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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  1. Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00
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  2. Full fee £389.00 Senior fee £311.00 Concession £253.00
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  3. Counselling Theories - Beginner - CBT
    Course start date:  Thu 11 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Kean Street Wellbeing Centre

    Tutors:  Angela Christie

    Do you want to learn the basics of CBT? This popular, evidence-based therapy improves how you feel by changing how you think and what you do. Explore the topic to supplement your knowledge or for personal development.

    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £279.00
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  8. Writing about music
    Course start date:  Thu 25 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Edward Breen, Katy Hamilton

    Experience the enjoyment of writing about music. Share your musical opinions in several formats and be inspired to develop your own longer-term writing project on this classical music focussed course.

    Break week: 30 Oct 2025.
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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  9. Pop and politics
    Course start date:  Thu 25 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Toby Manning

    Explore the connections between pop music and political change from the 1950s to the present. Break week: 30th Oct 2025

     

    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £188.00
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  10. Cultureplex ciné-club (Autumn)
    Course start date:  Thu 25 Sep 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    Come and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the academic year), we will watch and discuss film. Taking its cue from the famous Parisian ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, ‘the single thinker most responsible for bestowing on cinema the prestige both of an artform and of an object of knowledge’, and the man who foresaw the emergence of film studies as a legitimate discipline of academic study, our contemporary incarnation of the film club will offer a curated series of films for detailed study, discussion and debate. Each film will be introduced, placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
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  11. HTML5 & CSS: introduction (stage 1)
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    Course start date:  Wed 1 Oct 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)

    Tutors:  George Stickney
    HTML is the foundation language of web sites and web based apps. It's easy to learn and can help you to begin a career in tech, update web sites and content management systems, have a better understanding of UX/UI, gain skills for SEO and digital marketing, collaborate more effectively with developers and much more!
    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
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  12. Ways into art history: understanding painting
    Course start date:  Thu 2 Oct 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Elizabeth Eyres

    This course will provide you with a visual toolkit that will enable you to understand and analyse the appearance of artworks. You will explore their formal qualities, in other words the things that make paintings and sculpture look the way they do. You will discover how an artist gets from a blank canvas, wood panel, sheet of paper to a finished artwork, and the visual decisions that have to be made along the way.

    Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00
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