International Summer Progamme 2026 Course options
Week 1: 12 July 2026 - 18 July 2026
Morning courses: 10 sessions over two weeks
10 sessions W110Am01 Back to Anarchy? The rebirth of global power politics
10 sessions W110Am02 Philosophy of mind: the nature of conscious experience
10 sessions W110Am03 Small worlds: an introduction to microbiology
10 sessions W110Am04 Starting a new business on a small budget
Week 1: 12 July 2026 - 18 July 2026
Morning courses: 10 sessions over one week
10 sessions W110Am50 Writing fiction for children
Week 1: 12 July 2026 - 18 July 2026
Morning courses: 5 sessions over one week
5 sessions W15Am20 Lesser-known stories of the Special Operations Executive
5 sessions W15Am21 An introduction to the English (and Welsh) criminal justice ‘system'
5 sessions W15Am22 The Making of the Modern Middle East
5 sessions W15Am23 Women and war: Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
5 sessions W15Am24 Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre and Villette
5 sessions W15Am25 Environmental crisis in contemporary literature and culture
5 sessions W15Am26 From the last Tsar to the first Soviets: Russia, 1894-1924
5 sessions W15Am27 Holbein and Henry VIII: branding the King
5 sessions W15Am28 The reign of Charles I, 1625-49
5 sessions W15Am29 Daily life in ancient Rome
5 sessions W15Am30 The ‘Ornament of the World’: Córdoba and Islamic Spain in the early Middle Ages
5 sessions W15Am31 Robin Hood in history and legend
5 sessions W15Am32 Five Renaissance giants: Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Holbein and Dürer
5 sessions W15Am33 An introduction to social psychology
5 sessions W15Am34 An introduction to astronomy: understanding stars and planets
5 sessions W15Am35 The immune system in sickness and in health
Week 1: 12 July 2026 - 18 July 2026
Afternoon courses: 10 sessions over two weeks
10 sessions W110Pm01 War, peace and intervention
10 sessions W110Pm02 Shakespeare: fusions of Comedy and Tragedy
10 sessions W110Pm03 Rome and China
10 sessions W110Pm04 Striving for sustainability, from material choice to city construction
10 sessions W110Pm05 Contemporary marketing fundamentals
Week 1: 12 July 2026 - 18 July 2026
Afternoon courses: 10 sessions over one week
10 sessions W110Pm50 Writing fiction for children
Week 1: 12 July 2026 - 18 July 2026
Afternoon courses: 5 sessions over one week
5 sessions W15Pm20 International climate politics: power, justice and cooperation
5 sessions W15Pm21 Global transformation: the Western Maritime Empires from emergence to collapse, 1415-1956
5 sessions W15Pm22 Close readings: the modern poem
5 sessions W15Pm23 ‘The melody of letters’: reading literature as a musical exercise
5 sessions W15Pm24 Virginia Woolf’s Women: Mrs Dalloway and The Years
5 sessions W15Pm25 The making of a dictatorship: Stalin's Russia
5 sessions W15Pm26 The Tudor Boy King: the turbulent times of Edward VI
5 sessions W15Pm27 Iris Murdoch: philosophy and fiction
5 sessions W15Pm28 The decline and fall of the Roman Empire
5 sessions W15Pm29 Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire (800-87 CE)
5 sessions W15Pm30 Magna Carta and King John
5 sessions W15Pm31 Five gems of Northern Italy: Ravenna, Ferrara, Parma, Mantua and Sabbionetta
5 sessions W15Pm32 Modernism and its alternatives in 20th-century British art
5 sessions W15Pm33 Evolutionary enigmas: solving biology’s biggest mysteries
5 sessions W15Pm34 Sleep and the brain: from neuroscience to behaviour
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Week 2: 19 July 2026 - 25 July 2026
Morning courses: 10 sessions over two weeks
10 sessions W210Am01 Back to Anarchy? The rebirth of global power politics
10 sessions W210Am02 Philosophy of mind: the nature of conscious experience
10 sessions W210Am03 Small worlds: an introduction to microbiology
10 sessions W210Am04 Starting a new business on a small budget
Week 2: 19 July 2026 - 25 July 2026
Morning courses: 10 sessions over one week
10 sessions W210Am50 Writing non-fiction: Lives, past and present
10 sessions W210Am51 Ethics of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
10 sessions W210Am52 Disaster and climate resilience management
Week 2: 19 July 2026 - 25 July 2026
Morning courses: 5 sessions over one week
5 sessions W25Am20 Criminal minds? A crash course in explaining crime
5 sessions W25Am21 ‘Events, dear boy, events’: intriguing case studies in British political history
5 sessions W25Am22 An introduction to the Bloomsbury Group
5 sessions W25Am23 Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles: Wessex in an Age of Transition
5 sessions W25Am24 Reimagining Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice and its variations
5 sessions W25Am25 James VII and II and the Revolution of 1688-9
5 sessions W25Am26 The global 1980s
5 sessions W25Am27 Pirates! The golden age of piracy, 1680-1730
5 sessions W25Am28 Alexander the Great: king, soldier, legend
5 sessions W25Am29 An introduction to the philosophy of science and technology
5 sessions W25Am30 The global Middle Ages: Britain and the world, c.400–1500
5 sessions W25Am32 An introduction to autism
5 sessions W25Am33 Different ways of dying - the complexities of cell death
5 sessions W25Am34 Art for Gloriana: Elizabeth I and the Visual Arts
Week 2: 19 July 2026 - 25 July 2026
Afternoon courses: 10 sessions over two weeks
10 sessions W210Pm01 War, peace and intervention
10 sessions W210Pm02 Shakespeare: fusions of Comedy and Tragedy
10 sessions W210Pm03 Rome and China
10 sessions W210Pm04 Striving for sustainability, from material choice to city construction
10 sessions W210Pm05 Contemporary marketing fundamentals
Week 2: 19 July 2026 - 25 July 2026
Afternoon courses: 10 sessions over one week
10 sessions W210Pm50 Writing non-fiction: Lives, past and present
10 sessions W210Pm51 Ethics of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
10 sessions W210Pm52 Disaster and climate resilience management
Week 2: 19 July 2026 - 25 July 2026
Afternoon courses: 5 sessions over one week
5 sessions W25Pm20 Understanding British politics - what has shaped the system?
5 sessions W25Pm21 Sustainable technologies and social acceptance
5 sessions W25Pm22 Novel openings: understanding fiction through beginnings
5 sessions W25Pm23 The Medieval mystics
5 sessions W25Pm24 Russia after Stalin: from Khrushchev to Putin
5 sessions W25Pm25 Philosophy of literature: cognitive and moral value
5 sessions W25Pm26 In search of venerated landscapes: hunters and farmers from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age
5 sessions W25Pm27 Ancient Greek art and archaeology: an introduction
5 sessions W25Pm28 The origins of England and the English: Anglo-Saxon England, c.400–1100
5 sessions W25Pm30 What your genes say about you: how genetics is shaping healthcare
5 sessions W25Pm31 How to think like an Engineer
5 sessions W25Pm32 Data analysis and statistics made accessible: a practical introduction using R coding
5 sessions W25Pm33 British art from Henry Moore to Banksy
Week 3: 26 July 2026 - 1 August 2026
Morning courses: 10 sessions over two weeks
10 sessions W310Am01 Jane Austen: from early works to Mansfield Park
10 sessions W310Am02 Cryptography: unlocking the future
10 sessions W310Am03 The Second World War in ten trials
Week 3: 26 July 2026 - 1 August 2026
Morning courses: 10 sessions over one week
10 sessions W310Am50 Writing that elusive novel or novella
10 sessions W310Am51 Short stories for writers
10 sessions W310Am52 Contemporary War: can law regulate the use of force?
10 sessions W310Am53 Investigating Impressionism and beyond
Week 3: 26 July 2026 - 1 August 2026
Morning courses: 5 sessions over one week
5 sessions W35Am20 British politics and political thought, 1600-1800
5 sessions W35Am21 International Relations in the 20th century
5 sessions W35Am22 Milton's Satan: is he the hero of Paradise Lost?
5 sessions W35Am23 Representing the Raj: Kim, A Passage to India, The Siege of Krishnapur, and The Jewel in the Crown
5 sessions W35Am24 Hedonism, individuality, and virtue: forms of happiness in 18th-century literature
5 sessions W35Am25 Making a scene in the 18th century: political cartoons in the first Age of Visual Satire
5 sessions W35Am26 Roman Britain: conquest and settlement
5 sessions W35Am27 Problems in European philosophy: an introduction
5 sessions W35Am28 The Bayeux Tapestry: art and context
5 sessions W35Am29 Medieval Master Craftsmen: tracing the lives of artists before the Renaissance
5 sessions W35Am30 An introduction to individual differences
5 sessions W35Am31 An introduction to the psychology and practice of Coaching
5 sessions W35Am32 AI and digital transformation in healthcare
5 sessions W35Am33 Entrepreneurship: focusing on valuation of companies and intangible assets
Week 3: 26 July 2026 - 1 August 2026
Afternoon courses: 10 sessions over two weeks
10 sessions W310Pm01 Understanding finance: foundations and practical application
10 sessions W310Pm02 Transforming society: politics, economics and social policy
10 sessions W310Pm03 From here to the edge of the observable Universe
Week 3: 26 July 2026 - 1 August 2026
Afternoon courses: 10 sessions over one week
10 sessions W310Pm50 Writing that elusive novel or novella
10 sessions W310Pm51 Short stories for writers
10 sessions W310Pm52 Contemporary War: can law regulate the use of force?
10 sessions W310Pm53 Investigating Impressionism and beyond
Week 3: 26 July 2026 - 1 August 2026
Afternoon courses: 5 sessions over one week
5 sessions W35Pm20 The stops bucked here: four writers and punctuation !
5 sessions W35Pm21 The WInter's Tale: Shakespeare's wondrous Tragicomedy
5 sessions W35Pm22 Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, and beyond: Romanticism in Britain 1790-1840
5 sessions W35Pm23 1776: Revolution, civil war and global conflict
5 sessions W35Pm24 Four illuminating 18th-century lives
5 sessions W35Pm25 The rise of civilisation: Mesopotamia and Mexico
5 sessions W35Pm26 What is beautiful? An introduction to aesthetics
5 sessions W35Pm27 Signs and symbols in medieval art
5 sessions W35Pm29 European art collectors and collecting, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
5 sessions W35Pm30 Fossils and the history of life
5 sessions W35Pm31 Exciting cells: fundamentals of neurobiology
5 sessions W35Pm32 Coaching: different perspectives, alternative contexts
5 sessions W35Pm33 The rise of corporate intelligence: protection and profit
Week 4: 2 August 2026 - 8 August 2026
Morning courses: 10 sessions over two weeks
10 sessions W410Am01 Jane Austen: from early works to Mansfield Park
10 sessions W410Am02 Cryptography: unlocking the future
10 sessions W410Am03 The Second World War in ten trials
Week 4: 2 August 2026 - 8 August 2026
Morning courses: 10 sessions over one week
10 sessions W410Am50 The fundamentals of superb story-telling
10 sessions W410Am51 Shakespeare's Macbeth in performance
10 sessions W410Am52 Nanomedicine: the future of targeted therapies
Week 4: 2 August 2026 - 8 August 2026
Morning courses: 5 sessions over one week
5 sessions W45Am20 British politics and political thought, 1800 to the present
5 sessions W45Am21 Democracy for humans: how political psychology can help us shape a sustainable democratic culture
5 sessions W45Am22 Voices from four cultures: the poetry of Kei Miller, Denise Riley, Terrance Hayes and Juana Adcock
5 sessions W45Am23 Exploring contemporary non-fiction
5 sessions W45Am24 Empire and imperialism: Aztec and Inca
5 sessions W45Am25 Sacred Lands and the challenge of resurgence: 20th-century Native American history
5 sessions W45Am26 'Ra has placed the king on his throne forever': Ancient Egyptian religion
5 sessions W45Am27 The Vikings in Britain and Ireland
5 sessions W45Am28 From bondage to freedom: serfdom and its decline in medieval England
5 sessions W45Am29 Politics, scandal and glamour: courts and courtiers in Medieval Europe, 1300-1500
5 sessions W45Am31 Painting the City: 19th-century London
5 sessions W45Am32 Data Science: with a focus on healthcare
5 sessions W45Am33 An introduction to botany
5 sessions W45Am34 Astrobiology and the origins of life
Week 4: 2 August 2026 - 8 August 2026
Afternoon courses: 10 sessions over two weeks
10 sessions W410Pm01 Understanding finance: foundations and practical application
10 sessions W410Pm02 Transforming society: politics, economics and social policy
10 sessions W410Pm03 From here to the edge of the observable Universe
Week 4: 2 August 2026 - 8 August 2026
Afternoon courses: 10 sessions over one week
10 sessions W410Pm50 The fundamentals of superb story-telling
10 sessions W410Pm51 Shakespeare's Macbeth in performance
10 sessions W410Pm52 Nanomedicine: the future of targeted therapies
Week 4: 2 August 2026 - 8 August 2026
Afternoon courses: 5 sessions over one week
5 sessions W45Pm20 Making sense of European Union politics
5 sessions W45Pm21 Shakespeare and friends
5 sessions W45Pm22 Five great short stories
5 sessions W45Pm23 Encounters with Visual Art in contemporary literature
5 sessions W45Pm24 France and the Occupation
5 sessions W45Pm25 The collapse of civilisation: Rome and the Maya
5 sessions W45Pm26 Philosophy as therapy
5 sessions W45Pm27 The Bayeux Tapestry and beyond: different perspectives on the Norman Conquest of 1066
5 sessions W45Pm28 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
5 sessions W45Pm29 The Hundred Years War: England and France, 1337-1453
5 sessions W45Pm31 The art of looking slowly
5 sessions W45Pm32 Intelligent Defence: the convergence of AI and Cybersecurity
5 sessions W45Pm33 An introduction to conservation biology
5 sessions W45Pm34 Sleep and the brain: from neuroscience to behaviour
5 sessions W45Pm35 Women artists in Europe c.1400-1800
