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  1. Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00
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  2. Grammar in practice: advanced (level 2+)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 7 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Is your grammar holding you back? Learn how to communicate more effectively by analysing, discussing and experimenting with English grammar. This course will help you realise that grammar is really about meaning: understanding better the meaning of what someone is saying and expressing yourself more meaningfully.



    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). The course runs over three terms (though you may start any term, places allowing).



    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 £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £90.00
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  3. Develop your confidence in writing: grammar, punctuation, expression (level 1-2)
    Course start date:  Fri 2 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Would you like to be more confident in the way you write whether emails or reports at work or messages to friends? Do you want to work on how you form sentences, understand grammar and use punctuation so your writing is more creative? Do you want to learn how to create meaning in your writing?. This course will help you be more secure in your professional, academic or creative writing skills and help you improve some of your weak areas around forming and punctuating sentences with appropriate grammatical form. You will develop your confidence in the most essential areas of writing including different sentence structures, writing paragraphs, using punctuation effectively, using active and passive voices and proofreading.



    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 £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £90.00
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  4. Communication Skills for Life and Work (ESOL Entry 3 - Level 1)
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 23 May 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    This is the Writing unit of the ESOL course to give you confidence in writing sentences for emails and letters clearly. You will learn how write formal or informal topics using the right grammar and vocabulary. You will focus on planning and organising writing into paragraphs and writing clear introductions and conclusion.



    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 £169.00
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  5. Introduction to photography
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 12 Nov 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Dominic Harris
    Discover the basics of photography to improve your photographs and impress your friends. Learn about shutter speed, aperture, photo composition, light and taking pictures in different environments. This course is perfect for complete beginners or for learning new skills. Please take this course before enrolling on our intermediate courses.
    Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00
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  6. Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  7. Hindi beginners: holiday kit
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 1 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Roopam Aggarwal
    Suitable if you have completed beginners: module 1 or equivalent. Continue learning to speak Hindi and develop your listening and speaking skills in this communicative class which emphasises the practical use of the language. You should have completed module 1 or equivalent. Based on Teach Yourself Beginner's Hindi.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £32.00
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  8. From mythical heroines to the emperor's subjects: epistolography in the Roman Empire
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 2 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Nikoletta Manioti
    Find out more about epistolography (letter writing) as a literary genre in the Roman world.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00
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  9. Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  10. Una stagione con Dante: introduzione
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 3 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Francesco Bucciol
    This session - conducted entirely in Italian - is the first part of an introduction to the Divine Comedy. The first session introduces you to Dante's life, his political and philosophical views and gives an overview of the structure of the poem. We will devote the following three sessions (from January onwards) to reading, analysing and commenting on a selection of cantos. Please note that the selection of the cantos read in the following sessions will be different from that of previous years, so you are welcome to re-enrol even if you have attended before.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00
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  11. Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  12. Interactions between the Mediterranean world and Anglo-Saxon England
    Course start date:  Fri 5 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Stephen Pollington
    This talk will explore some of the connections which maintained the Anglo-Saxons' feeling that Rome was part of their heritage.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £19.00
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  13. Drawing and mindfulness: releasing the judging mind
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 6 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Clare Barton-Harvey

    Explore a range of perspectives and practical exercises for letting-go of the limiting effects of the judging mind, whilst connecting to drawing in refreshing and inspiring ways. The ideas and mindfulness skills are transferrable to all creative disciplines.

    Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00
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  14. Welsh grammar workshop: yes and no
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 6 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Jack Pulman-Slater
    Are you learning Welsh and want some more practice on answering yes/no questions in Welsh? If you're not sure whether the answer to this question in Welsh would be ydw, ydy, oes, o'n or do, then this informative and supportive live online workshop is for you.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £19.00
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  15. Studying Film: A Taster
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 7 Dec 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Jon Wisbey
    This taster of forthcoming film courses at City Lit in 2026 offers you the chance to think about which ones to take while also providing an opportunity to explore some of the key areas in film studies more generally.



    Learn how to evaluate and discuss films while enjoying a working example of a City Lit film studies class.



    We will view clips from a wide variety of films, exploring themes and technique in British, European and modern American cinema. There will be a chance to review term two film courses at City Lit (January - July 2026).
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
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