Week 4
OUSSA: Week 4 courses
Course status:
Open to enrolments
Location:
Dates:
24/07/2027 - 31/07/2027
Study format:
Residential and non-residential options
Level:
Undergraduate
Join us in Oxford for a study holiday
Deepen your knowledge, expand your horizons.
Week 4: Saturday 24 – Saturday 31 July 2027
The Oxford University Summer School for Adults (OUSSA) is a residential summer programme held at Rewley House in central Oxford, offering more than 60 week-long accredited courses for adult learners (18 years and over) covering a wide range of subjects including literature, archaeology, architectural history, creative writing, history of art, philosophy, biological sciences, theology and psychology.
Courses taking place during Week 4 of our 2027 OUSSA programme are listed below.
Week 4 courses
- The Art of Death across the Middle Ages (Dr Róisín Astell)
- Early Christian Mystics (Dr Ann Conway-Jones)
- Exploring the Ancient Virtues (Dr Peter Wyss)
- Gothic Architecture – from Creation to Recreation c.1100-1900 (Dr Hubert Pragnell)
- Macroeconomics and the Global Economy: An Introduction (Dr Sangaralingam Ramesh)
- Middlemarch by George Eliot (Karen Hewitt, MBE)
- Nebulae: The Stories Behind the Images (Dr Elizabeth Charlton)
- Philosophy and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Dr Julia Weckend)
- Philosophy of Mind: The Basics (Dr Stephen Law)
- Reading Marx for Pain and Prophet (Edward Hadas)
- The Swinging Sixties: Social and Cultural Change in 1960s Britain (Dr Geoff Andrews)
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