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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Space: governance, colonisation or weaponisation?
Is human appropriation of Space possible or even desirable in the 21st century? What are the limits of human activity in...
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Literature and society in the Age of Chaucer
In the later Middle Ages, poetry was used not only to express personal emotions but also to explore ideas about society,...
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The Making of the Modern Middle East
Why does the Middle East continue to be so complex, fragmented and highly contested, never more so than today? Rupert Wa...
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The making of a dictatorship: Stalin's Russia
After Vladimir Lenin’s death in 1924, Josef Stalin became leader of the Soviet Union and constructed a system that was e...
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E M Forster in Italy: *A Room With a View*
Italy and its sun, its art and its people have always fascinated visitors from the cold north, and such travels have bro...
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An introduction to autism
Despite 60 years of research, autism remains a puzzle: many people remain unclear about what it actually is. Even a lead...
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Criminal minds? A crash course in explaining crime
Do offenders choose to commit crime? Or are they driven to it by factors beyond their control? Are some people more like...
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Built on a fortune: British status homes
Huge wealth lies at the root of many imposing British homes and gardens. Funding sources - enhanced in many cases by suc...
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