Courses

Choosing Your Courses

Your studies will consist of lectures, seminars, tutorials, and skills sessions designed to help you inquire, learn, and grow. 

Course Enrollment Process

Completing Your Academic Preferences Form

• Log in to your Arcadia application portal and go to the Checklist Items tab. Click on Start Form Now under the Academic Preferences Form section.
  
• Please indicate the courses you’d like to take, including alternates, on your academic preferences form that you are pre-approved for and can take while abroad. In the event of scheduling changes, time conflicts, prerequisites or cancellations, this ensures that you will be prepared to finalize your courses once overseas.
• Note that there are no pre-set course codes for Oxford tutorials. Simply type “Oxford” where a course code is required.

Enrollment Procedures

Choose one course per three week session. Students may enroll in more than one session for an additional fee.  Each individual course lasts three weeks and awards 4 US semester hours of credit upon successful completion. 

Session One: 29 June, 2026 to 17 July, 2026

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Theory and Practice
• Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Deep Unsupervised Learning
• Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies: Shakespeare's Plays and the Book that Saved Them
• Oxford and the Rise of Fantasy Literature
• Museum Studies: Collection, Curation, and Colonialism
• Law and the Pursuit of Freedom
• Climate Law and Policy
• Economic History: The Great Divergence, Convergence, and Beyond
• Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Session Two: 20 July, 2026 to 7 August, 2026

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Theory and Practice
• Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Computer Vision
• Jane Austen: Literature and Legacy
• The Secret Lives of Books: Parchment, Printing-Presses, and Paperbacks
• The Moral Life of the Law
• International Law
• Social Minds: The Psychology of Connection and Division
• Global Perspectives on Public Health: A Survey of Core Concepts and Applied Practice
• The Higgs Boson and the Future of Particle Physics

Session Three: 10 August, 2026 to 28 August, 2026

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Theory and Practice
• Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Natural Language Processing
• Radical Modernism: British Art and Literature from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Bloomsbury Group
• Architecture, Heritage, and Urban Planning
• Globalisation, Populism, and the Politics of Identity
• Leadership in Business and Society
• Computational Psychology and Artificial Intelligence
• How Things Work: An Introduction to Conceptual Physics

More information about subjects on offer and prerequisites can be found here: https://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/lmh-summer-programmes/courses-and-dates

Assessment Details

You will produce one piece of assessed work per week which will be discussed in your tutorial. Each piece will be graded, and is worth a third of your final percentage grade. If you attend more than one session, you’ll receive a separate grade for each session and course you take. 

Credits and Terminology

Credit Conversions

Each session is three weeks; three sessions are taught per summer. You may enroll in more than one session. Each course carries 15 CATS / 7.5 ECTS / 4 US Credits.

Academic Terminology

The teaching style at Oxford is unique among UK institutions and consists of several academic components.  Below is a description and total hours spent in each type of academic component per three-week session.  

• Lectures: where core syllabus material is covered. You’ll be learning alongside all other students studying your subject. 18 hours total per three-week session.
• Seminars: discussion and debate for smaller groups of students. You’ll have two seminars per week for three weeks for two hours each, totalling 12 hours per three-week session. 
• Tutorials: these are very, very small group classes, comprised of 2-4 students, where you will receive feedback, be challenged to dig deeper into your subject, and refine your ideas and arguments. You’ll have one tutorial per week, for a total of 3 hours per three-week session.
• Independent Study: not to be overlooked, this component is self-directed,  is central to your learning experience, and is expected of all Oxford students. You can plan to spend about 120 hours over the 3-week program researching, revising, writing, and refining your work as you delve into greater understanding of your chosen subject.
• Co-Curricular Program: because the Oxford experience is so unique, Lady Margaret Hall offers a thoughtful and enriching program of events each session for program participants: 
  • Skills Sessions to support your studies, with programming on stress management, time management, leadership, and other topics;
  • An exciting and collaborative lecture series, “In Conversation,”  where guest experts present on areas ranging from Global Warming to Immunology to Human Rights, and more. 

Grade Scale for Oxford University

The following scale is vetted and provided by the University of Oxford.