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!
- Generative AI: a short introduction
Course start date: Fri 5 Dec 2025 (and 7 other dates)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Kate ScottThis is a short introduction to Generative AI for non-technical beginners who want to find out what all the fuss is about over ChatGPT, Gemini, and Firefly.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00 - Understanding Ethics in AI Course start date: Sat 24 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Vina TheodorakopoulouThis is a short introduction to Ethics in AI for non-technical beginners who aspire to drive responsible AI design and use. This course will enable you to strike a balance between the potential benefits and risks of AI technology.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Podcasting: introduction Course start date: Fri 13 Jun 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David MonteithDo you want to create your own podcast? This is your chance to develop your ideas into a podcast which you will produce in this course.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - Nature Friday Lates: The Lost Temperate Rainforests of the UKCourse start date: Fri 20 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Chantal WoodunThe British isles were once covered in temperate rainforests. Join Chantal Woodrun to discover these landscapes and what still remains of them.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Create presentations and brochures using CanvaCourse start date: Fri 20 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Yolanda De Los Bueis UnanuaLearn the essentials of creating visually engaging presentations and brochures using Canva. Whether you’re a small business, a marketing officer, or simply interested in promoting a project, this course will equip you with the skills to design impactful graphics for show and distribution. Learn to navigate Canva’s user-friendly interface and create professional-quality content that stands out.
Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Generative AI strategy and governance Course start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vina TheodorakopoulouThe Generative AI Strategy and Governance course will explore the strategic and ethical implications of generative AI adoption, focusing on responsible governance and effective strategies.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00 - Science Friday Lates with Radmila Topalovic: Going back to the Moon: NASA's Artemis missionCourse start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Radmila TopalovicIn this interactive session we will discuss past, present and future missions to the Moon, in particular NASA’s Artemis mission and the plan to send people back to the Moon.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Parallel Universes and the Multiverse – Science Fiction or Science Fact?Course start date: Fri 11 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Gary RetallickDo parallel universes exist? We will see how modern physics does not rule out this possibility and how some theories and observations may even imply that our universe is just one of many.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Science Friday Lates: The Geology of MarsCourse start date: Fri 25 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Online
Join Louise Hawkins for a geological tour of the surface of Mars, the red planet, to learn about its rocks and what they tell us about how the planet has evolved over the last 4.5 billion years.
Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - A taste of physics Course start date: Fri 12 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Radmila TopalovicGet a taste of the fundamental aspects of physics such as the nature of light, matter and energy and the physical laws governing the world around us and our universe. - Science Friday Lates with Radmila Topalovic: Navigating the Night Sky: Autumn/WinterCourse start date: Fri 3 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Radmila TopalovicWe will take a tour of the seasonal night sky, going beyond the veil of light pollution to explore the cosmic sights that we can all find from home. You will learn how to plan your stargazing session from maps to apps and find the things that most people miss.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Becoming confident on the cloud: a new way of sharing and managing your files - OneDrive and Google drive (foundation) Course start date: Fri 17 Apr 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
The digital world is changing from sending emails to sharing files. Attaching files, sending them, downloading them, working on them, saving them, re-attaching and re-sending them is becoming a thing of the past. Instead, with cloud computing, you can share and collaborate on files either at the same time or separately without any emailing or downloading. Join this course and learn how to do this and stay on top of your file management. Learn how to use OneDrive and Google Drive to create, store, share and collaborate on different types of documents on your PC as well as other devices. Discover also how to maintain security while syncing your devices and accounts. By the end of this course, you will have grasped what cloud-computing means and be confident of exploring it further.
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 £109.00 Senior fee £87.00 Concession £55.00 - Design with Adobe Photoshop and IllustratorCourse start date: Fri 17 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gita HahnA thorough, step-by-step introduction to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator – programs widely used by designers and illustrators in the creative industries. Learn and experiment with a range of techniques that integrate vector and pixel-based images for design and illustration.Full fee £439.00 Senior fee £351.00 Concession £285.00 - PC maintenance: an introductionCourse start date: Fri 17 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Terry MyersLearn how to troubleshoot and solve common computer hardware problems. Discover what is inside a computer, how it works and how to upgrade computer components.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Deep Learning: Computer Vision Course start date: Fri 24 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Muhammad KhanImagine teaching machines to see as humans do! Dive into computer vision, the exciting AI field that enables robots, self-driving cars, and smartphones to interpret images, recognize faces, and make visual decisions intelligently.
Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £227.00
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