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  1. Russian 2: conversation
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 8 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Marina De Yong
    Revise, consolidate and improve your listening and speaking skills on this lively course, which will help you communicate more confidently in daily life situations.
    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £119.00
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  2. Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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  3. Italian intermediate revision
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 9 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Rosanna Carlà
    An evening revision course for learners who have done about three years of Italian and who wish to brush up on the grammar covered so far. If you feel like you could do with another look at some key grammar points, perhaps from a different angle, this course should get you feeling more confident about your grasp of Italian grammar.
    Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £159.00
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  4. 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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  5. Black British Literature
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 9 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    From Roman society to the present day, from the memoirs of Equiano to the experimental poetics of Kwesi Johnson, Black British writers have significantly impacted British literature, despite limited recognition.



    Through an exploration of social, political and historical contexts, this course examines how diasporic writers decolonised genres and mapped their own metaphors onto the literary landscape.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00
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  6. Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  7. 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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  8. Introduction to contemporary art: ideas and origins
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 13 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Christopher Collier
    Ever wondered what's going on in the mind of contemporary artists? This course explores the ideas and historical background behind some of today’s most intriguing works, from Conceptualism and Video to Body Art and Installation.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00
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  9. 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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  10. Making it Modern: A Survey of 20th century poetry
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 13 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Suzannah V. Evans
    What makes a poet modern? What is the different between modern poetry and modernist poetry? How has modern poetry informed the work of poets writing today? Come and explore the exciting range of poetry written in the twentieth century in a supportive and energising group context.
    Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00
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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £139.00
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  14. 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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  15. Deaf history part 1
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 16 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Peter Brown
    Find out about the history of Deaf people in Britain and the development of BSL. This fascinating course is taught in BSL. Hearing people with a minimum of level 2 BSL are welcome.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00
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