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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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
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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...
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Painting 19th-century Paris and its people
In this introductory course we will look at French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings to consider how and wh...
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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...
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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...
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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'...
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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...
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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