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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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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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...
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Understanding British politics - what has shaped the system?
This course explains how the British political system has come to look as it does. We start by exploring some of the his...
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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...
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The technology race in Space and Arctic governance
In this course, we will primarily be addressing issues, opportunities, and the future development of the Arctic and its ...
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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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Shakespeare: the Forest and the Sea
Shakespeare famously gave Bohemia a sea-coast, annoying Ben Jonson, and he conjured strange seas elsewhere; he also love...
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What your genes say about you: how genetics is shaping healthcare
The re-discovery of Gregor Mendel’s principles in the early 1900s was quickly followed by the realisation that an abili...
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