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- Return to Spanish (advanced)Course start date: Tue 12 Nov 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paula RiofrioIf you have learned Spanish in the past, but it has been a while, then come and join this lively course to refresh your advanced Spanish. You wil review, revise and practice in a course that is tailored to your needs. After attending this course, you will be able join a level 4 or 5 course in January.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Return to French (lower intermediate)Course start date: Thu 7 Nov 2024 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Silvana AvramRevise and consolidate your speaking and listening skills, as well as your grammar. Suitable if you have completed completed 2-3 years of study in the past.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - The British in India I: The East India Company, Mercantile Trading & Colonial ExpansionCourse start date: Thu 14 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ellen CarpenterFounded in 1600, by the 1800s the East India Company had laid the foundations for the transition to British crown rule in India in 1858. Join us to discover key events in the history of the EIC in India – why did ‘John Company’ become so influential and how did Indian Nawabs and Mughal Emperors resist its seemingly ever-expanding powers?Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
- The beauty of the medieval manuscriptCourse start date: Wed 20 Nov 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Emma Rose BarberIt is generally accepted that medieval illuminated manuscripts are very beautiful things. Something to do with all that gold-leaf maybe. While we cannot hold them in class, close-up digital reproduction will allow us to see if they really are as beautiful as we are told. Indeed, are none of them ugly? Join this course to find out.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Picture book writingCourse start date: Sat 23 Nov 2024 (and 6 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lou KuenzlerWould you like to write a picture book text for young children? This course is designed for children's writers and for illustrators wishing to write their own stories. Develop both your ideas and your technique.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £60.00 - German beginners: module 1Course start date: Wed 11 Dec 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anna RiolandMake the most of the festive season and get a head start in German for the new year in this intensive course for complete beginners.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Ways into advanced film studies: film historyCourse start date: Tue 7 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul SuttonThe history of the cinema is a rich, rewarding and dynamic area of study. Cinema, because it is both an art form and an industrial product, can be studied from several different historical perspectives. These have included investigations into the history of technological development associated with cinema’s origins and its subsequent development, but historians have also explored its evolution into an art form. They have written about important individual figures or influential groups and have examined specific films in great detail. Historians have also examined the national, cultural, political and social contexts that might offer insight into the cinema at a given historical moment. They have examined the changing demographic and viewing habits of spectators and explored the mutability of cinemas themselves. With so much to consider and so many different approaches to take, the history of cinema continues to evolve. As such this advanced level film studies course will explore what it means to study film history, examine the various methodologies that one might take, while at the same time looking at relevant filmic and cinematic examples.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00 - Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
- Iranian cinema: Abbas KiarostamiCourse start date: Tue 7 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jean-Baptiste de VaulxIn the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami became celebrated and championed internationally, at film festivals, by film critics, on the arthouse cinema circuits. He came to be seen as a director who had revitalised international cinema – Jean-Luc Godard famously quipped that “cinema began with D.W. Griffith and ends with Kiarostami.” Yet, despite all this international acclaim, the deep Iranian roots of Kiarostami remain often misunderstood or even ignored. This course shall cover the long and rich career of Kiarostami, one inevitably formed by an Iranian context and set of cultural references, and closely examine the different phases of his work, the recurring stylistic and thematic concerns, and his trajectory from little-known Iranian filmmaker to global auteur director.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00 - Post-colonial cinemas 2Course start date: Wed 8 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jean-Baptiste de VaulxThis module will examine a crucially important but often neglected area of film history, namely the responses to and against colonialist legacy made by many different strands of filmmaking around the world. We will analyse and discuss examples of filmmaking through the lens of postcolonial theory, covering specific films from Africa, the Arab World, the Philippines, the Caribbean and South Asian diasporas in Britain, Argentina, and Hong Kong.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00 - Reading images: exploring film studiesCourse start date: Wed 8 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Cristina MassaccesiThis comprehensive introductory course provides an overview of the main historical, technical and theoretical aspects of filmmaking and film analysis.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00 - Irish history and identity 3: From the Coronation of Henry VIII as King of Ireland in 1541 to The Treaty of Limerick in 1691Course start date: Thu 9 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Colm HickeyAlthough inextricably linked to Britain, Ireland’s history, identity, and nationhood has equally been shaped by its relationship with Europe. This course traces Ireland’s development from the coronation of Henry VII as King of Ireland in 1541 to the Treaty of Limerick and ‘The Flight of the Earls’ in 1691.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Alexander Technique: introductionCourse start date: Thu 7 Nov 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kamal ThapenDiscover how to return your body to its natural state of balance and poise in this beginners' guide to the Alexander Technique. Learn how to relieve stress by becoming mindful of muscular and mental tension. - Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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