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- Ways into playwritingCourse start date: Thu 26 Sep 2024 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Grant CorrExplore the fundamental techniques of writing for the stage in this online introductory course. Get to grips with dialogue, character, story and structure, and start work on your own play.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £120.00 - Advanced autobiographical writingCourse start date: Fri 27 Sep 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nick BarlayA supportive workshop for more experienced writers of autobiography who are ready to push their practice, explore new techniques and further develop their authorial voice.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £125.00 - Reading hieroglyphicsCourse start date: Mon 30 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Hugo CookThis is a follow-on course for those who have attended the Introduction to Hieroglyphs held at the British Museum, and the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: a continuation course.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £209.00 Concession £136.00 - Africa and the Classics - the role Africa played in shaping the Classical world and our modern understanding of itCourse start date: Wed 2 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Szerdi NagyThis course aims to explore the multifaceted relationship between Africa and the Classical
world, highlighting Africa's significant contributions to the Classical world.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Developing your writing for childrenCourse start date: Tue 14 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Neil ArkseyDevelop your children's story with support from classmates and tutor. This course follows on from 'Starting your children's book'. New students are welcome and invited to submit work to the Writing department before being accepted onto the course.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £125.00 - Craft focus: introduction to novel plottingCourse start date: Sun 19 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Gurnaik JohalExplore different approaches to novel plotting and learn how to plot your own novel successfully in this short course suitable for those who have begun writing a novel.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £110.00 - Philosophy and the selfCourse start date: Tue 23 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ariel KernbergWho am I? Is there such a thing as “my true self”? These and related questions will be looked at from various philosophical perspectives.
NB There will be no class on 28/05/24.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £155.00 - Tales from everywhere: international fictions from the 20th centuryCourse start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Aamer HusseinJoin us to read and discuss a selection of novels from the 1950s and 1960, in English and in translation, some of which, like Stan Barstow’s powerful story of upward mobility A Kind of Loving and Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s poignant portrait of unrest in Kenya Weep Not, My Child, have rarely been out of print. Some are recent rediscoveries, such as Han Suyin’s story of forbidden romance in wartime London, Winter Love, and Chingiz Aitmatov’s delicate Kyrgyz fable, Jamilia. Fresh translations of Magda Szabo’s Iza’s Ballad and Tove Ditlevsen’s autobiographical coming of age story,Youth, are also included.
NB. This course will have a break week on Wednesday 29 May.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Britain and France in the Hitler yearsCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Alison ApplebyThis course will explore how Britain and France reacted to the rise of Hitler and how the Nazi dictatorship led to strife between former allies, but eventual partnership and triumph.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Art of the Northern RenaissanceCourse start date: Thu 25 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Elizabeth EyresDiscover the exquisite art of the Northern Renaissance through the work of its most innovative artists, including Albrecht Dürer, Rogier van der Weyden, Jan van Eyck, Grünewald, Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Archaeology of LondonCourse start date: Tue 23 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jill HummerstoneExplore the archaeology and history of London through its cultural monuments, topography and material remains to more fully appreciate the rich archaeological evidence of the capital. Tutor :Jill Hummerstone. - London 1919-1939Course start date: Tue 23 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Mike BerlinExplore in this interactive lecture course how did the 'Roaring 20s' and the Great Depression impact on London? What was the social and economic experience of Londoners as suburbs grew and modern buildings arrived, along with political and financial uncertainty?
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