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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Global transformation: western maritime empires from emergence to collapse, 1415-1956
Starting in the 15th century a group of unlikely candidates, firstly from the remote Iberian peninsular and then northwe...
Week 2
10 sessions
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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
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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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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Writing non-fiction: Lives, past and present
We begin by exploring what makes an interesting life and the role of the biographer and memoirist. We look at how the wr...
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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International development: past present and future
This course provides an introductory review of international development discourses since the 1950s and critically exami...
Week 4