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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 £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £90.00
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  2. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs: part 2
    Evening
    Course start date:  Fri 14 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Hugo Cook
    Follow-on course from the Introduction. This four-week course uses British Museum objects related to ancient Egypt to broaden and deepen students' knowledge of Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
    Full fee £139.00 Senior fee £139.00 Concession £90.00
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  3. Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £71.00 Concession £45.00
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  4. Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £229.00
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  5. Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00
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  6. Gateway to English Language GCSE
    Last Few Places, Evening
    Course start date:  Mon 27 Apr 2026 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Are you excited by the English language? Do you need to test your abilities before attempting the qualification course? Do you want to give yourself more than a year to achieve the qualification? Then this Preparing for English Language GCSE is the course for you. It will get your ready you for the accreditation and familiarise you with its content, level and expectation.



    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 £219.00
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  7. Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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  8. Keyboard harmony and performance workshop
    Last Few Places
    Course start date:  Mon 20 Apr 2026 (and 3 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Ricardo Gosalbo
    A practical workshop integrating keyboard harmony with piano performance skills. Taught in-person on a grand piano, this workshop is aimed at classical pianists with a music theory standard of grade 6+ and good sheet music reading skills. We shall deepen our understanding of musical works by studying the harmonic constructs that underpin them, tackle the technical challenges they present, and explore how harmonic analysis can inform our interpretative choices. NB: Break week 4 & 25 May 2026.
    Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £258.00
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  9. How to read a film: a beginners' guide to cinema
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 4 Nov 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Paul Sutton
    This online course will develop your critical appreciation of the cinema by teaching you how to read and understand film texts. We will look at the elements that underpin film form – narrative, mise en scène, cinematography, editing and sound – alongside its historical development. We will consider film style by exploring classical, post-classical and art cinema and we will examine influential critical modes of analysis, such as genre, authorship and spectatorship.
    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £97.00
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  10. Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00
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  11. Renaissance art at the National Gallery
    Course start date:  Wed 5 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Off Site

    Tutors:  Emma Rose Barber
    This 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 £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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  12. Italian pronunciation
    Course start date:  Wed 5 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Evi Campetella
    This 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 £79.00 Senior fee £63.00 Concession £51.00
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  13. Return to French (lower intermediate)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 13 Nov 2025 (and 5 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Silvana Avram
    Revise and consolidate your speaking and listening skills, as well as your grammar. Suitable if you have completed completed 2-3 years of study in the past.
    Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £159.00 Concession £159.00
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  14. Economic paradigms: are there alternatives to capitalism?
    Evening
    Course start date:  Wed 19 Nov 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Caglar Ezikoglu
    Explore diverse economic theories beyond capitalism in economic paradigms with regards to the alternatives of capitalism and broaden your understanding of global economic systems.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
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  15. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £65.00
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