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  1. Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £179.00
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  2. Looking beyond headlines: colonialism and contemporary conflicts
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 13 Feb 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Salome Ietter
    This course will provide a reflection on the colonial, post-colonial and neo-colonial aspects and underpinnings of contemporary conflicts.
    Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £119.00
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  3. Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £209.00 Concession £209.00
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  4. Picture book writing
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 19 Feb 2025 (and 4 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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  5. Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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  6. Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  7. Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00
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  8. Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00
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  9. Communicating effectively at work
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 27 Feb 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Jonathan Mulquin
    How 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.



    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 £104.00
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  10. The physics of time
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 1 Mar 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gary Retallick
    An opportunity to explore the various different conceptions of time within modern physics - from the absolute time of Newtonian mechanics to the relativistic time of Einsteinian gravity - and to consider the emergence of time in the big bang, the direction of time, and the possibility of time travel.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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  11. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00
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  12. TV presenting for beginners (intensive)
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 1 Mar 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Gary Grant
    Have you ever thought you could cut it as a TV presenter, but been unsure where to start? Discover your TV presenting potential. Learn how to present to camera, read autocue, memorise a piece to camera, interview and talk to time. All this in one weekend!
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £125.00
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  13. Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  14. Great works: Jane Austen’s Emma
    Course start date:  Thu 6 Mar 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Kate Wilkinson
    This short in-college literature course explores Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’ (1815), often considered her finest – and funniest – novel. We’ll study its characters, themes and narrative techniques, and we’ll consider the historical and social contexts in which Austen was writing.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00
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  15. Painting: oil techniques and mediums
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Fri 7 Mar 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Mario Lautier Vella
    Oil paint is a medium with a long historical tradition, capable of heavy impasto effects and delicate transparent colour films. Working practically, in the studio, this course will expand your understanding of approaches to building a variety of surfaces in your paint working with mediums and expanding your use of texture and glazing This course is for all levels – both beginners and more experienced painters.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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