International Summer Programme courses

Looking for enriching summer courses in Cambridge? You’re in the right place. Our International Summer Programme offers over 140 courses, with morning and afternoon sessions, over four weeks.
Apply to the programme

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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Painting the City: 19th-century London

In this introductory course we will look at a range of paintings by British artists Millais and Holman-Hunt, the America...
Week 4
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Performing Shakespeare's Sonnets

These Sonnets, only 14 lines long, explore love, desire, mortality and the fragility of physical beauty, and are full of...
Week 4
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The catastrophic 14th century

Centuries of expansion and efflorescence were first halted then decisively reversed through a series of catastrophic eve...
Week 4
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Making sense of international migration

In recent years, international migration has become a divisive and politically polarising issue, particularly in Europe ...
Week 4
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Pirates of the cyber eon

This course examines the history and future of hackers. If data is the new oil, hackers are the new pirates. They breach...
Week 4
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The collapse of civilisation

Is decay inevitable? Do all civilisations bear the seeds of their own destruction or is it only enemy action or environm...
Week 4