Week 5 Seminars OUSSA
Join us in Oxford for a study holiday
Week 5: 9 – 16 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 5 below, or learn more about OUSSA.
Upcoming courses
Summer schools • Short courses
A history of Oxford from the medieval to the present day in paintings, drawings, engravings, maps and photographs.
- Sat 09 Aug 2025 – 16 Aug 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
Summer schools • Short courses
How do we write a setting, and why does it matter? Consider the aspects of time and place that make an immersive and memorable setting, and explore how to incorporate them into your fiction writing.
- Sat 09 Aug 2025 – 16 Aug 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
Summer schools • Short courses
From Neoclassicism to Romanticism, Orientalism to Realism, Impressionism to Post-Impressionism, this course examines the evolution of the genre of the nude and the social and sexual politics at stake.
- Sat 09 Aug 2025 – 16 Aug 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
Summer schools • Short courses
John Keats was contentious in his own lifetime: hailed as bringing strength to a 'new school' of poetry, but also condemned for writing nothing more than 'drivelling idiocy'. Explore the life, letters, and poetry of this great Romantic poet.
- Sat 09 Aug 2025 – 16 Aug 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
Summer schools • Short courses
This summer school will explore the rich and distinctive legacy of Venetian art and architecture, from the late medieval period until the present day – from Bellini to the Biennale.
- Sat 09 Aug 2025 – 16 Aug 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
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