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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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If you can't decide which subject to study, why not try some of our short taster courses?
- Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00
- Spanish beginners: module 1Course start date: Thu 10 Oct 2024 (and 9 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Cristina CasadoLearn to speak Spanish on this lively, communicative course for complete beginners. Taught in Spanish with the emphasis on developing your listening and speaking skills.
Based on Units 1-3 of Nos Vemos Hoy 1; publisher: Campus Difusión (please see the relevant section for the ISBN).
Please do not buy the book until after the first session, as if you transfer to another level you might use a different book.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £209.00 Concession £136.00 - Using hashtags effectivelyCourse start date: Mon 14 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Amber Raney-KincadeHashtags are used on social media across many platforms, including Instagram, TikTok and Threads. This class is devoted to understanding hashtags and how to use them properly and effectively on social platforms. What is a hashtag, how do you create and track one, and how do you pick the right hashtag for your social media content.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Art history tasterCourse start date: Mon 14 Oct 2024 (and 10 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.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - Getting started in digital skills: becoming confident on your computer and online (complete beginner)Course start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Are you completely new to computers and the Internet? This course will help you get started on using a computer and the internet. You will learn all the basics and the key terms you need to starting becoming confident on a computer and online. You will learn about different files and how to create and save them. You will learn how to write and send simple letters and emails. You will develop your internet skills so you can find information and complete online forms. Finally, you do all of this while learning how to remain safe online and to keep your files secure.
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 £39.00 Senior fee £31.00 Concession £20.00 - Japanese beginners: short introductionCourse start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Noriko InagakiGet a short introduction to the Japanese language and discover aspects of Japanese language culture in these online communicative classes. Suitable for complete beginners.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Introduction to PythonCourse start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024 (and 11 other dates)
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Roden DerveniWant to learn more about how computers work and what computer programmers do? Get started using Python, the most popular and easy-to-use programming language in the world.
This course will be delivered online or in person. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Global arts of AfricaCourse start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Thomas BalfeThis course introduces major forms of African art in their regional and global contexts. It studies classical traditions of carving, metal casting, architecture and textile arts as well as twentieth-century and contemporary developments, including the work of photographers and conceptual artists.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Arabic beginners: module 1Course start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Alaa SonjoqLearn Arabic in the heart of London on this lively classroom-based course.
This course is designed for beginners who have little or no prior knowledge of Arabic. It focuses on developing basic speaking and listening skills in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the standardised form of Arabic used in formal settings, media, and literature. The course will introduce students to essential vocabulary and grammar structures, with a focus on practical communication in everyday situations.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - AI tools and applications for business: a short introductionCourse start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vina TheodorakopoulouUnlock the potential of AI in business! Join our 6-hour interactive course to demystify artificial intelligence, explore real-world applications and stay ahead in the evolving landscape.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Introduction to graphic novelsCourse start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael-Aubtin Madadi, Sophie WolfsonOur 'Introduction' courses provide a perfect way-in to a creative field.
Comics – once considered lowbrow, or seen as exclusively for children, now occupy a higher cultural domain. Partly thanks to a re-brand, (as ‘Graphic Novels’), no weighty subject is off-limits. A graphic novel has even been nominated for The Booker Prize!
Alongside official publishing channels, exists a lively ‘zine’ culture, where comic and graphic-novel artists can legitimately self-publish and sell their work through a network of independent shops and fairs.
Learn how to create Comics and Graphic-novels with City Lit, and – once you have developed your practice – how to navigate this thriving sector.Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £240.00 - City Lit fine art: year 2Course start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rolina Elsje Blok, Kath Castillo, Alexandra Harley, Monika Kita, Amanda Knight, Ute Kreyman, Joe Richardson, Steven ScottYear 2 of CLFA (VM552) will enable you to consolidate and focus the various creative experiences and ideas you will have gained in Year 1, or from equivalent external courses.
This course enables you to identify, develop, produce, and exhibit a personal creative project.
You will adopt simple research methods to help you develop and produce a body of new creative work that takes an individual, self-motivated direction. The necessary self-motivated approach to your work will result in the development of a cohesive set of new artwork that should reflect your own interests. There will be group critiques, one-to-one tutorials and weekly studio production sessions that will challenge and enable you to explore and refine your creative intentions, plus seminars and presentations in which you will learn and engage with new contextual information. These are delivered by experienced, practising artist / tutors.
You should; be prepared to spend some of your own time developing your creative work, and enhancing your creative thinking by visiting exhibitions, reading, researching and planning your project.
Basic materials are included but you will need to supplement these depending on the nature of your creative work.
The course culminates in a group exhibition in the college gallery. This will be organised and marketed collaboratively by the student cohort with engagement and support from CLFA Tutors and City Lit technical staff.Full fee £2,249.00 Senior fee £1,799.00 Concession £1,574.00 - Drawing: colour pastel techniquesCourse start date: Tue 15 Oct 2024 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ro SylvesterExplore the versatility and rich colours of this beautiful drawing and painting medium. Through practical exercises, discover its potential to create a variety of surface effects and its suitability for sketching and colour work.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Accents: Standard EnglishCourse start date: Wed 16 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jonathan MulquinAre you an actor or other public speaker stuck in a regional or international accent? Would you like to learn how to speak Standard English? This course is not for speakers of other languages who should take English Pronunciation courses instead. This course will be taught online.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Spanish 2 lower: module 1Course start date: Tue 8 Oct 2024 (and 8 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Cristina CasadoImprove your elementary Spanish on this communicative course, taught in Spanish with the emphasis on speaking and listening. Suitable if you have completed 'Spanish beginners: module 3' or equivalent.
Based on Units 9-11 of "Nos vemos Hoy 1", publisher: "Campus Difusión" (please see the relevant section for the ISBN).
Please do not buy the book until after the first session, as if you transfer to another level you might use a different book.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00
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