Saturday Courses
Our Saturday courses for the 2019/20 academic year can be found below, listed by term and subject. For a list of all courses in date order, please visit Upcoming courses and events. All courses can be booked online (click on the link in the course page).
*UPDATE 27/03/20* So we can continue to support our students, we are working towards putting some of our Summer courses online, by setting up live seminars that students can join through Collaborate - a tool for online meetings that is similar to making video calls.
We will contact you once we have made arrangements for your course either by email or telephone - we are organising the long courses first and then we will be in touch about Saturday classes.
Centre staff will be working from home - should you have any queries please contact us by email (lifelonglearning@york.ac.uk) or call 01904 328473 and leave a voicemail message.
All of us here at CLL would like to thank you all for your patience and for your continued support whilst we arrange this.
Summer Term
Summer Term Courses
Creative Writing
- Where Do Ideas Come From? - 25 April 2020
- Writing a Novel: Engaging the Audience - 9 May 2020
- Writing Short Stories - 16 May 2020
- Performance Writing - 23 May 2020
- Preparing to Submit - 13 June 2020
- Writing the Wild: Nature Writing - 20 June 2020
- A Writer's Workout: Part Two - 27 June 2020
History and Heritage
- History Mysteries: Who is Buried in Sutton Hoo? - 18 April 2020
- The History of St Mary’s Abbey and the Abbot’s Manor - 25 April 2020
- How Did Britain Become Roman? - 2 May 2020
- Flashpoints and Candy Bombers: Assessing the Berlin Blockade (1948-49) - 2 May 2020
- The Conquests of Wales - 9 May 2020
- History of Spain: The Reconquest (1000-1500) - 16 May 2020
- Building the Guild Hall - 30 May 2020
- The Winter of Discontent, Mrs Thatcher and the 1979 May Election - 30 May 2020
- 'Keep This Voucher - It Is Of Value': What Was Rowntree & Co.'s Marketing Revolution? - 6 June 2020
- Yorkshire and the Industrial Revolution (third cohort) 2019/20 - 6 June 2020
- The History of York’s Merchants Adventurers and their Hall - 13 June 2020
- Prophecy, Propaganda and Portraits: How to Rule a Nation? - 20 June 2020
- August 1920: The Battle of Warsaw and the Salvation of Europe - 20 June 2020
- Durham Cathedral: History Set in Stone - 20 June 2020
History of Art
- Islamic Art in Italy: Venice, Florence and Urbino - 18 April 2020
- The Emergence of Modern Art - 25 April 2020
- History of Art: Developing a Worldwide View - 16 May 2020
- French Connections and the Camden Town Group - 13 June 2020
Literature
- The Wind in the Willows and the Meaning of Life - 18 April 2020
- A Day at Briggflatts - 25 April 2020
- An Introduction to Geoffrey Hill - 9 May 2020
- ‘Down these mean streets...’ - 16 May 2020
- Literary Exiles and Émigrés: James Joyce, Jean Rhys, Joseph Conrad, Katherine Mansfield - 23 May 2020
- Introduction to the Poetry of Seamus Heaney - 6 June 2020
- A Day with John Donne - 13 June 2020
- Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe and the Gothic Revival - 20 June 2020
Music
- Strange Fruit: Women Pioneers of Jazz - 20 June 2020
Religion, Culture and Philosophy
- The Death of God - 9 May 2020
- A New Heaven and a New Earth: An Introduction to the Book of Revelation - 30 May 2020
- The Vision of Piers Plowman: A Search for ‘Kynde Knowinge’ - 27 June 2020
Science and Earth Science
- Current Topics in Biology: Sustainable Food - 25 April 2020
- Current Topics in Biology: Our Climate - 6 June 2020
- Current Topics in Biology: Public Health Decisions at Scale - 27 June 2020
Social Sciences