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Courses 2024
Literature on Location: Exploring Literary Yorkshire (English Literature)
The University of York's Pre-University Summer School is a residential programme designed for students aged 16-18 to get a taste of what it means to study at a top university in th...
Creative Writing Now
top courseThis 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...
Gender and Sexual Dissidence Across the Arts
The 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...
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...
Video Games: Creative and Critical Writing
In 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...
International Summer School on Dante Alighieri
The XVIII edition of the Summer School “Studi danteschi” will take place in its traditional setting, two fundamental places in Dante’s life: the wonderful Italian cities of Ravenna...
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...
Flight and Exile. Migration Movements in Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries
top courseDon’t miss out: students who register early can take advantage of the early bird discount on the program fee! The recurring theme of the literary works analyzed in this course i...
Digital Humanities: Computer-assisted Genetic Editing
The UAntwerp DH Summer School 2024 edition is titled Computer-assisted genetic editing: from medieval manuscripts to born-digital documents. It offers an intensive 5-day entry lev...
Oxford and the Rise of Fantasy
top course online courseWhat inspired the emergence and flowering of the fantasy genre in the 20th and 21st century? Oxford - historic, beautiful, and timeless seat of learning - is closely associated...
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...
Repression, Subversion, Expression: Gender and Sexuality in British Literature
top courseHow have expressions of sexuality and gender in British literature been shaped by the social constraints of different periods? How have female authors navigated systems of patriarc...
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...
Repression, Subversion, Expression: Gender and Sexuality in British Literature
top course online courseHow have expressions of sexuality and gender in British literature been shaped by the social constraints of different periods? How have female authors navigated systems of patriarc...
The Age of Adolescence: Reading 20th Century Youth Culture
This 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...
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...
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...
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 introduces students to the life and literature of London from the seventeenth century to the present day, from Isabella Whitney to Monica Ali. As we read some of London...
Children's Literature
Our 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 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...
Children's Literature
The Children’s Literature Summer School offers lectures and workshops related to books for children and adolescents. Participants choose one thematic strand for the workshops: crea...
Systematic Review
The course provides you with practical tools for preparing a systematic review. This involves being able to conduct a systematic literature search and then perform a systematic ana...
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...
Taylor Swift and Literature
top courseIs the work of Taylor Swift literature? You may have seen articles, in publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Teen Vogue, about seminars on Taylor Swift that were...
Creative Writing in English
top courseLeontia Flynn will conduct a six-day course in writing poetry in the summer of 2024. Participants will study the elements of writing a poem by reading closely a variety of poems by...
From Ibsen to Fosse. An Introduction to 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...
Oxford and the Rise of Fantasy
top courseWhat inspired the emergence and flowering of the fantasy genre in the 20th and 21st century? Oxford - historic, beautiful, and timeless seat of learning - is closely associated...
Highlights of Hungarian Literature, Cinema and Art
online courseThis 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...
Hues of Writing (HoW): Scripwriting for Theatre and TV Series
top courseThe 2024 edition of the Summer School Hues of Writing (HoW), organised by the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics of the University of Pisa within the frame of the...
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Courses 2023
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...
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...
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...
The Berlin Flâneur: Translating Movement into Writing
top courseFlaneurs, or ‘city-walkers’, immerse themselves in the personalities, built environment, and atmospheres of the street. This interdisciplinary workshop innovatively combines moveme...
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...
Taking a Position: Art & Writing
This course is part of the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts's 2023 programme.
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 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...
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 (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 Margins of Global Hispanophone Literature
Discover 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...
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...
Courses 2022
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...
Making [Systematic] Literature Reviews Work for You
Systematic approaches to literature reviews have become popular across all disciplines. This course covers methods for [protocol-driven] literature reviews, and how findings are co...
The Berlin Flâneur: Walking the City, Narrating the City: A City-Writing Lab
top courseExperience 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...
Playwriting 2 — Gaze Training
top courseWhile 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...
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...
Introduction to Criticism and Theory
top courseThis 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2020
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2019
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2017
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2016
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...