- How to plot your children’s novelCourse start date: Mon 12 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sophie McKenzieYou’re a writer with some experience and a great idea for a children’s novel, but plotting is the thing that lets you down. Over six weeks on this fun and interactive course you’ll learn how to structure your book, finding fresh ways to develop your idea into a compelling plot.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00 - ACT for people who stammerCourse start date: Thu 30 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Carolyn Cheasman, Rachel EverardThis is a powerful approach to therapy. You'll learn to work more effectively with negative thoughts and feelings through acceptance and mindfulness work. You'll also learn how to identify, and move towards, valued goals and directions in your life.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £90.00 Concession £26.00 - Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00
- Drawing and mindfulness: into abstractionCourse start date: Thu 4 Jun 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Clare Barton-HarveyExplore how mindfulness can enrich the process of drawing, as we encounter a range of approaches to making abstract drawings, with reference to artist’s work. This course offers a great introduction to mindful drawing or ways to explore it more deeply. A practical drawing course exploring the visual language of abstraction, with reference to colour, composition, tone and layering.
Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Letizia Battaglia: Life, love and deathCourse start date: Sat 11 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ottavia CastellinaTo coincide with the Lucrezia Battaglia exhibition currently running at the Photographers' Gallery in London, this seminar will introduce you to the life and work of the noted Italian photographer Lucrezia Battaglia.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Music history bookclub: Charles Jessold, Considered as a MurdererCourse start date: Fri 17 Jul 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Edward BreenThe music history book club meets towards the end of each term to discuss novels and biographies with musical themes and references relevant to the music history programme.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Maths foundation GCSECourse start date: Mon 16 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Online
Are you excited by the language of Maths? Do you want to understand how numbers, symbols and formulas enable us to identify and solve problems as well as find patterns and structure in the world. This course will extend your analytical and problem-solving skills and help you develop logic to plan and manage activities. A Maths GCSE is one of the most commonly required qualifications by employers and universities and by achieving it you will enhance your job and education prospects. Please note the Friday classes are not every Friday, but approximately every third week.
Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 4582 0423 for information and to book a pre-course assessment. You can also click the Start Assessment button on this page.
This course is free for learners who have not achieved a GCSE grade C (4) and higher in Maths. For more information Click here
Full fee £589.00 - Communication skills for life and work (entry 3 - level 1)Course start date: Sat 26 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Are you quite confident about your everyday English? Can you go shopping, talk about simple subjects, and write a letter or email? But do you make quite a lot of mistakes? Is it difficult to speak, read or write about more complicated topics? This pre-intermediate course will help you practise your speaking, listening, reading and writing skills so you can understand people better; talk about most daily topics with more than one person; read and understand short, straightforward texts such as emails and simple news stories; and write different sentences, learning how to effectively proofread.
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 £360.00 Senior fee £288.00 Concession £180.00 - German 4: consolidationCourse start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Barbara PölletVertiefen Sie Ihre Deutschkenntnisse durch eine vielseitige Auswahl an aktuellen Materialien, Texten, Videos und Hörverständnissen. In diesem Kurs können Sie auch Ihre Diskussionfähigkeit, Ihre Grammatik und Ihren Wortschatz erweitern. This is an advanced German course. - Italian 3: practise and consolidate: module 3Course start date: Thu 1 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Roberto MinardiQuesta classe di conversazione ti offre la possibilità di consolidare il tuo livello intermedio di italiano praticando e perfezionando i punti grammaticali studiati al livello 3. Adatto a chi frequenta un corso al livello 3 lower or 3 upper oppure a chi ha una conoscenza equivalente della lingua.
Please note that this course takes place every other week. - Italian beginners: module 2Course start date: Fri 2 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Evi CampetellaContinue learning to speak Italian on this communicative course for near beginners, with the emphasis on the practical use of Italian and the development of your speaking and listening skills. Based on Nuovo Espresso 1 (Alma Edizioni - Italian version). - Korean beginners: module 2+3Course start date: Sat 3 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Heeyun ChoiContinue learning Korean on this lively online course. Suitable if you have completed Korean beginners: module 1+2 or equivalent.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £162.00 - 19th Century Britain and Ireland: Parliament, people and protest, 1848-86Course start date: Wed 7 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: David IngledewExplore the main developments in British political history between 1848-1886 from the Tory split over the repeal of the Corn Laws to the Liberal Party split over Irish Home Rule
There is no session of 21st May.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00 - Roses, Rivalries, and Revolts: Power and People in Fifteenth-Century EnglandCourse start date: Fri 9 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vanessa KingAfter Larry Olivier’s / Kenneth Branagh’s victory at Agincourt, it was downhill for England until the advent of the Tudors! We explode that Shakespearian myth.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
Can't see a course you want?
Add this category to your waiting list to set up alerts and we will update you when new courses are released online.
Add me to waiting list