Week 5
OUSSA: Week 5 courses
Course status:
Open to enrolments
Location:
Dates:
31/07/2027 - 07/08/2027
Study format:
Residential and non-residential options
Level:
Undergraduate
Join us in Oxford for a study holiday
Deepen your knowledge, expand your horizons.
Week 5: Saturday 31 July – Saturday 7 August 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 5 of our 2027 OUSSA programme are listed below.
Week 5 courses
- Complex Cities (Dr Francesca Froy)
- Contemporary Art and the Global: Themes, Debates, and Practices (Maximilian Langefeld)
- The Discovery of Witches (Rebecca Rideal)
- Entropy: Order to Disorder or Why is it So Difficult to Keep Organized (Dr Timothy Charlton)
- Exploring Roman Britain within the Empire (Dr Francesca Fulminante)
- Global Art in the Oxford Collections (Dr Stacey Kennedy)
- Great Moral Issues in Contemporary Society (Dr Karim Esmail)
- The Hidden Meanings Behind Oxford’s Classical Architecture (Prof Robert Adam)
- Illuminated Manuscripts of the Middle Ages: Making and Meaning (Dr Victoria Condie)
- Personality Organisation and Development: Style, Traits or Disorder (Dr Diana Shmukler)
- Phenomenology: The Basics (Dr Julia Weckend)
- Regency England 1795-1820 (Dr Alan Crosby)
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