New Courses
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
- Introduction to Robotics
Course start date: Thu 22 May 2025 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Muhammad KhanRobotics is transforming industries and daily life through automation. Building on your basic technical skills, this course teaches you to design, build, and program robots through hands-on projects.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - German for opera lovers (intermediate and advanced) Course start date: Thu 1 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Katja ParmarThis is a German language course for lovers of German operas. Discuss the world of German opera in these fun sessions while improving your German language skills. Choose either an in-person course in the heart of London or live online sessions.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Writing about musicCourse start date: Thu 25 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Edward Breen, Katy HamiltonExperience the enjoyment of writing about music. Share your musical opinions in several formats and be inspired to develop your own longer-term writing project. Break week: 30 Oct 2025.Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00 - Piano: the complete Mozart sonatas part one Course start date: Thu 25 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lewis KestertonJoin City Lit's flagship piano repertoire project for 2025-26, The Complete Mozart Piano Sonatas. During the course of the year, participants will explore and play all 18 sonatas, culminating in a collaborative, professional quality recording. This course is split into two fifteen-week parts across the academic year; you are welcome to come to one or both parts of the project (see further details about each part below).Full fee £499.00 Senior fee £499.00 Concession £349.00 - Boxercise Course start date: Thu 25 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jayde DujonThis is in-person mixed ability course. Learn boxing basics for general fitness and cardiovascular improvement in a fun and safe way.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £125.00 - Contemporary Body Horror: Bodies, Trauma, and TransformationCourse start date: Thu 9 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Katie GossThis in-college literature course delves into the provocative and unsettling world of contemporary body horror - primarily by femme and queer authors. Over six-weeks we will explore how writers reframe the body as a site of both violence and transformation: using aesthetics of the uncanny, grotesque or abject to disturb and overturn societal norms surrounding gender, sexuality, identity, and power.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - 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 - 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 - Great artists: David Munrow Course start date: Thu 11 Dec 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Edward BreenExplore the life and works of David Munrow, one of the key performers of early music in the 1960s and 1970s.Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00 - Piano: the complete Mozart sonatas part two Course start date: Thu 26 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lewis KestertonJoin City Lit's flagship piano repertoire project for 2025-26, The Complete Mozart Piano Sonatas. During the course of the year, participants will explore and play all 18 sonatas, culminating in a collaborative, professional quality recording. This course is split into two fifteen-week parts across the academic year; you are welcome to come to one or both parts of the project (see further details about each part below).Full fee £499.00 Senior fee £499.00 Concession £349.00
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