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Unheard Voices Scholarship
City Lit’s Malorie Blackman Scholarships for 'Unheard Voices' provide three annual awards to fund one year’s study within the Creative Writing department at City Lit. Learn more >
- Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
- Cornish advanced: module 1Course start date: Fri 26 Sep 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.
Over two years, the course prepares those wishing to take the 4th grade (final grade) of the Cornish Language Board examinations.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Nineteenth century French fictionCourse start date: Mon 29 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Megan BeechPassion, marriage, crime, class, and murder: these are just some of the key issues at play in the three exhilarating French novels we will discuss in this online course. Focusing on George Sand’s Indiana (1832), Balzac’s Père Goriot (1835) and Zola’s Thérèse Raquin (1868), we’ll explore French literary style and the influence of serialisation on sensation fiction and these author’s depictions of social class, romance, and realism.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00 - Latin 4 upper: module 1Course start date: Mon 29 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Justin Murray.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - Ancient Greek 3: module 3Course start date: Mon 29 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Hugo CookSuitable if you have completed Ancient Greek 3: module 2 or have an equivalent knowledge. Further your knowledge of grammatical structures and vocabulary so that you can read more complex Ancient Greek prose.
Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Sanskrit reading circleCourse start date: Mon 29 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vaughan PilikianThis is a course in the Sanskrit language based around the reading of Sanskrit texts unadapted.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - French 5: faits d'actualitéCourse start date: Mon 29 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Frédéric FournierVenez approfondir vos connaissances de la France et des institutions françaises et débattre de divers sujets d'actualité. Une approche créative et animée pour développer vos connaissances linguistiques et culturelles. - Modern Greek 5: advanced practiceCourse start date: Mon 29 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Maria ContosA lively online course for experiences learners of Modern Greek. Suitable if you have studied actively studied Modern Greek for at least 5 years.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Biblical Hebrew advanced: module 1Course start date: Mon 29 Sep 2025 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Rachel MontaguIn this advanced course, you will deepen your knowledge of Hebrew grammar and further develop your ability to translate from the Bible.
Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - French 4: conversationCourse start date: Tue 30 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Valerie JézéquelVenez discuter d'une diversité de sujets dans ce cours vivant et créatif qui vous aidera à renforcer vos compétences orales.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00 - Full fee £109.00 Senior fee £109.00 Concession £109.00
- Spanish A levelCourse start date: Tue 30 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
A demanding course preparing you for the A-level exam (Edexcel). You will need to have studied Spanish for about four years or have an equivalent level to join this course (B2).
At the end of this course, you will sit an exam and, if successful, will gain a nationally recognised qualification. Exam costs are included in the fee and are not refundable.
**City Lit is an adult education college, so we are only able to accept candidates who are aged 19 or over.
This course will be delivered online. Please see the "How will I be taught" section for term dates. A mock exam will take place in on 28/02/2026 at our Covent Garden college. You will therefore need to make sure that you make the necessary arrangements so that you can attend in person on that date.
The official exams will also take place at our Covent Garden college during the months of May and June 2026. - Latin 5 advanced: poetry groupCourse start date: Tue 13 May 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Justin Murray.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - Textiles: experimental hand stitchCourse start date: Tue 20 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Amarjeet NandhraA contemporary approach to hand stitching and embroidery exploring a variety of traditional stitches and techniques.
Create experimental and expressive samples using traditional and non-traditional materials.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - America in the 50s: culture and societyCourse start date: Tue 30 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Pauline Greene, Mark Malcomson, Dale Mineshima-Lowe, Paul Sutton, Patricia Sweeney, Ian TucknottFrom America's domestic expansion and boom in the 1950s, this online intertextual course explores the political, social and cultural context of 1950s America through a study of 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 £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00
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