- Latin 2: module 2Course start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Elena VaccaSuitable if you have completed Latin 2: module 1 or have an equivalent knowledge. Improve your knowledge of Latin grammar and your ability to read and write Latin, as well as exploring Roman culture and history.
- Storytelling for business and pleasure 1Course start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ariella EshedAll cultures respect the world of Story. The ability to tell Stories, in a variety of settings, is a skill that has seen a strong resurgence both in the workplace and in contemporary performance. Gain greater confidence in your communication skills and apply this to your wider experience. This course will be delivered in the college.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £132.00 - Ways into Advanced Literature: the dawning of modernity
Course start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Patricia SweeneyFor those who want to explore the rewards of in-depth literary study, focusing on fiction and drama. Read, analyse and debate works that reflect the cultural and historical changes in a shifting world, exploring three seminal works of the modern age: Three Sisters (1900) by Anton Chekhov, The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford and The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - French 4/5: Les accents francophonesCourse start date: Wed 8 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
If you are fluent in French but still unable to distinguish between different accents from within France and across the French speaking world, this course will help you familiarise yourself with the main features of different accents and help you improve your speaking skills.
Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Ruling Russia: Tsars, Revolutions, Civil War , and the Triumph of Lenin (1860-1924) Course start date: Wed 8 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Zoe QuinnThis course explores the transformative period of Russian history from 1860 to 1924, encompassing the autocratic rule of the Tsars, the revolutionary upheavals of 1905 and 1917, the chaos of the civil war, and the consolidation of the Bolshevik regime. Students will examine key events, figures, and ideologies that shaped modern Russia, delving into the complexities of political, social, and economic changes during this era.
Please note: this course includes much of the material covered in previous Russian Revolution courses at the City Lit. Moreover this course is taught at an introductory level. Tutor: Zoe Quinn.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00 - Crime fiction reading group Course start date: Wed 8 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Christine HawkinsAre you obsessed with reading crime fiction? You might like to join our Crime fiction reading group, where we share thoughts and ideas about what you are reading, with books chosen by the group. Please come to the first session with suggestions (crime fiction in paperback) and having read 'The Big Sleep' by Rayond Chandler. Monthly meetings take place on 8/10, 5/11, 3/12, 21/1, 18/2, 18/3, 6/5, 3/6, 1/7.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £123.00 - British Directors: David Lean and Carol Reed Course start date: Wed 15 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: John WischmeyerJoin us as we explore the careers of two of the most significant and influential film directors in the history of British cinema: David Lean and Carol Reed. We will chart their rise through the ranks as they undertook various roles in the British film industry and we will explore what made them such important filmmakers. We will look too at their signature visual styles and analyse in detail some of their most celebrated films.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Spanish 2 upper: consolidation Course start date: Wed 15 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Roberto GallegoFurther improve your Spanish in this lively class, taught in Spanish with the emphasis on developing your speaking and listening skills. You will also acquire a greater understanding of Spanish grammar. Suitable if you have completed 'Spanish 2 upper' and you would like to revise/consolidate the content/grammar before continuing to level 3 lower.
Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00 - Return to French (upper intermediate) Course start date: Wed 22 Oct 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Florence DolleRefresh your upper intermediate French in this intensive revision programme and improve your grammar, listening and speaking skills for further study such as A-level and Delf B2. Each course covers different topics. Assessment of level recommended.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Art, Image and History in Later Anglo-Saxon England Course start date: Wed 29 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael BloomfieldThis new course illustrates and explains some of the most important and intriguing works of Anglo-Saxon art from A.D. c. 850 to 1100. Beginning with the art being produced in the later 9th century and homing in on the reign of Alfred with the brooch in the Ashmolean, through the glorious 10th century renaissance and the reign of Athelstan, we conclude our course with the Bayeux Tapestry and the Norman Conquest. Each work is set in its historical and cultural context, collectively providing a coherent and fascinating account of Early English achievement.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Acting: advanced Course start date: Wed 29 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Simon DarwenPractise and develop your acting skills by rehearsing scenes with an experienced tutor and actor. This course is suitable for students who have completed a broad range of our acting courses at beginners and improvers level or who have gained suitable experience elsewhere.
Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £139.00 - Latin America: From the Cold War to the present Course start date: Wed 29 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sebastien Ardouin(Re)discover the troubled but exciting political and socio-economic history of Latin America since the beginning of the Cold War, between dictatorship and democracy, boom and recession, and gain a deeper understanding of the current situation in the continent.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Introduction to journalism Course start date: Wed 22 Apr 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Allis MossOn this course students will explore the basic skills a freelance journalist needs to write and sell news and features to newspapers and magazines. From developing ideas and identifying outlets to interview skills and approaching editors.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £80.00 - Indigenous Australian art: an introduction Course start date: Wed 5 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Arjmand AzizIndigenous Australian art has, in recent years, been increasingly exhibited and discussed in Britain. Yet little is known about the history and development of this art movement and the oeuvres of the artists responsible for its creation. This introductory course will provide a history of how Indigenous Australian artists have changed and challenged the course of national and international art fields in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Being ecological 2: Ecological Thought in cultures of climate crisisCourse start date: Wed 7 Jan 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Katie GossThis Culture course will give students an opportunity to engage with cultures of climate crisis – both the complex challenges we face and a wide-range of exciting theoretical initiatives and artistic practices that attempt to foreground and transform ecological dimensions of existence. Drawing on theoretical and literary texts, films, performance art, and political activism, we will explore radical ways of rethinking and reinhabiting our relations with more-than-human worlds, and how they open new possibilities for living on a damaged planet. Students will also have the chance to pursue their own research projects.
Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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