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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  1. Return to German (lower intermediate)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 28 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Anna Rioland
    Learn German in this online course. An intermediate course, suitable if you have completed 'German 2 lower' or studied the language for approximately two years. The emphasis is on developing your speaking skills. Based on Berliner Platz 2 NEU 1. Teil, chapters 16–18. A2.2.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00
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  2. German for Germany lovers (advanced)
    Course start date:  Thu 2 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Annette Kossow
    This advanced German language course for lovers of Germany is part of the series “Wanderlust” which will explore a variety of interesting destinations in Germany.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00
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  3. Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £109.00 Concession £55.00
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  4. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  5. Hitchcock's Horror Thrillers 2: The Birds, scene by scene
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 5 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Jon Wisbey
    Hitchcock's The Birds (1963), sees the director exploring a familiar theme: the 'romantic couple' tested by suspenseful events. But unlike his glossy 1950s hits, Hitchcock opts for muted visuals and performances in an unflinching examination of femininity under threat and masculine cruelty, framed by a dystopian revenge of nature narrative. Explore the master's last great film, scene by scene.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  6. Arabic reading group
    Course start date:  Tue 7 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Alaa Sonjoq
    Do you want to start reading more fluently in Arabic while improving your knowledge of vocabulary and pronunciation? Then, come and join this friendly online reading class which focuses on practical, everyday texts. You will need to be able to read the alphabet and individual words to join this course. Suitable if you are studying at 2 lower module 1 level or above (more than 1 year of Arabic).
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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  7. Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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  8. Italian 3: practise and consolidate: module 1
    Course start date:  Thu 9 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Roberto Minardi
    Questa 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. Attenzione: le lezioni si svolgeranno a settimane alterne, cioè ogni quindici giorni.







    Please note this course takes place every other week.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00
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  9. Award in education and training (City & Guilds 6502) - blended
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 11 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Laila Shariff
    The City & Guilds (6502) Award in Education and Training (blended) is an initial teacher training course ideal for anyone who teaches adult learners (or has some experience of teaching) in the Further Education and Adult and Community Learning sectors. We may also accept you if you have not taught before but have related work or voluntary experience. You will be asked to attend 4 Saturdays and 1 weekend - Saturdays: 12 and 19 October, 2 and 9 Nov; Weekend: 30 Nov & 1 Dec. Please note this course will be online except sessions 4 and 5 on 9 & 39 Nov Dec. You may also be asked to come in on 1 Dec.
    Full fee £600.00 Senior fee £600.00 Concession £408.00
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  10. Working with adults who stammer: a course for speech and language therapists
    Course start date:  Mon 13 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Carolyn Cheasman, Vivien Grant-Jones

    Designed for speech and language therapists, this four-day interactive workshop will cover assessment and selection, stammering modification, interiorised stammering, cluttering, acquired stammering and an introduction to mindfulness. Opportunity to practise teaching techniques to clients included.

    Note: this course runs on these days: October 13-15; and a final follow-up day on March 30..

    Full fee £599.00 Senior fee £599.00 Concession £599.00
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  11. Teatime Talks: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, imagined portraits
    Course start date:  Tue 14 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Chantal Condron
    One of the most absorbing contemporary artists working in the UK today, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye paints startling ‘portraits’ of characters entirely derived from her imagination. Discover aspects of her artistic process and the ideas and themes behind her paintings on this course.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
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  12. Develop your confidence in writing: grammar, punctuation, expression (level 1-2)
    Course start date:  Fri 2 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Would you like to be more confident in the way you write whether emails or reports at work or messages to friends? Do you want to work on how you form sentences, understand grammar and use punctuation so your writing is more creative? Do you want to learn how to create meaning in your writing?. This course will help you be more secure in your professional, academic or creative writing skills and help you improve some of your weak areas around forming and punctuating sentences with appropriate grammatical form. You will develop your confidence in the most essential areas of writing including different sentence structures, writing paragraphs, using punctuation effectively, using active and passive voices and proofreading.



    You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).



    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 £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £90.00
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  13. French 3 lower: conversation
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 15 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Michel Willame
    Come and practise your intermediate spoken French and develop your language skills in these topical discussion classes. Based on recordings from French television, radio news and newspaper articles.
    Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £103.00
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  14. Italian intermediate book club
    Course start date:  Fri 17 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Silvana Vistola
    This course is for intermediate and lower intermediate learners of Italian (Italian 2 Upper and Italian 3 lower, or learners in their third or fourth year of studying Italian) who would like to improve their reading skills and learn new grammar and vocabulary through reading and discussing works of Italian fiction and/or non-fiction. The texts chosen may be in the form of easy readers to facilitate understanding. The chosen texts will be written in Italian, and discussions will be in Italian, though some English may be permitted, so learners will be able to stretch themselves and feel more confident about expressing their opinion and asking questions in class.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00
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  15. Lunchtime lecture: Cezanne – from aspiring Impressionist to Post-Impressionist revolutionary
    Course start date:  Thu 23 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Julia Musgrave
    Explore the development of Cezanne revolutionary approach to painting, his techniques and motifs and some of the many artists whose work he influenced.
    Full fee £14.00 Senior fee £11.00 Concession £9.00
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