- Spanish 4/5 Spanish film studies: Power and Resistance in XX and XXI century Spanish FilmsCourse start date: Wed 22 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Óscar Salgado SuárezDescubre el cine español y latinoamericano y desarrolla tu español en este curso que te permitirá ampliar tu cultura cinematográfica, y mejorar tu conversación y comprensión del español. El curso explora temas, técnicas cinematográficas y artefactos culturales de una selección de películas. Este curso es para estudiantes con nivel avanzado de español (si has estudiado español al menos durante 5 años).
This course will occur every other week. Please see the How will I be taught? section for specific dates.
Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00 - Presenting on the spotCourse start date: Mon 27 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephanie LunnLearn 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 - Communicating effectively at workCourse start date: Wed 16 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jonathan MulquinHow 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 - Russian 4: translation in practiceCourse start date: Wed 29 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Anna RiolandA practical, online translation course for Level 4 learners of Russian.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Ways into advanced film studies: film aesthetics
Course start date: Wed 5 Nov 2025Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul SuttonHave 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 - ‘Stranger’ Things: Muriel Spark’s Shapeshifting Course start date: Wed 5 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Fiona McCullochThis course will introduce and discuss two novels by eminent author, Muriel Spark- Memento Mori (1959) and The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960). Her writing wilfully upends notions of conformity and acts as a disrupter to accepted conventions. Instead, ‘Spark beckons us to encounter the stranger’ (Marilyn Reizbaum). Playfully disrupting passive readers and stretching comfort zones, Spark’s work provides a space to access unaccustomed outlooks that make us rethink our relationship with ourselves, others, and the world. Instead of unconsciously going with the flow, she awakens us to life’s stranger things.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00 - Economic paradigms: are there alternatives to capitalism?Course start date: Wed 19 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Caglar EzikogluExplore diverse economic theories beyond capitalism in economic paradigms with regards to the alternatives of capitalism and broaden your understanding of global economic systems.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00 - Grammar in practice: upper intermediate (level 1-2) Course start date: Fri 9 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Unsure when to use present perfect or past perfect? Is reported speech still causing you problems? Do you need to practise your conditionals? Join this course and put your grammar into practice in speaking, writing, reading and listening. Gain confidence in using grammar effectively through high level and engaging tasks
You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).
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 £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £75.00 - The Odyssey reading group (in translation) Course start date: Thu 10 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Justin MurrayHomer’s epic tale of Odysseus’ journey home after the Trojan War may now be over 2,500 years old but it still has much to tell us about the Ancient Greek world that is still relevant today. Explore this great work in translation.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00 - Sustainable Development in the Face of Global RisksCourse start date: Wed 4 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Online
This course explores why greater global cooperation is needed if sustainable development goals are to be achieved in the face of global risks.
Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - 'Wild Places': Katherine Mansfield's imaginative worldsCourse start date: Wed 11 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Fiona McCullochThis course will introduce and discuss a selection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield’s approach to art is to embrace hidden depths, to seek untamed and unhindered aspects lurking in the shadows, writing with a wild surmise in an attempt to find new literary vistas. Similarly, describing herself as ‘an alien’, we will consider her self-asserted feeling of strangeness as an outsider, and how this might manifest itself in her fictional work.
Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00 - Manual lymphatic drainage: detox for face and neck Course start date: Wed 11 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Janet WhiteheadWould you like to learn how to give a detox facial massage? Based on the lymphatic system, this technique is designed to eliminate toxins and improve the skin's appearance by boosting the immune system.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £189.00 - Actors' LabCourse start date: Wed 18 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Simon DarwenKeep your skills honed and your actors instinct sharp in this short course designed for those with experience. Explore text and scenes under the guidance of an experienced tutor and working actor in these 3 workshop sessions.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £83.00 - Advanced creative non-fiction workshop Course start date: Mon 23 Feb 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul LaffanThis advanced workshop is designed for students who have already completed introductory and intermediate creative-non fiction courses and would like to focus on workshopping their writing.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00 - Exploring horror cinemaCourse start date: Wed 25 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jon WisbeyExplore the horror film through a range of key films, concepts and critical accounts of the genre. We will consider its history and development, from its beginnings to the present day, the ways in which different production contexts, such as American, European and East Asian horror cinemas, have given rise to variations in the genre, and the approach to theme and style in the films themselves.
Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
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