Adult Courses

This course is for absolute beginners in iPad drawing and painting. It is designed to get you familiar with the technical details of the iPad, leaving you free to be highly creative and imaginative with this exciting artistic tool. A lack of any good art manuals has made it difficult for artists to get started. Aimed primarily at those already using traditional...

This course is designed for students who have overcome all the initial difficulties of the iPad and are ready to explore further some of its complexities. The course will comprise of making finished pictures each day after focussing on new technical aspects, like importing photos and using layers extensively to construct detailed images. Final images will be printed every day. You will...

Ever since the dawn of man, people have been fascinated by the night sky, gazing at it in awe and contemplation. During this course, the tutor will introduce the basics of Astronomy. He will start with a tour of the night sky, along with some of its most fascinating sights, before culminating with an examination of the nature of these spectacles...

This course takes you to the heart of the 'why' and 'how' of natural history and provides a platform for you to continue to study, understand and appreciate everything from garden birds and their behaviour, plants and the ecology of their pollinators, fungi and their pivotal role in the functioning of the ecosystem, to leaves and their industrious manufacture of the stuff...

Have you always wanted to know what the Higgs Boson actually is, without having to study years of physics? Or, would you finally like to know if the Big Bang was a real explosion? In this course, you will study these and other topics in modern physics in a way that is accessible for anyone. There is no need to have...

Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered about all those brilliant dots and what is in the dark space between? If you have struggled to take it further than that and you hanker after views of planets, star clusters, nebulae and galaxies, then this is the course for you. No experience necessary, just a curiosity to explore the...

Sustainability has become a mainstream topic. Cities and countries are announcing petrol and diesel car bans, new business models are being tested by the likes of IKEA and M&S to make our economy circular and Paris is becoming the capital of sustainable finance. You will learn what sustainability means and how it affects our everyday lives. This course is interactive and includes...

Why do certain chemical reactions occur? What makes particular compounds produce electricity? The explanations lie in Physical Chemistry; the study of matter at atomic and molecular levels. You will learn how atoms form molecules and what the factors controlling chemical reactions are. In 1880, the electron had yet to be discovered and the existence of atoms was not universally accepted. Yet, a...

This course is designed to give beginners and 'not quite' beginners the confidence to use their Apple Mac computers without too much frustration. You will use the College computers and Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac (Word and Excel) as the main software and will also cover Apple Mac's own 'Pages' and 'Numbers' as alternatives to Microsoft Office. The aim is to ensure...

This course is aimed at photographers who have purchased Lightroom and want to get the most from this software. It will introduce and explain Lightroom's features and functions and speed up your learning process by working through each of its major modules. You will need to bring your own laptop computer with Lightroom installed. At the time of writing, Adobe allows you...

This course is designed to give beginners and 'not quite' beginners the confidence to use Windows computers without too much frustration. You will use a Windows 10 operating system and Microsoft Office 2016 (Word, Excel and Outlook) on the College computers. The aim is to ensure you are using your computer with confidence by the end of the week.

This course will take you through the more advanced functionality that Apple Macs offer. It is a course for reasonably confident users of Apple Macs who want to know more than the basics. You will be using the College computers with Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac (Word and Excel) and will cover Apple Macs own 'Pages' and 'Numbers' as alternatives to Microsoft...