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  1. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00
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  2. German beginners intensive: module 1
    Course start date:  Tue 8 Jul 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Anna Rioland
    Get ready for a new language experience on this intensive course for complete beginners. Choose either an in-person course in Covent Garden or live online sessions.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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  3. Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00
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  4. Ear training
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Wed 16 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Della Rhodes
    Enhance your aural awareness of the mechanics of music and improve your recognition of, and response to, music in practice. Sing intervals, scales and harmonies on this short practical course.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £49.00
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  5. Communicating effectively at work
    Last Few Places, Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 16 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Jonny Black
    How 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
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  6. Japanese beginners: short introduction
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 21 Jul 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Noriko Inagaki
    Learn Japanese with an emphasis on practical use and the development of your listening and speaking skills. You can also learn to read and write Japanese characters. Based on the tutor's own materials.
    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00
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  7. Return to French (lower intermediate)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 2 Jul 2025 (and 7 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    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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  8. Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £45.00
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  9. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00
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  10. Danish beginners: revision sessions
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 3 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Anne Svenstrup Grant

    Revise beginner-level Danish on this supportive and informative short online revision course.

    Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00
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  11. German beginners: module 1
    Course start date:  Mon 22 Sep 2025 (and 4 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Anna Rioland

    Choose either an in-person course in the heart of London or live online sessions.This course aims to enable students to begin to communicate with some fluency in a range of everyday situations.The emphasis is on the practical use of German and the development of your speaking and listening skills. Based on chapters 1-4 of Willkommen (Hodder Arnold).

    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  12. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00
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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. Spanish 3/4: colonialismo español y esclavitud en el Caribe: el caso de Cuba
    Course start date:  Wed 8 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Vanesa Guzman

    Este fascinante curso explora la historia de la esclavitud y el colonialismo en la Península Ibérica, el Caribe y particularment Cuba, entre el siglo XV y el siglo XX.


    Este curso es para estudiantes con nivel intermedio y avanzado de español (si has estudiado español al menos durante 4 o 5 años).

    This course will be delivered online in Spanish. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in the course details for more information.

    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00
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