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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  1. Full fee £319.00 Senior fee £255.00 Concession £207.00
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  3. Rising powers: China, from Mao to Xi
    Course start date:  Tue 9 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sebastien Ardouin
    The spectacular rise of China is one of the most significant developments of the last decades. What explains it and what does it mean for China itself and the world?
    Full fee £309.00 Senior fee £247.00 Concession £201.00
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  5. Phenomenology: an introduction
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  John Goff
    Phenomenology, one of the most influential approaches in contemporary philosophy, asks: how do we constitute experienced reality? Following Husserl and Heidegger, phenomenologists try to understand what it means, if anything, to be in the world.
    Full fee £309.00 Senior fee £247.00 Concession £201.00
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  7. Introduction to philosophy
    Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 15 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Karl White
    This problem-based introduction to philosophy explores key themes of modern philosophy, including truth, knowledge, ultimate reality and the mind-body problem.
    Full fee £309.00 Senior fee £247.00 Concession £201.00
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  8. Lipreading and managing hearing loss: advanced
    Last Few Places, Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 16 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Adam Gurney
    Develop your lipreading skills and strategies for face-to-face communication and keep up-to-date with relevant equipment and services. This course is suitable if you have completed a lipreading class at improvers' level.







    This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.
    Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £399.00 Concession £200.00
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  9. Piano/keyboards: intermediate
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 17 Sep 2025 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ana Claudia Magalhaes

    For pianists playing at around grade 4-5 standard. Improve your technique, coordination, phrasing, music reading, aural skills and playing confidence.

    Full fee £319.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £223.00
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  10. Full fee £309.00 Senior fee £247.00 Concession £201.00
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  11. Full fee £309.00 Senior fee £247.00 Concession £201.00
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  12. Advanced playwriting workshop
    Course start date:  Fri 19 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Brian Mullin
    Dive deeper into the key elements of writing for the theatre, gain fresh critical insight into your own writing, and produce a new draft of your work. This workshop is for experienced playwrights with ongoing projects.
    Full fee £359.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £180.00
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  13. Philosophy and literature: Identity, Truth and the Poetic Word
    Course start date:  Fri 19 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Barrie Selwyn
    Literature provides a very effective springboard into the understanding of the developing notions of selfhood and human nature in the history of ideas and philosophy sharpens our understanding of literature within the broader context of this history.
    Full fee £309.00 Senior fee £247.00 Concession £201.00
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  14. Islamic art in the medieval world
    Course start date:  Wed 24 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Anita Chowdry
    A course examining the formation and development of Islamic Art and Design; looking at the role of ideology and patronage, and the key influences that went into its development and evolution.
    Full fee £309.00 Senior fee £247.00 Concession £201.00
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  15. Essential digital skills for work (Level 1)
    Course start date:  Thu 9 Oct 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Do you have some digital skills but lack confidence to use them? Would you like to gain the most essential digital skills needed for today's workplace? If so, and you need to develop the foundational digital skills for today's job market, this is the course for you. The course will give you the confidence to use different digital devices and tools to collaborate and communicate efficiently with work colleagues, to create and edit documents and presentations, and make simple spreadsheets. You will learn about different types of digital communication as well as how to use online resources for finding and using information and completing transactions. You will learn the transferable digital skills you need to progress, participate and express yourself in the workplace and gain a qualification. 53% of UK employees do not have the digital skills needed for work. You don't need to be one of them.



    Please note: you MUST pass the first part of the course, attend every class and do the necessary homework. If you do not, you will not be able to continue the course.



    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.



    This course is free for learners who have digital skills assessed as below level 1. For more information Click here

    Full fee £309.00
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