Business, Marketing & Technology Courses
Excited by new technology, scientific breakthroughs or business success? Want to improve your digital skills for the workplace or for personal use? Or perhaps you'd like to delve deeper into nature, conservation or astronomy?
We offer a wide range of courses to support your learning. Whether you're interested in programming, coding, web design, or data analysis with Python, we have something for you. Stay updated with the latest technology through our Generative AI and machine learning courses. These will help you understand new developments and give you the tools to succeed in business and digital marketing.
Additionally, we've introduced new courses in Financial Technologies (FinTech), Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, and Cybersecurity for business. Recognizing the importance of decision-making in AI, we also offer short courses on Ethics in AI and Business Sustainability in AI.
Our tutors are highly qualified industry professionals and will help you reach your personal goals whether you are a complete beginner or are building on existing experience.
Staff training and employee development
We also offer corporate training for your employees. This can be customised to your company’s training needs and the areas we cover are Programming, Web development, Adobe Creative cloud, Advanced MS Office, digital marketing, social media, podcasting, Generative AI and Ethics in AI, Financial Technologies (FinTech) and cybersecurity for business. We have been successfully delivering ad hoc workplace training courses for over two decades to companies in London. In recent years we have also been offering staff skills training courses online or in hybrid format to provide more flexibility to employees looking to develop their skills. For more information on employee development courses please contact our department computing@citylit.ac.uk
Browse technology, business and science courses below and enrol today!
- Chemistry for Fun, Part 3, Organic: From Alkanes to Amino AcidsCourse start date: Wed 7 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Gary RetallickWe look at organic chemistry, moving from relatively simple organic molecules such as alkanes to the structures which constitute the basis of living organisms, visiting petrochemicals and alcohols en route to amino acids and DNA.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00 - Using hashtags effectively
Course start date: Tue 24 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Amber Raney-KincadeHashtags are used on social media across many platforms, including Instagram, TikTok and Threads. This class is devoted to understanding hashtags and how to use them properly and effectively on social platforms. What is a hashtag, how do you create and track one, and how do you pick the right hashtag for your social media content.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Social Media Engagement, Trends & Algorithms Course start date: Wed 5 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Amber Raney-KincadeEngagement is an important part of social media. By not engaging on the platform you reduce your visibility and raking with the algorithm. This class will show you how to engage and use trends on LinkedIn, Facebook, X (previously Twitter), Instagram and TikTok. When you engage with other posts on social media this helps to improve your performance on the algorithm. - Social Media Building Better PostsCourse start date: Wed 12 Nov 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Amber Raney-KincadeThis is a new course for the 2025/26 academic year in the Business and Technology department which we are currently preparing the outline for. Please check again soon.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Digital skills for business: how to create successful business presentations on PowerPoint and Canva (intermediate)Course start date: Wed 11 Mar 2026
Location on this date: Online
Do you have to give presentations at work, for business, to future clients that need to be professional and impacting? Do you want to know how to create a PowerPoint presentation that tells a story and engages the audience? On this course, you will learn how to structure a presentation using data effectively in which the PowerPoint enhances the message. You will focus on both your communication and digital skills so you develop your professional presence and how you relate to the listeners and you learn how to create impacting slides to create your storyline, present data and other information appropriate to your audience and purpose.
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £35.00
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