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- Italian 3: practise and consolidate: module 3Course start date: Thu 1 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Roberto MinardiQuesta classe di conversazione ti offre la possibilità di consolidare il tuo livello intermedio di italiano praticando e perfezionando i punti grammaticali studiati al livello 3. Adatto a chi frequenta un corso al livello 3 lower or 3 upper oppure a chi ha una conoscenza equivalente della lingua.
Please note that this course takes place every other week. - Korean beginners: module 2+3Course start date: Sat 3 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Heeyun ChoiContinue learning Korean on this lively online course. Suitable if you have completed Korean beginners: module 1+2 or equivalent.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £162.00 - 19th Century Britain and Ireland: Parliament, people and protest, 1848-86Course start date: Wed 7 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: David IngledewExplore the main developments in British political history between 1848-1886 from the Tory split over the repeal of the Corn Laws to the Liberal Party split over Irish Home Rule
There is no session of 21st May.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00 - Korean 2 upper: module 3Course start date: Mon 12 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jaeran WonContinue to improve your Korean on this lively communicative online course. Improve your speaking and listening skills while further developing your understanding of Korean grammar.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Italian 3 upper: module 3Course start date: Mon 12 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Paola NorthQuesti corsi ti daranno la possibilitá di migliorare le tue capacitá di comprensione ed espressione scritta ed orale e sono basati sull' uso di materiale audiovisivo, lettura, discussione e pratica grammaticale. É necessario aver completato il 'module 2' o equivalente. Il corso si basa sul libro Nuovo Espresso 3 (Alma Edizioni). - Chinese 2 lower: module 3Course start date: Mon 12 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ting PoonContinue improving your Chinese Mandarin in the heart of London on this lively classroom-based course with the emphasis on speaking and listening. Suitable if you have been studying Chinese 2 lower: module 2 for a year and a half or have an equivalent level. - Anthropology of space, place and the cultural landscapeCourse start date: Mon 12 May 2025
Location 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. - Workplace communication skills: how to get a better job (ESOL entry 3-level 1)Course start date: Mon 12 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Are you looking for a new or better job? Do you feel nervous in interviews? Would you like to learn the English you need to impress an employer? This course will help you with the language you need to do well in interviews, to feel calm and relaxed. You will work on predicting the types of questions an employer will ask you and you will practise answering them. You will work on your pronunciation including stress and you will role play different situations that take place in an interview.
You need to do a pre-course assessment. Contact universal.skills@citylit.ac.uk / 020 8078 0489 for a face-to-face assessment or click the Start Assessment button on this page. Log on with your email address (not name).
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 £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £25.00 - Biblical Hebrew 3: module 3Course start date: Mon 12 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Rachel MontaguFurther your knowledge of Hebrew grammar and develop your ability to translate from the Bible. Suitable for those who have completed Level 2: modules 1 and 2 at City Lit or have an equivalent knowledge.
Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £103.00 - Korean 3 upper: module 3Course start date: Mon 12 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jaeran WonContinue your study of Korean in this lively online year 3 course. Improve your speaking and listening skills while further developing your understanding of Korean grammar.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Spanish 2 lower: module 2Course start date: Mon 12 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gracia ChinchillaContinue improving your elementary Spanish on this communicative course, taught in Spanish with the emphasis on speaking and listening. Suitable if you have completed 'Spanish 2 lower: module 1' or equivalent. Based on units 6-10 of 'Ele Actual A2 (libro del alumno)' and exercise book (SM Publishers).
Please do not buy the book until after the first session, as if you transfer to another level you might use a different book. - Latin 1: module 3Course start date: Tue 13 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Justin MurraySuitable if you have completed Latin 1: modules 1 and 2 or have an equivalent knowledge. Continue to learn the basic grammatical structures and vocabulary so that you can improve your ability to read and translate straightforward Latin.
- Global encounters: Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1100-1700Course start date: Tue 13 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Vanessa KingThe Turks entered European consciousness in 1071 when they captured the Byzantine emperor at the Battle of Manzikert. So began centuries of uneasy co-existence between Christians and Muslims on the fringes of Europe.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - London in WritingCourse start date: Tue 13 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Kate WilkinsonCome and explore London in writing! On this course we’ll study fiction and non-fiction texts about London. Contemporary perspectives on the city include two recent novels: Happiness by Aminatta Forna and Light Perpetual by Frances Spufford.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00
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