Summer Schools

Accredited and non-accredited summer courses of between one and four weeks' duration are held at Rewley House and at Oxford's historic colleges. There are over 100 summer courses offered each year.

Some classes are accredited; others require no coursework, and are non-assessed. See below for more information, or use our course search to see all summer classes.

Oxford University Summer School for Adults

Forty accredited courses of one week's duration covering a wide range of topics, OUSSA is held over four weeks at Rewley House in central Oxford

Oxford International Summer Schools

One- to four-week graduate-level programmes, based at Oxford colleges, each dedicated to a single topic

The Oxford Experience

A residential summer programme at Christ Church providing over sixty one-week courses in a variety of subjects aimed at non-specialists

Upcoming courses

Creative Writing for All

Short courses
Sun 06 Aug 2017 to 12 Aug 2017

A practical and discursive creative writing course which encourages students to use their own life experience as a springboard for the creation of original fiction. Absolute beginners and practising writers are equally welcome.

English Civil War and Revolution, 1642-60: `A World Turned Upside Down`?

Short courses
Sun 06 Aug 2017 to 12 Aug 2017

Cavaliers and Roundheads, defiant Charles I, and puritanical Cromwell. These vivid images tell us only half the story of the English Civil War. For England not only lost a king, and gained a Lord Protector but truly was a world turned upside down.

In Search of England: the Arts and National Identity, 1927-51

Short courses
Sun 06 Aug 2017 to 12 Aug 2017

In the mid-20th century some English writers and artists pursued the spirit of an England they felt was challenged by Modernism and modern life, and threatened by war. Their search developed an English aesthetic in enduring art, stories, poems and music.

John Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Rebels

Short courses
Sun 06 Aug 2017 to 12 Aug 2017

Oxford, through its rich artistic and architectural legacies, provides the ideal environment to explore the pervasive influence that the visionary art critic and social commentator, John Ruskin, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had on Victorian culture.

Life in Roman Britain

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Sun 06 Aug 2017 to 12 Aug 2017

Britain became part of the Roman empire about two thousand years ago. We shall use a range of archaeological evidence to investigate what life was like, and what changes took place, during the four centuries of Roman rule.

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Summer Schools

Oxford University Summer School for Adults

Oxford International Summer Schools

The Oxford Experience

Upcoming courses

Creative Writing for All

English Civil War and Revolution, 1642-60: `A World Turned Upside Down`?

In Search of England: the Arts and National Identity, 1927-51

John Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Rebels

Life in Roman Britain