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We offer online courses and in-person courses. Our interactive online courses are taught live and in small groups. Read our guide to online learning for more information. In-person courses are delivered at our modern college campus in London near Covent Garden.
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If you can't decide which subject to study, why not try some of our short taster courses?
- Friday lates: The Bauhaus in London
Course start date: Fri 18 Oct 2024Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Julie BarlowThe Staatliches Bauhaus opened its doors in Weimar, Germany in 1919. Fourteen years later it was shut down by the Nazis. Celebrate 100 years of Modernism in architecture and design and discover how Bauhaus style spread to London.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Italian multicultural literature: letteratura senza confini Course start date: Fri 25 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Veronica De FeliceItaly is increasingly becoming a more multi-cultural country, and this diversity is beginning to be reflected in its literature. This short course will introduce you to some of the most interesting and exciting writers from this new wave of diversity.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £19.00 - Submitting your poetry to magazines Course start date: Fri 25 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Suzannah V. EvansThis short course is designed to guide students on submitting their poetry to magazines, journals and websites for publication.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Global History Friday Lates: Pearls: A social & cultural history Course start date: Fri 25 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vanessa KingTrace the history of pearls from 5000 BCE to the 21st century. Did Cleopatra drink a pearl cocktail? Where can you harvest black pearls? Who wrote the Pearl Fishers? How has global warming affected pearl production?
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Friday lates: Magical modernism – modern art and the occult Course start date: Fri 25 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Christopher CollierDiscover Modern Art’s secret history: a mysterious melting-pot of mystic auras, magical colour theories, trances, alchemy and the spirit-physics of the 4th-dimension, hiding beneath the familiar stories of science, reason and industry.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - In conversation with Lydia ThornleyCourse start date: Fri 25 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us as Lydia Thornley introduces the topic of broadening creative work after decades in one discipline. She’ll look at what that’s taught her about what we bring from one working life to another, the importance of side projects, sketchbooks as a thinking tool, how curiosity underpins everything she does, how it all joins up – and why she thinks that having absolutely no idea what you’re doing is a good place to start.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - Becoming confident on Teams: online chat, calls, meetings and file management (foundation)Course start date: Fri 8 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
The pandemic led to millions of people discovering the need for interactive online communication. As a result, Teams has become an essential collaborative tool, particularly in the workplace. This course will enable you to become confident in using the key functions of the program and understand when and how you should use. You will focus on how to make calls, chat and book meetings, use the camera and mute yourself . And you will also focus on how to use and organise files so you can be fully collaborative.
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 £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £15.00 - Nature Friday Lates: Greenhouses, gardens and green thumbs: The Trade in Flora between the 'Old' and 'New' Worlds Course start date: Fri 8 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Linsey HunterJoin us to discover how plants were exchanged between the Americas and Europe in the period after c.1492, being cultivated, studied and consumed by scientists, gourmands and the general public.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Friday lates: The East India Company and the passion for chintz Course start date: Fri 8 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Anita ChowdryExplore the story of how Indian painted and printed cottons became an important trade commodity for the Western domestic market, and the far-reaching impact of their design and manufacture.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Micro-memoir: a taster Course start date: Fri 15 Nov 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Julie GartonA life is measured in moments as well as momentous occasions. This fun day workshop coaches students in the art of micro-memoir. Can you write about an instant that changed you in fewer than 200 words?
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Friday lates: psychogeography: the art of getting lost Course start date: Fri 22 Nov 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Christopher CollierFrom pub crawls to punk rock, via comic books, action painting and Hegelian philosophy; hear the unlikely tale of the Situationists: international artist-revolutionaries who tried to change the world itself into a work of art.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - In conversation with Sara HowardCourse start date: Fri 22 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us as award-winning London designer Sara Howard introduces the topic of Circular Ceramics and environmentally sustainable ceramic practice. How to develop waste materials into product.Full fee £5.00 Senior fee £5.00 Concession £5.00 - Getting started in digital skills: becoming confident on Facebook and Instagram (complete beginners)Course start date: Fri 29 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Are you nervous about using Facebook? Do you need an introduction on how to use Instagram? This course will help you. You will learn how to join both platforms and use their key features It will start you on your journey towards digital communication and you will learn the different ways you can connect to friends, family and the wider world. Safely and securely.
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 £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £15.00 - Friday lates: Art in Colonial Australia, painting natural history Course start date: Fri 29 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ben PollittExplore the period of intense artistic activity in the early years of Colonial Australia (c. 1788–1800). We will see how both convicts and military personnel produced hundreds of images depicting the remarkable natural history that they found in the settlement.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Global History Friday Lates: The Midas Touch: The European Trade in Gold and Silver Course start date: Fri 29 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Linsey HunterJoin our Global History Friday Late session to explore the trade in gold and silver in medieval and early modern Europe and the impact of these precious metals on religion, politics, culture and the economy.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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