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Looking for courses? City Lit offers thousands of courses, guided walks, expert talks, and events—more than any other college in London. Whether you’re interested in a one-off talk, a short course over a few weeks, or a year-long programme, you’ll find flexible options to suit your schedule and goals.

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City Lit is the UK’s leading adult education provider. Over 30 000 learners choose City Lit every year to learn something new. 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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All our courses are led by expert tutors including published authors, academics, practising artists, and experienced professionals; and they look forward to sharing their valuable knowledge and experience with you.

Dive into an unparalleled range of online courses with City Lit, the UK’s leading adult education provider. 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.

Courses in London & Online

Thousands of short courses in London and online as well as longer skills-based courses and qualifications available to book online now!

Whether you want to try something new, revive your passion, or take your skills to the next level; we have a huge range of courses for you to explore. Discover Languages, Art & Design, Drama, Music & Dance, Technology & Business, Writing, British Sign Language and much more!

All our courses here at City Lit are taught by expert tutors such as published authors, academics, practising artists, and experienced professionals. Our friendly, supportive, and inspiring tutors are here to boost your confidence and motivate you at every step. We always ensure that your journey with us is enjoyable, positive, and thought-provoking.

We offer online courses and in-person courses. Our interactive online courses are taught live and in small groups. Read our guide to online learning for more information. In-person courses are delivered at our modern college campus in London near Covent Garden

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  1. Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00
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  3. Masterworks of 19th Century French and Russian literature
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Richard Niland
    This class explores classic texts of 19th century French and Russian literature, discussing literary style, themes, and contexts as a way of developing and sharing responses to celebrated European writing. Among the French writers examined will be Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert and Rimbaud, with our Russians including Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov.
    Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00
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  4. Storytelling for business and pleasure 1
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  John Eastman
    All cultures respect the world of Story. The ability to tell Stories, in a variety of settings, is a skill that has seen a strong resurgence both in the workplace and in contemporary performance. Gain greater confidence in your communication skills and apply this to your wider experience. This course will be delivered in the college.
    Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £160.00
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  5. Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  6. First Novels Revisited: Amis, McEwan, Barnes, Ishiguro
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Lewis Ward
    Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro are household names of contemporary British fiction. But how did their careers begin in the 1970s and 1980s? And how do their early efforts stand up today?
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00
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  7. Immortal Longings: Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra
    Course start date:  Tue 6 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Julian Birkett
    Two great plays by Shakespeare, two love stories, two pairs of tragic lovers: Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra. Discover how Shakespeare entered the hearts of one couple still in their teens, astonished by their new found emotions, the other in the autumn of their lives, worldly and experienced, but whose passion for each other drew two great powers into fatal conflict.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  8. Modern Short Crime Fiction: 1950 to present times
    Course start date:  Tue 13 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  William Brady
    From Victorian ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ to the pages of mid-twentieth-century American Pulp Magazines, the history and evolution of the Crime genre has always been bound up with that of the short story. This course explores how this short-form legacy has been celebrated and sustained by Crime Writers from the latter half of the twentieth century to the present day. Short form narrative has proved an apt vehicle for emerging and established Crime Writers to experiment with the form—crafting suspenseful, mysterious and beguiling tales of the unexpected.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  9. Americans in Paris: Writers Writing in The City of Light
    Course start date:  Tue 13 May 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Alexander Fairbairn-Dixon
    Explore how three pioneering American writers wrote about their lives in Paris. Taking three different forms of life-writing together, memoir, autobiography, and roman a clèf, we’ll consider how Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Djuna Barnes depict a particular place and time. How did they portray the sights, sounds, streets and salons of Paris? What was it like to be a writer, breaking new ground, in the City of Light?
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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  11. Use your voice assertively
    Course start date:  Tue 8 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Lloyd Wylde
    Do you want to sound more confident, grounded, self-assured and assertive? Improve your vocal skills through a series of exercises that will support you to become more vocally confident, expressive and dynamic without appearing arrogant.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £125.00
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  12. The History of the Irish short story: from James Joyce to Claire Keegan
    Course start date:  Tue 29 Apr 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Richard Niland
    The short story has come to be seen as one of Irish Literature’s most celebrated forms of expression. From the early stories of George Moore and James Joyce, to modern classics by John McGahern, William Trevor and Claire Keegan, the short story has allowed Irish writers to pick apart the complexities of Irish society in powerful, precise and poetic terms. This course will explore some of the most iconic short stories of twentieth-century Irish literature.
    Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00
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