Explore the hidden psychology behind manipulation and conflict. This interactive course examines behaviours like gaslighting and triangulation, teaching you to recognize and manage toxic dynamics while transforming tension into understanding.
Course Availability: Course full
Global Markets, Trade and Finance
Explore the dynamics of international trade and finance, from global markets and policy tools to exchange systems and financial institutions. Join us in Oxford to gain practical insights into how economies interact in an increasingly connected world.
Creative Writing: Starting Your Story
Discover your voice and turn ideas into stories. Through creative exercises, prompts and discussion, this interactive course will help you craft engaging narratives, share your work, and develop your unique writing style. All levels welcome.
High Performance Leadership
Discover what it takes to lead at the highest level. This course examines how top performers in business, science, the arts and sports achieve lasting excellence, revealing the mindsets, strategies and disciplines that define high-performance leadership.
The Philosophy of Mind
Explore the nature of mind and consciousness through philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. This course examines the mind–body problem, artificial consciousness, and whether science can truly explain what it means to think and be aware.
The Philosophy and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Explore the ethical and philosophical challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) – from bias and automation to consciousness and moral agency. This course examines what it means to create and coexist with intelligent systems shaping our future.
Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
This course dives deep into Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility (1811), analysing and contextualising key elements of the novel.
Exploring Psychology
Explore how the human mind works and why we behave as we do. This course traces psychology from Freud to modern science, examining memory, emotion, personality and social influence to reveal what shapes our thoughts, actions and relationships.
An Introduction to Tolkien’s Mythology
From Tolkien’s chief sources to Elvish mythology, this course offers a masterclass in world-building and the meaning of ‘The Silmarillion’. Led by a world-class Tolkien expert at the university where Middle-earth was created.
The Bayeux Tapestry: An Early Medieval Masterpiece
The Bayeux Tapestry is the greatest surviving artefact from the Anglo-Norman era, portraying the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 in pictorial form. This course examines its provenance, sponsorship, interpretation and intriguing later history.
Systematic Reviews
Covering the process of doing a systematic review, focusing on practicalities and emphasising how and why this qualifies as scientific research.
Femmes Fatale: Women Spies of the Second World War
Delve into a world of secret agents and sabotage and uncover the stories of some of the most incredible women of the 20th century. Operating behind enemy lines they blew up factories and railways, fooled the Nazis and undertook high risk prison breakouts.