Week 3: Inspiring Oxford summer school
Stay and study in historic Brasenose College
Week 3: Sunday 20 July - Saturday 26 July 2025
Elevate your summer by exploring your passion in a dynamic and world-renowned university environment at our 2025 Inspiring Oxford summer programme.
All week-long courses are pitched at an introductory level for non-specialists aged 18 and above, and no prior knowledge is required. You will study in small groups, of up to 16 participants, taught by highly experienced tutors.
A selection of courses taking place during Week 3 of the programme are listed below. To view all Week 3 course please click on the 'full listing' button.
Upcoming courses
Summer schools • Short courses
Explore the detective fiction of Agatha Christie, examining her two most famous detectives: Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. We’ll look at the historical contexts and narrative structures of some of Christie’s most successful whodunits.
- Sun 20 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
Summer schools • Short courses
Folktales are some of the oldest stories of human experience that survived through the oral tradition for hundreds of years before being written down. Explore this rich resource from early texts to modern retellings.
- Sun 20 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
Summer schools • Short courses
Have you ever wondered if the American Revolution was more than just heroic American patriots against tyrannical British forces? Then this course is for you, as it takes a deep look at the American revolution and discovers its greyer, more complex sides.
- Sun 20 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
Summer schools • Short courses
Try your hand at four distinct types of short-form writing – micro-memoir, flash fiction, short creative non-fiction and prose poetry – and discover how each of them can benefit your writing life.
- Sun 20 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
Summer schools • Short courses
To what extent do we still live in a globalised and capitalist world? How helpful are the concepts of globalisation and capitalism for understanding today’s international system? Explore Global Political Economy as a framework to address these questions.
- Sun 20 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
Summer schools • Short courses
Celebrating the potential of humans, positive psychology offers an alternative view of human behaviour. As a discipline it strives to move us towards happier, healthier and more fulfilled lives. This course explores some of those ideas.
- Sun 20 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
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Inspiring Oxford Summer School
Introductory level. A newly-expanded summer programme offering weekly courses aimed at non-specialists. Held at Brasenose College, Oxford.Week 1: Inspiring Oxford summer school
Inspiring Oxford courses running from Sunday 6 July - Saturday 12 July 2025.Week 2: Inspiring Oxford summer school
Inspiring Oxford courses running from Sunday 13 - Saturday 19 July 2025.