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- Communicating effectively at workCourse start date: Tue 28 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jonathan MulquinHow skilfully do you manage the impression you make on people in meetings and interviews? Develop your personal effectiveness by looking at voice and body language, assertiveness, sensitive listening, interviewing techniques and communication skills for business meetings. This course will be taught in the college.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £139.00 - Spanish 4/5: Spanish accents explained - ArgentinaCourse start date: Wed 29 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
How do you cope with different Spanish accents? Do you find some easier to understand than others? This series of short courses will help you understand the specificities and intricacies of a variety of Spanish and South American accents, so you can spot their speakers more easily and understand them better to keep the conversation going.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - Philosophy reading group: Descartes's Meditations
Course start date: Wed 29 Oct 2025Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Karl WhiteDescartes’ Meditations is arguably the foundational text of modern Western philosophy influencing not only the what of philosophy, but the how and the why. Reading it together, we’ll discover the stone that created ripples still affecting our thinking today.
Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00 - Arabic beginners: short introduction Course start date: Mon 3 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Taïssir K MahmoudGet a short introduction to the Arabic language and discover aspects of Arabic language culture in these live online communicative classes. Suitable for complete beginners.
.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00 - Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict SocietiesCourse start date: Wed 5 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Maisa EdwardsThis four-week course explores peacebuilding in post-conflict societies, examining key concepts, case studies, and practical tools to understand how diverse actors rebuild and sustain peace after violent conflict.
Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00 - German for history lovers (intermediate and advanced)Course start date: Wed 5 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Anna RiolandThis is an intermediate to advanced German language course for lovers of German history.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Italian pronunciationCourse start date: Wed 5 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Evi CampetellaThis short course is geared towards helping you sound more like a native speaker of Italian. While Italian pronunciation may seem relatively simple, there are actually quite a few features that require focus and practice. This course will allow you to concentrate on the sounds of Italian - how to produce them when speaking and how to recognise them when listening.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00 - ‘Stranger’ Things: Muriel Spark’s Shapeshifting Course start date: Wed 5 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Fiona McCullochThis course will introduce and discuss two novels by eminent author, Muriel Spark- Memento Mori (1959) and The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960). Her writing wilfully upends notions of conformity and acts as a disrupter to accepted conventions. Instead, ‘Spark beckons us to encounter the stranger’ (Marilyn Reizbaum). Playfully disrupting passive readers and stretching comfort zones, Spark’s work provides a space to access unaccustomed outlooks that make us rethink our relationship with ourselves, others, and the world. Instead of unconsciously going with the flow, she awakens us to life’s stranger things.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00 - Economic paradigms: are there alternatives to capitalism?Course start date: Wed 19 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Caglar EzikogluExplore diverse economic theories beyond capitalism in economic paradigms with regards to the alternatives of capitalism and broaden your understanding of global economic systems.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00 - Introduction to the Wallace Collection Course start date: Wed 19 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Julie BarlowEach week, we'll explore a different aspect of the Wallace Collection looking at its fine and decorative art objects, including paintings, furniture, porcelain and even arms and armour.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Painted worlds: Renaissance landscapes north and south Course start date: Wed 26 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Carlo CorsatoExplore how Renaissance artists transformed landscape from simple backdrop to powerful storytelling element. Over three weeks, we'll journey through portraiture, religious imagery, and narrative art to discover how these natural settings evolved to shape meaning across Northern and Southern European traditions.
Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00 - Silent segregation in the city: race and class in Colombia and Mexico Course start date: Wed 26 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Pilar Villanueva MartinezDiscover race, class, and gender dynamics in Mexican and Colombian cities through their history and activisms. Understand the right to the city and its connection to power dynamics.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £45.00 - Spanish 4/5: palenques, quilombos y cimarrones: resistencia anticolonial en América latinaCourse start date: Wed 26 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Pilar Villanueva MartinezEn este curso, que invita a la reflexión, nos adentramos en la historia colonial y anticolonial en América Latina, desde la perspectiva de la resistencia de las comunidades afrodescendientes. Examinaremos conceptos claves como la esclavitud, el colonialismo y sus perdurables consecuencias en las sociedades actuales en Latinoamérica.
Este curso es para estudiantes con nivel avanzado de español (si has estudiado español al menos durante 5 años).
This course will be delivered in Spanish. It is open to students with an advanced level of Spanish and native speakers.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00 - Start animating in BlenderCourse start date: Wed 21 Jan 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Benjamin AustinIf you’ve ever wanted to try your hand at 3D animation this short intensive taster course will get you up and running with the basics of how to work with the free, powerful 3D Software application Blender, and put you on the path to creating your own polished CG Graphics and Animation.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £123.00 - The Portuguese Empire; establishment, world-making, demise and legaciesCourse start date: Wed 11 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ingrid Aguiar SchlindweinA journey through the rise and fall of the Portuguese Empire. Uncover pioneering navigation, understand colonial societies in Brazil, Africa, and Asia through their economies, culture, independence struggles, and legacies.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £51.00
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