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: Sat 11 Oct 2025 (and 7 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Vina TheodorakopoulouThis 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 - Introduction to Python Course start date: Sun 25 May 2025 (and 9 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Muhammad KhanWant to learn more about how computers work and what computer programmers do? Get started using Python, the most popular and easy-to-use programming language in the world.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Build a website with WordPress Course start date: Sat 4 Oct 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
WordPress is the world's most popular content management system, and it's free! On this intensive, one-day course you'll learn how to use it to build your own website.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00 - Introduction to machine learning Course start date: Sat 11 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Kathryn ColdhamOne of the great advances in technology is that machines can learn without humans teaching them explicit rules – e.g. letting machines train on samples of speech allows Siri to recognise your commands. Machine learning is a large part of artificial intelligence, and a mystery to most of us. This practical course teaches you how to program learning algorithms in Python. We will cover fundamentals of classification, natural language processing, financial predictions and much more. You will learn elements of data mining, how to choose a learning algorithm, and how to tweak parameters of the algorithm. We will briefly cover the theory behind the algorithms, so some maths knowledge is useful, but not required. To enrol, you must have experience with Python or a similar programming language, e.g. have taken City Lit’s Introduction to Python or Introduction to R programming course.Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £227.00 - Excel: analysing data (stage 1) Course start date: Sat 25 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Nick BrownDevelop essential skills to tackle complex data sets & create conclusions and recommendations for non-data minded stakeholders in your organisation. Focus on pivot tables, formatting and perfecting your commentary skills. Some familiarity with using Excel is required.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - Introduction to artificial intelligence Course start date: Wed 14 May 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Kathryn ColdhamStephen Hawking and Elon Musk say it's humanity's biggest threat, but you use it every day. Learn what artificial intelligence is, what it will become, and how it works.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Communicate with confidence through voice and body languageCourse start date: Sat 10 May 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kate MontagueDiscover how to enhance your vocal and physical impact and presence in many situations and become aware of habits that may hold you back from achieving your full potential. Skills include establishing rapport, assertive posture and gesture, vocal energy, projecting an effective personal style, sensitive listening and communicating with care and conviction. This Saturday course will be delivered in the college.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £125.00 - Cyber security essentials: a short introduction Course start date: Sat 18 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)
Tutors: Sathish BoiniLearn how to protect your personal or business data from cyber security attacks in this short course. You will learn how to deploy basic technical controls into your personal or organisation data information systems to ensure that basic technical security measures are in place.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00 - Adobe InDesign: a detailed introduction Course start date: Sat 19 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrea MarzanoThis course is a solid introduction to Adobe InDesign and has been designed for students who want to learn the professional and most effective way to use InDesign from the ground up.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Introduction to programming Course start date: Sat 4 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Roden DerveniThis is a beginner's course designed for anyone who wants to dip their toes into the exciting world of programming and see what all the fuss is about. Perfect if you want to make your first step in learning any of the programming languages at City Lit. - Looking at winter treesCourse start date: Sat 11 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Letta JonesJoin Letta Jones for three tree identification walks in Regent’s Park. These walks will take place on Saturday morning. We will explore common trees, focussing on bark, twigs, leaves, outline, seeds and fruits, with the aim of giving you the confidence to get to know what to look for when identifying trees.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00 - Physics unravelled: navigating the maze of string theory Course start date: Sat 18 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gary RetallickWith its promise of answering questions about black holes, gravity and dark matter/energy, string theory has captivated many physicists for the past 50 years. In this course, we will look at string theory in a non-technical way and consider what the prospects are for this remarkable theory.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00 - Autumn Wildlife Walk: Richmond Park & the Red Deer RutCourse start date: Sat 18 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ben ChappleJoin Ben Chapple to explore London’s wonderful Richmond Park, appreciate the fascinating behaviour and ecology of its wildlife (including the Red Deer rut), and learn about the challenges of conserving nature in the urban environment.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £71.00 Concession £58.00 - Business administration: using Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access in the office (intermediate)Course start date: Sat 18 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Do you want to learn the digital skills needed for office and administration work? On this course, you will focus on completing the keys tasks required to be a business administrator. You will learn how to produce high quality and well-presented documents such as minutes, formal letters and flyers using Word. You will develop your skills in producing presentations with PowerPoint that are visually appealing, modern and effective. You will also work in depth on how to use Excel and Access for data handling, processing and analysing, including how to enter and edit data, arrange and present it effectively, make calculations and highlights data trends.
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 £319.00 Senior fee £255.00 Concession £160.00
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