week 3
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Chaucer's *Canterbury Tales*
This course is an opportunity to explore Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, one of the best-loved works of English literature. ...
Week 3
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Modernism and its alternatives in 20th-century British art
The received story of visual art in 20th-century Britain is one of successive modernisms, from Vorticism and Bloomsbury,...
Week 3
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Popular culture in ancient Rome
Roman historians have traditionally concentrated on the elite. This course looks at the lives of ordinary Romans, be the...
Week 3