Classroom-based Saturday Classes

Creative Writing

Saturday 21 October 2023: Poems About Legends, Myths and Fairytales - with Will Kemp MA MSc (10am-1pm, 1 week, £28)
Saturday 25 November 2023: Writing Dialogue - with Alexandra Weston LLB MA (10am-1pm, 1 week, £28)

History, Heritage and Archaeology

Saturday 07 October 2023: York Myths: The Legend Of Ebrauc - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 21 October 2023: The Gododdin and the Last Stand of the British at Catterick - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 28 October 2023: An Introduction to Life and Dispute in Early Modern France and England - with Sian Hibbert BA MA (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 28 October 2023: The History of Gray’s Court - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4:30pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 28 October 2023: Identifying Animal Bones: an Introduction - with Clare Rainsford MA (Cantab) MSc PhD (10am-4:30pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 04 November 2023: King Arthur: From Legend to Myth - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 04 November 2023: The Truth about Life in Medieval York - with Barry Crump BA BSc MRes (10am-4:30pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 11 November 2023: York Minster’s Fifteenth-Century Glass - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4:30pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 18 November 2023: Who Was Lady Godiva? - with Gillian Waters BA MA PGDip PGCE (10am-4pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 25 November 2023: William the Conqueror, Hero or Villain? - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4:30pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 09 December 2023: The Story and Characters in the Bayeux Tapestry - with Cristina Figueredo BA MA PhD (10am-4:30pm, 1 week, £52)

History of Art

Saturday 07 October 2023: The Medieval Art and Architecture of York - with Roisin Astell BA MSt PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 21 October 2023: Samarkand and the Silk Road - with Roberta Marin MA (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 04 November 2023: The Paintings of Piero della Francesca - with Peter Finch PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 25 November 2023: The Paintings of Piero della Francesca second cohort - with Peter Finch PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £52)

Literature

Saturday 28 October 2023: A Saturday of Old English - Ellen Gallimore BA MA PgDip PhD Candidate (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 11 November 2023: Artificial Intelligence in Literature - with Alice Rhodes BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 18 November 2023: An Excursion through T S Eliot’s The Waste Land - with Martin Potter PhD (2-5pm, 1 week, £28)
Saturday 02 December 2023: Animal Farms: a history of political animals in literature - with Alice Rhodes BA MA PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £52)

Philosophy and Religion

Saturday 21 October 2023: What is Beauty? - with Daniel Gustafsson BA MA PhD (10am-4:30pm, 1 week, £52)
Saturday 04 November 2023: Environmental Ethics - with Bo Meinertsen PhD (2-5pm, 1 week, £28)
Saturday 25 November 2023: An Introduction to Infinity - with Simon Skempton PhD (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £52)

Science and Earth Sciences

Saturday 21 October 2023: Climate Questions - with Lynda Dunlop, Ceri Holman and Felicity Palmer (10am-4.30pm, 1 week, £52)

Social Sciences

Saturday 11 November 2023: The Sociological Imagination: an Introduction to Sociological Ideas and Methods - with Peter Morrall BA MSc PhD PGCE (10am-1pm, 1 week, £28)
Saturday 02 December 2023: The Cognitive Psychology of Sleep - with Emma Sullivan BSc MSc (10am-1pm, 1 week, £28)

Subject to any change of guidance with regard to Covid restrictions, classroom-based courses will be based at the University of York campus or the King's Manor.

You must therefore be able to attend in-person - we would kindly ask all learners to respect the preferences of their fellow learners with regard to the University of York Covid-19 Community Charter.