Week 2 Seminars OUSSA
Join us in Oxford for a study holiday
Week 2: 19 - 26 July 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 2 below, or learn more about OUSSA.
Upcoming courses
Summer schools • Short courses
Introducing the art, architecture and interiors of the Baroque Age in Britain (c. 1660-1720). Explore how patrons of royal palaces and country houses used the Baroque style to express their power, politics and magnificence.
- Sat 19 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
Summer schools • Short courses
This course examines the emergence of cyberspies, and assesses how they are influencing the practice of espionage in the twenty-first century.
- Sat 19 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
Summer schools • Short courses
2025 marks 400 years since Charles I took the throne. His Surveyor of the King’s Works, Inigo Jones, toured Italy extensively and brought the Renaissance to English architecture. We will explore the emergence of Renaissance building in Italy and England.
- Sat 19 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
Summer schools • Short courses
This course unravels the path of Rome from a small village in Latium vetus, to an emerging power in Italy, and finally the heart of a Mediterranean Empire, exploring the ecological and socio-political factors that underpin this trajectory.
- Sat 19 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
Summer schools • Short courses
Discover how classical architecture was composed and the meanings behind it. Buildings in Oxford will offer unique and varied examples of this. Classical architecture will be followed into recent designs to show how it can speak to us today.
- Sat 19 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
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