- Seminal films of the 1960sCourse start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Mick McAloonThe 1960s saw the emergence of multiple “new waves” of international filmmakers and cinema movements. It wasn’t only the French directors of the “nouvelle vague” – Godard, Truffaut et al - but filmmakers from Britain (Lindsay Anderson), Italy (Pasolini), Africa (Sembène), America (Cassavetes), Poland, India, and Japan, all of whom seized on cheaper, lighter equipment to make vital and vibrant films, and whose subjects were compelling as well as contemporary.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00 - Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
- Spanish 5: creative writing in SpanishCourse start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Matias Godoy RonderosEn este curso interactivo, tendrás la oportunidad de usar el español para escribir microcuentos, y de tener como guía a un profesor que también es autor y traductor publicado. A lo largo de las 5 sesiones, aprenderás como desarrollar una historia corta usando alugnas técnicas empleadas por los escritores para producir una historia interesante y atractiva.
Este curso es para hispanohablantes y estudiantes que han estudiado español a nivel avanzado (si has estudiado español al menos durante 6 años).
This course will be delivered in Spanish.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00 - Spanish 4/5: Spanish accents explained - ChileCourse start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Pilar Villanueva MartinezHow 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 - Land Acknowledgement and Racial Justice: Approaches from Different Settler SocietiesCourse start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Olivia DurandLearn about the origins and purpose of land acknowledgements in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. Examine their role in racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and whether they create real change or remain symbolic gestures.
Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £8.00 Concession £7.00 - Looking for the Golden Fleece: Jason and the ArgonautsCourse start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Maria ContosCome and explore the journey of the Argonauts and discover Jason.Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00 - How to get an agentCourse start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Neil ArkseyThis workshop, designed for authors who have finished their manuscript, offers practical advice on finding and approaching a literary agent.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - Writing MotherhoodCourse start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Rebecca JonesExplore the extraordinarily diverse world of writing about motherhood, looking at literary texts that have firmly rebuked any notions of motherhood as ‘merely’ domestic, and have instead made it the subject of serious literary writing, have explored major themes such as the body, trauma, gender, queerness, race and creativity, and have written diverse truths about the realities of motherhood. Writers include Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich and Rachel Cusk, Maggie Nelson and Ayò¿bámi Adébáyò¿.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Art and critical theory: feminism and post-colonialismCourse start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Irina ChkhaidzeExplore the role of critical theory within the field of art history, and learn new ways of thinking about art by focusing on feminism, post-colonial theory and the notion of the death of the author. - Hindi 2 lower: module 3Course start date: Tue 3 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Geeta SharmaContinue learning Hindi on this lively online course. Suitable if you have studied Hindi for a year and a half or have an equivalent level.
The course will introduce students to essential vocabulary and grammar structures, with a focus on practical communication in everyday situations.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £209.00 Concession £136.00 - Beginners BSLCourse start date: Wed 4 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Alesia Parshutsina
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £90.00 - Return to French (upper intermediate)Course start date: Wed 4 Jun 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 £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00 - Communicating effectively at workCourse start date: Thu 5 Jun 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jonny BlackHow skilfully do you manage the impression you make on people both in person and in online 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 online.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £149.00 - Create your first poetry collectionCourse start date: Sat 7 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
You've written and workshopped your poetry, and now you're ready to create your first collection. But where do you begin with that process? This workshop offers instruction and advice on putting together your first poetry collection.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00 - The beauty of the medieval manuscriptCourse start date: Tue 10 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Emma Rose BarberIt is generally accepted that medieval illuminated manuscripts are very beautiful things. Something to do with all that gold-leaf maybe. While we cannot hold them in class, close-up digital reproduction will allow us to see if they really are as beautiful as we are told. Indeed, are none of them ugly? Join this course to find out.
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