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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  1. Art and creative thinking with Rod Judkins
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 18 May 2025 (and 4 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Rod Judkins
    Art is fundamentally about communicating ideas. If the idea is strong, the work of art is memorable.



    This exciting, one day workshop, led by Rod Judkins (artist, tutor and author of ‘The art of Creative thinking’ and ‘Ideas are your only currency’) will explore methods to create ideas and concepts and combine them with the process of making. You will receive a signed copy of Art and Creative Thinking when you attend this course.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00
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  2. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  3. Digital skills for business: how to present and communicate data integrating Word, PowerPoint and Excel - a project-based approach (advanced)
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 1 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Are you already an experienced and skilful user of Word, Excel and PowerPoint? Are you working as a lead administrator? Do you want to extend your skills so you can integrate these three programs to produce high quality and sophisticated documents? This course will help you combine your Microsoft 365 skills by working on business projects that enable you to analyse data at a high level and also present your findings in a clear and dynamic way. You will learn how to link and embed data across the programs, how to integrate Excel data and charts with PowerPoint and Word, how, how to use Word to create a new PowerPoint presentation and how to use Word to create customizable PowerPoint speaker notes and handouts.



    This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

    Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £80.00
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  4. Italian 3 Conversation
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Silvana Vistola
    This skills-based course is for intermediate learners of Italian and is intended to improve your Italian speaking skills in everyday situations. We will be looking at both formal and informal scenarios, and the aim is to help you to feel more comfortable speaking Italian in order to improve your fluency.
    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00
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  5. Fixity and Flux: poetry in motion
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Suzannah V. Evans
    Come and revel in the sheer variety and possibility of poetic form, as we consider how form might shape what a writer has to say and how they say it. This course will allow you to explore the many shapes that a poem can take.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
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  6. The art of negotiating
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gavin Illsley
    Negotiation is a communication skill essential in solving problems and reaching your goals. Learn to prepare well and to feel confident using logical and emotional tools to achieve great outcomes. The course will be taught in the college.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £90.00
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  7. Spanish 4/5: cuentistas españoles y latinoamericanos – Todos los cuentos, Carmen Martín Gaite
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Óscar Salgado Suárez
    Este curso es para aquellos estudiantes que han estudiado unos cinco años de español y desean obtener un conocimiento más profundo de la lengua y cultura del mundo hispanohablante. En este módulo se leerá y analizará un libro dentro de su contexto histórico.



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  8. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  9. Return to Spanish (upper intermediate)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Cristina Casado

    If you have learned Spanish in the past, but it has been a while, then come and join this lively course to refresh your upper intermediate Spanish. You will review, revise and practice in a course that is tailored to your needs. After attending this course, you will be able join a level 3 lower or 3 upper course in September.

    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00
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  10. Radio and podcast presenting: advanced (online)
    Course start date:  Mon 2 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Allis Moss
    This is an opportunity to take your love of radio to the next level. The course supports you with a tutor-editor to craft a pre-recorded radio programme or extended feature on a subject of your choice, mixing interview clips, music and sound effects into your own production. This course will be delivered online and is supported by a media technician.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £125.00
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  11. Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £123.00
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  12. Spanish 5: creative writing in Spanish
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Matias Godoy Ronderos
    En este curso interactivo, tendrás la oportunidad de usar el español para escribir microcuentos, y de tener como guía a un profesor que también es autor y traductor publicado. A lo largo de las 5 sesiones, aprenderás como desarrollar una historia corta usando alugnas técnicas empleadas por los escritores para producir una historia interesante y atractiva.







    Este curso es para hispanohablantes y estudiantes que han estudiado español a nivel avanzado (si has estudiado español al menos durante 6 años).







    This course will be delivered in Spanish.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
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  13. Spanish 4/5: Spanish accents explained - Chile
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Pilar Villanueva Martinez
    How do you cope with different Spanish accents? Do you find some easier to understand than others? This series of short courses will help you understand the specificities and intricacies of a variety of Spanish and South American accents, so you can spot their speakers more easily and understand them better to keep the conversation going.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00
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  14. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  15. Writing Motherhood
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Jun 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Rebecca Jones
    Explore the extraordinarily diverse world of writing about motherhood, looking at literary texts that have firmly rebuked any notions of motherhood as ‘merely’ domestic, and have instead made it the subject of serious literary writing, have explored major themes such as the body, trauma, gender, queerness, race and creativity, and have written diverse truths about the realities of motherhood. Writers include Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich and Rachel Cusk, Maggie Nelson and Ayò¿bámi Adébáyò¿.
    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00
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