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 special 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.
The Internet and Society
Does the Internet pose a risk to Society? Is it creating a global community, or robbing us of human connection? Is it offering new frontiers in creative freedom, or destroying authenticity and diversity? And is the Internet an opportunity for civic engagement, or a cause of echo chambers and disinformation? Sociologists have been investigating these questions since the emergence of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, and in this course you will explore the history of scholarship, discover the latest research, and consider the future of the Internet’s complex role in society.
Computational Psychology and Artificial Intelligence
How does the brain process information, make decisions, and learn? Computational Psychologists seek to answer these questions by using algorithms and mathematical models to simulate and analyse the mechanisms behind mental processes. The field has been highly influential on Artificial Intelligence research and development, as data scientists attempt to convincingly recreate human thought, speech, and behaviour in machines, a challenge Alan Turing called the ‘Imitation Game’. Introducing Computational Psychology, Computational Neuroscience, and AI, this course offers a fascinating insight into these exciting and forward-looking interconnected fields of research.
PPE: Globalisation, Populism, and Identity
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.
Jane Austen: Literature and Legacy
Jane Austen created some of the most fondly loved characters in literature, with generations of readers fascinated by her juxtaposition of romance and reality in Regency England. Why do Austen’s novels continue to resonate so deeply across the centuries? Join this course to immerse yourself in this captivating world where love, class, and identity intersect, explore the key themes and stylistic techniques employed, and discover how Austen’s work continues to influence literature and popular culture today.
Peace and Conflict Studies
Why do countries go to war? What is the impact of conflict on a society? And how do we find the path to sustainable peace? This course offers the opportunity to explore these questions and more through an introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies, an interdisciplinary Social Science dedicated to understanding the root causes of conflict and the conditions for the promotion of peace.
Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Computer Vision
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
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: Deep Unsupervised Learning
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
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
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.