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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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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Transforming society: politics, economics and social policy
Britain is undergoing rapid social change, for example, in relation to the effects of austerity, the consequences of Bre...
Week 4
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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
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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 4
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Shakespeare's *Romeo and Juliet* in performance
Romeo and Juliet is perhaps Shakespeare’s best-known play, with a story that has had enduring appeal (and which has unde...
Week 4
10 sessions
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From here to the edge of the observable Universe
In this introduction to modern astronomy, we will take a tour, starting in our Solar System, back to a time when the Uni...
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
5 sessions
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Virginia Woolf in the 1920s: *Mrs Dalloway* and *To the Lighthouse*
This course focuses upon two texts in which Woolf explores women’s place in society, from Clarissa Dalloway’s post-First...
Week 4