The LMH Summer Programmes offer a unique opportunity for intellectually curious students from around the world to experience Oxford University’s renowned tutorial teaching system. With a diverse range of courses taught by experienced academics and experts, the program emphasizes personalized intellectual discussions in small classes, fostering critical reasoning, logical argumentation, and analytical skills. This intensive and challenging learning experience also includes a co-curricular program of skills sessions and guest speakers to enhance personal and professional development. Located in the beautiful Lady Margaret Hall college campus in Oxford, students not only benefit from academic excellence but also enjoy a rich social and cultural program, including punting on the River Cherwell, formal banquets, and visits to world-class museums and historic sites. Whether attending in person or online, students can expect an engaging and rewarding academic experience while making friends and gaining inspiration in the historic “city of dreaming spires.
Courses
Courses offered as part of this Program.
Economic History: The Great Divergence, Convergence, and Beyond
£3,980 / 3 Weeks
Ages 19+
Oxford
What are the causes of the vast differences in wealth between nations? Why have certain societies prospered whilst others still grapple with poverty? Will inequality between the developed and developing worlds be permanent? This course addresses these questions, allowing you to understand today's global economy through a historical perspective.
PPE: Leadership in Business, Politics, and Beyond
£3,980 / 3 Weeks
Ages 19+
Oxford
Whether it is a politician guiding a nation through crisis, a visionary tech entrepreneur disrupting the global business landscape, or an inspirational activist campaigning for social justice, great leaders have the power to change the world. But what makes a great leader, and how do you become one?
Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Computer Vision
£3,980 / 3 Weeks
Ages 19+
Oxford
From self-driving cars and augmented reality to intelligent medical imaging helping doctors identify diseases more quickly, computer vision is a rapidly-growing field within artificial intelligence and machine learning. In this course, students who are already familiar with the key theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence and machine learning will dive deeper into the exciting capabilities of this area of research and its applications.
Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Natural Language Processing
£3,980 / 3 Weeks
Ages 19+
Oxford
Through predictive text, translation tools, and smart devices natural language processing (NLP) is increasingly a part of our day-to-day lives, and in large language models like Chat-GPT we see the enormous future potential of this exciting area of research. This advanced course examines the theoretical concepts of NLP and its current and potential future application in diverse domains.
Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Reinforcement Learning
£3,980 / 3 Weeks
Ages 19+
Oxford
Getting things wrong is part of what makes us human, and our natural intelligence helps us learn from our mistakes. Reinforcement learning is an area of machine learning which enables artificial intelligence to learn from its mistakes as well, for example allowing a robot to use trial-and-error to interact with a new environment and achieve an objective. This advanced course examines the fundamentals of reinforcement learning and explores the varied applications of dynamic programming methods.
Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Deep Unsupervised Learning
£3,980 / 3 Weeks
Ages 19+
Oxford
Deep Unsupervised Learning is an exciting emerging area of research in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning, in which the goal is to develop systems that can learn from unlabelled data. Such systems closely mimic natural human intelligence by finding patterns in data without instructions on what to look for.
Repression, Subversion, Expression: Gender and Sexuality in British Literature
£3,980 / 3 Weeks
Ages 19+
Oxford
How 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 patriarchy, and what has been the role of literature in confirming and subverting gender norms? And how are the rapid changes in approaches, attitudes, and practices around gender and sexuality since the 20th century reflected in contemporary British writing? This courses offers a unique and exciting opportunity to explore these questions and more, examining a wide range of British literature from various genres and periods thorugh the lens of gender and sexuality.
Oxford and the Rise of Fantasy
£3,980 / 3 Weeks
Ages 19+
Oxford
What 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 with the genre. Towering figures of fantasy literature, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, were both professors at the University of Oxford, and many more, like Diana Wynne Jones or Philip Pullman, were educated at Oxford or, like J. K. Rowling, influenced by its literary products and settings. Oxford and the Rise of Fantasy offers a unique opportunity to examine the fantasy genre from its earliest origins to the present day, exploring at each stage the influence of Oxford and its writers.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Theory and Practice
£3,980 / 3 Weeks
Ages 19+
Oxford
In our age of burgeoning smart technology and automation we are already seeing the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in fields as diverse as finance, medicine, and manufacturing. This course offers a hands-on introduction to this future-focused area of research.
PPE: Globalisation, Populism, and Identity
£3,980 / 3 Weeks
Ages 19+
Oxford
While the world has been moving increasingly towards greater inter-connectivity through trade, infrastructure, communications, and migration, criticism of ‘globalisation’ has been growing ever louder, with many blaming it for inequality, cultural marginalisation, and political disaffection. Through the lenses of philosophy, politics, and economics this course will explore these competing dynamics and equip you to understand some of the most significant political phenomena of our time.