Humanities & Culture

This course will be delivered online.

The aim of this 6 week course is to go into Twentieth Century European history in further depth, tackling issues that have been raised in the previous course but also considering new theories, countries and historical ideas. We will focus on specific key periods as well as the people and ideologies that shaped them.

Each week we will look at events right across the continent from a mixture of social, cultural, political and economic historic standpoints in order to give a broader flavour and help us understand how these formed Europe as...

This course will be delivered online.

This course will give you the skills needed to write two-minute sketches, the building blocks of comedy. You will discover valuable techniques in creating a flow of creative ideas and learn how to structure a sketch. You’ll explore ways of creating vivid, funny characters and writing sharp comic dialogue. There will also be advice on finding markets.

Please note the Introduction to Comedy Writing on 1st March takes place at Hillcroft in Surbiton.

This course will be delivered online.

This regular session will provide a forum for writers of some experience, who would like to share their work regularly in a constructive atmosphere.
Whether your project is a novel, a memoir, short stories or flash fiction, you will find this an invaluable and supportive space in which to progress your work.

This course aims to encourage and inform students who are interested in writing short stories, novels, poetry, plays, picture books and non-fiction for children and young adults.

Access courses are designed to enable people aged 19+ to gain a qualification which is accepted by universities as an alternative to A Levels. Access courses are delivered over one year as opposed to the two years required for A Levels. An access course is therefore ideal for anyone who left school without formal qualifications, or for people who wish to change career without having to do two years of A levels.

Access to Humanities combines the three main subject areas of History, English Literature and Law plus various communication and study skills modules. Successful completion...

Journal Writing is one of the best things you can do to improve your memory, clarify your thinking, increase your creativity, and just become a more all-around awesome person.

This course is about finding our trust in our inner creativity and freeing it and our healing process. We will share tools that help us to dissolve blocks and transform and recover our well being through our creative power. Creativity is our through nature and through a simple scientific approach of experimentation and observation, we establish a connected flow with words on paper.

Our aim is to...

This course will be delivered online.

An opportunity to read these great works side by side and explore their relevance to the post covid world.

We will read the texts and explores themes of the gothic/romanticism in Ancient Mariner and how Moby Dick has to be read as a harbinger of the postmodernist age.

We will explore the psychoanalytic dimensions of both works and other possible readings

We also investigate how the critique of instrumental rationality in Adorno and Horkheimer's dialectic of enlightenment is prefigured in both these texts.

(Women Only)

This course is essentially a foundation course for learners who are looking to progress to study an Access to Higher education Diploma . An Access Diploma, maths and English GCSE (or accepted equivalents) qualifications are standard entry requirements for many university degrees, Your Pre-Access course will help you develop the study skills you need to succeed on an Access Course,

This course will be delivered online.

Access courses are designed to give adult learners the necessary study skills and subject knowledge to go on to a Degree at a University. This course will give you a day in the life of an Access student.

This course will be delivered online.

'You will be a thorn in the city's flesh.'

This is how Euripides described his own voluntary exile in the mouth of his dark heroine Medea on the Greek stage in 431BC, unpopular in the city because of the bone-tingling subtlety and sympathy with which he penetrated the human psyche. Millennia later, the relevance both of his works and those of his rivals is astonishing.

This course covers the representation of grief, estrangement, asylum-seeking, family and sacrifice, as well as ribaldry, political satire, and Dionysian revels,...