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We offer online courses and in-person courses. Our interactive online courses are taught live and in small groups. Read our guide to online learning for more information. In-person courses are delivered at our modern college campus in London near Covent Garden.
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- Workplace communication skills: customer care and front of house hospitality (ESOL level 1-level 2)Course start date: Mon 15 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Are you working with the public – in a shop, at reception, on the phone? Are you front of house at a hotel or restaurant? Would you like to work in these sectors? This course will help you communicate at work with customers, your colleagues and your manager. You will learn how to speak fluently and politely and use the vocabulary you need for work. You will practise how to help a customer or a client, make suggestions, give advice, begin and end a conversation, and take messages over the phone. You will focus on how to do all this with the right level of formality and politeness.
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 hereFull fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £50.00 - Silver Swans ballet intensive: beginnersCourse start date: Mon 15 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Abigail BulfinOur beginners intensive course will work on achieving improved balance, strength and flexibility as well as technical skills giving you the opportunity to further develop your technique and continue your ballet journey through friendly and supportive classes where you will learn dances (also known as variations) from a famous ballet.
Please note that some ballet experience is required even for beginners.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £71.00 Concession £62.00 - Yoga: beginnersCourse start date: Fri 12 Jan 2024 (and 7 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Carolina SanchezEnergise your body and release your mind ahead of the weekend in this gentle, structured Yoga class for beginners. Explore the benefits of Yoga through mobilising your spine, stretching muscles, and freeing your joints. Then let's go and relax! For those with little or no experience of Yoga.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00 - The future of democracyCourse start date: Mon 15 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Christian SchneeWant to think about and discuss what makes and breaks a democracy? Join Dr. Christian Schnee to engage in this vital discussion.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00 - Exercise to MusicCourse start date: Tue 16 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Caroline Ings-ChambersThis total body conditioning course aims to boost your stamina, shape your body and energise your fitness levels, whilst working to music.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00 - Tai Chi Chuan: BeginnersCourse start date: Tue 16 Apr 2024 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Carla DraytonThis course will look at Tai Chi movements and principles as taught in the form and their application to daily life.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00 - Arabic reading groupCourse start date: Tue 16 Apr 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Alaa SonjoqDo you enjoy reading Arabic? Do you want to start reading in Arabic and deepen your knowledge of
Arab culture? Come and join us to discuss a range of Arabic short stories.You will need to be able to read the alphabet, words and phrases to be able to join this course.Suitable if you have completed at least beginners module 3.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £95.00 Concession £77.00 - Tai Chi Chuan: mixed levelsCourse start date: Thu 18 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Carla DraytonContinue to refine and develop the gentle, graceful movements of T'ai Chi in classes designed to help you develop clear, powerful and effective practice. Build on your experience with more advanced sequences.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00 - French 3 upper: conversational FrenchCourse start date: Thu 18 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Daniel FernandezCome and practise your intermediate spoken French and develop your language skills in these topical discussion classes. Based on recordings from French speaking television, radio news and newspaper articles.
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 - Becoming confident on the cloud: OneDrive and Google drive - a new way of sharing and managing your files (foundation)Course start date: Thu 18 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
The digital world is changing from sending emails to sharing files. Attaching files, sending them, downloading them, working on them, saving them, re-attaching and re-sending them is becoming a thing of the past. Instead, with cloud computing, you can share and collaborate on files either at the same time or separately without any emailing or downloading. Join this course and learn how to do this and stay on top of your file management. Learn how to use OneDrive and Google Drive to create, store, share and collaborate on different types of documents on your PC as well as other devices. Discover also how to maintain security while syncing your devices and accounts. By the end of this course, you will have grasped what cloud-computing means and be confident of exploring it further.
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click hereFull fee £69.00 - Return to French (elementary)Course start date: Wed 14 Feb 2024 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Pierre PorcheronCome and join this lively course to refresh your elementary French. After attending this course you will be able join a level 2 course starting soon.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00 - Restorative YogaCourse start date: Thu 18 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Madlyn Ray-JonesWould you like to relax your mind and body, improve wellbeing and develop a calm and focused awareness? Learn the relaxing practice of restorative yoga combined with gentle breath work and mindfulness meditation.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £79.00 - Solo swing and jive: generalCourse start date: Sat 20 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rosaria SativaDo you enjoy vintage social dancing events but don't have a partner? Looking to nail those moves and increase your freestyle confidence? Then this is the course for you! We will work on foot-work sequences and steps of authentic jazz dancing and Rhythm & Blues Strolls, progressing to faster pace flick kicks and turns for jive and Rock ’n' Roll dances. No partner required! This is a general level course suitable for beginners and improvers.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £58.00 - Contemporary dance: beginnersCourse start date: Tue 16 Jan 2024 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Francis AngolThis Contemporary dance class is a dynamic and fun experience based on the principles of Release-technique and some playful explorations. Simple movement phrases and tasks are built upon to develop greater awareness of the body in space and in relation to others. Floor, centre and travelling exercises lead to efficiency of movement, rhythmical and free-flowing dance sequences.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Contemporary dance: improversCourse start date: Sun 21 Apr 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Francis AngolThe course aims to give you a further embodied understanding of Contemporary dance that is underpinned by Somatics practice, and other contemporary dance techniques, to bring greater flow and dynamics to your expression as you allow yourself to move from your inner space and to negotiate the flow of weight, rhythm, breath, space and time.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £62.00
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