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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European art collectors and collecting, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
European collectors have long used art and artefacts to showcase their wealth, express personal taste and acquire knowle...
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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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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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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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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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Understanding our Planet
From the tiny crystals that make up a volcanic eruption to the vast ice sheets that have covered our planet, we will loo...
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Philosophy of literature: cognitive and moral value
This course explores philosophical questions about the nature of literary fiction by asking: What is literature? What is...
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Plants that changed the world
Starting with plants known in the ancient world, we progress to examine plants that have driven - and still do drive - g...
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