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- Creative non-fictionCourse start date: Wed 25 Sep 2024 (and 14 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Paul LaffanExplore practical and imaginative approaches to creative non fiction, including travel writing, life writing and the essay. Analyse published work, produce your own pieces, and benefit from detailed feedback.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £125.00 - 20th Century Britain: The Thatcher Age 1975-1997Course start date: Wed 17 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: David FowlerThe fourth in a new cycle of modern British history courses, this course examines the transformative social and cultural change in Britain during the Thatcher Decade; probing how far the Thatcher Governments were responsible for social and cultural change. Or was this largely the work of provincial cultural entrepreneurs like Tony Wilson (“Mr Manchester”)?
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £179.00 - Colonial America: European settlement 1560 – 1815Course start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Dafydd TownleyThe online course explores European settlement (British, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish) of North America. It examines the differences between English colonies; the American Revolution; the formation of the United States; and the War of 1812.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Isis, Mithras and Christ: iconography and mythologyCourse start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael BloomfieldAn introduction to the history, essential beliefs, mythology, and iconography, of three influential religions
of the Graeco-Roman world: Isis, the mystery cult devoted to Mithras and Christ.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Exploring European cinemaCourse start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jon WisbeyThis class introduces you to a range of themes and issues in European cinema, including art cinema, national cinema, movements, 'moments' and new waves, authorship, popular cinema and genre, along with key developments in European film history from the silent era to the present day, key films, directors and the canon of European cinema, and a range of critical accounts of European cinema.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Post-war German history: 1961 to reunification and beyondCourse start date: Wed 1 May 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Rudolf MuhsThis course offers a broad survey of German history from the sealing of the country’s division by the Berlin Wall to its unforeseen reunification in 1989-90 and its aftermath.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £179.00 - Communism in the USSR: 1945-1991Course start date: Mon 15 Jan 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Nick MorganThis course is an introduction to the history of the Soviet regime from the moment of its victory in the Second World
War to its collapse in 1991.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00 - Contemporary women's fictionCourse start date: Wed 22 May 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Fiona McCullochDiscuss a selection of novels written by women in contemporary British society. Focusing on the 21st century, we consider the concerns of fiction in grappling with representing the now. We will make links between literary texts and social context to consider how fiction might be influenced by and influencing the real world beyond its covers. Texts include Bernardine Evaristo's Mr. Loverman (2013), Jenni Fagan's The Panopticon (2013) and Ali Smith's Hotel World (2002).
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00
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