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- Exploring classical music: module 3
Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025 (and 2 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Edward BreenDo you want to know more about Western classical music? Explore selected topics and key works in Romantic and modern music on this informative 10-week course. Ideal for people with no specialist knowledge. NB: Break week 5 & 26 May 2025.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £125.00 - German beginners: module 2 + 3Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vera MessariusSuitable if you have completed module 1 or equivalent. Based on Willkommen Chapters 6-8 (Hodder Arnold). This course covers the second part of module 2 as well as module 3. It is a bit faster than our regular courses and therefore essential to do a minimum of 1.5 hours homework a week. - Japanese beginners: module 2 Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Chikako NakagawaContinue learning to speak Japanese, with the emphasis on developing your listening and speaking skills,
Suitable if you have completed Japanese beginners: module 1 or learn Japanese in a complete beginners course for a term.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Hindi beginners: module 3 Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sabrina OsborneContinue learning Hindi on this live online course and develop your listening and speaking skills in this communicative course which emphasises the practical use of the language. Suitable if you have completed beginners: module 2 or equivalent. Continue learning Hindi and develop your listening and speaking skills in this communicative course which emphasises the practical use of the language. Suitable if you have completed module 2 or equivalent.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Italian beginners: module 2 Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Maria FontanaContinue learning to speak Italian on this communicative course for near beginners, with the emphasis on the practical use of Italian and the development of your speaking and listening skills. Based on Nuovo Espresso 1 (Alma Edizioni - Italian version).Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00 - Italian rapidamente: module 3Course start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Evi CampetellaSuitable if you have completed Italian Rapidamente: module 2. This intensive Italian course that is suitable if you already speak a Romance language like Spanish, French, Portuguese or Romanian or if you want to learn at a much faster pace. This is suitable for those who have completed Italian rapidamente: modules 1 and 2, or who have a similar level. Feel free to get in touch if you're unsure of your level.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - Swedish beginners: module 2Course start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Yohanna JacobssonThis fun and communicative online course expands your emerging Swedish conversational skills as well as introduces you to aspects of contemporary Swedish culture. Suitable if you have completed Swedish beginners, module 1 or have basic Swedish.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00 - Cornish beginners: module 3Course start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Gary RetallickContinue learning Cornish online on this communicative course. This course incorporates a near-beginners' group and an intermediate group. The near-beginners' group is suitable for those who have studied basic Cornish before to the language and the intermediate group is suitable for those who wish to develop their speaking and listening skills. To enrol you should have completed module 2 or equivalent.Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £90.00 - Hell, Heaven and Purgatory in the Middle AgesCourse start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Emma Rose BarberWhy were images to do with the afterlife so prevalent in the Middle Ages? Come, face your eternal destinies and look at images such as the Last Judgement, skeletons, filthy flesh, worms, ghosts and Hell mouths.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Latin 1: module 2 Course start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jordan DyckContinue to study elementary Latin. Suitable for those who have completed level 1 module 1, or a reminder of what you have forgotten, if you are rusty. Based on Latin to GCSE by H. Cullen and J. Taylor (Bloomsbury 2016). - Exploring American cinema Course start date: Wed 30 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jon WisbeyAmerican, or 'Hollywood' cinema, remains the dominant form of popular film and filmmaking, seen and enjoyed by millions of cinemagoers around the world. Explore its history, from the earliest days of the industry to its 'golden age' and its contemporary incarnation in popular culture, and the ways in which it has continually transformed itself in order to retain its position as the popular cinema.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00 - Italian rapidamente: module 2Course start date: Wed 30 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Paola NorthSuitable if you have completed Italian Rapidamente: module 1.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - Stories of London Course start date: Wed 30 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Blended (learn both online and in-person)
Tutors: Eleanor JacksonExplore London’s rich history in a series of guided walks. Each week we examine a different neighbourhood & era from the capital’s past. We look at its people, both rich and poor, & the events that shaped the city.
Initial lecture via Zoom followed by 6 guided walks. - Danish Beginners: module 2Course start date: Wed 30 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Anne Svenstrup GrantConsolidate and build on your Danish language skills and expand your knowledge of Danish traditions and culture. Suitable if you have completed Danish beginners module 1 or have a basic level of Danish.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £149.00 - Biblical Hebrew 1: module 3Course start date: Wed 30 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Rachel MontaguLearn the basic grammatical structures for reading and translating Biblical Hebrew. Suitable for those who have completed Biblical Hebrew 1: modules 1 and 2 or have an equivalent knowledge.
Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £209.00 Concession £136.00
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