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Institute of Continuing Education Short Courses August 2020 – July 2021 www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Contents Contents Welcome 1 Why study with us? 3 The learning experience 4 Course formats 6 Madingley Hall 8 Ancient, Classical and Archaeology 11 Art, Architectural and Garden History 15 Business and Entrepreneurship 19 Coaching and Management 22 Creative Writing 25 History 32 Language and Culture 35 Literature and Film 39 Music 44 Philosophy, Creativity and Religion 47 Politics and Global Studies 50 Psychology and Social Sciences 52 Science and History of Science 55 Retreats 60 Returning to study 61 Super Tuesdays 61 Special offer – One day, one… 62 Courses by date 63 Fees and bursaries 72 Course requirements 73 How to book 75 How to find us 76
Welcome Welcome Welcome to the short courses programme at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education (ICE). The Institute offers a wide range of courses for adults of all ages. You can study for half a day, a day, a weekend, a week, a year, online or face-to- face: anything from a short course to a full Master of Studies degree. Our aim is to form supportive communities of learning where approachable expert teachers and adult students work together as peers to achieve personal and collective educational goals. You will join like-minded people who may be curious about a new subject, or have an ongoing passion for a particular subject area. Recognised for their excellent teaching, fascinating subject matter, and inspiring speakers our short courses attract new and returning students. There is a wide variety of courses to choose from for both personal enrichment and professional development. This booklet provides information on all of the short courses on offer between August 2020 and July 2021. Please see the full details, course descriptions and details of how to apply on our website (see page 75 for details). Although each course is standalone, there are opportunities to combine courses to enhance your learning experience. Our courses may be short, but the impact of even the shortest can be far-reaching. We look forward to welcoming you here! r James Gazzard, D Director of Continuing Education University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 1
Study at Cambridge wherever you are in the world If you want flexibility, or are not within easy reach of Cambridge, why not try one of ICE’s online courses? You will receive personal feedback on your work from an expert tutor, and join a growing community of learners on our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Find out more at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/online 2 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Why study with us? WHY STUDY WITH US? Whether studying for personal interest or professional development, join adults from all over the world to be taught by experts in a broad range of subjects. An exceptional team of tutors the subject you have been passionate You will have the chance to learn from about for a long time. Alternatively, some of our finest academics and you might be a professional looking to experienced professionals. Our tutors progress or change your career path. devise and deliver their courses using Whatever your motivation for study, their own individual teaching style to all are welcome, and staff are always best suit their subject, with support from on hand to ensure you are supported our subject-specialist Academic Directors. throughout your course. Together, they work to produce the diverse course offering available at ICE. A range of study pathways There are plenty of opportunities at ICE A sense of community to further your studies whether that is Studying with us not only feeds your for personal enrichment or professional love of learning but also expands your development. Many of our students start networks: both social and professional, with a short course and go on to study allowing you to become part of a unique award-bearing courses with us. learning community. Our International Summer Programmes, Being part of a group of intellectually- held in Cambridge, offer an intensive curious adults from all walks of life means one- to six-week learning experience and there is no shortage of people willing to the opportunity to immerse yourself in share new ideas and opinions. Discussion academic study that will broaden your and debate bring the subjects to life, knowledge and skills. conventional wisdom is challenged and If you have limited time, or are further fresh possibilities are explored. Peer- afield, one of our online courses may be to-peer learning is key and inquiry and more appealing. From creative writing interaction are encouraged. to forensic science and everything Our aim is to make the learning in between, we offer a wide range of environment a welcoming, supportive subjects to suit your goals. and rewarding one for all, regardless If you would like to gain a professional of educational background. You might qualification, we offer undergraduate be exploring a new discipline for the certificates and diplomas, postgraduate first time, finding your way back into awards and Master of Studies (MSt) education, or taking an in-depth dive into degrees. Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 3
The learning experience The learning experience Studying at ICE is characterised by sociable groups of committed students in welcoming and respectful classrooms. Our students attendees around 25-30. Our classes We welcome adults of all ages and are designed to be the optimal size to backgrounds to ICE. Some of you may encourage group interaction and provide not have been in a classroom for many a more personal learning experience. years whilst others may have various There is very rarely any required reading qualifications. Each student at ICE will in advance, although our tutors do often have their own story and their own suggest further reading for those who motivations to study. Together you bring wish to increase their knowledge of the a fascinating mix of ideas and experience. subject. With the exception of language courses, all short course are taught in Class format and size English. Our classes are open access and do not require prior qualifications. You will be encouraged by your tutors to discuss, debate and develop your Certificate of attendance own understanding of the topics raised in class. Our classes facilitate peer-led At the end of the course you can request discussions of knowledge and ideas that a certificate of attendance. Certificates sparks transformative ways of thinking need to be requested via email to where beliefs are challenged, knowledge shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk and are is updated and established ways of usually sent within two to three weeks. thinking are re-evaluated. The average Please note that certificates can only be class size is 13 students but varies across supplied following 100% attendance on courses with the maximum number of the course. Share your feedback We always welcome your feedback to improve the student experience and to help us when planning future courses. If you have any comments or ideas, please email shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk 4 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
The learning experience The setting: the ambience, peace and glorious environment are, in my view, unbeatable. All the supporting staff, without exception, have been lovely too – courteous and patient and helpful. Sally Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 5
Course formats COURSE FORMATS We design our courses to make them as flexible and accessible as possible. Our courses come in a variety of formats. TUESDAY COURSES From half-days, to day schools in the week and at weekends, to week-long Morning sessions: 10am – 1pm retreats there is something to suit Afternoon sessions: 2pm – 5pm everyone. The formats listed offer a guide as to Teaching sessions: 4 x 75 minutes per day what you may expect, but please check Accommodation: Not applicable the course pages of our website for full Includes: details of course timings. Tea, coffee and biscuits. Lunch is not included in the fee, but sandwiches or light meals are available to DAY SCHOOL / 2-DAY COURSE / purchase. 3-DAY COURSE You can choose whether to study for the whole day, or simply for a morning or Start: 10am afternoon. These study days are intended End: 5pm to introduce new ideas, often showcasing Teaching sessions: 4 x 75 minutes per day a variety of tutors and disciplines. Tuesday courses will be available on our website Accommodation: Available to book three months before the course. at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/super-tuesdays from May 2020. Includes: Tea, coffee and biscuits. Lunch: Buffet lunch. WEEKLY COURSES A selection of weekly evening courses will be taught in the centre of Cambridge and sometimes Madingley. These courses will run over five weeks, from May, with 90 minutes of teaching per week. There is also a refreshment break for networking. More details will be available on our website at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses from 1 May 2020. See pages 9 & 72 (accommodation and fees) and our website for further information. 6 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Course formats Weekend courses WEEKEND A typical weekend begins with a relaxed dinner on the Friday evening, followed Start: 7pm Friday by the first teaching session. You then End: 2pm Sunday have an opportunity to unwind and meet Teaching sessions: 7 x 90 minutes other students, before heading off to bed. Accommodation: Available to book Teaching recommences the next day after breakfast. Sessions include breaks Includes: to allow for conversation and discussion Tea, coffee and biscuits. over refreshments. On Saturdays there is Lunch: Buffet lunch on on Saturday. Dinner: Friday and Saturday. time to explore the beautiful landscaped A full breakfast on Saturday and Sunday (for grounds. students staying overnight at Madingley Hall). Saturday lunch is a served buffet. The evening meal is at 6.30pm, followed by an evening session at 8pm. On Sunday, the weekend ends with LONG WEEKEND a served buffet lunch. A warden will be available at the weekend if you have any Start: 4pm Friday queries during your stay. End: 2pm Monday Teaching sessions: 12 x 90 minutes SHORT WEEKEND Accommodation: Available to book. Includes: Start: 3pm Saturday Tea, coffee and biscuits. End: 3.15pm Sunday Lunch: Buffet lunch on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Teaching sessions: 6 x 75 minutes A full breakfast on Saturday, Sunday and Accommodation: Available to book Monday (for students staying overnight at Madingley Hall). Includes: Tea, coffee and biscuits. Lunch: Buffet lunch. Dinner: Saturday. Professional development A full breakfast on Sunday (for students staying overnight at Madingley Hall). Professional development courses in this programme are denoted by this symbol. Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 7
Madingley Hall Madingley Hall It is always a great experience for me to come to Madingley Hall. When I'm there I feel immersed in an inspiring atmosphere and I enjoy every moment of my stay. Annalise 8 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Madingley Hall Madingley Hall Set in eight acres of beautiful gardens and parkland, 16th century Madingley Hall is a wonderful place to study and stay. The Hall and gardens en-suite study bedrooms. Twin and Many of the historic rooms in the Hall double rooms are available if you wish to are used for teaching, and you are very share, or to bring a guest. We also offer welcome to explore during your time at a breakfast buffet for those who choose Madingley. our bed and breakfast option. Our chefs are very happy to cater for specific dietary Full of character and history, our gardens requirements. were designed in the 18th century by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. You are We hold a certificate of excellence from encouraged to take full advantage of TripAdvisor and a 5* campus award from these beautiful surroundings; taking a VisitEngland.com. stroll around the gardens is the perfect Find out more at way to relax and unwind or carry on www.madingleyhall.co.uk learning-related conversations. Tours of the Hall and gardens can be Sustainability arranged for small groups. Green Impact is an environmental For more information, get in touch at accreditation scheme for UK universities, enquiry@madingleyhall.co.uk. and we are very proud to have attained the highest ranking – platinum – for Food and drink our efforts in reducing environmental impact across the Institute. From our A choice of hot and cold buffet lunches sustainable food and complementary are included in the tuition fee for day shuttle bus to reducing our paper use, schools and those studying on weekend we are continually reducing our carbon residential courses enjoy more formal footprint. College-style dinners. Whether served in the splendour of the dining hall, or one We have recently launched a carbon of our other characterful rooms all food is reduction initiative to offset 1,500 seasonal, ethically produced and locally tonnes of carbon emissions. We will sourced, wherever possible. support projects in the UK, India and the Amazon rainforest including; tree Accommodation planting, reducing deforestation, and the installation of renewable energy sources. Our on-site accommodation is within Madingley Hall, surrounded by a fine We are always happy to receive ideas for landscaped garden. Comfortable and further improvement. convenient, you can relax in one of our Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 9
Latest course updates Although we aim to give as much Tuesday and weekly courses will be information as possible in this confirmed on 1 May 2020 – please email prospectus, new courses and events are shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk to join our being added all the time. Our website mailing list and be kept up to date*. is where they first appear and the best place to look www.ice.cam.ac.uk *We will only send information relevant to ICE. 10 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Ancient, Classical and Archaeology Ancient, Classical and Archaeology DAY SCHOOL £115 WEEKEND £310 15 August 2020 2021NDX001 16 – 18 October 2020 2021NRX018 Tombs, texts and the realm of 12 – 14 February 2021 2021NRX044 the dead 25 – 27 June 2021 2021NRX066 Dr Nigel Strudwick Reading Classical Greek: continuing beginner Explore the ancient Egyptian world Dr Janet Watson et al. through Egyptian tombs. Through study of these in Luxor, the course The continuing beginner’s course will will introduce hieroglyphs and some introduce you to the basic elements of common formulae that the Egyptians Classical Greek grammar through reading used to try to ensure safe passage for passages adapted from ancient Greek their nobles and their families through authors using the JACT Reading Greek the realm of the dead. course (CUP, 2nd edition, 2007). Each weekend builds on the progress achieved in the previous one. DAY SCHOOL £115 WEEKEND £310 13 September 2020 2021NDX004 16 – 18 October 2020 2021NRX019 Beginner Latin: Pompeii 12 – 14 February 2021 2021NRX045 Dr Anna di Giovannantonio 25 – 27 June 2021 2021NRX067 Reading Classical Greek: Is there a modern equivalent to Pompeii intermediate and life in the Forum? This gentle Dr Janet Watson et al. introduction to Latin offers a view of the Forum from those who lived in Pompeii These courses present light-hearted and discusses the range and importance yet academically rigorous adventures of activities there. Studying Virgil and in ancient Greek literature for students other authors in translation brings wanting to explore the original Greek of the Roman world to life. No previous major authors like Homer and Herodotus, knowledge of Latin is required. Sophocles and Thucydides, Euripides and Plato. Some previous knowledge is necessary (e.g. A-level, or degree). Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 11
Ancient, Classical and Archaeology WEEKEND £310 WEEKEND £310 16 – 18 October 2020 2021NRX020 27 – 29 November 2020 2021NRX028 12 – 14 February 2021 2021NRX046 Reading Classical Latin: 25 – 27 June 2021 2021NRX068 intermediate Reading Classical Greek: Dr Christine Spillane et al. advanced Have you ever wished to refresh your Dr Janet Watson et al. Latin or improve your understanding of These courses will appeal to those with a the grammar and syntax of the language? confident grasp of the fundamentals of Perhaps you have an O Level or GCSE in Classical Greek and who want to explore Latin, but want to progress to reading a a wide range of ancient Greek texts in complete text? Studying a continuous their original language. Through reading piece of adapted prose (a version of The Sophocles, Odyssey, Herodotus we will Millionaire’s Dinner Party) will help you concentrate on securing and developing refresh your grammar and syntax. the fundamentals of the language. WEEKEND £310 WEEKEND £310 13 – 15 November 2020 2021NRX025 27 – 29 November 2020 2021NRX029 Moonlight on Stonehenge and Reading Classical Latin: other stone circles advanced Professor David Jacques Dr Christine Spillane et al. This course allows us to discuss the It is 218 BC: Hannibal marches across ‘big questions’ about stone circles and Gaul, over the Alps and into Italy where their landscape: Why are they where he inflicts two defeats upon the Roman they are? What were they for? Where army. Read how the second Punic War did their builders come from? Looking began in Livy’s vivid account of at new discoveries at The Ness of Hannibal’s journey in Book 21 (Chapter 21 Brodgar, Stonehenge, Knowth and the onwards) of his History of Rome. We shall Mull Circle, we will examine Neolithic seek to capture Livy’s words in a group and early Bronze Age monumentalisation translation while appreciating the of their landscapes. historian’s style. 12 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Ancient, Classical and Archaeology DAY SCHOOL £115 WEEKEND £310 31 January 2021 2021NDX018 26 – 28 March 2021 2021NRX052 Beginner Latin: Aeneas and the Reading Classical Latin: elements of Latin advanced Dr Charles Weiss Dr Christine Spillane et al. In this one-day course, we will seek to get Spend the weekend amid the rustic a better understanding of the figure of scenery and characters of Virgil’s Eclogues. Aeneas from Homer and myth all the way Virgil’s early verse take us into a mythical to Virgil. We will get an overview of the world inhabited by shepherds and Latin language and pick up some Latin goatherds, but there is more than a hint vocabulary along the way. of the real world in these pastoral poems. Together we shall try to create a modern translation, delighting in a very different Virgil from the poet we meet in the Georgics and the Aeneid. WEEKEND £310 WEEKEND £310 26 – 28 March 2021 2021NRX055 26 – 28 March 2021 2021NRX051 Dark heritage of WWII Reading Classical Latin: Dr Gilly Carr intermediate Dr Christine Spillane et al. This course introduces students to the concept of ‘dark heritage’, which focuses This course is designed for those who on our dark and difficult past. Examining feel ready to read unadapted Latin but sites of death, destruction and atrocity, still want to build their knowledge and such as Auschwitz, Ground Zero, and confidence in the grammar and syntax places across Europe associated with of the language. We shall use a selection war, we will discuss what solutions are of texts (both prose and verse) with a possible now, at a time in world politics running vocabulary: text will be provided when effective heritage responses to for downloading. There will be ample past conflicts are needed more than ever. opportunity to discuss grammar and syntax while appreciating the texts. Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 13
Ancient, Classical and Archaeology WEEKEND £310 WEEKEND £310 21 – 23 May 2021 2021NRX060 2 – 4 July 2021 2021NRX070 Archaeology and folklore Learn to read ancient Egyptian Dr Trish Biers Hieroglyphs Dr Sarah Symons In this course folklore and archaeology weave together to uncover the true The ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic script histories behind some of the most is beautiful and intriguing. This course, famous fairy tales and superstitions in workshop format, will help you begin in the past. We will separate fact to read hieroglyphics, or give you the from fiction while examining actual opportunity to practise or widen your artefacts and skeletal remains from skills. You will learn about the language burials related to witchcraft, sorcery, behind the script and will very quickly human-animal transformation, and begin to read real objects from museums a bit of pseudoscience that occurs in and ancient sites. archaeology. 14 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Art, Architectural and Garden History Art, Architectural and Garden History LONG WEEKEND £480 WEEKEND £310 14 – 17 August 2020 2021NRX004 11 – 13 September 2020 2021NRX009 A floral feast: flowers in art, Introduction to 20th century culture and gardens from the architecture ancient world to the modern Dr Sarah Pearson Caroline Holmes Western architecture underwent Twigs Way profound change in the 20th century. A celebration of flowers – in science, From its beginnings in the rustic as symbols of politics and power, in simplicity of the Arts and Crafts books and in borders. We consider the movement, architecture evolved as importance of flowers from the ancient a response to war, reinventing the world to the modern through floral art possibilities of form with modern of all kinds, from the Elizabethans to the materials and technological advances. Impressionists and from 18th century We examine this evolution through many botanists to Edwardian designers. of the emerging architectural styles and key buildings of the 20th century. RETREAT £995 DAY SCHOOL £115 17 – 22 August 2020 2021NTX089 4 October 2020 2021NDX007 The Silk Route One day, one master: 3 for £300 OFFER Dr Susan Whitfield Artemisia Gentileschi see p62 Dr Francis Woodman et al. Dr Aleksandra Koutny-Jones After a break of eight years, we return to The most renowned female artist of the endlessly fascinating topic of The Silk the 17th century, Artemisia Gentileschi Route. The various Silk Routes from China worked across Italy and, briefly, in and the Middle East were synonymous London. The first woman member of the with wealth and luxury. Silk, carpets, Artists’ Academy in Florence, her skilful lapis lazuli, spices and glass competed rendering of three-dimensionality and an for attention with porcelain, jewels and ability to convey dramatic intensity made exotic metalwork. This programme brings her artwork popular with many elite together experts from the worlds of art European patrons of her day. We examine and architectural history, archaeology, her work and life in greater depth. history, politics, culture and trade to provide an insight into the lives of those living along the Silk Route, and those who traded with them. Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 15
Art, Architectural and Garden History WEEKEND £310 WEEKEND £310 16 – 18 October 2020 2021NRX021 11 – 13 December 2020 2021NRX031 Garden history: skill and ingenuity The body in Art Caroline Holmes Jo Rhymer Twigs Way How have realist depictions of the naked Earlier and earlier evidence is emerging body versus those of the idealised, of how horticultural tools and practices academic nude transgressed and manipulated the Earth into patterned transformed modern art? Focusing on fecundity and artistic symmetry, to satisfy 19th century art to the present, notions the human need for order and control. of beauty, allegory, voyeurism and We will see how this evidence is instantly anxiety are examined in a range of works identifiable in geometrically-planned by artists including Courbet, Degas, gardens, but can equally be applied to Caillebotte, Rodin, Valadon, Pollock and larger landscapes, fine-tuned for beauty Hatoum. and profit. WEEKEND £310 DAY SCHOOL £115 13 – 15 November 2020 2021NRX022 10 January 2021 2021NDX016 Early Netherlandish art in the later One day, one master: 3 for £300 OFFER 15th century Henri Matisse see p62 Dr Sophie Oosterwijk Jo Rhymer This course offers an introduction to This course explores a range of early Netherlandish art within its cultural, fascinating works from early Fauvist socio-historical and religious context at paintings to the cut-outs of Matisse’s the time of Van der Weyden, Memling, later career. We consider the the Burgundian court and the rising wide-ranging influences on his art of bourgeoisie. We will study style, materials, Japanese prints, and Middle Eastern iconography, and patronage, as well and African artefacts, together with his as other media, especially manuscript knowledge of Impressionism and colour illumination and printing. theory. How does experimentation with colour, shape and spatial illusion make him one of the greatest artists of the 20th century? 16 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Art, Architectural and Garden History WEEKEND £310 WEEKEND £310 29 – 31 January 2021 2021NRX038 16 – 18 April 2021 2021NRX059 The golden age of Danish art, Garden history: art and craft 1815–1850 Caroline Holmes Dr Jan Cox Twigs Way The Danish Golden Age (c.1815–50) We explore the roots of garden ‘arts and produced a generation of brilliant young crafts’ in dreams of Eden, in flowering artists equal to any in Europe. Decades meads and in drifting borders. The before the Impressionists, they painted visions evoked are those of gardens and modern life: the streets and ramparts vernacular architecture, and of names of Copenhagen by Købke, superb such as William Robinson, William Morris portraiture by Bendz, and wonderful and Gertrude Jekyll. Does a notion of sketches of Rome by their mentor effortless informality manacle gardeners Christoffer Eckersberg. to the past? SHORT WEEKEND £200 DAY SCHOOL £115 13 – 14 March 2021 2021NRX084 3 July 2021 2021NDX029 Art and architecture of the Tudors Leonardo da Vinci: red and white Dr Sarah Pearson chalks with iron gall ink Dr Christina Faraday Nabil Ali The English Tudor period was a time of Throughout history, artists have taken relative prosperity, with an increase in great pleasure in formulating their paint, personal wealth reflected in conspicuous with some Masters known for using consumption and significant artistic specific colours and pigments. Discover patronage. We address both the artistic how paint and ink are made from plants and architectural patronage of the and organic materials by recreating Tudors, exterior and interior decoration, ancient processes using documented material culture and building contents. recipes from historical manuscripts and We make a focused study of the classical sources. Fresh ink made from architectural design of Madingley Hall. oak galls produces a dense black, which, coupled with red and white chalks, recreates the colour used by Leonardo in his drawings. Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 17
Art, Architectural and Garden History DAY SCHOOL £115 WEEKEND £310 4 July 2021 2021NDX030 9 – 11 July 2021 2021NRX073 One day, one master: 3 for £300 Garden history: Cambridge OFFER Leonardo da Vinci see p62 and walking the landscape at Dr Lucia Tantardini Madingley Caroline Holmes This course explores the art of Leonardo Twigs Way da Vinci, putting his work in the context of his time, and exploring how his A weekend using the gardens and influence continued through the work of landscape at Madingley Hall as the Leonardeschi, and with artists such as microcosms of the development of Aurelio Luini. landscape and garden design for the last 500 years. We will study visual evidence in the form of maps, the buildings and its current setting. The plants offer evidence of the international nature of our gardens. We will conclude with a visit to the University Botanic Gardens in Cambridge. WEEKEND £310 WEEKEND £310 9 – 11 July 2021 2021NRX072 16 – 18 July 2021 2021NRX078 Art, design and Edwardian society From meadows to mountains: Dr Justine Hopkins Dutch landscape painting in the Golden Age An exploration of the Edwardian age in all its diversity: glittering coda to Victorian Dr Sophie Oosterwijk imperialism and restless crucible of Landscape painting was a major genre in the modern age. The course considers Dutch painting of the Golden Age. Many the achievements of this contradictory artists became specialists and others period through the work of its principal included landscape backgrounds in their artists, designers, architects and writers; genre and history scenes. The variety of from Sargent, Lutyens and Kipling to the subjects and styles is startling: we find Bloomsbury Group and Walter Sickert. townscapes, forests, meadows, river scenes and marine painting by artists ranging from Rembrandt to Ruisdael. 18 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Business and Entrepreneurship Business and Entrepreneurship DAY SCHOOL £210 DAY SCHOOL £295 23 October 2020 2021NDX414 2 November 2020 2021NDX419 16 April 2021 2021NDX430 14 June 2021 2021NDX421 Wellbeing at work Understanding Government Laurie Parma for business Professor Colin Talbot This course is rooted in the psychology Dr Carole Talbot of wellbeing and organisational science, to convey the essential elements of All businesses have to deal with collaborative, resilient and thriving government regulations but increasingly workplace culture. A strong focus on the businesses need to engage with neuroscience of change management government itself. This course introduces, provides both a methodology for in an interactive, responsive and hands- active culture design and the means to on way, how British government works. implement it. We will explore the tools of government, their impact on your business and how you can engage with them more proactively. 2-DAY COURSE £590 DAY SCHOOL £210 30 – 31 October 2020 2021NDR402 20 November 2020 2021NDX417 21 – 22 May 2021 2021NDR403 11 June 2021 2021NDX437 Fundamentals of building a Introduction to employment financially viable business law Alisa Barcan Anne Adamson Building a business requires people to Are you responsible for people at work? wear many hats. Being an expert in your Managing staff can be rewarding but field is only half of the equation. The challenging, particularly when trying other half implies skills that you might to understand the legal rights and have not been taught or are confident obligations of employers and employees. doing: including marketing, sales, This course explains the foundations of financial management, networking, and employment law from both a theoretical strategic thinking. and practical perspective. Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 19
Business and Entrepreneurship DAY SCHOOL £295 DAY SCHOOL £210 7 December 2020 2021NDX420 5 February 2021 2021NDX426 5 July 2021 2021NDX422 2 July 2021 2021NDX439 Understanding Government How to master your for public sector marketing professionals and managers Kim Arnold Professor Colin Talbot Today’s world of marketing can be Dr Carole Talbot intimidating and bewildering. With so A course designed to help busy public many options out there, it is hard to know sector professionals and managers which strategies will work and which will understand how British government fall flat. This straight-talking, step-by-step works – both the big picture and the course presents the fundamentals of ‘nuts and bolts’ of policy making. In a very great marketing and will show you how interactive, responsive and hands-on way, to build an effective marketing plan to we will explore the ‘tools of government’ bring in more clients. and ways to deploy them in making policy – as well as the various institutions and actors involved. DAY SCHOOL £210 2-DAY COURSE £420 11 December 2020 2021NDX424 29 – 30 March 2021 2021NDX428 4 June 2021 2021NDX436 Analysing business risk: How to build a stand-out Introductory quantitative brand for your business methods Kim Arnold Dr Sooter Nomhwange Do you find it hard to explain what you Economic uncertainty will unavoidably do in just a few words? Do you worry bring unpredictable business exposure about how to stand out in a crowded to risk. Coping with risk would mean market? This course removes the that corporations and most business mystery around the term ‘brand’ and professionals would require new sets provides simple, step-by-step techniques of skills and risk tools. This course to building a unique brand that provides a doorway into quantitative represents you. risk management, with a keen focus on linking business risk to business profitability. How can businesses stay profitable in an uncertain and risky economic climate? 20 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Business and Entrepreneurship DAY SCHOOL £115 2-DAY COURSE £420 16 April 2021 2021NDX231 26 – 27 April 2021 2021NDX432 Creative communication: International business writing for business and finance strategy: an introduction Josie Cox Dr Sooter Nomhwange During this practical and interactive day Cross-border business by corporations school, we will examine a variety of case and countries remains one of the most studies to explore how writing can be viable sources of economic growth. both informative and creative. We will Domestic businesses and professionals look at how different writing techniques working for large multinationals need that draw on the human side of business to develop insight into international journalism and financial reporting can be business challenges. This course covers used to create engaging copy. the essentials of multinational structure and internationalisation with up-to-date and practical knowledge. Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 21
Coaching and Management Coaching and Management DAY SCHOOL £210 DAY SCHOOL £210 1 August 2020 2021NDX410 9 October 2020 2021NDX405 7 December 2020 2021NDX423 7 May 2021 2021NDX406 2 April 2021 2021NDX429 Growing a coaching nature Imposter syndrome Margaret Walsh Roger Fielding Are you a practicing coach who would Have you ever wondered if you will be like to coach in a more holistic way? found out? Have you been just ‘lucky’ Have you ever thought about integrating to get to where you are? In addition nature into your coaching practice? to addressing the psychology and A core part of this course is working in neuroscience of imposter syndrome, this nature to create a wider perspective on course will also explore practical ways how to use your sensory awareness to to address and overcome it, and, finally, grow and develop your coaching style. to embrace the authentic and capable Let nature inform and enhance your skill person within. and knowledge as a coach. DAY SCHOOL £210 DAY SCHOOL £210 27 February 2021 2021NDX409 14 October 2020 2021NDX401 7 July 2021 2021NDX408 10 February 2021 2021NDX403 An introduction to coaching Sport and exercise coaching Dorothy Foote science Dr Gillian Stevens Professor Monèm Jemni Coaching is an increasingly popular and Are you interested to learn about the widely used approach to developing coaching science behind different sports people in their working and personal and exercise? If so, this introductory lives. This introductory course will course is for you. This course is designed provide an understanding of the to provide you with the basic theoretical nature of coaching and introduce knowledge to understand how to coach you to the key skills and techniques across all ages. in both organisational and personal development settings. 22 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Coaching and Management DAY SCHOOL £210 DAY SCHOOL £210 16 October 2020 2021NDX411 16 November 2020 2021NDX416 21 May 2021 2021NDX435 27 February 2021 2021NDX427 Developing your coaching Coaching for managers: relationships an introduction Margaret Walsh Roger Fielding Coaching focuses on the vast inner world This practical course will introduce which is hidden from view. Skimming the managers to a coaching approach and a surface of issues results in superficial and range of coaching techniques to support short-term changes. This course begins and develop team members. Learn how to equip students to work at greater to raise confidence, motivation and psychological depth. The ability to engagement, and develop a proactive notice more improves the quality of the attitude of continual improvement for coaching and makes transformational higher performance. change possible. DAY SCHOOL £210 DAY SCHOOL £210 21 October 2020 2021NDX412 27 November 2020 2021NDX418 22 April 2021 2021NDX431 21 May 2021 2021NDX434 Team coaching Coaching supervision: Sally Bernham an introduction Sally Bernham Are you beginning to notice the limitations of developing only individuals As a coach, are you maximising the and recognising that coaching the team opportunities for developing your may have greater impact? This practical reflective practice to enhance your one-day introduction to team coaching coaching through supervision? This offers insights into how the techniques one-day introductory session for coaches and approaches to choosing teams can will offer an introduction to reflection develop lasting high performance. and approaches to supervision through practical opportunities to participate in peer supervision. Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 23
Coaching and Management 3-DAY COURSE £1950 2-DAY COURSE £590 2 – 4 March 2021 2021NDR401 4 – 5 March 2021 2021NTX401 Leading and coaching across Coaching intensive: reboot cultures Roger Fielding Professor Philippe Rosinski Have you been coaching for some years? Accredited by the International Coach Are you hungry for new ideas? Do you Federation (ICF), this course will allow want some peer-to-peer learning to you to leverage cultural differences of boost your effectiveness? Sharing best all kinds to promote creativity, boost practice within the group, this course performance and enable unity with will focus on achieving good results for individuals, teams and organizations. On your clients and explore measurements completion you will become certified to of success. Ideas, skills and practical tools use the Cultural Orientations Framework will be discussed for use in immediate (COF assessment), a roadmap to navigate coaching practice. the cultural terrain. 24 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Creative Writing Creative Writing LONG WEEKEND £480 WEEKEND £310 7 – 10 August 2020 2021NRX005 11 – 13 September 2020 2021NRX008 How to write a play in three days Writing the news Abigail Docherty Tony Padman Ever wanted to write a play but not Would you like to write articles for quite got past the first scene? Come and your local newspaper, magazine, or explore fun and productive playwriting community newsletter on a paid or techniques, and leave with a short play voluntary basis? Or write for specialist draft, or the outline for a longer piece magazines? They all need writers who to work on at home. We look how to have ideas and stories to tell. This course structure a play so that it leaps off the aims to show you how to contribute page, how to write characters that will from your work or life experiences to move your audience, and how to find the vast market that exists for news and your unique dramatic voice. feature articles. RETREAT £515 DAY SCHOOL £115 15 – 21 August 2020 2021NRX205 17 October 2020 2021NDX220 14 – 20 February 2021 2021NRX206 The keys to creative writing: 11 – 16 July 2021 2021NTX208 character Creative writing retreat Professor Jem Poster Dr Sarah Burton Professor Jem Poster In this day school aimed at writers of novels and short stories, we will explore Held in the historic setting of Madingley ways of breathing life into our characters Hall, our creative writing retreats are and making them believable and designed for those who ‘just want to interesting. We will also consider ways of write’. You will form part of a supportive introducing characters to the reader; the community of writers who can take relative merits of ‘showing’ and ‘telling’; advantage of the time and space away and the relationship between character from normal routine to finish, or perhaps and plot. even start a new writing project. Optional morning workshops are on offer to all participants. One-to-one supervisions with professional writers are available at an additional cost. Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 25
Creative Writing DAY SCHOOL £115 DAY SCHOOL £115 18 October 2020 2021NDX221 15 November 2020 2021NDX223 The keys to creative writing: plot The keys to creative writing: place Dr Sarah Burton Dr Sarah Burton We begin by asking what our story Aimed at those writing short stories and is about and go on to discover ways novels, this course aims to give you the of creating compelling and effective skills to add texture and atmosphere to narratives. We will consider what your writing. Through reading, discussion roles character and conflict play in and practical exercises, we will explore plot development, and the difference the idea of place not as an inert backdrop between the story as it unfolds to the but as a vital force in our narrative. reader and the mechanics of unseen plot. DAY SCHOOL £115 DAY SCHOOL £115 14 November 2020 2021NDX222 28 November 2020 2021NDX224 The keys to creative writing: time Telling your family story Professor Jem Poster Derek Niemann A relaxed yet focused course, aimed at Discover a fresh perspective on your those interested in writing short stories own family story. We consider work and novels. Through reading, discussion from a wide range of writers of different and practical exercises, we will consider backgrounds and nationalities, and the the management of time, whether resources available for research. You relating to the period in which the story will explore imaginative possibilities in is set or the framing of the narrative. For documents, letters, everyday objects and both beginners and established writers. places, leaving you inspired to write in creative and engaging ways. 26 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Creative Writing DAY SCHOOL £115 DAY SCHOOL £115 29 November 2020 2021NDX225 13 December 2020 2021NDX227 Writing made easy The keys to creative writing: Menna van Praag narrative voice Dr Sarah Burton During the day we will explore different techniques to release the creative Style – the way a story is told – is key juices and make writing fun. We will to good fiction. In this day school, we also consider how to live a creative life look at ways of developing a narrative while juggling real life responsibilities voice appropriate to stories we want so that you can continue to write to tell. We will consider how first and with enjoyment and ease. Perfect third-person narratives, and the use of for developing confidence within multiple and unreliable narrators, can be a supportive writing environment. successfully deployed. DAY SCHOOL £115 DAY SCHOOL £115 12 December 2020 2021NDX226 30 January 2021 2021NDX228 The keys to creative writing: Historical fiction dialogue Elizabeth Speller Professor Jem Poster Historical fiction is extremely popular Through reading, discussion and writing with readers and it has become accepted exercises, we will discover how speech as a literary form equal to the best can be used to reveal character and contemporary fiction. During the course drive plot forwards. We will look at how of the day, we will look at the techniques dialogue can enliven narrative, and and research that can turn the past into how we can make it sound authentic. a compelling story. A relaxed but focused workshop for those interested in writing short stories and novels. Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 27
Creative Writing DAY SCHOOL £115 DAY SCHOOL £115 13 February 2021 2021NDX229 16 April 2021 2021NDX231 Writing picture books Creative communications: Pippa Goodhart writing for business and finance Josie Cox We will look at a range of picture books, considering the market and audience During this practical and interactive day for each. We will explore how to weave school, we will examine a variety of case pictures and text together to bring a studies to explore how writing can be story to life when it is read aloud. We will both informative and creative. We will also write and workshop our own stories, look at how different writing techniques and discuss publication. that draw on the human side of business journalism and financial reporting can be used to create engaging copy. DAY SCHOOL £115 DAY SCHOOL £115 27 March 2021 2021NDX230 17 April 2021 2021NDX232 Exploring poetry through reading Writing for the modern media: and writing how to write news articles Elizabeth Speller Tony Padman A gentle yet inspiring course suitable With over 25,000 newspapers, magazines for both beginners and established and online publications, there is no better writers who are interested in developing time to begin writing news articles. confidence and expanding the range This introductory course will show you of their poetic voice. We will examine the basics of what makes a good news a variety of different poems and article and how to write it. Stories are forms, listen to recordings, discuss the everywhere, and the skills you develop experience of writing, and of course, do will be much sought after! some writing! 28 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Creative Writing DAY SCHOOL £115 WEEKEND £310 18 April 2021 2021NDX233 21 – 23 May 2021 2021NRX061 Writing for the modern media: Introduction to creative writing how to write feature articles Derek Niemann Tony Padman If you would like to express yourself With over 25,000 newspapers, magazines imaginatively in words, but don’t know and online publications, there has never how to start or why you are getting been a better time to begin writing stuck, this course will provide you with feature articles. This introductory course a breakthrough. We will use the Hall and will show you the basics of what makes a beautiful grounds of Madingley as the good feature article, from developing an inspiration for a stimulating weekend of initial idea and conducting an interview, non-competitive fun with words. to writing and editing your feature. LONG WEEKEND £480 DAY SCHOOL £115 30 April – 3 May 2021 2021NRX090 26 June 2021 2021NDX234 Poetry masterclass: The art of editing your novel narrative drive in poetry Menna van Praag Roger Garfitt We will discuss the stories we are We consider how Hannah Sullivan’s Three currently working on and consider when Poems and Robin Robertson’s The Long might be the right time to edit – during Take generate an extraordinary narrative the process of writing the first draft, drive, embedding a moving personal or after? We will consider the rules for odyssey within a vivid but unsparing excellent editing and start to develop dramatisation of city life. professional editing skills through practical exercises. Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 29
Creative Writing LONG WEEKEND £480 DAY SCHOOL £115 2 – 5 July 2021 2021NRX091 11 July 2021 2021NDX236 Write a short story in three days Historical fiction Dr Sarah Burton Natasha Pulley The short story is a particularly exciting During the course of this day school, we and increasingly popular form. Discover will look at the origins of historical fiction the art and craft of short fiction and and identify some keys texts. We will develop skills and confidence in this long also explore different writing styles and weekend course which includes classes techniques that we can use in our own focusing on aspects of the short story, writing, and we will begin working on our time for writing and individual expert own ideas that can be developed into feedback. longer stories. DAY SCHOOL £115 10 July 2021 2021NDX235 Introduction to writing fantasy Natasha Pulley Through a combination of lectures, discussion and writing exercises, we will explore key archetypes used in fantasy writing, and consider how using them can enrich an imaginary world. We will also look at the use of language and fantasy languages, and some of the many subgenres, including historical and whole-world high fantasy. 30 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Creative Writing I have nothing but praise for the teaching, the wonderful food and the efficient arrangements. Carolyn Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 31
History History WEEKEND £310 DAY SCHOOL £115 7 – 9 August 2020 2021NRX002 17 October 2020 2021NDX008 Britain in the 1960s The ABC of philanthropy Dr Colin Shindler Liz Carter Swinging London never reached Explore the life and philanthropic work of Hartlepool and Mary Quant made little the amazing 19th century millionairess, impact on Weston-Super-Mare. Optimism Angela Burdett-Coutts. A friend of for the future combined with fear of Dickens and the Duke of Wellington, nuclear annihilation. The 1960s were a supporter of a multitude of ‘good causes’ decade of change and contradiction, but and the first woman to be made Baroness how do they appear from the vantage in her own right. Discover how she coped point of fifty years on? with unexpected wealth and stalkers, and found happiness in unexpected places. WEEKEND £310 WEEKEND £310 11 – 13 September 2020 2021NRX011 27 – 29 November 2020 2021NRX026 1620–2020 The anniversary of the Great Prime Ministers Mayflower Dr Seán Lang Dr Ian Chambers The role of Prime Ministers has changed The pilgrims who arrived in America on hugely since it was first developed in the Mayflower are celebrated each year at the 18th century. This course will look at Thanksgiving, but what was their story? the way the office has shaped and been Why did they leave England? How did shaped by looking at a series of great they interact with the Native Americans? prime ministerial figures from Walpole, How did they go from simply surviving to through the Victorian titans, to our own actively thriving in the New World? Learn day. more about their history and narrative. 32 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
History WEEKEND £310 WEEKEND £310 16 – 18 April 2021 2021NRX056 29 – 31 January 2021 2021NRX040 Out of the ashes of post-war Zulu and Boer wars Europe 1945–65 Dr Seán Lang Dr Andrew Lacey Why did Britain fight a series of wars in In 1945, much of Europe lay in ruins and order to take control of southern Africa? rapidly divided between communist East This course will look at the mixture and capitalist West. Yet out of the ashes of vision, courage, chicanery, over- reconstruction took place. We look at confidence, incompetence, aggression some of the major themes of these 20 and naked lust for power and wealth that tremendous years, from the Cold War marked these hard-fought and highly and the relationship with the USA, the controversial colonial conflicts. beginnings of European Union, to the economic miracles of the 1950s and 60s. DAY SCHOOL £115 WEEKEND £310 12 December 2020 2021NDX014 12 – 14 March 2021 2021NRX047 The medieval English hospital The Hollywood studios Professor Carole Rawcliffe Dr Colin Shindler Drawing upon archaeological, We know all the introductions – the architectural and documentary sources, MGM lion, the Paramount Mountain, this course will examine the motives the Twentieth Century Fox searchlight. leading to the foundation of over 1,000 This is a short course analysing how hospitals in England between c.1070 the contract system for artists and and the Dissolution. It will explore their technicians devised by the eight major religious, social and cultural significance, studios made for an unparalleled creative and investigate specific types of environment that we now call the charitable institution, including leprosaria Golden Years of Hollywood. and almshouses. Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 33
History WEEKEND £310 WEEKEND £310 21 – 23 May 2021 2021NRX093 30 July – 1 August 2021 202NRX075 Constantine the Great: Serving Queen and King: life and legacy Sir Walter Raleigh and court Professor Werner de Saeger politics in England, 1580–1620 Dr Mark Nicholls This course will focus on the life, decisions and legacy of Roman Emperor We explore life and politics at the Constantine the Great. At the dawn of the courts of Elizabeth I and James VI and I 4th century AD, Constantine converted through the career of Sir Walter Raleigh. to Christianity and subsequently changed Raleigh rose to favour under the ‘Virgin the course of history. We will analyse the Queen’ but suffered disgrace, long theological and politico-legal changes, as imprisonment, and eventual execution well as the art and architectural history of at the hands of her successor. Alongside early Christianity, which were profoundly the politics, we also seek the truth behind influenced by Constantine's reign. myths and legends that surrounded Raleigh himself. WEEKEND £310 16 – 18 July 2021 2021NRX076 1521: the Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs Dr Nicholas James 2021 is the quincentenary of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs. This course will explore the other side of this turning point in world history: the Aztecs’ troubled rise to power and how they first repulsed the Conquistadores; how their descendants survived the Spanish empire; and how, still (if not for much longer), they maintain features of the ancient tradition today. 34 | Book online at www.ice.cam.ac.uk/shortcourses20-21
Language and Culture Language and Culture WEEKEND £310 DAY SCHOOL £115 2 – 4 October 2020 2021NRX013 28 November 2020 2021NDX012 Coco Chanel: une femme, une vie, Beyond Murakami: the essentials une époque of Japanese contemporary Mme Francine Rouanet-Démocrate literature Dr Vicky Young The name Coco Chanel conjures up images of fashion and luxury, but who Haruki Murakami brought contemporary was the lady behind the label? From Japanese literature to prominence in accusations of collaboration to friendship the West but he is far from the only with Churchill, from secret children to author whose work is available in financing Stravinsky, her own accounts translation. This course provides a gentle have sometimes been exaggerated, but introduction to the Japanese language her life was certainly sensational. This through discussion of a selection of course investigates the various facets translated works, and how they fit into of Chanel's life. This course is taught in contemporary Japanese culture. French. WEEKEND £310 WEEKEND £310 2 – 4 October 2020 2021NRX014 11 – 13 December 2020 2021NRX024 ‘The Other Russia’: The Great A Germanic Christmas and other Russian Exodus after the 1917 winter customs in German- revolutions speaking countries Dr Vera Tsareva-Brauner Paul Hoegger This course explores the huge creative The mid-winter as well as the end and cultural legacy of what is known of winter have long been a time of as ‘Russia Abroad’. We look at the works celebration around the world. Some of of Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin, and these traditions are linked to the birth of Vladimir Nabokov in literature, Diaghilev’s Jesus, some clearly pre-date Christianity, ‘Ballet Russe’ in music, art and ballet, but many of them originate in the and the Philosophy Steamer in terms of German-speaking territories. We will be political and philosophical thought. This exploring these origins and looking at course is taught in Russian. how and why various customs, whether literary, musical, culinary or otherwise, have evolved differently in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This course is taught in German. Email: shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 764637 | 35
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