Week 4 Seminars OUSSA
Join us in Oxford for a study holiday
Week 4: 2 – 9 Aug 2025
The Oxford University Summer School for Adults (OUSSA) is a residential summer programme held at Rewley House central Oxford, offering more than 50 week-long accredited courses for adult learners (18 years and over) covering a wide range of subjects in Literature, Archaeology, Architectural History, Creative Writing, History of Art, Philosophy, Biological Sciences, Theology and Psychology.
View courses taking place during Week 4 below, or learn more about OUSSA.
Upcoming courses
Summer schools • Short courses
Explore the pressing ethical issues that arise due to advances in biomedicine/biotechnology including the ethics of making health-related decisions, organ donation, genetically modified organisms, death and dying and AI in medicine.
- Sat 02 Aug 2025 – 09 Aug 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
Summer schools • Short courses
Is the modern economy good? A simple question with a complicated answer. We will look at theory and practice, seeing how current arrangements of labour, production and consumption do and do not serve the common and the individual good.
- Sat 02 Aug 2025 – 09 Aug 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
Summer schools • Short courses
A course for historians who are interested in learning more about the potential of Victorian painting and design as historical documents, and for art historians who want to learn more about the historical context in which art of the period was produced.
- Sat 02 Aug 2025 – 09 Aug 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
Summer schools • Short courses
Fashion was employed across the Mediterranean to express agency, power, influence and wealth. We will examine material culture and the depiction of fashion in art to better understand of Medieval and early Modern Mediterranean societies.
- Sat 02 Aug 2025 – 09 Aug 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
Summer schools • Short courses
Jane Austen is one of Britain’s greatest female novelists. On the 250th anniversary of her birth, we will explore her fiction, from early writing to major novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma and Northanger Abbey.
- Sat 02 Aug 2025 – 09 Aug 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
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