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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  1. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  2. Spanish beginners: taster
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 9 Jul 2025 (and 6 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Adriana Itriago Gavidia
    Get a flavour of a new language and its basic sentence structure. Learn some useful phrases and some pronunciation guidelines. A fascinating introduction for complete beginners.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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  3. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  4. Film studies taster
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 13 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    Learn how to evaluate and discuss films while enjoying a working example of a City Lit Film Studies class. In this class we will view and explore clips from a number of films, including popular remakes, enabling us to consider and compare themes and techniques from differing filmmaking countries. There will be a chance to review – in brief – film courses at City Lit (September - December 2025).
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £15.00 Concession £12.00
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  5. Spanish 2/3: Un viaje por la Patagonia argentina
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 1 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Analía Tolone
    Discover the beauty of the outstanding of Argentinian Patagonia, the region defined by its dramatic landscapes, jagged peaks, pristine rivers and incredible wildlife. In this workshop we will explore the three main districts (The Lake District, Atlantic and Southern Patagonia) and their historic aspects. We will also touch in the Welsh culture heritage that can be found in small towns such as Trelew.







    This will be an informative workshop done in Spanish. You should have an elementary level of the language



    (at least an A2 leve, i.e at least Spanish 2 upper).
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00
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  6. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  7. Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £80.00
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  8. French 4/5 : Cinq semaines, un livre:
    Course start date:  Mon 3 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Would you like to read a contemporary book in French? Join this class and delve into the world of a French author while simultaneously expanding your knowledge of vocabulary and appreciating a writing style.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00
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  9. Global encounters: meet the Mongols
    Course start date:  Mon 3 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Vanessa King
    At its height the Mongol empire stretched from the Sea of Japan to eastern Europe. We explore how the Mongols interacted with the nations they conquered.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  10. Global Encounters: The Later Crusades, 1209-1500
    Course start date:  Tue 4 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Vanessa King
    The loss of Jerusalem saw a shift in Crusading strategy. Going on crusade became a seasonal event, first against the Cathars in France and then with the Knights Hospitaller against pagans in the Baltic.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  11. French 5: Maupassant : une vie, une œuvre
    Course start date:  Tue 4 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Pierre Porcheron
    Venez découvrir Maupassant, journaliste et auteur. Reconnu de son vivant, il conserve un renom de premier plan, renouvelé encore par les nombreuses adaptations filmées de ses œuvres, composées de romans et nouvelles situés entre réalisme et fantastique. Un auteur du XIX siècle aux intonations modernes !
    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00
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  12. German for history lovers (intermediate and advanced)
    Course start date:  Wed 5 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Anna Rioland
    This is an intermediate to advanced German language course for lovers of German history.
    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00
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  13. Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  14. French 5: mosaïques
    Course start date:  Thu 6 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Anais Perdaems
    Etude de la langue à travers la littérature, les chansons, les films, les informations télévisées, les coupures de presse, et diverses activités créatives orales et écrites.







    You can attend a paid taster class before enrolling on this course if you are not sure yet if this is the right course for you (LF500 French 5 taster: mosaïques).
    Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00
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  15. 20th to 21st Century War Poetry: British and International
    Course start date:  Thu 6 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Stephen Winfield
    Explore the astonishing range of poetic responses to a hundred years of warfare, acts of witnessing, endurance, defiance and condemnation by writers across the globe: Sassoon and Wilfred Owen in Britain, Brecht, Milosz, Celan, Akhmatova and Stepanova in Europe and Russia, Darwish and Zhadan in the Middle East and Ukraine, and many others. How do they describe the indescribable? High art or doggerel, what does it matter once the bombs start to fall?
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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