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From boxercise to writing about music, we are regularly expanding our offering and adding more courses for you to choose from. Don't forget to check back to see what's new at City Lit.
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.
Featured Courses
- Making it Modern: A Survey of 20th century poetryCourse start date: Mon 13 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Suzannah V. EvansWhat makes a poet modern? What is the different between modern poetry and modernist poetry? How has modern poetry informed the work of poets writing today? Come and explore the exciting range of poetry written in the twentieth century in a supportive and energising group context.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - Introduction to Adobe Creative CloudCourse start date: Mon 13 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrea MarzanoOn this practical introductory course, you will develop solid foundational skills in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, following a natural print workflow. You will learn essential tools and techniques to manipulate images in Photoshop, create basic designs in Illustrator, and lay out single-page documents in InDesign. Additionally, you will explore how these programs integrate to enhance your creative projects.Full fee £549.00 Senior fee £439.00 Concession £357.00 - Understanding the Digital World
Course start date: Wed 15 Oct 2025Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Marc CohenThis is a new course and we are currently preparing the course outline.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Deep Learning: Computer Vision Course start date: Fri 24 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Muhammad KhanImagine teaching machines to see as humans do! Dive into computer vision, the exciting AI field that enables robots, self-driving cars, and smartphones to interpret images, recognize faces, and make visual decisions intelligently.
Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £227.00 - Introduction to Financial Assets Course start date: Wed 5 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Rich CochraneLearn about the main types of asset traded on financial markets including shares, bonds and derivatives, including how and why they are used and the mathematical techniques used to value them.Full fee £499.00 Senior fee £399.00 Concession £324.00 - Shakespeare: King Lear and The TempestCourse start date: Thu 6 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sophie OxenhamJoin us to explore two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, his tragedy King Lear, and his late ‘romance’, The Tempest. We’ll consider the connections – and differences - between these works, thinking about Shakespeare’s use of genre and language, the historical contexts, changing critical perspectives, and aspects of the plays in performance.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - The Contemporary Global NovelCourse start date: Fri 7 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rebecca JonesAre you curious about reading contemporary global literature? Would you like to understand what we mean by the ‘global novel’, reading across cultures and national borders? This in-college course will introduce you to the study of global literature through reading three brilliant 21st century global novels: Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled and Julie Otsuka’s Buddha in the Attic.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Deep Learning: Chatbot (language model) Course start date: Thu 13 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Muhammad KhanDiscover NLP—the AI-driven technology that enables computers to understand and generate human language. Develop deep learning expertise to create intelligent, engaging chatbots using Python, mastering neural networks and cutting-edge conversational AI techniques.
Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £227.00 - First Novels Revisited: Amis, McEwan, Barnes, IshiguroCourse start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lewis WardMartin Amis, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro are household names of contemporary British fiction. But how did their careers begin in the 1970s and 1980s? And how do their early efforts stand up today?Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00 - Embodying Culture: An Introduction Course start date: Wed 30 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Katie GossThis Culture course will give you an opportunity to explore the variety of ways that embodiment has been thought and theorised. Across six weeks we will cover a variety of influential approaches to embodied life in the twentieth and twenty-first century, including biopolitics, psychoanalysis, posthumanism, affect theory, science and technology studies, feminism and queer theory.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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