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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Power and wonder in Shakespeare's *Tempest*
Prospero's "potent art", which dominates the action of The Tempest, proves to be something more than fairy-tale magic. R...
Week 3
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Signs and symbols in medieval art
The rich and intriguing imagery of medieval tapestries and murals, ivories and embroideries offers insight into a world ...
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Ten historic trials, Part I: Warren Hastings, Oscar Wilde, Captain Dreyfus, the Nuremberg trial, the David Irving trial
Major trials can reveal much about the society in which they happen. This course will look at five historic trials: Warr...
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Coaching: different perspectives, alternative contexts
This course explores alternative approaches to coaching and diverse contexts where coaching skills and theory can be app...
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Exciting cells: fundamentals of neurobiology
We look at how nerve, muscle and other excitable cells work, a research field pioneered by Cambridge Nobel Laureates. Be...
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The World of the Vikings
The Vikings were the first people in the history of the world to have contact with four different continents, bringing t...
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Milton’s Adam and Eve: the human factor in *Paradise Lost*
At the heart of Milton's cosmos-spanning epic is an intimate and engaging human story. In this course we'll focus on how...
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Pirates!
The course will introduce students to the “golden age” of piracy, that period between 1680 and 1730. We will examine the...
Week 3