- Pilates: mixed levels
Course start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025 (and 3 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Eleanor ShearnLearn unique Pilates exercises to improve your core strength, muscular strength, balance, posture and relaxation. Develop your technique, use small equipment, and progress your practise. Include these enjoyable exercises into your daily routine for improved health.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £146.00 - Ways into creative writing: a gentle pace Course start date: Wed 11 Feb 2026 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Claire CollisonAre you brand new to creative writing? Do you want to build your confidence in a supportive environment alongside other beginners? This gentle short-course guides students taking their first steps on the path to becoming a creative writer.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £80.00 - Storytelling for business and pleasure 1Course start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ariella EshedAll cultures respect the world of Story. The ability to tell Stories, in a variety of settings, is a skill that has seen a strong resurgence both in the workplace and in contemporary performance. Gain greater confidence in your communication skills and apply this to your wider experience. This course will be delivered in the college.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £132.00 - Nazi Germany: politics, society, war and genocide Course start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Rudolf MuhsThis course offers a broad survey of Nazi Germany, its leaders and its population, its racial ideology, political ambitions and structures of rule, its opponents and its victims, and its ultimate descent into world war and genocide.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Biblical Hebrew 2: module 1Course start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Rachel MontaguIncrease your knowledge of Biblical Hebrew grammar and vocabulary. Suitable for those who have completed Biblical Hebrew 1 or have an equivalent knowledge.
Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £103.00 - Grammar in practice: advanced (level 2+) Course start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Is your grammar holding you back? Learn how to communicate more effectively by analysing, discussing and experimenting with English grammar. This course will help you realise that grammar is really about meaning: understanding better the meaning of what someone is saying and expressing yourself more meaningfully.
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). The course runs over three terms (though you may start any term, places allowing).
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 £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £95.00 - Medieval and Renaissance art at the V&ACourse start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Off Site
Tutors: Andreas PetzoldExplore the one of the finest and most diverse collections of medieval and Renaissance art and material culture in the world at the V&A Museum.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Ways into Advanced Literature: the dawning of modernity Course start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Patricia SweeneyFor those who want to explore the rewards of in-depth literary study, focusing on fiction and drama. Read, analyse and debate works that reflect the cultural and historical changes in a shifting world, exploring three seminal works of the modern age: Three Sisters (1900) by Anton Chekhov, The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford and The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton.
Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Medieval Latin: module 1Course start date: Wed 1 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Mary RuskinImprove your fluency in reading Medieval Latin by translating original literary, religious, historical, and philosophical passages. Knowledge of classical Latin grammar is required.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00 - Female myths and divinities from Ancient Greece Course start date: Wed 8 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Maria ContosDiscover some of the female myths and deities from Ancient Greece.
Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00 - Russian 4: art and culture part 1Course start date: Wed 8 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Eugeniya ClarkLearn Russian through this culturally immersive language course focussing on Russian art. The emphasis is on developing listening and speaking skills. There will be some writing assignments too.
Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £103.00 - Ruling Russia: Tsars, Revolutions, Civil War , and the Triumph of Lenin (1860-1924) Course start date: Wed 8 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Zoe QuinnThis course explores the transformative period of Russian history from 1860 to 1924, encompassing the autocratic rule of the Tsars, the revolutionary upheavals of 1905 and 1917, the chaos of the civil war, and the consolidation of the Bolshevik regime. Students will examine key events, figures, and ideologies that shaped modern Russia, delving into the complexities of political, social, and economic changes during this era.
Please note: this course includes much of the material covered in previous Russian Revolution courses at the City Lit. Moreover this course is taught at an introductory level. Tutor: Zoe Quinn.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00 - French 4/5: Les accents francophonesCourse start date: Wed 8 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Online
If you are fluent in French but still unable to distinguish between different accents from within France and across the French speaking world, this course will help you familiarise yourself with the main features of different accents and help you improve your speaking skills.
Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - Crime fiction reading group Course start date: Wed 8 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Christine HawkinsAre you obsessed with reading crime fiction? You might like to join our Crime fiction reading group, where we share thoughts and ideas about what you are reading, with books chosen by the group. Please come to the first session with suggestions (crime fiction in paperback) and having read 'The Big Sleep' by Rayond Chandler. Monthly meetings take place on 8/10, 5/11, 3/12, 21/1, 18/2, 18/3, 6/5, 3/6, 1/7.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £123.00 - British Directors: David Lean and Carol Reed Course start date: Wed 15 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: John WischmeyerJoin us as we explore the careers of two of the most significant and influential film directors in the history of British cinema: David Lean and Carol Reed. We will chart their rise through the ranks as they undertook various roles in the British film industry and we will explore what made them such important filmmakers. We will look too at their signature visual styles and analyse in detail some of their most celebrated films.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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