Centre for Lifelong Learning
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The Centre for Lifelong Learning runs a wide programme of courses and events throughout the year. Please see below for a full list of our upcoming accredited, non-accredited and Saturday courses, as well as our free lectures.
Coming Soon!
Who Was Macbeth?
A half-day online history and heritage course
How to Write a Page-Turner: Finding and Keeping Narrative Tension
A 3 week online creative writing course
How did the Middle Ages Feel?
An 8 week history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)
Persons and Personal Identity: What Are We?
A 5 week philosophy/religion course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)
Medieval Money, Trade And Banking
An 8 week online history and heritage course
At the Source of the Image: Prehistoric Art in Europe
Philosophy and Fiction
An 8 week online philosophy/religion course
What If… Speculative Fiction
An 8 week online creative writing course
York Medieval Stained Glass in situ
A 10 week history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based and in in situ churches)
To Whomsoever it May Concern: Creating fiction through diaries, letters and other forms of communication
An online 11 week accredited creative writing module
A History, Rise and Demise of Western Monasticism (c.600-c.1500)
An online 11 week accredited history module
Writing the Climate
An online 11 week accredited literature module
Reconsidering Society: Learning to Think Sociologically
An online 11 week accredited social sciences course
The Gestapo in Germany
A 10 week online history and heritage course
Art and Fascism in Italy
A 6 week online history of art course
The Body in the Library: An Introduction to Crime Writing
A 10 week online literature course
An Introduction to Icelandic Literature, Past to Present
A 10 week literature course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)
Ancient Greek Philosophy
A 10 week online philosophy/religion course
Opium Wars, Unequal Treaties, Gunboats and Rebellions: Britain and China 1600-1949
A 10 week history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)
History of Spain: Roman, Visigothic, Muslim, Jew and Christian
Writing Middle Grade Fiction
An on campus 11 week accredited creative writing module
Becket's World: Thomas Becket and the Twelfth Century Renaissance
Victorian Art
An online 11 week accredited history of art module
An Introduction to Health Psychology
The History of Normandy: From the Vikings to D-Day
Following the Way: Insights into Pilgrimage
Rethinking Violence through Images
An 8 week online history of art course
From Lyonesse to Launceston: The Literary Landscape of Cornwall
Current Issues in Philosophy
The Age of Chivalry
Raphael and his Circle
A 10 week history of art course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)
An Introduction to British Archaeology
An online 11 week accredited archaeology module
Scholasticism: An Introduction to Medieval Philosophy
An on campus 11 week accredited philosophy module
By Right or by Might? The Wars of the Roses in the North
A Fresh Look at the Borgias
The Neo-Romantic Vision in British Art
An 5 week online history of art course
Unreliable and Unhinged
Having Rights and Doing Right
The Embryo Unfolding: an Introduction to Becoming You
A 9 week online natural science course
How to Transform 'An Idea' into a Story
A half-day online creative writing course
Hands-on Archaeology - Understanding the Past through Objects
A full-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)
Who Wrote the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?
A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)
The Making of Modern China
A 2 week online history and heritage course
Anger and Anxiety Management
A full-day social sciences course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)
Suleiman the Magnificent and the Knights Hospitaller
Clarifying the Commonwealth: Who, What, and Why
Ravenna as the Capital of the Byzantine Empire
A two week online history of art course
Songs of Travel
King Arthur, History and Legend
Interpreting Landscapes: Maps and Plans at the Borthwick Institute
Who Killed Amy Robsart?
Introduction to the Poetry of Dylan Thomas
A half-day literature course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)
Happy Ever Afters: An Introduction to Writing Romance Fiction
Roman Britain - A History through Coins
Lady Jane Grey: 'The Nine Days Queen'
The Archive of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York
Do I Dare to Eat a Peach? A Date with TS Eliot
A full-day literature course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)
The Life and Times of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Adapting Frankenstein
A Mindful Morning: Bringing Awareness to Everyday Life
A half-day life skills course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)
Writing Historical Fiction
Henry IV: Treason, Heresy and Lollardy
An Introduction to Sea Literature
A 2 week online literature course
Animal Matters
A full-day philosophy/religion course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)
Benedictines and Cistercians in Yorkshire
A Short History of Islamic Gardens
A full-day history of art course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)
A Beginner’s Guide to Writing a Novel
A full-day creative writing course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)
Eleanor Cobham: a Royal Witch?
York’s Medieval City Walls
A half-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)