Current Affairs Courses in London & Online
- Want to get to grips with the issues dominating today’s headlines or develop your understanding of different political systems?
- Keen to discuss fake news and propaganda or eager to use key concepts to analyse politics?
- Eager to make sense of politics in the US, the EU, the emerging BRICS powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa)? Want to learn more about global issues such as conflict and migration?
Our politics and current affairs courses will help you understand the changing world around us. If interested in our advanced politics course, please contact us at humanities@citylit.ac.uk
3 courses available
- Monopolies and Algorithms: Media Power in the Digital Age
This course offers an insight to the modern global media landscape, using real-life contemporary examples to examine how digital platforms, corporate concentration, and weak regulation have transformed social and political life, and how media power today operates less through overt propaganda than through data extraction, algorithmic influence, monopolisation, and regulatory gaps.
Online
Mon 23 Nov 2026Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £90.00 - Current affairs: discussion forumContinue your exploration of current affairs through lively, informed discussion. Run as a tutor-moderated discussion group of current news events. This course follows on from 'Current affairs' but new students are welcome.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
- Current affairs: economics discussion forum
In this lively discussion group, discover more about the key economic issues in the headlines today, and how they affect your life and the world at large.
Keeley Street
Thu 4 Feb 2027Vina TheodorakopoulouFull fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00
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