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- Picture book writingCourse start date: Wed 19 Feb 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Lou KuenzlerWould you like to write a picture book text for young children? This course is designed for children's writers and for illustrators wishing to write their own stories; a starter course to develop both your ideas and your technique.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00 - Strikes in the 21st century: relevant or a thing of the past?Course start date: Wed 19 Feb 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Caglar EzikogluExplore the role and impact of strikes in contemporary society and analyse whether they remain relevant or have become obsolete in the 21st century.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £119.00 - Writing a memoir (continuation)Course start date: Mon 24 Feb 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Julie GartonSome moments in our lives are so powerful they beg to be shared with the world. This continuation course guides students in developing a memoir project that will resonate and inspire.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00 - Advanced creative non-fiction workshopCourse start date: Wed 11 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
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 - Return to French (lower intermediate)Course start date: Wed 2 Jul 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephanie RadetCome and join this lively interactive course to refresh your lower intermediate French. After attending this course you will be able join a level 2 course in September .Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Exploring the music of Gabriel FauréCourse start date: Wed 26 Feb 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Katy HamiltonGabriel Fauré was born twelve years after the birth of Johannes Brahms, and died six years after the death of Claude Debussy. In his long life he witnessed a remarkable series of aesthetic changes in the music of France, Austro-Germany and beyond, and his own career as a composer, teacher, pianist and organist embraced a tremendous range of influences – as well as having a huge impact on the next generations of Ravel, Nadia Boulanger and Georges Enescu. We explore his life and music in celebration of the 180th anniversary of his birth. * this course has a break week: 4th March.
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 £90.00 - Exploring horror cinemaCourse start date: Wed 26 Feb 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jon WisbeyExplore the horror film, past and present, through a range of key films, concepts and critical accounts of the genre. We will consider its history and development, and the ways in which different production contexts, for example, American, European and East Asian horror cinemas, have given rise to significant variation within the genre, with each producing films with distinctive styles, themes.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00 - Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
- Communicating effectively at workCourse start date: Thu 27 Feb 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jonathan MulquinHow 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.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00 - Ubuntu, communitarianism and personhood: key concepts in African philosophyCourse start date: Wed 5 Mar 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ovett NwosimiriThis course is an introduction to the key concepts in African philosophy. We will analyse the various positions and contestations regarding the nature, and trends in African philosophy, debate on communitarianism and personhood, and ubuntu.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £109.00 Concession £109.00
- Jeanette Winterson: breaking the narrativeCourse start date: Wed 12 Mar 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Fiona McCullochThis course introduces British writer, Jeanette Winterson’s novels, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (1985) and The Stone Gods (2007). Discover how these fictional worlds portray the interplay between gender, sexuality, power, reality, cyberspace, nation, and ecological concerns. Learn how she “breaks the narrative” to reboot the love story.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Life drawing after workCourse start date: Tue 18 Mar 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrea VoiseyA fun, relaxed and shorter life drawing class better suited for people coming straight from work. You will be able to work from a variety of life models, in a range of materials and with a variety of poses. You will be working from the unclothed model, both male and female.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00 - Cities and waste in the global economyCourse start date: Wed 19 Mar 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Caglar EzikogluExplore the relationship between urban development and waste management in a global context, examining sustainability challenges and innovative solutions.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £119.00 - Japanese beginners: module 2Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Chikako NakagawaContinue learning to speak Japanese, with the emphasis on developing your listening and speaking skills,
Suitable if you have completed Japanese beginners: module 1 or learn Japanese in a complete beginners course for a term.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00
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