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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. Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  2. What is a Short Story?
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 18 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Alexander Fairbairn-Dixon
    What is a short story? Come and discuss its characteristics, its length, design, mood and style. What distinguishes it from other kinds of short narrative? We’ll compare short stories to other forms, such as myths, legends, anecdotes, fabliaux, parables, fables, and ‘tales’. We’ll look at some of the greatest practitioners including Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Mansfield, and O’ Henry.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  3. Nordic Noir: Novel, Film, Television
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 18 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    The early 2000s saw the emergence of a number of Swedish and Norwegian crime series onto UK TV screens, including Wallander (dir. various, 2005-10), Forbrydelsen/The Killing (dir. Various, 2007), Borgen (dir. various 2010) and The Bridge (dir. various 2011), all broadcast on BBC4. The popularity of these dramas led to one critic to refer to them as ‘Nordic noir, the gift that keeps on giving’. Similarly successful were the film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s hugely popular Millenium trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 and 2011), The Girl who Played with Fire (2009) and The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (2009). This one-day course will explore the history, context, development and reception of these TV dramas and films while also considering the various processes of adaptation and remaking involved in their production.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  4. Reasoning and God: an introduction to theology
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 18 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Edgar Ter-Danielyan
    This course is an introduction to theology – reasoned discourse on the Christian understanding of God, his nature, and his relationship with human beings and the created order.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  5. Explore: creative collage
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 19 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Pam Williams
    From the early 20th century onwards, the advent of ‘mass’ media – newspapers, magazines, leaflets, packaging - led to some of the most innovative artistic movements in Western culture: Dada, Surrealism, Bauhaus, Punk.







    Arguably, these movements (all of which centralised ‘collage’), have had more of a bearing on contemporary graphic design than anything else. Think of the countless adverts, websites, and social media posts which owe a debt to Jamie Reid’s ‘Sex Pistols’ album designs (which, in turn, owe their existence to the Dadaists).







    The methodology of collage should therefore play a role in any good design practice.







    Our Workshops enable you to take a deep dive into a specific process, media or tool.



    They throw the spotlight onto niche areas of the visual communication field, enabling you to hone higher-level skills and gain deeper insights.







    Workshops tend to have a practical focus, with little or no theory or context, although this varies by course.
    Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00
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  6. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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  7. Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00
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  8. T-shirt screen printing in a day
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 19 Oct 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Adam Hogarth
    In this fun, 1-day workshop you will be taught how to print onto t-shirts, tote bags and other fabrics. Students will learn basic screenprinting techniques, including how to put your own designs onto screens, correct inks and printing methods and how to clean and prepare screens.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £139.00
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  9. City Lit Pro: Start a career in Web design
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 20 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)

    Tutors:  Raymond Snare, George Stickney
    This course will prepare you to start a career in Web Design. You will learn three essential coding languages HTML5,CSS and JavaScript and create a web site with a responsive layout and interactive features. This course will prepare you to begin a career in tech, update web sites and content management systems and collaborate more effectively with web developers.







    Break weeks: 16th, 23rd and 30th December 2024 and 10th and 17th February 2025.
    Full fee £1,399.00 Senior fee £1,119.00 Concession £909.00
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  10. Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £240.00
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  11. Debt in the global political economy
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 21 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Caglar Ezikoglu
    Explore the intricacies of debt within the global political economy, examining its impacts, mechanisms, and socio-economic consequences.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
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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. Essential digital skills for the workplace: Word, Excel and PowerPoint (foundation-level 1)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 22 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Would you like to gain the most essential digital skills needed for today's workplace? Do you need to develop the foundational digital skills for today's job market? Then this is the course for you. Suitable for those who already have some knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, this course will give you the confidence to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint within the workplace so you can create documents, spreadsheets and presentations. You will learn the key skills needed to word process, handle data and produce clear digital. 53% of UK employees do not have the digital skills needed for work. You don't need to be one of them.



    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
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  14. ITEC Level 2 Award in providing Facial Skincare (adults 21+)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 30 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Wellbeing Centre

    Tutors:  Stacey Shim
    Are you looking to gain a qualification that will enable you to provide Facial Skincare treatments, either as an add-on to your current therapist practise, or as a stand-alone offering? Our Level 2 Award in Facial Skincare will give you a recognised qualification that will allow you to provide and develop bespoke Luxury Facial Skincare treatments to your client base, both within a salon setting and as a mobile therapist.
    Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £449.00 Concession £449.00
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  15. Full fee £14.00 Senior fee £11.00 Concession £9.00
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