Courses for Adults: Autumn Term 2010

Please click on a course title to view specific course details or click here to enrol on a course. All courses are held at the Guildford Institute, although some courses will have visits off site.

Archaeology & History
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20/09 to 29/11 Classical Civilisations: Rome And Greece: Patron Or Plunderer? (Part 1)
23/09 to 02/12 In The Footsteps of Gertrude Jekyll
23/09 to 21/10 Read All About It! Palaeography Made Fun
24/09 to 22/10 Splendours of Egypt: The Paintings of David Roberts, RA
02/11 to 30/11 Between The Wars - Life & Leisure In Britain 1918-1939
17/11 & 24/11 Education In England And Wales: Schools from 1800 to 1850
30/11 Popular Culture During World War One (Interdisciplinary)

Art History
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16/09 to 14/10 Mediaeval South Indian Dynasties: History Of Sacred Art
21/09 to 19/10 Arts and Crafts Architecture
23/09 to 07/10 ‘Exoticism’ - Its Origins and Influence on Design Practice, Decorative Arts and the Home Interior
 
06/10 & 13/10 Salvador Dali - Dream or Nightmare?
02/11 to 30/11 London Sculpture: The Gallery Collections
03/11 & 10/11 The Artist, The Needlewomen and The Readers
12/11 to 26/11 The Grand Tour - The English Art Collector Abroad
17/11 to 01/12 Renoir: The Epitome of "French Conviviality"
27/11 Visit - Sculpture in the Victoria & Albert Museum
04/12 The Life and Works Of Paul Gauguin

Bridge
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08/10 to 10/12 Bridge Beginners
21/09 to 23/11 Bridge Intermediates
27/09 to 13/12 Advanced Bridge
27/09 to 18/10 Mahjong
01/11 to 22/11 Mahjong

Creative Writing
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28/09 to 30/11Writers' Workshop
02/10 So You Want to Write a Novel?

Drawing, Painting & Crafts
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22/09 to 06/10 Pastels
03/11 to 01/12 Painting
04/11 to 02/12 Drawing: The Basics - A Course for Everyone
06/11 Christmas Printmaking
04/12 Christmas Crafts

Family History
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06/11 How To Begin Your Family History

Historical Geography

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03/11 Depressions, War and Mechanisation: British Agriculture Between c.1850 and c. 1950

Languages
Date Title
22/09 to 01/12 Italian for Improvers, Term 1
22/09 to 01/12 Italian for Beginners
29/09 to 24/11 French Taster
29/09 to 24/11 French Conversation and Culture - Le Club Français

Philosophy
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4/11 to 25/11 What Do You Mean By That?

Politics & International Affairs
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06/11 South Asia
04/12 The Special Relationship

Theatre Studies
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21 & 28/12 Who's Afraid Of William Shakespeare?
30/09 It's the Stage, Stupid!
12/10 The Shakespeare Soliloquy
21/10 Restoration Comedy - Naughty, but Moral?
11/11 War on the Stage
02/12 Shakespeare's Villains

A One Day Life Writing Workshop

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23/10

10.30am-4.30pm

Life Writing Workshop

If you want to start writing, there is no better place to begin than with your own unique story and the good news is that this is niowhere near as daunting as it sounds. Terrie Rintoul’s Life Writing Workship is both highly supportive and interactive and includes practical exercises specially designed to help you to release that book which has been ‘in you’ all along.

Course Code: GI-10-261 Price: £30; Concessions £27

The Weather
Date Title
02/10

Weather, Natural Disasters and our Ever Changing Climate