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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:  Thu 15 May 2025 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    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. Full fee £319.00 Senior fee £255.00 Concession £207.00
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  3. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00
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  4. Communicating effectively at work
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 5 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Jonny Black
    How skilfully do you manage the impression you make on people both in person and in online meetings and interviews? Develop your personal effectiveness by looking at voice and body language, assertiveness, sensitive listening, interviewing techniques and communication skills for business meetings. This course will be taught online.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00
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  5. German advanced: Konversation und Grammatik
    Course start date:  Wed 1 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Barbara Pöllet
    Practise your German in the heart of London. This is an advanced fortnightly in person German course.
    Dieser Kurs bietet von allem etwas: Lesetexte zu aktuellen Themen,Videoausschnitte, Deutschland heute, andere deutschsprachige Länder, Diskussion, und etwas Grammatik zur Auffrischung!
    Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00
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  6. Introduction to Herbal Medicine
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 1 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Ellie Holly
    Herbal medicine has lot to offer when it comes to improving mood, reducing anxiety, improving cognitive function and increasing energy levels. Herbal medicine is the use of whole plant extracts to treat illness and to prevent disease. When used correctly, herbal medicines offer a safe and effective way to improve mental health. Many herbs can be used safely alongside orthodox medicines. This course is all about giving you the knowledge you need to feel confident buying and trying herbal medicines to support your own health.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00
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  7. The beginnings of Impressionism: Millet and the Barbizon School
    Course start date:  Wed 1 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Emma Rose Barber
    Who said the Impressionists were the first to paint ‘en plein air’? Get lost in wood and green and light and shade in the large forest of Fontainebleau near Paris and learn about a group of 19th-century painters who influenced the Impressionists in the art of painting landscape outside.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  8. Angela Carter: ‘A Different Kind of Human Being’ -
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 8 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Fiona McCulloch
    This course will introduce and discuss the fiction of renowned author, Angela Carter, specifically focusing upon one novel and one short story. Carter wanted her writing to ‘demythologise the fictions that regulate our lives’, to explore how society narrates us into being and holds us there. In doing so, she offers us a chance to read and, ultimately, release ourselves through her work, as we come to understand the relationship between fiction and reality. For Carter, both of these – fiction and reality – are two sides of the same coin.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
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  9. German 3: Konversation und Grammatik
    Course start date:  Wed 8 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Anna Rioland
    Learn German in the heart of London. Come and improve your speaking and some grammar in this intermediate German course. This course is fortnightly.
    Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £31.00 Concession £25.00
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  10. Working with adults who stammer: a course for speech and language therapists
    Course start date:  Mon 13 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Carolyn Cheasman, Vivien Grant-Jones

    Designed for speech and language therapists, this four-day interactive workshop will cover assessment and selection, stammering modification, interiorised stammering, cluttering, acquired stammering and an introduction to mindfulness. Opportunity to practise teaching techniques to clients included.

    Note: this course runs on these days: October 13-15; and a final follow-up day on March 30..

    Full fee £599.00 Senior fee £599.00 Concession £599.00
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  11. Spanish 4/5: artistas de color contemporaneos
    Course start date:  Wed 15 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Anna Riera Mora
    En el campo del arte la tendencia general es poner el foco en los creadores blancos que, a su vez, suelen poner el foco en sujetos de su misma raza. La falta de visibilidad conlleva una falta de representación y la representación es fundamental para crear referentes. (Inés de León, 2020)







    Ideal para estudiantes de nivel 4 o 5 o que han estudiado español por 5 años (los participantes deben tener las habilidades necesarias para debatir activamente en clase usando el español).



    No es necesario tener conocimientos previos del arte.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00
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  12. Looking beyond headlines: colonialism and contemporary conflicts
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 22 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Salome Ietter
    This course will provide a reflection on the colonial, post-colonial and neo-colonial aspects and underpinnings of contemporary conflicts.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00
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  13. Philosophy reading group: Descartes's Meditations
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 29 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Karl White

    Descartes’ Meditations is arguably the foundational text of modern Western philosophy influencing not only the what of philosophy, but the how and the why.  Reading it together, we’ll discover the stone that created ripples still affecting our thinking today.
     

    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00
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