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Do you want to prepare for Functional Skills Level 2 maths? Do you need to improve your maths to become more confident in problem-solving, analysing and making decisions at work and in your personal life? This course will help you with all of the above and make maths come alive. You will see how mathematics is everywhere and you will develop the maths you need to participate, make progress and express yourself in today's society. You will work on tasks which require you to use whole numbers and decimals, fractions and percentages and recognise the relationships between them. You will work on solving problem involving time, money and measurements, as well learn how to measure confidently and convert between units of measurement. You will be able to state properties of shapes, both 2D and 3D and be better able to interpret, discuss and comment on the graphs, charts and tables you see in newspapers, on the internet and at work.



You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).

Free course: This is a Multiply course. Multiply is a new government programme to help adults improve their numeracy skills. This course is free for Londoners aged 19 or over. For more information Click here

This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Curious about art history? Join us for this taster session where we explore different ways into visual art and its histories from the ancient to the contemporary.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

For the 100th anniversary of the movement, explore the impact of surrealism on international artists, social movements and cultural revolutions. Come to understand the historical importance of this massively influential movement.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Join us for this Friday Late to discover the place diamonds and diamond trading in global history. How were diamonds mined, cut and presented in the ancient, medieval and modern worlds and in what ways did they come to symbolise wealth, status and status across different continents?



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

We will take a tour of the seasonal night sky, going beyond the veil of light pollution to explore the cosmic sights that we can all find from home. You will learn how to plan your stargazing session from maps to apps and find the things that most people miss.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

The Staatliches Bauhaus opened its doors in Weimar, Germany in 1919. Fourteen years later it was shut down by the Nazis. Celebrate 100 years of Modernism in architecture and design and discover how Bauhaus style spread to London.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

This short course is designed to guide students on submitting their poetry to magazines, journals and websites for publication.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Discover Modern Art’s secret history: a mysterious melting-pot of mystic auras, magical colour theories, trances, alchemy and the spirit-physics of the 4th-dimension, hiding beneath the familiar stories of science, reason and industry.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Trace the history of pearls from 5000 BCE to the 21st century. Did Cleopatra drink a pearl cocktail? Where can you harvest black pearls? Who wrote the Pearl Fishers? How has global warming affected pearl production?



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Join us to discover how plants were exchanged between the Americas and Europe in the period after c.1492, being cultivated, studied and consumed by scientists, gourmands and the general public.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Explore the story of how Indian painted and printed cottons became an important trade commodity for the Western domestic market, and the far-reaching impact of their design and manufacture.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

A life is measured in moments as well as momentous occasions. This fun day workshop coaches students in the art of micro-memoir. Can you write about an instant that changed you in fewer than 200 words?



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

From pub crawls to punk rock, via comic books, action painting and Hegelian philosophy; hear the unlikely tale of the Situationists: international artist-revolutionaries who tried to change the world itself into a work of art.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Explore the period of intense artistic activity in the early years of Colonial Australia (c. 1788–1800). We will see how both convicts and military personnel produced hundreds of images depicting the remarkable natural history that they found in the settlement.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Join our Global History Friday Late session to explore the trade in gold and silver in medieval and early modern Europe and the impact of these precious metals on religion, politics, culture and the economy.