To see more detailed information on the electives we offer please click here.

Click here to download the programme brochure which includes details of each workshop together with instructions on how to book.  There are limited places on each workshop so do book early to avoid disappointment.

Below is a comprehensive list of all the workshops we are offering.  Click on the name of each one to download a flyer giving more information about that workshop.

Creative Writing

• Characterisation in the short story
• Growing a novel
• Poems are other peoples photographs
• The single-page comic
• Writing crime
• Writing scripts

Film

• Blurred identities?  The changing face of national cinema

Literature

• Scandinavian children’s literature

Music

• Wagner with feeling and understanding

Religion

• In search of the historical Jesus

Science

• Performance enhancement in health and disease

Social Science

• You, your green bin and the bigger picture

FREE Evening Seminar

• Reflections on the Arab Spring

If you have any questions about our 2012 ‘Spring into Summer’ programme please contact Becca Edwards on 0113 343 6892.

This 11-week course will be running at the Technorth Family Learning Centre on Harrogate Road in Leeds from 7-8pm on Monday evenings starting on Monday 14th May.

The course is designed to give students an insight into the cultural history of music in Islam and the various debates surrounding its development.  Students will explore the influence of culture and tradition upon music, and vice-versa, in different parts of the Muslim world.

For a more detailed module outline please click here.

Interested?

Please contact Greg Elliott on 0113 343 1770 for further information and to request a registration form.

Green Impact Universities and Colleges is a very successful environmental accreditation scheme that is currently run in 46 higher and further education institutions and is delivered by NUS in partnership with the Environmental Association for Universities & Colleges. The aim of the scheme is to empower staff to take an active role in reducing their environmental impact.

Examples of current practice which were included in the audit are:

• Use of re-cycled paper and duplex printing as default
• Widespread recycling of waste, including bins for paper, glass, plastic, compostable material, plus guidelines on how other items can be recycled
• Use of fair-trade tea/coffee for meetings; request for locally produced food from caterers wherever possible
• Avoidance of the use of bottled water
• Staff made aware of the need to switch of lights and monitors at the end of the day and over vacations

Our current Green Impact Team consists of: Pat Dixon, Sitara Akram and Wendy Trevor.

We also offer a range of creative writing electives for undergraduates.

Inspiration and guidance

Watch this animation, created for one of our classes, which introduces some short story conventions: 

Further guidance and inspiration can be found in this document.

Before entering your work:

Remember to add your student id number to your entry before printing as entries are judged anonymously.

Make sure that your name is not on your entry as it would then be disqualified.

Competition Rules:

Entries must be delivered in hard-copy to the Lifelong Learning Centre, Level 11, Marjorie and Arnold Ziff Building, The University of Leeds

If you are posting your submission ensure that you use Recorded Delivery

Closing date for receipt of entries: 27th April 2012 4pm Maximum of 2000 words for short stories (no mimimum)

Maximum of 20-lines for poetry (no minimum)

Maximum of 8-pages formatted text for script (no minimum) The title is NOT included in the word or line count

Eligibility

• The Competition is open to any undergraduate student currently studying within The University of Leeds.
• Individuals may only enter the competition once
• Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been published, self-published, published on any website or public online forum, broadcast nor winning or placed in any other competition.

Entry Format

• Entries must be in English.
• Entries must be typed, single sided with pages numbered and securely fastened with a staple.
• Stories must be double spaced and a word count noted at the top of the first page.
• Poems must be single spaced and a line count noted at the top of the page.
• Scripts must be correctly formatted, complete pieces, with the running-time noted at the top of the first page.
• Entries must show no name, address or identifying marks other than the title and your student ID number.
• Entries are not returned, keep a copy.
• No corrections can be made after receipt.

Results

• Results (winning entries only) will be posted to the LLLC website in June 2012 and winning entrants will be notified via email.

Copyright

• Worldwide copyright of each entry remains with the author, but the Lifelong Learning Centre will have the unrestricted right to publish the winning pieces, (including runners up), on our website and in any relevant promotional material.

Judging

• The judges’ decision is final and no individual correspondence can be entered into
• Judges are unable to comment on individual entries
• Judging is fair and unbiased.

Prizes

There will be a first, second and third prize:

1) First place: £100 in Amazon vouchers

2) Second place: £50 in Amazon vouchers

3) Third place: £25 in Amazon vouchers

No competitor may win more than one prize

Prizewinners

Prizewinners will be notified via email by the beginning of June 2012

Entry implies acceptance of all the rules Failure to comply with the entry requirements will result in disqualification

The scholarships, which took the form of a £500 grant towards fees, were awarded to a number of students who were ineligible for any other support, and whose employer was not able to fund them, but who otherwise would have experienced financial difficulties in paying their fees. Applications from students coming from communities under-represented in HE and/or those who had missed out in their education in the past were given priority.

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Part-time students received acknowledgment of all their hard work and commitment at the Lifelong Learning Centre’s graduation ceremony held on Wednesday 20th July 2011.

The children and young people’s workforce plays a vital role in shaping the future of Leeds through its work in local communities. Through their commitment to their own education and development, these staff have gained degrees in areas relevant to their professional practice. Their success also recognises the commitment of many schools to the development of their non-teaching staff in order to improve learning support. As Sally Gibbs, Programme Manager for the Foundation Degree and BA(Hons) in Learning and Teaching, notes:

The aim is to ensure that whilst individual students gain a much greater understanding of their working environment, the school and other staff within the school also benefit from this greater understanding and application of knowledge and skills.

The partnerships between the University of Leeds and the Local Authority contributes to an improvement in children and young people’s services. This view is held by Liz Chennells, the Programme Manager for the Child and Family Welfare Foundation Degree and BA(Hons) programmes, who says:

Our programmes are firmly rooted in professional practice and we regularly liaise with professional colleagues to ensure we continue to reflect this.

This is an approach which Andrea Richardson, Acting Head of Early Years at Leeds City Council, feels can only benefit her staff:

Higher education has dramatically improved the skills of the Early Years workforce.

Perhaps the last word about the benefits of study should go to Joanne Howieson, studying for her BA (Hons) degree in Early Childhood Studies, who feels one of the best things about her studies is

how it links into the work that I’m doing. I’m reading things and looking into things that I probably wouldn’t had I not been doing the course.

The Programme Manager, David Gilding said:

 This is great news for the LLC as it highlights how closely we work with professional organisations.