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 60 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
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
Summer schools • Short courses
Explore human connections to the environmental world, and of human cultural expressions about it. We will focus on European prehistory with global anthropological and ethnographic case studies.
- Sat 09 Aug 2025 – 16 Aug 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
Summer schools • Short courses
Responses to the natural world are everywhere in the literature and art of the Middle Ages. Explore the forests of romance literature, the landscapes of dream vision, bestiaries and the calendar pages of Books of Hours.
- Sat 09 Aug 2025 – 16 Aug 2025
- 9:00am – 12:30pm
Summer schools • Short courses
Explore art in Paris in the 1920s – a vibrant Jazz Age that featured both modernity and nostalgia, innovation and tradition. Discussions will include Picasso, Matisse, Surrealism, Art Deco, Josephine Baker, the School of Paris, and Man Ray.
- 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
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