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- Brazilian Portuguese rapidamente: module 3Course start date: Wed 7 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Denise DelfThis course is suitable if you already speak a Romance language such as French, Italian, Romanian or Spanish. It might also be suitable if you would like to learn at a much faster pace.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - Tales of transformation: Ovid’s MetamorphosesCourse start date: Thu 8 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Nikoletta ManiotiSo many works of art refer, in a way or another, to Ovid's Metamorphoses. In this course, you'll become familiar with some of the most memorable stories in this masterpiece and begin to understand why its stories are - and have been - so universally fascinating and influential.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £64.00 - Everyday Life in the Roman EmpireCourse start date: Thu 8 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sean GabbAn opportunity to find about how daily life was for ordinary people in the Roman Empire. - Anthropology of space, place and the cultural landscape
Course start date: Mon 12 May 2025Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Yasmin HalesThis is an introductory and interdisciplinary course which ranges beyond social anthropology to explore aspects of cultural geography, philosophy, psychology, art and architectural history, enriching your theoretical and ethnographic understanding of the cross cultural meaning of space within the built environment. - Welsh 3: clwb darllen / reading clubCourse start date: Thu 1 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Clare WhiteheadCome and read some Welsh short stories together! You'll expand your vocabulary, see the grammar we learn in class come alive, and have an introduction to Welsh literature.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00 - 3D animation with Blender Course start date: Wed 7 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Benjamin AustinIf you are new to 3d animation, you’ve had a go at teaching yourself but are not making progress, or perhaps you are transferring to Blender from a different 3D program, this course is for you.
It will take you through a professional approach to creating characters and environments in 3D from scratch, as well as introducing workflows and techniques to help produce polished 3D animations of your own. - The Iliad reading group (in translation)Course start date: Wed 14 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Justin MurrayCome and explore Homer's great epic tale in translation.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
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