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- Japanese 3 lower: module 3Course start date: Thu 1 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Chikako NakagawaImprove your level of Japanese on this communicative course where you will have the opportunity to develop your oral and listening skills as well as consolidate your reading and writing skills. Suitable if you have completed Japanese 3 lower: module 2 or 4 years recently. - Welsh 3 lower: module 3Course start date: Thu 1 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Clare WhiteheadJoin this lively online course to further develop your upper-intermediate Welsh. - Piano/keyboards 4CCourse start date: Thu 1 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David FrankelFor pianists with around three years' experience. Improve your finger technique, coordination, phrasing, music
reading, and your confidence.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £160.00 - Exploring film directors
Course start date: Fri 2 May 2025Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jon WisbeySeen as the unifying and creative force in a film, directors have become important for both an audience's engagement and a film's marketing and 'positioning'. This course explores the work of a range of directors, or 'auteurs', their approach to filmmaking and their thematic interests, while assessing the concept of authorship and the contexts in which a director's work is produced and consumed.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00 - Cornish advanced: module 3Course start date: Fri 2 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jo P'RhysDevelop your advanced Cornish conversation and discussion.Suitable for anyone who has studied Cornish for several years and wants to improve their oral skills.
The course prepares you for the 4th grade (final grade) of the Cornish Language Board examinations. - Art in medieval Italy: the Kingdom of Lombardy and its impactCourse start date: Fri 2 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Simone ChisenaDiscover the rich artistic heritage of the first Kings of Italy, the tenacious warriors who first rule the country.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - German advanced intensive Course start date: Sat 3 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Tim MatschakVertiefen Sie Ihre Deutschkenntnisse durch eine vielseitige Auswahl an aktuellen Materialien, Texten, Videos und Hörverständnissen. In diesem Kurs können Sie auch Ihre Diskussionfähigkeit, Ihre Grammatik und Ihren Wortschatz erweitern. This is an intensive advanced German course.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £259.00 Concession £168.00 - Life in Anglo-Saxon England Course start date: Tue 6 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Stephen Pollington. - New Testament Greek 2: module 3Course start date: Tue 6 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jordan Dyck.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Latin 3: module 2 Course start date: Tue 6 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Elena VaccaSuitable if you have completed Latin 3: module 1 or have an equivalent knowledge. Further your knowledge of grammatical structures and vocabulary. Improve your skills at reading and translating Latin while exploring Roman culture and history.
- America in the 40s: culture and society Course start date: Tue 6 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Zoe Crombie, Pauline Greene, Mark Malcomson, Dale Mineshima-Lowe, Patricia Sweeney, Ian TucknottThe bombing of Pearl Harbor brought Americans into WW2, while the European need for goods pulled the USA out of the Depression of the 30s, providing new opportunities for women, African Americans and other people of colour.
Post-War America saw a new energy, of hope but also despair. This online intertextual course explores the political, social and cultural context of 1940s America through a study of the literature, history, music, film and art of the period.
With different tutors for each specialism, the course provides a 'taster' in each subject as a gateway to further study in understanding this fascinating period in American culture and society.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00 - Argonautica: reading group (in translation) module 3Course start date: Tue 6 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Nikoletta ManiotiA reading group focusing on the Argonautica by the Greek poet Apollonius of Rhodes (in English translation).Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Medieval Latin: module 3Course start date: Wed 7 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Mary Ruskin.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - Ancient Greek 4: module 3Course start date: Wed 7 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Andrew DavidContinue to study Ancient Greek grammar and improve your skills at reading and translating Greek texts.
- German 3: Deutschland 1945-1989: Außenpolitik und Kultur auf beiden Seiten der Berliner MauerCourse start date: Wed 7 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Anna RiolandLearn and speak about the history of Germany 1945-1989 in this interactive intermediate German course.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00
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