What does the human body reveal about the soul? Explore Michelangelo’s masterpieces and discover how art, faith, and Renaissance thought come together in his powerful vision of the human form.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
Why did people volunteer their time to campaign for causes in the first half of the twentieth century? This course looks at initiatives which aimed to relieve suffering during conflicts, alongside activities connected to social causes and community life.
Aiming to provide an understanding of realist reviews and evaluation and the ability to apply new knowledge and skills to a realist research project.
Covering the process of doing a systematic review, focusing on practicalities and emphasising how and why this qualifies as scientific research.
This lecture examines Anna of Denmark, and her impact on politics and the arts.
'What is Jazz? Dude, if you have to ask, you'll never know.' – Louis Armstrong. After exploring and analysing jazz music on this course, looking at its origins and development, and acquiring some strategies for listening to it, you will never have to ask.
Explore the histories of African art & archives in Oxford. From medieval collections to contemporary works, this course examines collecting practices, colonial histories, gender, ethics & repatriation. Includes object-based sessions at Pitt Rivers Museum.
This course will offer an opportunity to explore Seamus Heaney's earliest poems in depth, and discover the particular contexts in which they were written, and the figures who played such a foundational role in his making as a poet.
Modern life, we are told, is constantly speeding up. The accelerationist movement urges that we need to move even faster into the future. Others, by contrast, want us to slow down. This course will examine and assess the causes and kinds of acceleration.
We will take a brief look at the workings of the brain, and how psychologists describe the functions of attention, perception and memory. Explore how these processes can work to fool us, and what we have learned from dysfunction.
Examine the decisive vote to remain in the EEC, and the success of the 'yes' campaign.
Explore the history of witchcraft belief and persecution during the early modern period in this special study day.