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Whether you are looking to take up a new hobby, pick up a new skill or learn more about your area of interest, we have the course for you.
From acting and animation to sketching and social media, we are regularly expanding our offering and adding new courses for you to choose from.
- Masters of cinema: love, marriage and betrayalCourse start date: Thu 28 Sep 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Mick McAloonMarriage has always been fertile ground for filmmakers, and some directors – Rossellini, Bergman, Godard – have gone deeper than most. This course looks at the ways cinema’s greatest filmmakers have approached the subject. It explores original works by artists who have “mined” their own lives for material, while showing how adaptations of literary works can, in the hands of great film-makers, become a kind of veiled autobiography.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £123.00 - Africa and the Classics - an exploration of the role Africa played in shaping the Classical world and Classical traditionCourse start date: Mon 2 Oct 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Szerdi NagyThis course aims to explore the multifaceted relationship between Africa and the Classical
world, highlighting Africa's significant contributions to the Classical world.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Agile methodologies: introductionCourse start date: Tue 3 Oct 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Kate ScottA practical introduction to Agile project management methodologies.
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 £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - The Bicycle Thieves at 75Course start date: Sun 8 Oct 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Graham RinaldiIn the inaugural 1952 Sight and Sound greatest film of all time poll, Vittorio De Sica’s neo-realist The Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) was voted in first place. Seventy-five years after its initial release, we will celebrate and analyse the film’s enduring popularity with both audiences and critics alike.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Fictional houses and spiritual bonds: David Copperfield, To the Lighthouse, Howard's EndCourse start date: Tue 10 Oct 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Phyllis Richardson‘Only connect!’ It is the great theme of Howards End, and it is the house at the centre of the novel that makes vital human connections possible. Some of our most celebrated English novels are set in or around a beloved house. On this course we will explore the connections between the fictional dwellings at the centre of some of our favourite novels and the real-life houses that inspired them.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - Introduction to Business StatisticsCourse start date: Tue 10 Oct 2023
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Aurica JalbaCurious about the practical application of statistics in everyday decision-making? Business statistics refers to the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data to inform decision-making within a business or organizational context. Business statistics aims to provide insights, patterns, and trends that help businesses and governments make informed choices, optimize processes, and achieve their objectives.
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 £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - Virgil's Aeneid reading group (in translation)Course start date: Wed 18 Oct 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Justin MurrayDiscover one of the greatest works of Latin literature.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00 - Contemporary Ukrainian fiction and poetryCourse start date: Thu 19 Oct 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Stephen WinfieldExplore major novels and short fictions by three leading figures, Yevgenia Belorusets, Serhiy Zhadan and Andrey Kurkov, placed within the context of modern Ukrainian literature as a whole, the remarkable flowering that followed independence in 1991 and the resilience and imaginative vitality of its poets and novelists in face of the escalating conflict from 2014.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - Literary werewolves and vampiresCourse start date: Sat 21 Oct 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Megan BeechOn this short course we will explore the way in which authors in the nineteenth century created and shaped what we write and think about vampires and werewolves today. We will read extracts from Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla alongside various short stories, penny dreadfuls, and news articles from the period.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Being ecological: cultivating environmental consciousness in cultures of climate crisisCourse start date: Mon 30 Oct 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Katie GossThis course will introduce students to exciting initiatives in twenty-first century cultural discourse that attempt to reconceptualise what an ecological consciousness might be or feel like. 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.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Iranian cinemaCourse start date: Tue 31 Oct 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jean-Baptiste de VaulxIn the 1990s, films by Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Mohsen and Samira Makhmalbaf announced Iranian cinema on the global stage as one of the most exciting national cinemas around. But even now, the history and culture behind these films, as well as the many other masterpieces of Iranian cinema, remain too little-known. This course shall give an overview of the wider story of Iranian cinema.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00 - Ways into advanced art history: beauty & formCourse start date: Wed 1 Nov 2023
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sarah JaffrayDevelop a greater understanding of art history and how to analyse the cultural meaning of an artwork by going in-depth with the ideas of prominent art historians. This course explores the complex links between art and beauty, quality and cultural value by reading the work art historians and analysing ‘beautiful’ artworks from the ancient to the present day.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Lunchtime lecture: Judith Leyster & Frans Hals – a Haarlem rivalryCourse start date: Wed 1 Nov 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sarah JaffrayExplore the art world of the 17th century Netherlands through the artistic ‘rivalry’ of Judith Leyster and Frans Hals in the city of Haarlem.
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 £7.00 - Art & money: from starving artists and forgers to merchants and collectorsCourse start date: Thu 2 Nov 2023
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Simone ChisenaDiscover the intricacies of the art world and an artist’s support system. Explore the systems artists work within to establish support for their art.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Try it out: laser cutting
Course start date: Fri 3 Nov 2023 (and 3 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Suk Han LeeLearn how to cut and etch paper with your own images, patterns or text. Learn some basic skills to personalise An existing template own using Adobe Illustrator. Send your file to be produced on our laser cutter and leave with your own design. Suitable for absolute beginners.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00
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