Summer school learning programs for mature and senior travellers who are and remain curious about the world. Week long courses in Hobart every January. To learn more about our philosophy behind the Odyssey Summer Schools, click here!
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Masterpieces of French Cinema Summer School Hobart Tasmania
Discover five masterpieces of French cinema in this new Summer School tour.
Extraordinary Women from Medieval and Renaissance Europe
This Summer school course will examine the life and deeds of a number of strong women living in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Women seldom wrote the history books in the period between 1050 and 1650.
Italian Renaissance Summer School
This Summer school course looks at the influence and contribution five key families in shaping today’s Italy. In the 15th and 16th centuries the principalities that became Italy were alive with new ideas. The boundaries of art, architecture, music, science, politics, religion and literature were pushed. It was also riven by bitter rivalry and even open warfare between the numerous independent city states.
Houses and Gardens of Southern Tasmania Summer School
Houses and gardens of Southern Tasmania runs for five days and takes in ten different gardens and three heritage-listed houses. We will step back into the past and experience life as it was two centuries ago.
Tasmanian Wilderness Summer School
The Tasmania Wilderness summer school is held annually in Hobart in early January. This summer school allows you to experience the great western wilderness of Tasmania, while staying at a comfortable ‘base camp’ in a Hobart hotel!
Victorian Britain
This course will look at the life and times of Queen Victoria who reigned over the British Empire between 1837 and 1901. During that period Britain underwent what amounted to a revolution in industry, agriculture, transport, politics, science, medicine and the arts.
The Glory of Greece Summer School
The Glory of Greece course examines the history of the Ancient Greeks from Mycenaean, Minoan and Homeric times until the commencement of the Peloponnesian War in 431BC. We discover the development of a classical, ancient people and culture.
Romans settling Britain & Gaul Summer School
This course will investigate contemporary accounts of Roman of the path to occupation and then settlement in Britain and Gaul. This class will endeavour to consider and discuss the contribution Rome and the Romans had on the places controlled by these invaders.
Discovering World Cinema Summer School Hobart Tasmania
Discover five masterpieces of world cinema in this new Summer School tour.
Convicts and Emigrants in Early Tasmania Summer School
The course focuses on Tasmania and its similarities and differences from the ‘mainland’ as a convict colony, with a particular focus on women’s experiences.
Sir John Monash lecture - Summer School
This lecture series examines the ANZAC story throughout the Great War from Gallipoli (1915) to the Western Front (1918) through the life of Australia’s greatest wartime military leader Lt General Sir John Monash.