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All our courses here at City Lit are taught by expert tutors such as published authors, academics, practising artists, and experienced professionals. Our friendly, supportive, and inspiring tutors are here to boost your confidence and motivate you at every step. We always ensure that your journey with us is enjoyable, positive, and thought-provoking.
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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Whether you want to try something new, revisit a past passion, or take your skills to the next level; we have a huge range of courses for you to explore. Our courses taught by experts and professionals with real world experience. Discover Languages, Art & Design, Drama, Music & Dance, Technology & Business, Writing, British Sign Language and much more!
Our online course are live, interactive and usually delivered in small groups. Read our guide to online learning for more information. Onsite courses are delivered at our world class London locations near Covent Garden.
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- Communicate with confidence through voice and body languageCourse start date: Sun 14 May 2023 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephanie LunnDiscover how to enhance your vocal and physical impact and presence in many situations and become aware of habits that may hold you back from achieving your full potential. Skills include establishing rapport, assertive posture and gesture, vocal energy, projecting an effective personal style, sensitive listening and communicating with care and conviction. This course will be delivered in the college.Full fee £139.00 - Excel: analysing data (stage 1)Course start date: Sat 10 Jun 2023 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nick BrownDevelop essential skills to tackle complex data sets and create conclusions and recommendations for non-data minded stakeholders in your organisation. Focus on pivot tables, formatting and perfecting your commentary skills. Some familiarity with using Excel is required.Full fee £99.00 - Reiki 1 CertificateCourse start date: Sun 11 Jun 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Oge OkohLearn how to channel the gentle healing energy of Reiki, Japanese for 'universal energy'. Ground, centre and protect yourself, and learn a variety of treatments to practise on friends and family.Full fee £179.00 - Coaching and developing othersCourse start date: Sun 11 Jun 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Emma WinkleyLearn some key coaching skills and techniques and take this chance to practise and experience coaching. Develop your ability to facilitate positive change in others and work on your own coaching action plan.Full fee £129.00 - A taste of creative writing
Course start date: Sat 27 May 2023 (and 3 other dates)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vicky GrutGive creative writing a try on this fun and supportive online short course. Ideal if you want to express yourself but need help in getting started. Guided exercises will encourage you to experiment and unlock your imagination. Please note: this course has a 2-hr break from 12:30-14:30.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £69.00 - Textiles: constructing pattern, colouring cloth Course start date: Sun 11 Jun 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Renata MinoldoExperiment with a range of heat transfer processes and hand painting methods. Develop initial ideas through mark-making and collage. Create fabrics or art works using a personal colour palette and embellish surface through foil print and simple stitch marks.Full fee £149.00 - ESOL and making podcasts: pronunciation, presentation, expression (level 1-2)Course start date: Sun 11 Jun 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Do you want to improve your pronunciation, learn more about how you sound when you speak English and develop your speaking? A podcast is a digital recording, which can be used in a very practical way to help develop your English. On this course, you will discover how to make and edit a podcast to record yourself as well as what to say and how to say it. You will be able to practise speaking on your own and interviewing others as well as learn how to prepare what to say and how to say it. Podcasting is a fantastic way of improving your pronunciation, your vocabulary, your spoken accuracy, and your fluency.
You need to do a pre-course assessment face-to-face or online. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / (telephone temporarily unavailable) or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name). Please note you will need to download the free Audacity software and have a headset with mic to do this course.
This course is FREE if a) you are on a Low Wage or b) you are either on Jobseekers' Allowance (JSA) or Employment & Support Allowance(ESA) or c) you want to get a job or progress into a better job and you receive other state benefits (including Universal Credit). For more information click hereFull fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £65.00 - Ikigai: the Japanese secret to a long and happy lifeCourse start date: Sun 11 Jun 2023 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Hilary LyonsThe people of Japan believe that everyone has an Ikigai or a reason for being. Finding it can lead to a happier, more fulfilled life. Learn how to live in the moment and pursue your purpose and passion.Full fee £79.00 - Introduction to collage and mixed media Course start date: Sun 11 Jun 2023 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ruth FranklinCollage is an exciting, accessible and creative medium. Experiment with a rich variety of materials and found images to make vibrant work experimenting with surface, form, colour and pattern, inspired by artists who make effective use of this way of working.Full fee £279.00 - Build a website in a day with WordPressCourse start date: Thu 25 May 2023 (and 11 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrea MarzanoWordPress is the world's most popular content management system, and it's free! On this intensive, short course you'll learn how to use it to build your own website.Full fee £99.00 - Astronomy for summer eveningsCourse start date: Sun 11 Jun 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Roger O'BrienHave you heard of the Summer Triangle? Now is the time to see it - and so much else in the summer evening skies! This one-day course will help you prepare to make the most of the astronomical splendours available to those who know where and when to look at the sky.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - An introduction to project managementCourse start date: Wed 14 Jun 2023 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ayo AlegbeleyeWant to learn about project management? On this course you will learn techniques to ensure that controlled management of a project is obtained from start to finish.Full fee £219.00 - Staying safe online with your Apple MacCourse start date: Thu 15 Jun 2023 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael HardingCybersecurity doesn’t have to be complicated. Find out how to protect yourself, your Apple Mac and your most sensitive data in this short course.Full fee £49.00 - Business skills for creative businessesCourse start date: Thu 15 Jun 2023 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Christine RobertsonThis course will equip you with all necessary skills needed in starting, growing and managing a small business in the creative industries.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £299.00 - The physics of time
Course start date: Sat 17 Jun 2023 (and 2 other dates)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Gary RetallickExplore the various different conceptions of time within modern physics - from the absolute time of Newtonian mechanics to the relativistic time of Einsteinian gravity. The possibility that time is quantized, made up of discrete moments, is seen to emerge in some of the most cutting edge theories of physics, such as loop quantum gravity and string theory. Consider the emergence of time in the big bang, the direction of time, and the possibility of time travel.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £59.00
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