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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. Return to French (lower intermediate)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 2 Jul 2025 (and 7 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Silvana Avram
    Revise and consolidate your speaking and listening skills, as well as your grammar. Suitable if you have completed completed 2-3 years of study in the past.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00
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  2. The art of negotiating
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 17 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)

    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 in the art of negotiating. This course will be delivered in the college.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £97.00
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  3. Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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  4. French 3 upper: conversation
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 23 Sep 2025 (and 7 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Stephanie Radet
    Come and practise your intermediate spoken French and develop your language skills in these topical discussion classes. Based on recordings from French television, radio news and newspaper articles.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00
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  5. Chair-based exercise for everyday health
    Course start date:  Wed 24 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Cathy Norris

    Fun chair based (optional) exercise to help with everyday health. Designed for those who want to keep moving, but don’t want floor-based exercise.  Gently improving your fitness, whilst making you feel energised and rejuvenated.

    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £119.00
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  6. Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £80.00
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  7. French 3 lower: conversation
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 15 Oct 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Michel Willame
    Come and practise your intermediate spoken French and develop your language skills in these topical discussion classes. Based on recordings from French television, radio news and newspaper articles.
    Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £103.00
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  8. French 4: Return to French (Advanced)
    Course start date:  Wed 15 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    If your advanced French is a bit rusty and you wish you could reactivate your passive knowledge, this is the right course for you. This course will help you access your dormant French and bring it back to life. After attending this course you should be able join a level 4 or 5 course.

    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00
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  9. Spanish 3 upper: Arte español en Londres de Velázquez a Sorolla
    Course start date:  Wed 15 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Anna Riera Mora
    Mejora tu español a través de un recorrido por el arte español.

    En este curso, podrás desarrollar tus habilidades lingüísticas en español a través del análisis y la discusión de algunas obras maestras españolas de prestigiosas colecciones de arte londinenses como The National Gallery, la Wallace Collection y Apsley House (la casa de Wellington).

    Ideal for students who have done 3 or 4 years of Spanish, have studied present and past tenses (B1 level), and are looking to practise more talking and listening skills.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00
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  10. Presenting on the spot
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 27 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Stephanie Lunn
    Learn key vocal techniques and public speaking strategies that will support you when you need to give a memorable impromptu presentation or speech with gravitas and confidence. This course will be delivered in the college.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £139.00
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  11. Communicating effectively at work
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 16 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Jonathan Mulquin
    How skilfully do you manage the impression you give with the words you use and the statements you make? Develop your speaking and meeting skills in the workplace in this intensive summer course which takes place in the college.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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  12. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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  13. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00
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  14. Ways into advanced film studies: film aesthetics
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 5 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    Have you wondered why a film might have moved you so powerfully or why it looked so stunningly beautiful? Have you wanted to know quite how a film was able to communicate its story to you so effectively? If so, then this advanced level film studies course is for you. It aims to explore in depth the language of cinema, the way in which film connects with its spectators at the level of film form, in other words, film aesthetics. Writers and critics have long asked similar questions, as have filmmakers themselves, and we will follow some of the most celebrated in their quest for answers. We will look briefly at how films are made and at the importance of cinematography, editing, mise en scène and sound, before exploring in depth film’s aesthetic qualities. We will think about the importance of history for the development of film form and we will analyse clips and sequences from individual films so as to better approach and understand film aesthetics.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00
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  15. Outposts of Byzantium part 1
    Course start date:  Wed 14 Jan 2026

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Michael Bloomfield

    Discover the richness of Byzantine civilisation through its most evocative and far-flung outposts, from Sinai to Trebizond. Explore distinctive expressions of Byzantine culture and faith beyond Constantinople.

    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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