The month of July means vacation and, for those who are in Europe, summer! It also means Summer School in the UK – short-term, low-cost courses with incredible themes to boost your curriculum and knowledge. With a duration that can vary from two days to 10 weeks, these courses offer specific themes for each area of activity, being a differential in professional life and also helping to improve academic English.
Who said that to study abroad you have to spend at least six months in a country, right? Summer Schools are there to give you that taste of university life outside Brazil, with the advantage of not needing to be accepted at the university or apply for a student visa. Just choose the course that interests you, pay and join the classes, which offer a very flexible schedule.
There are also universities that specifically offer short courses to improve English, a great advantage for those who need to improve their language skills.
O loveUK gathered 15 short course options with different themes to inspire you to enroll later this year. Check out:
- English course
UAL offers not only a summer english course as well as another course focused only on academic english. Both open classes every month or with a high frequency and can last from 2 to 24 weeks – it is at the student's discretion. In addition, it is possible to choose the workload of classes of 15 or 20 hours per week.
– Arts and Politics: from Dada to the present
This week-long course seeks to make a connection between a variety of artists, movements, ideas, socio-historical events and ethical issues, covering the period of art history from Romanticism to the late 18th century to the present day.
– Portfolio Building 18+
The course lasts five days and is aimed at students over 18 who want to develop their portfolio, with tips on presentation and cover letters, interview techniques and the use of references. Classes are also focused on building trust and using important components when applying for a university or job.
– Fashion Design: intensive
This two-week intensive course is dedicated to covering all introductory elements of Fashion Design, as well as advanced techniques in the field, while also focusing on developing ideas through well-explored research.
– Reportage Photography
What are the secrets used by professional photographers? This is what this course seeks to answer. In one week the student will delve into the secrets of reportage photography, working with the teacher to achieve professional photography methods, from concept to realization.
Classes start in August or October (this lasts for 10 weeks).
– Sustainable Fashion
The course provides an overview of the fashion industry, from the production of textile fiber to the globalization of fashion from a sustainable point of view. Taught by two professors who have worked together for 20 years with sustainable fashion, this one-week course also encourages the creation of new businesses and how to deal with projects for large corporations.
Classes start in August or September.
– Youtube Content Marketing Strategy
Creating a branded YouTube channel, this three-day course helps you develop your channel methodically and using a variety of techniques to find the right audience. Focusing on the channel's strategy and content, in order to reach the stage of circulating it to consumers.
– Linkedin for Business: B2B marketing
The one-day course explains how to use Linkedin to facilitate brand marketing, knowledge transfer and consumer engagement. In addition, the class teaches you how to produce a persuasive profile and techniques on how to build a network that will leverage your brand. The course has a series of practical exercises.
Classes start in August or September.
Goldsmiths University of London
– Public Speaking and Presenting
This one-day course intensively trains public speaking skills, with professors specializing in psychology and human development, promising to reduce fear and nervousness.
– Psychology for Lawyers
Course focuses on the human mind and what influences the mind, including decision-making in places of authority and everyday life. This one-day course is aimed at lawyers who want to get a feel for psychology and how people think, through discoveries in neuroscience and linguistics to be applied to the justice system.
– Bad Girls: representations of race and gender in popular culture
The course provides an excellent introduction to the thinking of gender construction in the context of popular culture, opening the possibility for the student to understand the convergence between race and gender in the line of thinkers such as Kimberlé Crenshaw, Patricia Hill-Collins, Nirmal Puwar, Sara Ahmed, among others. others. Duration of 10 weeks.
– Masters of Sex: feminisms, sexuality and the media
Complement for those who study feminism and LGBTI issues related to insertion in the media and current culture. In the course, which lasts 10 weeks, questions are asked how artists, activists and the LGBTI community use their influence in digital and social media and in political interventions.
– Introduction to Creative Writing
For the first five weeks the course focuses on prose writing, exploring extracts from a variety of novelists and short story writers, and studying techniques for building character and writing surprising plot lines. The other five weeks of the course will be devoted to poetry writing, examining the work of poetic logic, metaphors and others.
– Soul/Jazz/Gospel Vocals
Are you a musician or music lover and want to explore jazz, soul or gospel music? With this course you can build more confidence and improve your singing skills in a safe, productive and creative environment with the atmosphere of the Goldsmiths School of Music. Duration of 10 weeks.
University of Sussex
- English course
Lasting from 1 to 10 weeks, the English course of the University of Sussex takes place during the summer in the city, starting every week in July or August.
