Madness: Insane Psychiatrists and Asylums

Half-day Summer Series session

Was Arthur a 'Yorkshireman'?

Half-day Summer Series session

A New Heaven and a New Earth: the Book of Revelation

Half-day Summer Series session

Medieval Textiles and Fashion

Half-day Summer Series session

Writing Poetry 

Half-day Summer Series session

Medieval Textiles and Fashion (second cohort)

Half-day Summer Series session

Developing the Skills of Writing Fiction

Online accredited 11 week course

An Introduction to Creative Writing (Core Module)

Online accredited 11 week course

Genre Transformation

Accredited 11 week course

Bede’s England

Accredited 11 week course

Introduction to Psychology

Accredited 11 week course

The Medieval English Household: Livelihood, Lifestyle and Standards of Living (c.1250-1500)

Accredited 11 week course

Nineteenth Century American Literature: Emerging Voices of America

Accredited 11 week course

Madness: Ideas About Insanity

Accredited 11 week course

The Practice of Archaeology

Accredited 11 week course

Novel Ways: Writing The Novel

Accredited 11 week course

Aesthetics: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

Accredited 11 week course

Introduction to the Social Sciences

Accredited 11 week course

Writers Reading: The Close Study of Literary Texts from the Perspective of the Creative Writer

Accredited 11 week course

York Minster: Architecture, Artisans and Accounts

Accredited 11 week course

Understanding Paintings: 1500 to the Present Day

Accredited 11 week course

Online Creative Writing: Building Great Fiction (Autumn)

Online 10 week course

Online Creative Writing Workshop (Autumn)

Online 10 week course

The History of London’s Transport (1860-1962) (Autumn)

Online 6 week History and Heritage course

An Introduction to the Old Testament

10 week Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Medieval History for Creative Writers

8 week Creative Writing course

Medieval Travel Writing

Non-accredited 6 week History and Heritage course

Church: The Medieval Superpower?

Non-accredited 10 week History and Heritage course

Becoming Human: The Long Journey of the Palaeolithic

Non-accredited 10 week History and Heritage course

Northern Irish Poetry

10 week Literature course

Modernism and Myth

10 week Literature course

Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

10 week Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Introduction to Human Rights

8 week Social Sciences course

Britten and Literature (Tuesdays)

10 week Music course

Tracing the History of York through its Buildings

Non-accredited 10 week History and Heritage course

Creative Writing Kickstart

10 week creative writing course

Yorkshire and the Jacobites

Non-accredited 10 week History and Heritage course

History of France (987-1453)

Non-accredited 10 week History and Heritage course

Interpreting 250 Years of British Painting

10 week History of Art course

The Postcolonial City: Identity, Representation and Spatial Production

10 week Literature course

Herman Melville

8 week Literature course

Gothic Fiction

10 week Literature course

The Science of Time

10 week Science and Earth Science course

An Introduction to Numerical Cognition

10 week Social Sciences course

Britten and Literature (Wednesdays)

10 week Music course

History of Spain (c.700-1492)

Non-accredited 10 week History and Heritage course

GM Hopkins

10 week Literature course

Suleiman the Magnificent: Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Non-accredited 10 week History and Heritage course

Insults, Wars and Resistance: How the West Acquired and Lost its Far Eastern Empires

Non-accredited 10 week History and Heritage course

Radical Romantics

8 week Literature course

History or Literature? Chronicles of the Anglo-Norman World

10 week Literature course

The Long Weekend: Britain Between the Wars (1918-39)

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Brocades and Cloths of Gold: Medieval Textiles and Fashion

Non-accredited 10 week History and Heritage course

Literary Landscapes: The World of the Brontës

10 week Literature course

‘Wonderful Things’: Ancient Egypt - Collected, Curated and Displayed

Non-accredited 5 week History and Heritage course

‘Mind the Steppes!’ Nomads and their Impact on Medieval Europe (c.300-c.1400)

Non-accredited 10 week History and Heritage course

The Splendour of the Northern Renaissance

10 week History of Art course

Transformations and Shape-Shifting in Medieval Romance

8 week Literature course

Love, Sex and Censorship: The Life and Work of DH Lawrence

10 week Literature course

The Philosophy of Star Wars

10 week Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

How Do We See? An Introduction to Vision

10 week Social Sciences course

Tracing the History of York through its Buildings (second cohort)

Non-accredited 10 week History and Heritage course

Becoming a Poet: Finding Your Voice in Dialogue with the Past

Creative Writing - Saturday course

Introduction to Heritage Conservation

Saturday History and Heritage course

History of the King’s Manor

Saturday History and Heritage course

Annie Swynnerton: Pioneering Woman Artist

Saturday History of Art course

Medieval to Modern: Pop Culture and the Past

Saturday Literature course

‘The Whore of Babylon’: How Corrupt Was the English Church on the Eve of the Reformation?

Saturday History and Heritage course

Poetry for Pleasure

8 week Creative Writing course

Simple Steps to Short Stories

6 week Creative Writing course

From Spark to Page: The Story Triangle

Creative Writing Saturday course

Dear Diary... Journals, Blogs and Memoir

Creative Writing Saturday course

York Mystery Plays 2018: Waggons in the City

Saturday History and Heritage course

Medieval York through the Eyes of William Snawsell

Saturday History and Heritage course

Literary Adaptations

Saturday Literature course

El Greco (1541-1614): Unity of Opposites

Saturday History of Art course

Creating Convincing Characters in Fiction

Creative Writing Saturday course

The Battle of Neville’s Cross

Saturday History and Heritage course

What is Baroque?

Saturday History of Art course

How to Read A Poem

Saturday Literature course

‘Embracing Everything’: The Symphony

Saturday Music course

The Making of Witches: Religion, Sexuality and Community in Early Modern Europe

Saturday History and Heritage course

Writing with the Ear: Part One

Creative Writing Saturday course

History of the King’s Manor

Saturday History and Heritage course

Now That The War is Over... Life in the Aftermath of the First World War

Saturday History and Heritage course

A Muddy History of Britain: Prehistory to the Industrial Revolution

Saturday History and Heritage course

Dragons: From Medieval Tales to Modern Fantasy

Saturday Literature course

Kind of Blue: The History of Jazz

Saturday Music course

What is Beauty? Philosophical and Theological Perspectives

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Michelangelo versus Bernini

Saturday History of Art course

Poetry Inspires: The New and the Old

6 week Creative Writing course

Creating Fiction: The Role of Conflict and Desire

Creative Writing Saturday course

The Bayeux Tapestry

Saturday History and Heritage

Elizabeth I and the Cult of Gloriana

Saturday History and Heritage course

Art History in 100 Paintings (c.20,000BC to 1900)

Saturday History of Art course

Reading Theory: An Introduction

Saturday Literature course

The Psychology of Behaviour

Saturday Social Sciences course

Writing for Online Audiences

Creative Writing Saturday course

Writing Creatively About Art

Creative Writing Saturday course

Medieval York Minster: A Sensory History

Saturday History and Heritage course

1918: Haig, the 100 Days, and the Forgotten Victory

Saturday History and Heritage course

Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul: The Three Identities of an Iconic City

Saturday History of Art course

The Garden in Poetry

Saturday Literature course

What is Consciousness?

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Look Who’s Talking: Characters, Point of View and Narrative Voice

Creative Writing Saturday course

The Medieval Village

Saturday History and Heritage course

Introduction to Heraldry

Saturday History and Heritage course

Altarpieces in Action

Saturday History and Heritage course

Rediscovering Literature’s Value

Saturday Literature course

The Nordic Symphony

Saturday Music course

How to Write Prize-winning Short Fiction

Creative Writing Saturday course

The First North Americans: An Introduction to the Archaeology of North America

Saturday History and Heritage course

The Dawn of Cultural Heritage Conservation

Saturday History and Heritage course

‘Straws in the Wind?’ British Attitudes to Total War (1914-1918)

Saturday History and Heritage course

Do I Dare to Eat a Peach? A Date with TS Eliot

Saturday Literature course

Bang a Gong! An Introduction to Javanese Gamelan Music

Saturday Music course

Economics in Context: A Short History of Economic Thought and Society

Saturday Social Sciences course

Exploring the Prose Poem

Creative Writing Saturday course

The Tirell Murders: Who Killed William Rufus?

Saturday History and Heritage course

Maya of Yucatan: An Introduction

Saturday History and Heritage course

Exploring Classical Mythology: Lands of Myths and Legends

Saturday History and Heritage course

‘And she laid him in a manger’: The Christian Nativity Narratives

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

From the Pulpit to the Pub: the Eighteenth-Century Carol Singing Revival

Saturday Music course

Developing the Skills of Writing Scripts

Online accredited 11 week course

An Introduction to Critical Analysis

Online accredited 11 week course

Liminal Landscapes: The Life and Novels of Winifred Holtby

8 week Literature course

Climate and the Human Environment

Accredited 11 week course

In Short: Writing the Short Story

Accredited 11 week course

Existentialism and Phenomenology

Accredited 11 week course

Crafting and Redrafting: Making Poems Work

Accredited 11 week course

The Tudors: Power and Religion (1485-1603)

Accredited 11 week course

Impressionism: Character, Precursors and Influence

Accredited 11 week course

Introduction to Health Psychology

Accredited 11 week course

An Ideal World? Reading and Writing Utopian Fiction

Accredited 11 week course

Introduction to Modern British History: 1700s to 21st Century

Accredited 11 week course

Arthurian Literature Across the Centuries

Accredited 11 week course

Environment and Society: Finding Sustainable Solutions

Accredited 11 week course

The Age of Justinian

Accredited 11 week course

An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Accredited 11 week course

How to Write Voice-Driven Fiction

Creative Writing Saturday course

Edward II, Thomas of Lancaster and the Battle of Boroughbridge

Saturday History and Heritage course

Spotlight on Georgia O’Keeffe

Saturday History of Art course

Latin Yesterday, Today and For Ever: A Brief History of Latin

Saturday Literature course

What happened to the Nuns? Sixteenth-Century England, Myth and Religious Women after the Dissolution of the Monasteries

Saturday History and Heritage course

Online Fiction Writing Workshop (Spring)

Online 10 week course

Online Creative Writing Workshop (Spring)

Online 10 week course

The Development and Impact of Britain’s Railways (1825-1914)

Online 6 week History and Heritage course

Get Writing: Make a Poem

8 week Creative Writing course

How Did Britain Become Roman?

5 week History and Heritage course

‘Government for the People?’ Co-operation and Confrontation in British Democracy (1918- 2010)

Non-accredited 8 week History and Heritage course

Divorced, beheaded, died? Life, Power and Image for Tudor Women

Non-accredited 8 week History and Heritage course

Philip Larkin

8 week Literature course

Medieval English Drama: Mystery Plays and Beyond

8 week History and Heritage course

Writing for Children

8 week Creative Writing course

The Knights Hospitaller: From the Holy Land to Malta

8 week History and Heritage course

Cultural Heritage: The Ethics and Politics of Preserving the Past

8 week History and Heritage course

Not Just the Booker Prize: Contemporary Fiction in 2018 (second cohort)

8 week Literature course

The World Turned Upside Down: Poets and the Late Medieval Omnishambles

6 week Literature course

Exploring Javanese Gamelan Music

8 week Music course

Trade, Aid and the Economics of Developing Countries

8 week Social Sciences course

Der DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik): Life and Culture

Non-accredited 10 week History and Heritage course

The Hundred Yearsʼ War

8 week History and Heritage course

Poetry and Place

8 week Creative Writing course

Medieval Cathedrals in Northern England

8 week History and Heritage course

A Brief History of the Atlantic

8 week History and Heritage course

Paris: The History of Art in the City of Light

8 week History of Art course

Remembering the British Raj

8 week Literature course

Ezra Pound

8 week Literature course

Introduction to Marxism

8 week Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Damage to the Visual Brain: Disorders of the Visual System

8 week Social Sciences course

The Dreyfus Affair

8 week History and Heritage course

Saints and Sinners: Popes and Monks in Medieval Europe

8 week History and Heritage course

Writing Poetry with the Poet-Critics

8 week Creative Writing course

The Creation of the County of Yorkshire

8 week History and Heritage course

Capitalism, Colonialism, Consumption: Material Culture of the Early Modern World

8 week History and Heritage course

The Forgotten Pre-Raphaelites

8 week History of Art course

Stop all the Clocks: The Marvels of Twentieth Century Poetry

8 week Literature course

Reading the Mother in Contemporary Women’s Writing

8 week Literature course

Not Just the Booker Prize: Contemporary Fiction in 2018

8 week Literature course

The Tone Poem

8 week Music course

Madness: An Introduction to Ideas about Insanity

6 week Social Sciences course

The Knights Templar in Britain

Saturday History and Heritage course

Aztecs of Mexico: An Introduction

Saturday History and Heritage course

The Conservation and Care of Historic Stained Glass

Saturday History and Heritage course

Modern Art in 100 Works (1900-2017)

Saturday History of Art course

Introducing Little Red Riding Hood

Saturday Literature course

Poetry as Theology

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Being a Writer

Creative Writing Saturday course

Incas of Peru: An Introduction

Saturday History and Heritage course

Edward Burne-Jones: Painter of Pre-Raphaelite, Aesthetic and Symbolist Dream Worlds

Saturday History of Art course

Nationalism in Late Nineteenth Century Viennese Musical Life

Saturday Music course

When was the Protestant Reformation in Tudor England?

Saturday History and Heritage course

Character Building

Creative Writing Saturday course

Archbishop Scrope’s Rebellion and the City of York

Saturday History and Heritage course

A Mediterranean Tour: Not Just a Load of Old Stones

Saturday History and Heritage course

Don’t Look Back in Anger: The 1950s on the Page and the Big Screen

Saturday Literature course

Psychotherapy: A Controversial and Constructive Critique

Saturday Social Sciences course

We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: World Building and Settings

Creative Writing Saturday course

Using Maps for Local and Family History

Saturday History and Heritage course

Coins in Archaeology

Saturday History and Heritage course

The Paintings of Caravaggio

Saturday History of Art course

Cinematic Romanticism; or, an Old Look at a New Art

Saturday Stage and Screen course

Flash Fiction Workshop

Creative Writing Saturday course

The Domesday Book

Saturday History and Heritage course

Introduction to Historic Photographic Processes and Their Preservation

Saturday History and Heritage course

Chinoiserie and Orientalism in Sicily

Saturday History of Art course

From Ovid to Oz: A Brief Cultural History of Werewolves

Saturday Literature course

Schubert’s Settings of Mayrhofer

2 week Saturday Music course

A Brief Introduction to Japanese Cinema

4 week film course

Writing with the Ear: Part Two

Creative Writing Saturday course

Anglo-Saxon England: Part I (c.500-796)

Saturday History and Heritage course

Polish Nationalism, Solidarity and the Fall of the Communist Bloc (1980-1991)

Saturday History and Heritage course

State Regalia in the Collections of the Moscow Kremlin

Saturday History of Art course

The Amazing Human Brain

Saturday Social Sciences course

A Writer’s Workout: Part Three

Creative Writing Saturday course

Robin Hood and the Abbot of St Mary’s

Saturday History and Heritage course

A ‘Dear Lady Friend’ or an ‘Interfering Do-Gooder’? The Real Story Behind the Female Missionary

Saturday History and Heritage course

The Silk Road and the Islamic Heritage in Central Asia

Saturday History of Art course

Fairy Tales for Boys

Saturday Literature course

Music in the York Mystery Plays

Saturday Music course

Action! Plot and Structure in Fiction

Creative Writing Saturday course

The St William Window, York Minster

Saturday History and Heritage course

Pottery in Archaeology

Saturday History and Heritage course

Preserving and Conserving Our Historic Houses and Collections

Saturday History and Heritage course

Classical Literature: Meeting the Ancient Authors

Saturday Literature course

Creative Writing and the Visual Arts

Creative Writing Saturday course

York: Conquest, Cathedral and Chocolate

Saturday History and Heritage course

Becoming a Poet: Finding Your Voice in Dialogue with Visual Art

Creative Writing Saturday course

The Tirell Murders: Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?

Saturday History and Heritage course

‘Something Old, Something, New’: Approaching Contemporary Music

Saturday Music course

Online Fiction Writing Workshop (Summer)

Online 10 week course

Online Creative Writing: Building Great Fiction (Summer)

Online 10 week course

The History of London’s Transport (1860-1962) (Summer)

Online 6 week History and Heritage course

Developing the Skills of Writing Poetry

Online accredited 11 week course

Understanding the People of the Past

5 week History and Heritage course

Nuns: A Cultural History

10 week History and Heritage course

American Art: Forging a Nation in Images

10 week History of Art course

The Sonnet

10 week Literature course

From ‘Loose, Baggy Monsters’ to ‘Make it New!’ Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

10 week Literature course

Literary Adventures in Creative Writing

Non-accredited 10 week course

Everyday Life in a Medieval University

10 week History and Heritage course

Building the Empire: A Primer in Roman Architecture

10 week History and Heritage course

A Century of Gender History (1918-2018)

10 week History and Heritage course

Great Museums and Galleries of Europe

10 week History of Art course

The Fiction of David Foster Wallace

10 week Literature course

An Introduction to Japanese Literature

10 week Literature course

Mastering the Mysteries of Manuscript to Melody: Medieval Music and its Notation

10 week Music course

Aesthetics and Politics

10 week Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

An Introduction to Human Memory

10 week Social Sciences course

Writing About the World: Contemporary Forms of Creative Non-Fiction

Accredited 11 week course

America Through Contemporary Short Stories

Accredited 11 week course

An Introduction to the Psychology of Relationships

Accredited 11 week course

York Medieval Stained Glass in situ

10 week History and Heritage course

An Introduction to the New Testament

10 week Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Poetry Breaking Boundaries

Non-accredited 10 week course

The Borgias

10 week History and Heritage course

Fabled Oceans, Imaginary Islands, Cities of Gold: The Role of Accident in European Exploration

10 week History and Heritage

Understanding the Photograph

8 week History of Art course

Shakespearean Drama: Texts, Contexts and Critical Approaches

7 week Literature course

English-Language Welsh Poetry

10 week Literature course

Citizenship: Your Rights and Responsibilities in Twenty-First Century Britain

10 week Social Sciences course

Machines, Monsters, Magic and Murder: Writing Genre Fictions

Accredited 11 week course

The English Civil Wars and Interregnum (c.1637-1661)

Accredited 11 week course

Introduction to Developmental Psychology

Accredited 11 week course

Shakespeare and the History Play

10 week Literature course

The Spanish Civil War (1936-39)

10 week History and Heritage course

Medieval Christianity: East and West

10 week History and Heritage course

Venetian Painting (1470-1530): Bellini, Giorgione, Titian

10 week History of Art course

An Introduction to Forensic Archaeology

Accredited 11 week course

Medieval Women

6 week History and Heritage course

History and Heritage: Exploring Africa

10 week History and Heritage course

From Poetics to Postmodernism: A Potted History of Literary Criticism

10 week Literature course

The Stories Behind the Music

8 week Music course

Monks, Mystics and Martyrs of Yorkshire

10 week Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

From Sonnet to Slam: Exploring the Writing of Poetry Using Form

Accredited 11 week course

Early Medieval Europe (c.300-1000AD)

Accredited 11 week course

Materials in the Medieval World: England and the British Isles (500-1200AD)

Accredited 11 week course

Secrets of Writing Short Stories

Creative Writing Saturday course

The Trials and Tribulations of Lady Anne Clifford

Saturday History and Heritage course

Christianity in a World Come of Age: The Life and Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Novel Ends: Completing the Novel

Non-accredited 10 week Creative Writing course

The Tudor North

10 week History and Heritage course

Engaging the Audience

Creative Writing Saturday course

The Great East Window, York Minster

Saturday History and Heritage course

The Archaeology of Prehistoric Britain: Digging into our Ancient Past

Saturday History and Heritage course

Dangerous Art: Censorship and Iconoclasm through the Ages

Saturday History of Art course

Mad Women in the Attic... and Elsewhere

Saturday Literature course

Edit and Polish Your Prose

Creative Writing Saturday course

The Stories Behind Coins: An Exploration of 2000 Years of Interesting, Confusing, and Controversial Coinage

Saturday History and Heritage course

Behind the Eyes of Big Brother: George Orwell and the English Sensibility

Saturday Literature course

Poetry, Performance, Collaboration

Creative Writing Saturday course

A Day in Medieval Bruges

Saturday History and Heritage course

The Louvre Museum, or ‘Why is the Mona Lisa so famous?’

Saturday History of Art course

‘And the greatest of these is love’: An Introduction to the Letters of St Paul

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

Writing for Well-being and Relaxation

Creative Writing Saturday course

Paper and Parchment: Its History, Manufacture and Conservation

Saturday History and Heritage course

The Art of the Mughals in the Indian Subcontinent

Saturday History of Art course

Before the Storm: England (1909-11)

Saturday History and Heritage course

History Myths: Did Alfred Burn the Cakes?

Saturday History and Heritage course

Why Was Aethelraed Unraed Nicknamed the ‘Unready’?

Saturday History and Heritage course

How the Vote was Won: Women’s Rights and the 1918 Representation of the People Act

Saturday History and Heritage course

Criminological Crime Fiction

Saturday Literature course

Visual Art as Theology

Saturday Religion, Culture and Philosophy course

An Introduction to Genre Fiction

Creative Writing Saturday course

Your Mother Was a Hamster! Medieval Insults and How to Use Them

Saturday History and Heritage course

All Saints’ North Street’s Stained Glass Windows

Saturday History and Heritage course

Talking Politicians

Saturday Social Sciences course

An Introduction to Sculpture in 100 Pieces

Saturday History of Art course

Apocalypse Now: The End of the World in Historical Context

Saturday History and Heritage course

A Kestrel for a Knave: The World of Birds of Prey

Saturday Science and Earth Science course

Write Without Cliché

Creative Writing Saturday course

York’s City Walls

Saturday History and Heritage course

Anglo-Saxon England: Part II (c.800-1066)

Saturday History and Heritage course

As If By Magic...

Saturday Literature course

Were Tudor People like Us? Some Thoughts on English Society (1485-1603)

Saturday History and Heritage course

Penda, Oswy and the Battle of Winwaed

Saturday History and Heritage course