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- Tai Chi: intermediateCourse start date: Wed 25 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Kamal ThapenCarry on discovering the gentle, graceful movements of Yang style Short Form T'ai Chi in classes designed to introduce you to the T'ai Chi and Qi Gong basics. Learn and develop clear, powerful and effective practice designed to give you a solid grounding in T'ai Chi and Qi Gong and an insight into their wonderful possibilities. This is a follow on to the beginner’s course and will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £118.00 - Spanish 2 lower: module 2Course start date: Wed 25 Sep 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Roberto GallegoContinue 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).Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £219.00 Concession £142.00 - Ancient Greek 2: module 3Course start date: Wed 17 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Hugo CookSuitable if you have completed Ancient Greek 2 modules 1 and 2 or have an equivalent knowledge. Further your knowledge of grammatical structures and vocabulary so that you can read more complex Classical Greek prose.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Latin 5Course start date: Wed 2 Oct 2024 (and 8 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Andrew DavidIn this advanced course, you will read and translate unadapted texts by Latin authors to deepen your appreciation of their work and your knowledge of Roman culture, history and society.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Latin 2: module 3Course start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Elena VaccaImprove your knowledge of Latin grammar and your ability to read and write Latin, as well as exploring Roman culture and history. Suitable if you have completed Latin 2 module 2 at City Lit or have an equivalent knowledge.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Manual lymphatic drainage: detox for face and neckCourse start date: Wed 2 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Tutors: Janet WhiteheadWould you like to learn how to give a detox facial massage? Based on the lymphatic system, this technique is designed to eliminate toxins and improve the skin's appearance by boosting the immune system.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £179.00 - Victorian networks: How trains and telegraphs shaped 19th century cultureCourse start date: Wed 2 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Harriet ThompsonEver wondered about the origins of our current networked culture and media-saturated society? Taking a deep delve into the weird and wonderful world of Victorian technologies, we will consider how advancements in media, transport, and communication produced new kinds of meaning and iterations of the human in the nineteenth century. Reading literary texts by Charles Dickens and Henry James, alongside theoretical work by Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Sadie Plant, and Donna Haraway, we will consider the influence of new technologies on literary form and style.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00 - Latin 4 lower: module 3Course start date: Wed 2 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sara De MartinContinue to study Latin grammar and improve your skills at reading and translating Latin texts as well as exploring Roman culture and history. Based on Reading Latin, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2 volumes.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £209.00 Concession £136.00 - Ways into advanced fiction, poetry and drama: the dawning of modernityCourse start date: Wed 2 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Patricia SweeneyFor those who want to explore the rewards of in-depth literary study, focusing on fiction, poetry and drama. Read, analyse and debate works that reflect the cultural and historical changes as the world moves from the Victorian age to modernity, including 'The Awakening' (1899) by Kate Chopin, 'Three Sisters' (1901) by Anton Chekhov and poetry by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00 - Old English level 2Course start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Stephen PollingtonThis course follows on the level 1 class. Continue to learn the Old English grammar and become familiar with more of its features.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £129.00 - French rapidement: module 1
Course start date: Wed 9 Oct 2024Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michel WillameThis course for beginners is suitable if you already speak a Romance language like Spanish, French, Portuguese or Romanian. It might also be suitable if you would like to learn at a much faster pace. This course, together with module 2 and module 3 covers year one and two (French 1 and French 2 Lower). Expect more homework than in other courses.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Writing from the Margins: Great Expectations, Jude the Obscure and MakeshiftCourse start date: Wed 9 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Fiona McCullochThis online course will introduce and discuss a selection of novels depicting British society from the Victorian period to the 1920s. This allows us to make links between literary texts and social context to consider how fiction might be influenced by and influencing the real world beyond its covers. As we explore each novel, we will consider the characters as outliers in relation to social pressures and stigmas, as perceived through these literary and social perspectives.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £129.00 - Accents: Standard EnglishCourse start date: Wed 16 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Jonathan MulquinAre you an actor or other public speaker stuck in a regional or international accent? Would you like to learn how to speak Standard English? This course is not for speakers of other languages who should take English Pronunciation courses instead. This course will be taught online.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £199.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £139.00 - Return to French (upper intermediate)Course start date: Wed 16 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Henriette HarlallRefresh your upper intermediate French in this intensive revision programme and improve your grammar, listening and speaking skills for further study such as A-level and Delf B2. Each course covers different topics. Assessment of level recommended.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £103.00 - History of Ideas in Maths and EngineeringCourse start date: Wed 6 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ketan VariaJoin this course to explore the intertwined evolution of mathematics and engineering, from the invention of the wheel to the foundational mathematical theories developed up to the 20th century.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00
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