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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Medieval pilgrimage: the pilgrim’s perspective
This course considers the full ‘experience’ of the pilgrim in medieval England and beyond. For context, it will introduc...
Week 3
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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...
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: an Introduction
Shakespeare’s overwhelming greatness is as evident in his poems as in his plays. The book Shakespeare’s Sonnets, publish...
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The Age of Richard II: kingship, art and society, 1360-1400
Richard II’s reign is one of the most colourful and dramatic in English history. The subject of a brilliant play by Shak...
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The impact of social media: political, cultural, and historical perspectives
We all know social media is changing society. But what, precisely, is it changing? Why, ultimately, does it matter? And ...
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The rise of civilisation: Mesopotamia and Mexico
The Middle East and tropical Mexico have long provided case studies of the conditions for rising population, concentrati...
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The transformation of the Late Roman world, 284-476AD
The Roman Empire changed dramatically following its near collapse in the third century CE. The central government grew b...
Week 3