- Studying Film: A TasterCourse start date: Sun 7 Dec 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jon WisbeyThis taster of forthcoming film courses at City Lit in 2026 offers you the chance to think about which ones to take while also providing an opportunity to explore some of the key areas in film studies more generally.
Learn how to evaluate and discuss films while enjoying a working example of a City Lit film studies class.
We will view clips from a wide variety of films, exploring themes and technique in British, European and modern American cinema. There will be a chance to review term two film courses at City Lit (January - July 2026).Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Art and creative thinking with Rod Judkins
Course start date: Sun 7 Dec 2025 (and 4 other dates)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Rod JudkinsArt is fundamentally about communicating ideas. If the idea is strong, the work of art is memorable.
This exciting, one day workshop, led by Rod Judkins (artist, tutor and author of ‘The art of Creative thinking’ and ‘Ideas are your only currency’) will explore methods to create ideas and concepts and combine them with the process of making. You will receive a signed copy of Art and Creative Thinking when you attend this course.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Picture book writing: a taster Course start date: Mon 8 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Andrew WealeFind out more about writing a picture book text in this practical and interactive, short taster session.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Write a short story in a week Course start date: Mon 8 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sarah LeipcigerTurn your great idea into a short story on this fun practical course. Through a series of inspiring exercises, you'll be introduced to some key fiction writing techniques and encouraged to draft a short story from beginning to end. Suitable for beginners who are comfortable learning at a fast pace.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £65.00 - Italian tasterCourse start date: Tue 9 Dec 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Maria FontanaGet a flavour of this beautiful language and begin to discover how it works. Learn some useful phrases and pronunciation guidelines. A fascinating introduction for complete beginners and a chance to decide if learning Italian is something you might like to take further.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Spanish DELE B2 tasterCourse start date: Wed 10 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Montserrat TrujilloAre you looking into taking an Exam course in Spanish but want to try it before you commit?
Get a taste of what it would be like to prepare for the 'Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera B2'. The course will explain how the actual Preparation to the DELE B2 will work and will offer snippets of activities that will be carried out during the course.
Please note that you should have studied Spanish for about five years or have an equivalent level.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - German beginners: module 1 Course start date: Wed 10 Dec 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anna RiolandChoose either an in-person course in the heart of London or live online sessions.This course aims to enable students to begin to communicate with some fluency in a range of everyday situations.The emphasis is on the practical use of German and the development of your speaking and listening skills. Based on chapters 1-4 of Willkommen (Hodder Arnold).
Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - Lunchtime lecture: William Blake, a life of innocence and experience Course start date: Wed 10 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sarah JaffrayExplore the art of William Blake from a political perspective, looking at his social and cultural context as a working-class artist working in a rapidly changing world.
Full fee £14.00 Senior fee £11.00 Concession £9.00 - Art history taster Course start date: Wed 10 Dec 2025 (and 8 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sarah JaffrayCurious about art history? Join us for this taster session where we explore different ways into visual art and its histories from the ancient to the contemporary.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - Film studies taster Course start date: Thu 11 Dec 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Paul SuttonLearn how to evaluate and discuss films while enjoying a working example of a City Lit Film Studies class. In this class we will view and explore clips from a number of films, including popular remakes, enabling us to consider and compare themes and techniques from differing filmmaking countries. There will be a chance to review – in brief – film courses at City Lit (January - July 2026).Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00 - French DELF B2 tasterCourse start date: Thu 11 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Anais PerdaemsAre you looking into taking an Exam course in French but want to try it before you commit?
Get a taste of what it would be like to prepare for the DELF B2 examination. The course will explain how the actual preparation to DELF B2 will work and will offer snippets of activities that will be carried out during the course.
Please note that you should have studied French for about 4/5 years or have an equivalent level.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - French 3 lower: taster Course start date: Thu 11 Dec 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Pascale VuittenezCome and discover what an intermediate French class feels like.
This course is suitable if you have studied French for 4-5 years recently or have done an A-level some time ago.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Global History Friday Lates: White Gold: Sugar, Enslavement & the CaribbeanCourse start date: Fri 12 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ellen CarpenterJoin us for a Friday Late session on the history of sugar, sugar consumption in Britain and its associations with enslavement and crop production in the Caribbean colonies. What impact did sugar consumption in Britain have on enslavement, the slave trade and the Caribbean?
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Music history bookclub: The Great PassionCourse start date: Fri 12 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Edward BreenThe music history book club meets towards the end of each term to discuss novels and biographies with musical themes and references relevant to the music history programme.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Swedish grammar workshop: word orderCourse start date: Sat 13 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jack Pulman-SlaterAre you learning Swedish and find yourself confused by word order? Where exactly should you put INTE in a sentence? Which words trigger a change in word order? We'll answer these questions and more on this supportive and structured online workshop.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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