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- Getting ready for essential digital skills for work (Level 1)Course start date: Wed 17 Sep 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Do you have some digital skills but lack confidence to use them? Would you like to gain the most essential digital skills needed for today's workplace? If so, and you need to develop the foundational digital skills for today's job market, this is the course for you. The course will give you the confidence to use different digital devices and tools to collaborate and communicate efficiently with work colleagues, to create and edit documents and presentations, and make simple spreadsheets. You will learn about different types of digital communication as well as how to use online resources for finding and using information and completing transactions. You will learn the transferable digital skills you need to progress, participate and express yourself in the workplace and gain a qualification. 53% of UK employees do not have the digital skills needed for work. You don't need to be one of them.
Please note: you MUST pass the first part of the course, attend every class and do the necessary homework. If you do not, you will not be able to continue the course.
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 £79.00 - Writing for magazinesCourse start date: Wed 7 May 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Laura SilvermanGet inspired to write on this practical course for freelance journalists and bloggers. Learn to carry out research, interview people, pitch and publish stories, and build your presence on social media.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00 - Digital video editing: stage 2Course start date: Wed 14 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lily MarkiewiczImprove, and speed up your process and learn to use vital techniques for improving your edits. Explore building a better narrative structure and find out about essentials like screen-directionality, POV constructions and rhythm building.Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £175.00 - Spanish 2 upper: module 3Course start date: Wed 14 May 2025 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Adriana Itriago GavidiaFurther improve your Spanish with the emphasis on listening, speaking, and acquiring a greater understanding of grammar. You should have completed 'Spanish 2 upper: module 2' or equivalent. Based on 'Aula Internacional A2 Plus, (Difusión 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.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - In Conversation with Hallie RubenholdCourse start date: Wed 14 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Join us at City Lit for an event with Hallie Rubenhold to celebrate her new book, Story of a Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen. Hosted by City Lit Principal Mark Malcomson CBE, the conversation will focus on Hallie's feminist retelling of the infamous true-crime story of Dr Crippen. The event includes an audience Q&A, followed by a drinks reception and book signing.
Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £10.00 Concession £10.00 - Ubuntu, communitarianism and personhood: key concepts in African philosophyCourse start date: Wed 14 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ovett NwosimiriThis course is an introduction to the key concepts in African philosophy. We will analyse the various positions and contestations regarding the nature, and trends in African philosophy, debate on communitarianism and personhood, and ubuntu.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00 - Imperialism and the environmentCourse start date: Wed 14 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Alison ApplebyAs part of the joint day between Amnesty International UK and City Lit on climate change and environmental justice, this course will look at some of the ways the expansion of empires during the period when Europe was industrialising affected the environment in those parts of the world that were conquered and controlled.Full fee £10.00 Senior fee £8.00 Concession £7.00 - City Lit ceramics intermediate workshopCourse start date: Wed 14 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel CoxExperience and explore all the making techniques in ceramics: coiling, slab-building, press moulds and throwing on the wheel with tutor guidance and demonstration. Also covering surface decoration techniques and basic glazing.
Full fee £719.00 Senior fee £575.00 Concession £467.00 - French beginners intensive: module 2Course start date: Wed 14 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Valerie JézéquelLearn French on this lively interactive intensivecourse for near beginners. The course will be taught in French with an emphasis on developing your speaking and listening skills.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - Advanced creative non-fiction workshopCourse start date: Wed 14 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Erica BuistThis advanced workshop is designed for students who have already completed introductory and intermediate creative-non fiction courses and would like to focus on workshopping their writing.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00 - SketchUp Pro: intermediateCourse start date: Wed 14 May 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nicholas WilliamsonThis intensive course is designed for people who have either completed the SketchUp Pro for beginners course or have previous experience of the software. A great opportunity to review your skills and take them to a more advanced level. There will be the opportunity for you to consider your own projects during the course.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00 - Contemporary Middle-Eastern politicsCourse start date: Wed 14 May 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Nomaan HanifThe Middle East remains the global hotbed of conflict and instability where religion still plays a dominant role in the life and politics of society. This course will aim through a combination of teaching and participant discussion to provide some historical perspective and connect, evaluate and understand contemporary geopolitics, diplomacy and events in the region. Tutor: Noman Hanif. - Renaissance art at the National GalleryCourse start date: Wed 14 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Emma Rose BarberThis course explores the Making, the Locating and the Viewing of Renaissance paintings in the collection of the National Gallery. This course takes place at the National Gallery.Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00 - Spanish 2 lower: module 3Course start date: Wed 14 May 2025 (and 6 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Cristina CasadoContinue 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 2' or equivalent.
Please note that because we are piloting a new course coursebook, the course content, course obejctives and course book will be different depending on which course you choose.
Please refer to the Course Outline below the course options for all the details.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Italian pronunciationCourse start date: Wed 14 May 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Evi CampetellaThis short course is geared towards helping you sound more like a native speaker of Italian. While Italian pronunciation may seem relatively simple, there are actually quite a few features that require focus and practice. This course will allow you to concentrate on the sounds of Italian - how to produce them when speaking and how to recognise them when listening.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
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