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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 £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £125.00
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  3. English pronunciation: stage 1
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 26 Apr 2025 (and 4 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David John Gwillim
    Are you a non-native fluent speaker who wants to improve your pronunciation of English and to speak the language more clearly and confidently? Work on clear formation of vowel and consonant sounds including the English neutral vowel and the distinction between voiced and unvoiced sounds. This term the course will be taught in the college.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £181.00
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  4. Exploring classical music 2
    Course start date:  Thu 25 Sep 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Neil Luck
    Do you want to know more about classical music history? Explore selected topics and key works in Baroque, Classical and early Romantic music on this highly informative 10-week course. Ideal for people with no specialist knowledge. Break week: 30 Oct 2025.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £153.00
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  5. Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £120.00
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  6. English pronunciation: stage 3
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  David John Gwillim
    Designed for fluent non- native students and all who have completed 'English Pronunciation' stages 1 and 2. Conversation and the reading aloud of a variety of texts will help to pinpoint those pronunciation worries still to be addressed.



    This course will be taught online.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £181.00
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  7. English pronunciation: stage 2
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 1 May 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David John Gwillim
    Designed for people who have completed ‘English Pronunciation: stage 1’ although new students with sufficient skills can join. Develop confidence and clarity, explore diphthongs and triphthongs, inflection and the rhythms of Standard English. This term the course will be taught in the college.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £181.00
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  8. Art and Ideas: Identity and the self
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 8 Jan 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    This course is for students and creative practitioners interested in identity as a creative and conceptual theme. Explore and discuss ideas, theories and work by significant artists and writers to enhance and inspire the development of creative work.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £139.00
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  9. Music theory: grade 3
    Course start date:  Mon 12 Jan 2026 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Selena Kay
    Develop your understanding of musical language by learning to read and write rhythm and melody in compound time, phrase structure and anacrusis (upbeat/pickup), transposing between clefs, major and minor keys up to four



    sharps/flats. NB: break week 16th Feb 2026.
    Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £174.00
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  10. Lipreading and managing hearing loss: improvers module 2
    Course start date:  Mon 12 Jan 2026 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Nicola Hicks
    Develop your lipreading skills and strategies for face-to-face communication and keep up-to-date with relevant equipment and services. This course is suitable if you have completed improvers module 1.







    This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.
    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £155.00 Concession £120.00
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  11. Exploring classical music 3
    Course start date:  Thu 15 Jan 2026 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Neil Luck
    Do you want to know more about Western classical music? Explore selected topics and key works in Romantic and modern music on this informative 10-week course. Ideal for people with no specialist knowledge. NB: Break week 19 Feb 2026.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £153.00
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  12. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00
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  13. Art and environment in Ice Age Europe
    Course start date:  Thu 22 Jan 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Simone Chisena
    Discover the artistic treasures of our most remote past, when our ancestors in the Ice Age created beautiful cave paintings and astounding sculpted works.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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  14. Deaf history part 2
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 22 Jan 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Peter Brown
    This exciting course covers information about the history of the Deaf community, education, media and sport to a more advanced and in depth level. It is taught in BSL, and hearing people with a minimum of level 2 in BSL are welcome.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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  15. English for professionals: C2 Proficiency (Cambridge English: Proficiency, CPE )
    Course start date:  Thu 22 Jan 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Are you a professional wanting to refine your English? Are you on a post-graduate course or completing a PhD and need some help to communicate at this level? Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) qualification shows the world that you have reached an exceptional level of English. It the ultimate proof that you can communicate with the fluency and sophistication of a highly competent English speaker and that you have the level of English required to work or study at a top level. This course will develop your language skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening and provide you with the preparation needed to pass the exam.



    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 £299.00 Senior fee £299.00 Concession £299.00
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