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Courses 2023
Creative Writing in English
This course will help you get started as a writer, or develop as a writer, by enabling you to improve your existing skills and cultivate your imagination. It will guide you through...
Gender and Sexual Dissidence across the Arts
top courseThe University of Sussex has been a pioneer in the study of gender and sexuality for over thirty years. Sussex academics Alan Sinfield and Jonathan Dollimore pioneered the first gr...
Digital Humanities: Computer-assisted Genetic Editing
The UAntwerp DH Summer School 2023 edition is titled Computer-assisted genetic editing: from handwritten text recognition to keystroke logging. It offers an intensive 5-day entry l...
Highlights of Hungarian Literature, Cinema and Art
This course is designed to offer a comprehensive introduction to Hungarian culture through some representative literary and art works. Students will be acquainted with some of the...
Gender and Sexuality in British Literature
top course online courseThis course provides a unique and exciting opportunity for students to examine a wide range of British literature from various genres and periods through the lens of gender and sex...
Shakespeare and the Mediterranean - Antony and Cleopatra
blended courseSince classical antiquity, the Mediterranean has been a breeding ground for cultural formation and transformation, extraordinarily capitalised on by Shakespeare, who set many of hi...
Children's Literature
top courseOur most loved books are often those we read in childhood; they stay with us through later life. This module provides a space to think differently when addressing often beloved tex...
The Margins of Global Hispanophone Literature
online courseDiscover the variety of global voices writing in Spanish, beyond Spain and Latin America. This course offers a comprehensive look at the transnational and transcontinental realitie...
The Classics of French Literature | No.1
This cycle of conferences offers a journey through the major works of French literature, to discover or rediscover emblematic texts, bases of a common culture. In particular, we di...
Video Games: Creative and Critical Writing
top courseIn recent years the gaming industry has been transformed by the addition of auteur-driven indie games to those of AAA studios with Hollywood budgets, as well as by the diversity of...
Wicked Problems: Environmental Communication, Media, and Justice in the Anthropocene
top courseThe need to combat human-caused climate change remains the planet’s most urgent issue. From the recent floods in Pakistan to heat waves across Europe, this new world order sees hum...
Creative Writing Summer Programme Cambridge (16-18)
Immerse Education is a residential academic programme with a diverse and enriching curriculum. Our 16-18 year old programmes are designed to provide a taster of what it’s like to s...
British Literature and the Birth of Mass Media: Victorian Periodical to Modernist Magazine
top courseOne of the first forms of mass media, the power of the periodical was tremendous. It shaped readerships, politics, morality, and some of our best-loved works of fiction. With a foc...
Creative Writing Summer School Programme Oxford (16-18)
Immerse Education is a residential academic programme with a diverse and enriching curriculum. Our 16-18 year old programmes are designed to provide a taster of what it’s like to s...
The Age of Adolescence: Reading 20th Century Youth Culture
top courseThis module will explore representations of adolescence from the early 20th through to the early 21st century in literature, film and popular culture. We will read texts that range...
British Literature: 1900 to the Present
The Text and Context programme provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary courses that examine literature from Britain and Ireland in the context of the key societal and cultural de...
Literary London
top courseThis module offers a literary journey through the streets of London, beginning in the 18th century with Jonathan Swift and John Gay, and ending in contemporary London, with Zadie S...
The Classics of French Literature | No.2
his cycle of conferences offers a journey through the major works of French literature, to discover or rediscover emblematic texts, bases of a common culture. In particular, we dis...
Gender and Sexuality in British Literature
top courseThis course provides a unique and exciting opportunity for students to examine a wide range of British literature from various genres and periods through the lens of gender and sex...
Creative Writing
The Creative Writing programme is one of the most exciting and diverse programmes available in Britain. The four-week course offers developing writers a supportive environment in w...
Fairy Tales and their Retellings
top courseWhy are fairy tales so popular? Why are the original fairy tales darker than the ones we know? This course will give an introduction to different forms of storytelling, exploring t...
The Classics of French Literature | No.4
This cycle of conferences offers a journey through the major works of French literature, to discover or rediscover emblematic texts, bases of a common culture. In particular, we di...
Books and their Makers
How are books made? Who decides what gets read, where and when? And what difference does it make to think about the histories, social lives and business of books as well as about t...
The Classics of French Literature | No.3
This cycle of conferences offers a journey through the major works of French literature, to discover or rediscover emblematic texts, bases of a common culture. In particular, we di...
Digital Tool For Humanists. Working on Media
top courseThe school intends to present some selected tools that can help humanists in their researches and activities, taking advantage of the digital turn and the new technologies. Partic...
Children's Literature
Dive into children’s literature studies with engaging lectures and workshops related to books for children and adolescents. You choose one thematic strand for the workshops: childr...
Sub-cultures: Lifestyles, Literature, Music
This course provides critical insights into cultural resistance to mainstream culture, such as graffiti, street-art, underground, punk, psychedelia, new social movements, etc. Topi...
Creative Writing Summer School Programme Oxford (13-15)
Immerse Education is a residential academic programme with a diverse and enriching curriculum. Our 16-18 year old programmes are designed to provide a taster of what it’s like to s...
Ernest Hemingway’s Presence in Venice & in the World, Now and Then
This interdisciplinary summer school will take its cues from a short selection of accessible texts to explore Ernest Hemingway’s presence and influence in Venice and beyond. Readin...
Global Shakespeare: Othello’s Venice in the World
The aim of the VIU Summer School is to gather an international cohort of graduate students for a week-long, multi-faceted exploration of one of the most timely topics in the interd...
Literature on Location: Exploring Literary Yorkshire
Yorkshire has an extraordinary literary history that stretches from the medieval period and even before up to the present day. How has Yorkshire’s glorious landscape influenced som...
Creative Writing Summer Programme Cambridge (13-15)
Immerse Education is a residential academic programme with a diverse and enriching curriculum. Our 13-15 year old programmes are designed to develop the passion of young students f...
Digital Tool For Humanists. Working on History
top courseThe school intends to present some selected tools that can help humanist in their researches and activities, taking advantage of the digital turn and the new technologies. Particu...
Writing Lives: Texts, Techniques, and Creativity in Life-Writing
top course online courseUnlock your creative potential on an exciting course which combines academic literary analysis with the opportunity to explore and develop your own writing voice. You will examine...
Gender Representations in Literature and Culture
top courseThe course will deal with artistic representations of gender in modern Western literature and culture. The aim is to give students insight into the theories and methods of gender s...
Writing in the Style of Jane Austen
Whether you are an enthusiastic newcomer to her timeless written work, or an ardent 'Janeite', this short course offers an unique opportunity to add your own imagination to the fas...
Key Works of German Literature From the Classics to the Present
top courseDon’t miss out: students who register early can take advantage of the early bird discount on the program fee! This course provides an overview of the history of German literatur...
Norwegian Literature
The course explores select classic and contemporary plays, poems, short stories, and novels by Norwegian authors. Analyze literary texts and reflect on their intersections with gen...
Writing Lives: Texts, Techniques, and Creativity in Life-Writing
top courseUnlock your creative potential on an exciting course which combines academic literary analysis with the opportunity to explore and develop your own writing voice. You will examine...
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Courses 2022
Stories of Cultural Conflict and Encounter
top course online courseThis summer school will examine the function and meaning of cultural transfer of new narratives written by minorities and migrants. We will also study their works as important tool...
International Summer School on Alessandro Manzoni
The last academic research issues on the work of Alessandro Manzoni, one of the most important Italian and European poets and novelists, whose masterpiece, "I promessi sposi", set...
Creative Writing in English
This course will help you get started as a writer, or develop as a writer, by enabling you to improve your existing skills and cultivate your imagination. It will guide you through...
Making [Systematic] Literature Reviews Work for You
top courseSystematic approaches to literature reviews have become popular across all disciplines. This course covers methods for [protocol-driven] literature reviews, and how findings are co...
Rethinking Shakespeare: Beyond the Bard
This module aims to explore the processes by which Shakespeare’s plays came into existence, how they achieved their unique status in English literature and culture, and how the ima...
Global Shakespeare: Othello’s Venice in the World
The Summer School aims to gather an international cohort of graduate students for a week-long, multi-faceted exploration of one of the most timely topics in the interdisciplinary h...
Ernest Hemingway’s Presence in Venice & in the World, Now and Then
This interdisciplinary summer school will take its cues from a short selection of accessible texts to explore Ernest Hemingway’s presence and influence in Venice and beyond. Readin...
International Summer School on Dante Alighieri
After the pandemic emergency, the XVI edition of the Summer School “Studi danteschi” returns to its traditional setting, two fundamental places in Dante’s life: the wonderful Itali...
Introduction to Criticism and Theory
This course will provide students with a basic foundation of the vast fields of literary and cultural criticism and theory, with an emphasis on the most prominent figures and ideas...
Playwriting 2 — Gaze Training
While journalism and non-fiction work with the actual state of society, poetry creates an idea of the (inner) world. Which perspective has not yet been told? How does one take a pe...
The Berlin Flâneur: Walking the City, Narrating the City: A City-Writing Lab
Experience Berlin through writers who have walked the city, as you walk and write about the city yourself. Flaneurs, or consummate ‘city-walkers’, immerse themselves in the persona...
Creative Writing Now
This course explores contemporary examples and practices of creative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry and draws upon some of the formal and political motivations of contemporary Eng...
Courses 2021
One Line at a Time: Creative Writing & Poetry Course
This week-long course is a practical introduction to creative writing in poetry. The course will consist of taught seminars covering ways to develop a reflective writing practice f...
The Circle of Stories: Literature and Genre
On this course, we will go through a generic arrangement of literature which is comprehensive and therefore represents a complete tour of English literature. We will go through the...
Global Shakespeare: Othello’s Venice in the World
The Summer School aims to gather an international cohort of graduate students for a week-long, multi-faceted exploration of one of the most timely topics in the interdisciplinary h...
The Female Gaze in Cinema
online courseFilm has long been a male-dominated industry, but for decades female directors against all odds have made an indelible mark on cinema. Today there is growing recognition of the imp...
Courses 2020
Creative Writing Summer Programme
This programme builds on a rich literary tradition at Cambridge and is designed for those wishing to develop their existing writing skills, either for professional use, or out of p...
Shakespeare and the Renaissance Summer Programme
This programme offers a rich collection of courses, lectures, readings and acting workshops. You can explore the power, beauty, and meaning of Shakespeare's plays with leading acad...
Literature Summer Programme
This programme gives you an experience of 'Cambridge English', with its emphasis on small group teaching, close attention to the actual text, and radical inquiry into why literatur...
Course II – Intensive German and German Literature
Strong Women: A Journey of Discovery through Literature by and about Women “The eternal feminine beckons us on,” we read in part two of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s renowned dra...
Global Shakespeare: Othello’s Venice in the World
The Summer School aims to gather an international cohort of graduate students for a week-long, multi-faceted exploration of one of the most timely topics in the interdisciplinary h...
Creative Writing
Due to current developments around the COVID-19 pandemic we have made the difficult decision to postpone summer study programmes at UEA for 2020, and have closed all applications....
Courses 2019
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Language and Culture School
An UONEDU Summer School of Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian language (s) provide the perfect setting for students to learn or develop their Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian language skills, si...
Graphic Novels: Bridging Cultures
This course looks at encounters between different cultures, positive and negative, as represented in graphic novels. We may encounter different cultures as tourists, as students, a...
Fiction Writing Workshop
In this workshop, we will deepen our practices of both process and craft in order to create original works of fiction. We will study the basic elements of fiction—character, narrat...
Creative Nonfiction: Crafting Personal Narratives
This workshop gives students the opportunity to explore through reading, research, and writing assignments an array of creative nonfiction forms, including memoir, travel writing,...
The Poetic Experience: A Writing Workshop (July)
Through writing poetry and analyzing examples, students become familiar with poetic forms and techniques. This workshop, led by a publishing writer, includes weekly peer critique o...
Translation: A Creative Practive (July)
A translator transforms into a new self, speaking differently. Where do you fit in? As writers, translators, international business professionals, or anybody working ‘in-between’ p...
Courses 2018
Hidden Libraries II
There are a number of historical libraries in Europe and elsewhere that are inaccessible or are not accessible to the scientific community or public. There are also book collection...
Academic Courses in English Literature
Oxford is one of the world’s literary capitals, home to many of the great English writers you’ll study here at Oxford Summer Courses. In this city, teeming with literary significan...
Creative Writing
Are you interested in: being immersed in a culture of writing learning how to improve your writing skills and how to become a better and more critical reader ways of thinking...
Courses 2017
Literary London
This class is based on a selection of some of the many Augustan, Romantic, Gothic Victorian, Modern and Postcolonial texts set in London. Although the main focus will be on literar...
Jane Austen: From the Page to the Screen
Jane Austen is one of the most important writers in the history of the novel and she remains extremely popular. This module examines her complex legacy through consideration of her...
Jack the Ripper’s London: Myth, Reality, and the London Victorian Metropolis
The Ripper murders; social history of the East End; London in the late Victorian era; the representation of the killings in the media, in film and literature; the historiography of...
Shakespeare: Themes and Presentations
This module provides a detailed examination of a range of the dramatic works of William Shakespeare and of other poetry and drama of the English Renaissance. It will consider the...
Cavafy in the World
The International Cavafy Summer School is a major international annual scholarly event organised by the Cavafy Archive and the Onassis Foundation, the first such event to be devote...
Literature
In the beginning was the word - or was it? We'll explore what pieces of literature, from ancient epic to modern poetry, have been doing in the world and in human society. Here are...
Women who have shaped France
Summer Program at Collège Sévigné is an academic immersive language and culture experience for university students of French who have reached the early intermediate le...
Courses 2016
Compact Greek
* 40 hours of teaching * Free welcome and farewell material * Free Internet Access use of the Library * Free educational material (books) * Free seminars for the Greek musi...
Literature: In the beginning was the word (Under 18s)
**Under 18s** Delve into language, verse and deeply subversive thinking with an ambitious course of literary study. At every turn we will ask troubling questions and rack our br...
The Merchant of Venice and Beyond: Representations of Capitalism in History and Literature
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" is regarded as one of the seminal literary documents connected to the development of venture capitalism in the early modern era. The associat...
Courses 2015
English Literature Academy
The English Literature Academy gives you the opportunity to study the some of the world’s most famous playwrights, novelists and poets. You'll take an in-depth look at William Shak...
Courses 2014
La Edad de Plata: Intelectuales y Artistas en las Vanguardias Españolas de Entreguerras
El curso estudia la historia cultural, artística e intelectual de la España de entreguerras, el periodo que se ha dado en llamar "La Edad de Plata". Además de detenerse en el papel...
Cultura y Literatura de los Siglos de Oro
El curso se estructura en tres partes y una introducción metodológica. En la introducción se justificará la selección de textos y se proporcionará al alumnos los conceptos y los in...
Faith Themes in Literature
This course is a thematic study of short fiction, drama, novel, and poetry. Using biblical texts and theological themes as foundational material, students will engage in critical a...
Courses 2012
Creative Writing
“Literature is a country”, says Clark Blaise, the Canadian writer and former Director of the famous International Writing Program in Iowa. Literature is international meeting-place...
Courses 2010
Literature: Fiction and Reality
This summer school focuses on how new kinds of fiction create new models of perception. The participants of the program contribute essays in advance that will be discussed in detai...
Writing Without Borders
Writing Without Borders, the inaugural Creative Writing Summer School at the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, takes place at the Global Irish Institute, University Col...