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  1. Spanish beginners: taster
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 27 Nov 2024 (and 7 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Keylor Murillo Moya
    Get a flavour of a new language and its basic sentence structure in this lively taster course. Learn some useful phrases and some pronunciation guidelines. A fascinating introduction for complete beginners.



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £7.00
  2. Communication skills for business: how to be clear, concise and impacting when you write (level 2)
    Last Few Places, Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 13 Nov 2024

    Location on this date:  Online

    You can have the most amazing business ideas, but if you cannot communicate them, they will be of very little use. Join this course and explore how clear writing leads to clear thinking. You will develop the key skills needed to share information and ideas effectively inside and outside your company whether writing internal memos, emails to line managers, communications to customers, business proposals or reports, By the end of the course, you will be able to organise your business writings to suit the reader, convey ideas clearly, concisely and coherently and be confident you can express complex matters simply and effectively.



    Do you manage a team? Are you taking part in work meetings feeling your voice isn't heard? Do you need to give presentations, make sales pitches, or persuade others to follow your proposals? If so, then this course will help you. You will learn different techniques used in drama to enable you to create an effect. You will practise how respond to others so that they engage with you. You will focus on how to manipulate your voice, how to project and how to focus on the emphasising the meaning of what you want to say.



    You need to do a pre-course assessment activity to make sure this is the right course for you. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 to book a face-to-face appointment. Or click the Start Assessment button on this page.



    This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. 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.

    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £75.00
  3. Introduction to photography
    Last Few Places, Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 13 Nov 2024 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Dominic Harris
    Discover the basics of photography to improve your photographs and impress your friends. Learn about shutter speed, aperture, photo composition, light and taking pictures in different environments. This course is perfect for complete beginners or for learning new skills. Please take this course before enrolling on our intermediate courses.



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
  4. French 2: jump into year 2 upper
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 20 Nov 2024

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Zeynep Uyaroglu
    This intensive course is suitable if you have studied French for about two years in the past but are not sure whether you are ready to join our third year course, 'French 2 upper' course. You will revise the main points of the second year in this one-week revision course and feel ready for 'French 2 upper: module 1' starting soon.



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00
  5. Spanish 3/4: la Guinea Ecuatorial española: colonialismo, explotación y segregación racial
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 20 Nov 2024

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Vanesa Guzman
    Este fascinante curso explora la historia de la Guinea equatorial española, en dos siglos de colonialismo español (1778-1968).







    Este curso es para estudiantes con nivel intermedio/avanzado de español (si has estudiado español al menos durante 4/5 años).







    This course will be delivered in Spanish.



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £49.00 Concession £32.00
  6. Spanish 4/5: feminismos y (des)colonización en América Latina y el Caribe
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 20 Nov 2024

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Pilar Villanueva Martinez
    En este curso exploraremos los feminismos nacidos de mujeres afrodescendientes e indígenas en América Latina y el Caribe. Indagaremos en el legado histórico de estas mujeres en levantamientos sociales y su importancia para comprender movimientos de resistencia actuales liderados por ellas.







    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.



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £45.00
  7. Picture book writing
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 19 Feb 2025 (and 7 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Lou Kuenzler
    Would you like to write a picture book text for young children? This course is designed for children's writers and for illustrators wishing to write their own stories; a starter course to develop both your ideas and your technique.



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00
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  8. Spanish 4/5: focus on accents - Argentina
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 4 Dec 2024

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Analía Tolone
    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.



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00
  9. Una stagione con Dante: introduzione
    Last Few Places, Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 4 Dec 2024

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Francesco Bucciol
    This session - conducted entirely in Italian - is the first part of an introduction to the Divine Comedy. The first session introduces you to Dante's life, his political and philosophical views and gives an overview of the structure of the poem. We will devote the following three sessions (from January onwards) to reading, analysing and commenting on a selection of cantos. Please note that the selection of the cantos read in the following sessions will be different from that of previous years, so you are welcome to re-enrol even if you have attended before.



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00
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    100% of 100
  10. Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00
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  11. Spanish Quiz/game night: level A1-A2
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 11 Dec 2024

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Adriana Itriago Gavidia
    Come and join us in this fun Spanish night! Do you like pub quizzes? Do you want to put into practice your knowledge of Spanish grammar, vocabulary, culture, and music while having fun in the process? Then you are in the right place!



    This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
    Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00
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