Upcoming courses and events

An Introduction to Forensic Archaeology

An online 11 week accredited archaeology module

In Short: Writing the Short Story

An online 11 week accredited creative writing module

The Radiant Art: A History of York Stained Glass

An online 11 week accredited history and heritage module

The Lives and Deeds of the Three Richards: The Lion-hearted, the Feeble One, and the Tyrant

An online 11 week accredited history and heritage module

Introduction to Medieval Literature

An online 11 week accredited literature module

The History of Museums: Collecting and Curating the Past

An online 11 week accredited history of art module

Modernist Afterlives: Virginia Woolf, Rachel Cusk, Ali Smith

A 10 week online literature course

Liminal Landscapes: The Life and Work of Winifred Holtby

A 10 week online literature course

'The Abysmal Woe': The Black Death (1347-1351)

A 10 week history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Rise of Wessex: From Alfred to Edward the Confessor

A 10 week online history and heritage course

A Beginner’s Guide to Philosophy

A 10 week online philosophy/religion course

Rome and Byzantium: One Empire, Two Capitals

A 10 week online history and heritage course

What is Philosophy?

A 4 week philosophy/religion course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Lines of Sight: Reading and Writing Ekphrastic Poetry

An 8 week creative writing course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Neanderthal Man: Cousin, Ancestor and Teacher

A 10 week online history and heritage course

The Short Story from the Twentieth Century to the Present

A 10 week online literature course

Ethics

An 8 week online philosophy/religion course

The Art of Michelangelo

A 10 week online history of art course

The Life and Times and Major Works of George Orwell, and His Warnings For Our Own Age

A 10 week history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Illuminated Manuscripts (700-1500 CE)

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Sartre’s Existentialism

A 4 week online philosophy/religion course

Psychology of Mental Health

An online 11 week accredited social sciences module

The Holy Roman Empire (800-1556)

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Modern Irish Literature

A 10 week literature course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Introducing Logic

A 4 week philosophy/religion course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Modern Irish Literature

A 10 week literature course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Twelfth-Century Renaissance

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Victorian Artists and their World

A 10 week online history of art course

Getting Started with Poetry

A 10 week online creative writing course

The Ratline: Nazi Fugitives

A 10 week online history and heritage course

Norman Abbeys in Normandy, England, and Italy

A 10 week online history and heritage course

‘The Topography of Home’: Literature of Home and Homecoming

A 10 week online literature course

Postmodernism and Philosophies of Difference

A 10 week philosophy/religion course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

A Virtual Tour of the Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World at the British Museum

A 2 week online history of art course

'The Whore of Babylon': How Corrupt Was the English Church on the Eve of the Reformation

A half-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Did the Princes in the Tower Survive?

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Native: A History of Animals in Britain

A half-day online history and heritage course

St William of York and St Thomas of Canterbury: Parallel Lives

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Harmonising the Heavens: The Philosophy and Practice of Music in the Medieval World

A full-day philosophy/religion course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Kindness: a Sociological Approach to Understanding Why People and Communities are Compassionate

A half-day social sciences course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Kirby Underdale Church and the Malines Conversations

A half-day online history and heritage course

Paper Trials: Writing the Murder of Cora Crippen (1910)

A 2 week online literature course

The Real Power of Dialogue

A full-day creative writing course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Trials and Tribulations of Lady Anne Clifford

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

What Makes Good Things Good? The Basis of Morality

A half-day online philosophy/religion course

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

A half-day online history and heritage course

Bede the Historian

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Aesthetics and Politics

A full-day philosophy/religion course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Pottery in Archaeology

A full-day history, heritage and archaeology course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

One Hundred Years of Solitude

A full-day literature course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

What Are Numbers?

A half-day online philosophy/religion course

Folksongs of Here and Now

A half-day online creative writing course

The Origins of the Liberties of York

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Greek Drama - Oedipus and More

A full-day history, heritage and archaeology course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Psychotherapy and Society

A half-day social sciences course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

TS Eliot’s Four Quartets

A half-day literature course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Women’s Work, Women and Art (1550-2000)

A 2 week online history of art course

Emma of Normandy (d.1052), Queen of England

A full-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Rise of the Gothic

A 2 week online literature course

The History of the Bible: Text, Transmission, and Translation

A full-day philosophy/religion course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Sociological Imagination: An Introduction to Sociological Ideas and Methods

A half-day social sciences course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

An Introduction to Visual Poetry I: Collage Poems

A full-day creative writing course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

A Tour of Morocco’s Four Imperial Cities: Marrakech, Fez, Rabat and Meknes

A 2 week online history of art course

Robert Aske and the Pilgrimage of Grace

A full-day history and heritage course (The King's Manor, Classroom-based)

Identifying Animal Bones: An Introduction

A half-day history, heritage and archaeology course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Philosophy and Logic of Paradox

A full-day philosophy/religion course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

When was the Protestant Reformation in Tudor England?

A full-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

The Medici: Bankers, Rulers and Patrons of the Arts

A full-day history and heritage course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)

Medieval Alliterative Poetry: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

A half-day online literature course

Munch and the Fjords

A half-day history of art course (University of York Campus, Classroom-based)