Advanced Humanities courses
Develop your knowledge and critical thinking skills on our range of advanced Humanities courses, available online and in Central London.
From the history of art to classic literature, modern politics and more, we offer a wide range of advanced courses for students who want to deepen their understanding of these fascinating subjects.
4 courses available
Ways into Advanced Literature: the dawning of modernityFor those who want to explore the rewards of in-depth literary study, focusing on fiction and drama. Read, analyse and debate works that reflect the cultural and historical changes in a shifting world, exploring two novels and a play written in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the psychological novel Washington Square by Henry James (1880), The House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton, and the ground-breaking play A Doll's House (1879) by Henrik Ibsen.
Keeley Street
Wed 30 Sep 2026Patricia SweeneyFull fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00- Reading Literature: aspects of narrative and critical theory
This course explores how critical and narrative theory can add insight to your reading and help you appreciate literature at a deeper interpretative level. Through our readings of modern fiction (Jean Rhys, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath), we will examine how feminist, queer, post-colonial and narrative theory offer lenses that enrich our understandings of these works.
Keeley Street
Tue 4 May 2027Linda GrantFull fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00 - Ways into advanced film studies: film theory
This advanced level film studies course will introduce you to a range of theoretical approaches to the study of film. It will consider some of the earliest attempts to think about film, studies that borrowed methodologies from other disciplines. As early as 1915, for example, writers were applying psychology to film analysis, exploring the emotional responses of audiences to this still new medium. Early theorists argued for film as a distinct art form, and we will examine a number of their key texts. In the 1960s, film studies began to develop as a specific subject of study in universities in the US and the UK, once again deploying perspectives from other subject areas. We will examine a number of these theories and consider their continued importance for the analysis and understanding of film today.
Keeley Street
Tue 1 Jun 2027Paul SuttonFull fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Ways into Advanced Literature: disruptors, transgressors and storytellers
We explore iconic tales of Hollywood in the 1930s, 60s and 70s with narrators that disrupt, transgress and tell us stories.
Explore the challenges of close reading and critical thinking through a study of The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion and Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh and L.A. by Eve Babitz.
Keeley Street
Wed 2 Jun 2027Patricia SweeneyFull fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00
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