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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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  2. Becoming a confident online citizen: staying safe and protecting your data on your PC and smartphone (foundation)
    Course start date:  Tue 8 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Hacking, ransomware attacks and data theft have become common criminal activities, as much a threat to personal security as more traditional anti-social behaviours. Securing and protecting our digital lives has becomes as essential as locking the doors of our homes. On this course, you will learn the importance of staying safe online and how to do so. You will focus on how to choose appropriate online names and email addresses, use secondary email accounts to increase security, and create and manage passwords across devices and accounts. You will focus on how to your digital activity leaves traces, how your history of activities online is accessible and what you can do about this. You will learn about different types of digital authentication, your right to be forgotten under data protection law, deleting social media accounts and posts. accepting or rejecting cookies and unsubscribing from mailing lists. By the end of the course, you will be a much more confident and secure digital citizen.



    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 £79.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £40.00
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  3. Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00
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  4. Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £299.00 Concession £209.00
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  5. Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00
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  6. Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £109.00 Concession £71.00
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  7. Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00
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  8. Learn English - learn about London (entry 2-entry 3)
    Course start date:  Tue 8 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Do you want to improve your English and learn about London at the same time? This course will help you feel more confident about living in London and using your English. You will visit interesting places and learn about the history of the city and the people who live there. You will also learn about important events in the city in the past and now. You will improve your speaking, listening, reading and writing. You will learn a lot of new words to describe people and places and how to express yourself fluently and correctly.



    You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).
    Full fee £59.00 Concession £30.00
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  9. Gender, Desire and the Body in Poetry
    Course start date:  Tue 8 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Ranging from sixteenth century love sonnets via bawdy Restoration verse to a Victorian eroticised poetic narrative, this course examines how the language of love and desire, and the poetic representations of gendered bodies, provide an idiom that can be used to express both conservative and more subversive cultural ideas.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00
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  10. Pentatonics and beyond: improvising in popular music
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    Course start date:  Sat 19 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David Harrison
    Study how to improvise in popular music. These two practical sessions are for players of any instrument. Get to grips with improvisation in this exploration of common scales and approaches to improv in pop, rock, blues, folk and jazz. We’ll look at blues scales, pentatonics, extension notes and more to help you get the most out of your improvisation.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £79.00
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