Saturday Classes
Autumn Term: October 2011 - December 2011
Spring Term: January 2012 - March 2012
Summer Term: April 2012 - June 2012
Art and Controversy: William Etty R.A. and British Painting in the Early Nineteenth Century
To coincide with the opening of the William Etty: Art and Controversy exhibition at York Art Gallery, this course will focus on the art and career on one of York’s most important and influential artists, William Etty R.A. (1787-1849). Spanning three sessions and utilising a wealth of primary source material, this course will explore the nature of the controversy Etty art, famous for its depictions of voluptuous nudes, generated. It will consider the training Etty received at the Royal Academy, his passion for the Life Class and his artistic rivalries with leading artists such as Turner, Constable and Benjamin Robert Haydon. Lead by the curator of the exhibition, Dr Sarah Burnage, and based at York Art Gallery, this course offers participants the unique opportunity study the artist’s tumultuous career alongside some of his major work, as well privileged access to his sketchbooks and drawings.
Sarah Burnage BA MA PhD
Term: Autumn
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 15 October 2011
Time: 1-3pm
No. of weeks: 3
Full fee: £35.00
John Henry Newman and Modern Christianity
Newman (1801-1890) was one of the most significant and influential figures of modern church history, bequeathing a legacy that has not only profoundly affected contemporary Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism, but which has also extended to many other Christians as well. This study day will be divided into two parts. The morning session will concentrate on Newman’s Anglican career, especially his role in founding and leading the Oxford Movement; in the afternoon the focus will shift to his Roman Catholic years and his reputation as the ‘invisible father’ of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Each session will be introduced by a lecture that will seek to place Newman within his historical and ecclesiastical contexts, and will then proceed to extended discussions of his ideas contained in his writings. Extracts from these will be made available to participants in advance of the study day.
George Herring BA MA DPhil
Term: Autumn
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 22 October 2011
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
Developing Academic Integrity
The world of the university is a complex one of rules and regulations, policies and procedures; but it is also a community of like-minded people looking to share their ideas, learn from peers and give credit where credit is due. This academic integrity has always been with us, but what are the principles and how does one go about applying them to avoid confusion. What is plagiarism and how do we avoid it? What is the difference between collusion and collaboration? How do we distinguish our own ideas from those of others in our writing? This session aims to demystify the jargon and give some practical examples of good technique, for example regarding paraphrasing and referencing, to ensure the probity of students’ work and to help them achieve as much as possible through attention to all the facets of assignment writing.
Adrian Lee BA PhD PGCAP
Term: Autumn
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 29 October 2011
Time: 9.30am-12.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: Free
Credits: 0
Writing Short Stories
What is a short story and how is it different to a novel? This is the primary question that will be asked on this course. Aimed at beginners, this day course will examine the short story as a genre of its own and determine the themes and style points that differentiate it from the novel. Through own writing and discussion of texts we will focus upon style, pace, characters and scene setting, as well as exploring how the short story can be used as a tool to further enhance themes explored in larger texts. We will also consider where inspiration for short stories can come from and try and apply this to your own work.
Rob O’Connor BA CTLLS
Term: Autumn
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 05 November 2011
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
An Introduction to Group Work
‘The essence of man is social,’ wrote Michael Foulkes, the founder of Group Analysis, and groups are indeed at the heart of our development as people, as well as our professional and social lives. This interactive workshop is suitable for anyone interested in how they interact in groups, whether in the family, workplace or socially. Participants will have the opportunity to find out more about group work, with an emphasis on ‘helping’ or therapeutic groups, and how it can sometimes offer more than individual help. We will explore the opportunities and challenges of group dynamics through a combination of discussion, exercises, some theoretical input and a taste of experiential work. Participants will be able to reflect on their own experiences and find out about further training opportunities. The workshop leaders are psychotherapists in the NHS and private practice.
Christopher Davies BSc MInstGA MBACP and Sally King MA MInstGA MBACP
Term: Autumn
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 12 November 2011
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
The Colourful Art of Emil Nolde
Last time there was an exhibition of Nolde’s paintings in this country, Time Out referred to: ‘passionate paintings...saturated with a wild erotic energy.’ Potential students should not get too excited about this. Emil Nolde is one of the most creative artists of the modern era, virtually unknown in this country, who treated every possible topic, and shunned none. His pictures of dance, masks, strange creatures such as hobgoblins and devils, and frightening encounters, together with his portrayal of women, may merit the epithets: wild and erotic, but his landscapes, seascapes, flowers and gardens allow the heartbeat to recover. It is possible that his religious pictures upset some people on account of his idiosyncratic approach, but he is an important painter of religious images for all that. Nolde also produced a series of ‘Unpainted Pictures’. Students will have to sign up to find out what they are. It is anticipated that this course will be held at the King’s Manor.
Antony Peck MA
Term: Autumn
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 12 November 2011
Time: 9.30am-12.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £20.00
History Painting in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Russia
History painting enjoyed a new flourish, and a considerable evolution in Russia during the course of the second part of the 19th Century and the first decades of the twentieth. The initial impetus was created when artists, wary of replicating ennobled antiquity, turned their abilities to an impassioned exploration of contemporary themes. They would, however, find that their concerns about the state of the society could most aptly be conveyed when set in a universally understood paradigm of history painting, where the protagonists and the context in which they moved were so familiar as to have become allegorical. Seminal events from the national history, myth and legend, and biblical subjects found themselves treated in a subversive combination of academic devices, realist leaning, individual interpretation, and an intriguing return to abstract vision, so typical of medieval Russian pictorial tradition. This course shall examine works by a number of artists whose oeuvre has remained distinct and illustrative of the age in which it was produced.
Elena Kashina MPhil DPhil
Term: Autumn
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 26 November 2011
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
King Arthur: from Legend to Myth
Who was Arthur and did he really exist at all? Of the many 6th Century Arthurs, which one is the Arthur Knight and why did Gawain have to chop his head off? Why is Pendragon Castle in Cumbria? This day course will examine the evidence for an historical Arthur, the different contenders, and how the story was transmitted and changed into a tale for all times. We will look at how the stories of Arthur were used by successive Medieval and Tudor monarchs such as Edward III, Richard II, Henry VII and Elizabeth to give support to their rule, and how Victorian poets and 20th Century films have reinterpreted the stories.
Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE
Term: Autumn
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 26 November 2011
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
Pre-Raphaelitism: the Brotherhood and Beyond
In light of Tate’s planned blockbuster exhibition in 2012, this course examines Pre-Raphaelitism in terms of the famous and popular art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood proper and its development in the hands of ‘the other Pre-Raphaelites’. Together we will consider the work of Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt, Collinson and Woolner but also the work of various painters associated with Pre-Raphaelitism; including women artists and Cameron’s ‘Pre-Raphaelite’ camera. First examining the PRB from its members’ beginnings at the Royal Academy and its conception in 1848 to the mid-1850s, we will then explore their subsequent divergent routes away from Pre-Raphaelitism. Finally, we will consider the work of ‘the other Pre-Raphaelites’ up to the turn of the century. Throughout the day we will encounter an array of high quality images of artworks in a range of media. Reading materials will be supplied that will enable you to engage with the recent theoretical and critical literature on the subject and develop an ability to recognise and understand Pre-Raphaelite painting techniques.
Katie Tyreman BA MA
Term: Autumn
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 03 December 2011
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
A Very Short History of the Earth: 4.6 Billion Years of Earth History in One Day
On a human time scale, the history of the Earth is simply unfathomable. We’re told it began more than four-and-a-half billion years ago, but how does anyone know that? Who first figured out the age of the planet? When did life get going and how? And is it really true that the Earth was once a giant snowball? In this one day class, we will hurtle through time on a mission to answer these questions and many more, telling the extraordinary story of the place we call home. As with all science, absolute certainty is impossible, but we can definitely reveal some interesting ideas and theories (not to mention rocks and fossils) and have a lot of fun along the way. All are welcome, and no previous experience of science is required.
Liam Herringshaw BSc PhD
Term: Autumn
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 10 December 2011
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
Monet
Monet is almost synonymous with Impressionism. We will look at the major developments in his long career, using classic paintings to anchor our sense of his changing concerns with subject matter and methods of making. We will then investigate what role he played in creating Impressionism as we know it. His relationship with other major artists will be looked at. The impact his abilities to work with changing art markets and to create an international forum for his work on Impressionism will also be explored. We will chart the impact of his art on later generations partly through physically seeing an art work in York Art Gallery. His importance for the 20th Century will be traced. It is anticipated that this course will be held at the King’s Manor.
Fiona Fitzgerald BA MA PGCE
Term: Autumn
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 10 December 2011
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
Spring Term: January 2012 - March 2012
Faith, Mirth and Mayhem: Introducing the Mystery Plays
To celebrate the return of the Mystery Cycle to York in summer 2012, this day course will explore the various and sometimes conflicting relationships that the plays once had with the city itself. Those medieval pageant wagons wound their way through the streets, from Micklegate to Pavement, presenting the Bible and celebrating a communal faith and collective pride: but some of the individual dramas gave ample opportunity for disagreement and dissent. The unpredictable conditions of performance, where busy streets offered a different stage set and audience at each stopping place, added fresh dimensions to the meaning of the plays. And the lively texts themselves brought carnival mirth and even satire to the mix. Our day course begins with a general overview of the Mystery Play Cycles, introducing ideas which we will explore in more detail in three or four specific plays. All the texts will be provided, and wherever possible our discoveries will be enhanced by demonstrations and illustrations from recorded performances of the different plays.
Gillian Day PhD
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 28 January 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Manet
Manet, the perfect ‘flaneur’, embodies the poet, Baudelaire’s ideal of a modern artist. He tried to create a radical new art, based on new imageries and novel forms. In this day course we will look at how he took up the call for artists to be of their time. The mysteries and inconsistencies of his paintings will be puzzled over as we try to ascertain what he was trying to do. We will look at his public and at his critics, at how they viewed his work, as we assess the role he played in transforming the nature and purposes of art 1860-1880. We will also chart his shifting relationship with the younger Impressionists and the Salon establishment. Finally we will use his great Bar at the Folies Bergeres, as a climatic piece, to summarise his achievements. It is anticipated that this course will be held at the King’s Manor.
Fiona Fitzgerald BA MA PGCE
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 28 January 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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All-Singing! All-Dancing! Big Screen Musicals
The musical genre is as old as sound cinema, having emerged from Tin Pan Alley as a ready solution to the problem of what to do with talking pictures. For decades it was a staple of Hollywood studio production, a popular genre which showcased star talents and continually attracted large audiences. In its heyday, it was also the source of some of Hollywood’s most creative film-making. Latterly, the musical has faded from its former ubiquity, but still offers creative peaks which often blend the spectacle of early film musicals with increasingly serious themes, and a tendency towards self-conscious playfulness. In this four-week course, we’ll speed through a potted history of the musical, pausing to examine four exemplars, each chosen from a different era in the genre’s history. Join us for a month of all-singing, all-dancing, big screen musical entertainment! We will seek to use 35mm where possible, but where this isn’t we will utilise digital hi-definition alternatives - run in partnership with City Screen.
Martin Zeller-Jacques MA Mlit
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 04 February 2012
Time: 9.15am-12noon
No. of weeks: 4
From Spark to Page: Getting Your Ideas Down on Paper
They say that everyone has a novel inside of them. Ideas for stories can come from a variety of sources and a moment of imagination could spark an idea for the next blockbuster. But what’s the next stage? How do you get your ideas down on paper? This day course, designed for beginners, will take you step-by-step through the process of beginning your story, looking at outlining plots and characters and how you can turn one great idea into a piece of creative writing.
Rob O’Connor BA CTLLS
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 04 February 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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The Knights Templar in Britain NEW DATE ADDED
The Knights Templar was a military order founded in the early 12th Century to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land. These warrior-monks built up large estates in Britain to fund their work overseas, and the lands that they held in Yorkshire were among their most valuable. The order was suppressed in the early 14th Century amid allegations of heresy and black magic. These accusations, together with the lack of surviving evidence about the Order, has led to much speculation about their reputed links to secret societies and buried treasure, and they have long featured in fiction, from Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code.
This course will look at the Order in Britain and try to separate fact from fiction. We will examine the surviving evidence from documents, buildings, and place names. Did you know that ‘Temple’ place names usually indicate Templar sites, such as Temple Newsam and Temple Hirst in Yorkshire?
John Lee BA MA PhD
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 04 February 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Getting Started: a Beginner’s Guide to Family History
Are you interested in family history? Would you like to start a family tree of your own but are not sure where to start? If you would like to learn about genealogy and family history records and how to use them for your own family research, then this course is for you. We will look at how to go about building your first family tree and learn how to keep records of your ancestors; how to find information about your ancestors both on the internet and in local archive centres; and unravel the history of the census, civil registration, and the role of the church in record keeping. We will also consider topics such as oral evidence, newspaper searches, directories, probate documents and the general principles of reading old writing and documents. The course will use visual and textual aids to get you started on your first family research project.
Carolyn Conroy BA MA PhD
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 11 February 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Fossils of the Yorkshire Coast
The Yorkshire Coast has a fabulous array of fossiliferous sites, some well-known, some far less so. This one day class will show you examples of the common fossils to be found, and give you an idea of what you might find where, and how. It will also explain how a bit of beach-combing can help improve our understanding of the history of life on Earth. The chances of finding a dinosaur are very small, but you never know...
The class is open to anyone with an interest in natural history, regardless of previous experience.
Liam Herringshaw BSc PhD
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 18 February 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Victorian Art
Using the typically Victorian story of the beginnings of York Art Gallery we will explore the nature and diversity of Victorian painting and illustration. We will root our study in the impact that rapid industrialisation and urbanisation had on English society by 1850 and on how the art of the period both reflects and challenges these changes. We will examine issues like the status of women, poverty, nationalism and Empire, through the art. The relationship between art and Literature and the nature of storytelling in painting will inform our discussions. The exciting new possibilities opened up by the Pre-Raphaelite movement in art will be charted in the holdings of the Art Gallery as will the later impact of French Impressionism. It is anticipated that this course will be held at the King’s Manor.
Fiona Fitzgerald BA MA PGCE
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 18 February 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Don Giovanni: Romantic Hero or Vile Seducer?
Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni is one of the most popular operas ever written - but the complex character at the heart of the story has always been a controversial figure. Is he the great seducer who sweeps women off their feet with his charm and his elegance? Is he just a cheap thug taking advantage of women’s vulnerability? Or is he an agent of evil sent to destroy lives and happiness, who eventually begins to fail in his mission and has to be recalled?
Mozart was not the only composer to explore this story; this study day examines other Don Giovanni operas by Righini, Gazzaniga, Pacini and Dargomyzhsky and the plays and short stories by Tirso de Molina, Pushkin and Merimée which inspired them, as well as the real life adventures of Mozart’s librettist Lorenzo da Ponte and his friend Casanova. DVDs and CDs of performances will illustrate the story.
Roger Witts BA
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 25 February 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Eighteenth Century Trade Cards and the Birth of Modern Advertising
During the Eighteenth Century, tradesmen increasingly relied on trade cards to market their goods and services. These small cards were handed out to customers, in the hope that they might be passed on and attract new clientele to the business. Embellished with intricate engravings, depicting minutely detailed interior and exterior scenes, these cards provide a fascinating glimpse into the vibrant world of 18th Century consumerism. For some, such cards also became treasured objects d’art, to be collected and catalogued along with the more revered artistic prints of the period. This course will look at a selection of the many 18th Century trade cards that are available online, using them to gain insight into the commercial culture and artistic fashions of the day. At the same time, we will also look at these 18th Century trade cards alongside examples of 21st Century advertising, drawing revealing parallels across the centuries, and reflecting on our own experiences of a media geared towards persuading us to consume at all costs.
Jordan Vibert BA MA PhD PGCE
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 25 February 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Inspired by Magic: Myth and Fairytale at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in Russia
In the last decades of the 19th and early 20th Century, Russian society experienced an awakening of interest in indigenous cultural tradition, with fairytales in particular coming prominently to the fore of artistic expression. The newly discovered aesthetic, dramatically different from the official academic culture, proved incendiary to the art community, and resulted in a beguiling new language of allegory and metaphysics - uniquely, grounded in projects designed to be functional and anticipating the needs of an industrial age. Through examining a wide range of designs full of character in various media, including theatre, painting, sculpture and architecture, this course shall explore the nation’s reinterpretation of its rich but hitherto-disregarded heritage, and the dynamic environment which demanded it.
Elena Kashina MPhil DPhil
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 03 March 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Maestro of Menace: the Film Music of Bernard Herrmann
2011 is the centenary of the birth of Bernard Herrmann, the most admired and imitated of all film composers and one of the most remarkable musicians of the 20th Century. From his remarkable debut with Citizen Kane (1941) to his magnificent last hurrah with Taxi Driver (1976) - he died on the evening after completing the last recording session - Herrmann maintained a level of musical imagination and invention that was the envy of his peers. Working with directors of the calibre of Orson Welles and Francois Truffaut, he forged a legendary partnership over nine films with Alfred Hitchcock and which resulted in some of the greatest of all film scores, including Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960). The day school will include a screening of Vertigo and provide an overview of Herrmann’s film music career and how it related to his other musical activities. It will particularly consider the collaboration with Hitchcock and the secret of its success, as well as the story (and mystery) behind their calamitous falling-out over Herrmann’s score for Torn Curtain (1966). Neil Sinyard BA MA
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 10 March 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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What is a Knight?
What exactly was a knight, and what did it really mean? Knighthood meant different things to different people at different times in the Medieval and Early Modern period. This course will look at the different kinds of knights in early Medieval England, from the Feudal Knight of the Norman Conquest, the Godly Knight of the Crusades and the Courtly Knight of the 12th Century, using local examples, contemporary accounts, stories and literature, analysing the similarities and differences. With increasing social mobility after the Black Death of 1348 this course will also look at later representations of knighthood, Henry IV’s breaking of the rules of chivalry at Agincourt in 1415, and the rise of the ‘Man at Arms’. Did knighthood mean the same in Tudor and Stuart England, or had the term been downgraded?
Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 10 March 2012
Time: 9: 30am-4: 30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Citizen Kane: Legend and Legacy
Every ten years, the British Film Institute publication, Sight and Sound, invites film critics and directors to vote on their favourite film. In every decade since 1962, the winner has been Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. Why? Will 2012 yield the same result? This day course will feature a screening of the film and look in detail at some of its outstanding aspects: the background story of its making; the contributions made by key personnel, such as cameraman Gregg Toland and composer Bernard Herrmann; its thematic and stylistic adventurousness; and its continuing appeal for film-makers and audiences. It will also consider life after Kane and the subsequent bumpy film career of Welles, the director whom, as Penelope Houston said, ‘Hollywood has on its conscience’; the film’s wide-ranging influence on a later generation of film-makers; and the enduring fascination of the Welles legend, perpetuated by recent biographies, recent films such as Me And Orson Welles, and the promised appearance in 2011 of his last project that has never before been seen, The Other Side Of The Wind.
Neil Sinyard BA MA
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 17 March 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Identifying and Recording Wildlife: Spring
This course aims to equip you with the skills needed to identify some of the amazing creatures found in and around the freshwater of the University campus. You’ll learn what an identification key is and how to use it to identify species, focusing in particular on the small invertebrates living under the water and the rather larger birds that live on top of the water! The course will include a walk on University campus identifying species in situ. You’ll learn what a wildlife record is, why they are important and how to make one. If you’ve got a digital camera, we’ll show you how to use it to take a decent wildlife photograph, regardless of whether you’ve got a compact digital camera, or a fancy digital SLR. We’ll end the day by suggesting places and organisations to get in touch with to take your interest further.
Chris West BSc PhD and Sarah West BA MSc
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 17 March 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Preparing Perfect Presentations NEW DATE
If you’ve ever found yourself coming out in a cold sweat at the thought of standing in front of an audience and presenting your work or ideas; if you’ve no idea of the power of PowerPoint; if you’ve got yourself lost in a dense forest of notes or gone blank at the meaning of a lone bullet point on a cue card then this session will be for you. Even if you feel confident presenting your thoughts and addressing a class, this session should stimulate new ideas on what makes for an effective presentation, the sharing of tips on every stage of the process from planning to delivery and review. Individual and group exercises will offer you the opportunity to share ideas with others and to think about what makes for a perfect presentation in the classroom or beyond.
Adrian Lee BA PhD PGCAP
Term: Spring
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 17 March 2012
Time: 9.30am-12.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: Free
Credits: 0
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Summer Term: April 2012 - June 2012
The Songs of Schubert
Brahms famously observed that ‘there is not a song of Schubert’s from which one cannot learn something.’ For Schubert is the undisputed master of the German lied. From the simplest ballad, through a host of styles including the ‘through-composed’ and the near-operatic, not forgetting the two great song cycles, Schubert drew a treasure-house of glorious melody. He preferred the poetry of Goethe and Schiller, but could also find inspiration in lowlier talents. His topics include every aspect of the natural world along with some unusual human and mythical characters. The course will examine how Schubert took on the frail shoots of the 18th Century lied and developed them into glorious flowers, well over 600 of them. There will be a wealth of recorded illustrations by some of the greatest singers of our day. No specialist knowledge is required.
Martin Dreyer BA BMus
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 28 April 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Three Japanese Masters: Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi
It was the sensation caused by Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon at the 1951 Venice Film Festival that first alerted audiences in the West to the greatness of Japanese cinema. Recognition of Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi soon followed. This short season showcases outstanding films by these three masters from this period and will highlight some of the distinctive themes and techniques of each. With Kurosawa, look for astounding visual spectacle and psychological extremes; for Ozu, look for precise and patient contemplation of the conflict between generations and between tradition and modernity; and from Mizoguchi, look for exquisite style and an exceptional sympathy with female experience under the yoke of patriarchy. Subject to confirmation, the films shown will be: Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1951); Late Spring (Ozu, 1949); Sansho Dayu-Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, 1954); and Throne of Blood (Kurosawa, 1957).
We will seek to use 35mm where possible, but where this isn’t we will utilise digital hi-definition alternatives - run in partnership with City Screen.
Neil Sinyard BA MA
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 28 April 2012
Time: 9.15am-12noon
No. of weeks: 4
Full fee: tbc
To register your interest please e-mail lifelonglearning@york.ac.uk
Please note If you have previously attended one of our film courses at City Screen you will automatically receive further information about this course when it is available.
Victorian Underclass: The Rise of the Workhouse
A petition to save the old Cleveland Street Workhouse in London from demolition is currently underway. It is suggested that this particular workhouse was the inspiration for Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, where Oliver’s mother died in childbirth and Oliver spent his early childhood. Dickens’ novel exposed the cruel treatment of orphans in the workhouse and the terrible conditions to be found there. Indeed, during the 19th Century, both the Lancet and The Times also reported the overcrowding, dirt, disorder and general neglect of paupers in England’s workhouses and campaigned for better treatment of the poor. This course will examine the New Poor Law Act of 1834 and its controversial approach to the treatment of paupers, looking at the workhouses in terms of design and the conditions they created, and the attempts of Victorian social reformers to improve the harsh workhouse system. We will consider a variety of contemporary sources and images and study a number of English workhouses, including York’s own Huntington Road Workhouse.
Carolyn Conroy BA MA PhD
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 28 April 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Degas
The third artist in the Saturday series of French 19th Century painters is the enigmatic and fastidious Degas, a contemporary of Manet. We will compare the two and the very different ways in which they approached the painting of modern life. We will look at how they examined the city, how they responded to the redevelopment of Paris and to social issues. Degas considered himself to be at the centre of the Impressionist group. Therefore I will also set him up beside Monet in the 1870s and contrast the aims and methods of the two painters. Finally we will examine his later work and the ways in which artists move with changing philosophical climates and how they adapt to an old master status as avant garde wise men. It is anticipated that this course will be held at the King’s Manor.
Fiona Fitzgerald BA MA PGCE
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 05 May 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Drama-Writing in a Day
This one day course offers a journey through the basic elements of writing and creating drama, including structure, characterisation and plot development. It is interspersed with writing exercises, and giving feedback/tips on how to get a play produced, including looking at outlets such as local venues and Edinburgh Fringe. Suitable for beginners or those wishing to consolidate previous experience.
Helen Shay BA MA CertEd
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 05 May 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Gustav Holst: Forgotten Genius
There has hardly been a composer more tainted by the ‘one-trick-pony’ taunt than Gustav Holst. The huge popularity of The Planets has largely overshadowed the rest of his remarkably distinctive output. A close friend of Vaughan Williams and influenced, like him, by the English folksong revival, yet he developed a unique personal style that defies an easy label. From the openly romantic fields of A Somerset Rhapsody and Egdon Heath to the larger canvases of A Choral Fantasia, his four chamber operas, and the Double Concerto, we hear his more formal side. It is balanced by the private warmth and wit of his chamber music and songs. An essentially quiet man who was nevertheless an inspirational teacher and a major influence on Britten and Tippett, Holst’s reputation is long overdue for rehabilitation. This exploration of his music will surely also rekindle enthusiasm for a singular personality.
Martin Dreyer BA BMus
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 12 May 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Landscape Painting in Nineteenth Century Russia
Landscape had an enormous importance in Russia’s 19th Century painting. Like almost every other art form, it underwent a dramatic evolution in the course of the 19th Century, and especially so in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th Century. In a radical departure from its previous position in the hierarchy of genres, landscape became a device for meditating, for searching for the primary and universal meanings, and for documenting human condition. The freedom provided by the pensive native landscape for the mind to wander and for the brush to record, combined with the newly found inner freedom from academic convention were to result in the growth of a new language whose most striking achievement was the blurring of the dividing lines between the realist and the abstract. This course shall examine works by a wide range of artists, whose individual visions were shaped by the dynamic environment of intellectual and economic transformation in 19th and early 20th Century Russia.
Elena Kashina MPhil DPhil
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 12 May 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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A Short Introduction to English Palaeography: 1400-1900
Handwriting has changed significantly since the Middle Ages, passing through numerous shifts in style and fashion to reach its current form. This makes reading most original historical documents difficult: the letters look different, the words are abbreviated and even the construction of the sentences is alien to a modern reader. This day-long course is designed to introduce you to the study of handwriting (or palaeography) through the use of documents dated between 1400 and 1900. These documents will be varied and challenging, from parish registers to personal diaries. You will develop the knowledge and basic skills to enable you to pursue your own historical interests using archives. We will also offer the opportunity for students to bring in copies of documents that have troubled them in the past, and work through them as part of a group. This course would suit students with or without prior experience of palaeography, and may be of particular interest to local and family historians.
Danna Messer BA MA and Victoria Hoyle BA MA
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 19 May 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Identifying and Recording Wildlife: Summer
This course aims to equip you with the skills needed to find and identify some of the amazing invertebrates that can be found in and around hedgerows. You’ll learn what an identification key is and how to use it to identify species, focusing on both the plant species found in hedgerows and the invertebrates found living on and under the hedge. The course will include a walk on University campus identifying species in situ. You’ll learn what a wildlife record is, why they are important and how to make one. If you’ve got a digital camera, we’ll show you how to use it to take a decent wildlife photograph, regardless of whether you’ve got a compact digital camera, or a fancy digital SLR. We’ll end the day by suggesting places and organisations to get in touch with to take your interest further.
Chris West BSc PhD and Sarah West BA MSc
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 19 May 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Writing Skills
Do your essays meander through the countryside, sometimes barely moving and at others like fast-flowing waters, or do they flow directly from source to sea with efficient pace? Are they a solid tower of even shaped bricks or a precarious edifice that might crumble at the slightest touch? This session will discuss the key elements of structure and planning on which to construct a sound piece of work; with activities guiding students as to how to balance the different sections, to develop the argument, incorporate evidence and ensure smooth transitions from point to point. The session will be useful to first-time students wanting to clarify expectation, as well as experienced students seeking to hone their skills.
Adrian Lee BA PhD PGCAP
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 19 May 2012
Time: 9.30am-12.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: Free
Credits: 0
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Did Knights Wear Socks? Fashionable Armour for the Rich
This course looks at Medieval and Tudor armour in the context of civilian fashions and styles, using local northern evidence from church brasses, contemporary written accounts, and Medieval and Tudor imagery. We will study the practicalities of mail shirts, how hemlines went down and up in the 11th to 14th Centuries, and what knights wore underneath! How did a Knight put his armour on, and did he wear socks? We will also look at plate armour, why it was introduced and developed and the different fashions and styles of plate armour from Agincourt to the Armada. By the Tudor period making and designing armour was a specialised business, with many suits made purely for fashion and display. We will look at some ‘designer label’ suits of armour and consider how Renaissance kings had their own courtly armourers to enhance their status, and for use in tournaments.
Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 26 May 2012
Time: 9: 30am-4: 30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Great British Films: 1967-1974
This course will investigative one of the most extraordinarily creative yet curiously overlooked periods of British cinema. At the end of the 1960s, the British film industry was in crisis, following the end of the ‘Swingin’ Britain’ era and the withdrawal of American finance. Paradoxically, this produced an explosion of audacious film-making, often courting controversy. Performance (Roeg, Camell; 1967), If... (Anderson, 1968) and Kes (Loach, 1969) were just three of the films from this era which took critics and audiences by storm. The tradition of ‘quality’ adaptation of literary classics was meanwhile being continued with a much-loved version of The Go-Between (Losey, 1971), which won the Golden Palm at Cannes. A director of international esteem challenged the borders of screen violence and good taste in a film that divided his admirers as well as his critical foes, Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), whilst Richard Lester’s Juggernaut (1974) combined suspense with an allegory about the State of the Nation that resonates to this day.
Neil Sinyard BA MA
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 26 May 2012
Time: 9.30-11.30am
No. of weeks: 6
Full fee: £40.50
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Social Reform and War in Britain: 1900-1920
During the early years of the last century, British politics engaged in a fundamental struggle between the competing social needs of its urban and rural workers and the wider imperial, world aspirations of the country’s political elite. The way in which policy decisions both at home and overseas played out still resonant in our world today. This day course will look at the fascinating world of the Edwardians as they strove to alleviate poverty and want at home, whilst striding the world stage where they were engaged in an arms race, and new diplomatic ententes that were to lead to the Great War. Who were the champions of this fast moving and complex world and what were the challenges that they grappling with? What impact did their aspirations have upon British society in the 20th Century? To help us understand something of their world we will use contemporary sources and materials.
Keith Brooker BA PhD
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 09 June 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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The Tracks of Ancient Life: Studying Fossil Tracks, Trails and Burrows
Out of sight, out of mind’, the saying goes, and in the case of burrowing creatures, this could hardly be more true. The ecological impact of burrowing creatures is enormous, yet they are often ignored. Well not any more! In this one day course, we will examine the fossil record and modern environments to show how important these organisms are to life on Earth. We will learn how to identify fossil tracks, trails and burrows in the rocks. From this, we can figure out a whole variety of amazing things, from how fast a dinosaur could move to how burrowing creatures turned the world 3D. We will also discuss Darwin’s love of burrowing worms, how to run your own burrowing experiments, and why scientists destroy small bits of Yorkshire in the name of geology. Through photographs, specimens and demonstrations, ancient tracks will be brought to life. No previous experience of the subject is necessary, and everyone is welcome.
Liam Herringshaw BSc PhD
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 09 June 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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A Crash Course in Writing Romance
A one-day workshop specifically designed for those who have always thought they’d like to try writing a romance, but haven’t really known where to start. Taught by award-winning Harlequin Mills & Boon® author Jessica Hart, the course will focus on how to invest a story with the emotional tension that is key to the success of any romance. We’ll be looking at how to create an engaging and sympathetic heroine and an irresistible hero, as well as a plot that will keep the readers turning the pages to a satisfying end. Working in groups, we will have created the outline of a story together by the end of the day. This is the social side of writing, and the most fun, so come prepared to participate!
Pamela Hartshorne BA MA PhD
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 23 June 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Sound and Music in Film
Sound and music have a powerful effect on film, and are essential tools for storytelling. This module introduces the key aspects related to sound in film, providing the students with a better understanding of how these elements are used in filmmaking. The focus will be placed on exploring sound in film history and through different genres, pointing out the changes taken place in the use of atmospheres, voice, sound effects and music. The classes will make use of audio-visual material and class discussion and analysis will be encouraged. No prior knowledge required.
Mariana J. Lopez BA MA
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 23 June 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 2
Full fee: £70.00
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Defending York
York, as the most important northern outpost of medieval government was the military base for the Scottish Wars and the centre of the defence against the Scots. This day course examines the development of York’s medieval defences, including the castle and town walls. What would it have been like inside a besieged medieval city and how were men mustered to defend the town? What roles did medieval women take to defend their hearths and homes? Using contemporary sources we will also consider how to effectively attack a castle using siege machines, trebuchets etc., how the city of York withstood sieges and why it eventually fell to Royalists and Parliamentarians in the English Civil Wars.
Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 30 June 2012
Time: 9: 30am-4:30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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Film, Imagination and Illusion
This class analyses some of the issues at the intersection of film and philosophy with the aid of Saving Private Ryan (1998). Art is often distinguished from non-art is by its ability to stimulate the imagination on a multitude of levels, but film seems to ‘leave nothing to the imagination’. Does this mean film isn’t art? If it is art, how should we understand it: as a combination of literature and painting, as photographically-recorded theatre, or simply as moving pictures? If the digital revolution has severed the link between film and photography, then the art form has existed for two thousand years. Can this be right? The weight of opinion from film studies suggests that film is to a lesser or greater extent an illusion. Surely cinematic motion is illusory? Find out more about the philosophy of film, the paradox of cinematic imagination, and illusion of realism.
Rafe McGregor BA MA
Term: Summer
Day: Saturday
Start Date: 30 June 2012
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
No. of weeks: 1
Full fee: £35.00
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