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Creative Writing: Writing Your First Novel: Getting Started
You'll learn about the key pillars of creative writing, which will help you write effective fiction pieces, as well as create an effective creative writing practice.
Whether you want to write a novel, short stories, or just write for self-awareness and personal development, come along, and join the class, whether you consider yourself an absolute beginner or someone who has written a little in the past.
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Dates:Thu 16/01/2025 -
Thu 27/03/2025Times:6:30pm - 8:30pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Craig RickardCourse code:Q00009230How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £74.00
Creative Writing: Structure & Point-of-View
Practice techniques for creating short stories, true or untrue. We'll apply the principles of short fiction to our writing, with the focus this term on thinking about how point-of-view impacts on structure. There will be writing exercises, discussions, an optional weekly homework task and feedback. Guidance on feedback techniques will be provided. The course content has flexibility, and will be adapted to suit the needs of the group. Suitable for improvers.
This course uses the same content as the Friday morning course, Creative Writing: Point-of-View, and the Thursday morning fortnightly course, Creative Writing: Point-of-View, therefore you need only enrol on to one of them.
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Dates:Fri 17/01/2025 -
Fri 21/02/2025Times:11:00am - 1:00pmDuration:6 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Catherine HumphrisCourse code:Q00012329How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:8 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £44.40
Entry Level ESOL: Conversation
Unlock the power of reading with our ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) course, specifically designed to enhance your reading skills. Held at the Digital Skills Hub in Boscombe, this six-week program is tailored for non-native English speakers who wish to improve their reading proficiency for both personal and professional growth.
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Dates:Mon 20/01/2025 -
Mon 31/03/2025Times:9:30am - 11:30amDuration:10 sessionsLocation:Digital Skill Hub (Computer Room)
30-32 Royal Arcade
Christchurch Road
Boscombe
Bournemouth
BH1 4BTTutor:Karen JohnsonCourse code:Q00017074How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £84.00
Creative Writing: Structure & Point-of-View
Practice techniques for creating short stories, true or untrue. We'll apply the principles of short fiction to our writing, with the focus this term on thinking about how point-of-view impacts on structure. There will be writing exercises, discussions, an optional weekly homework task and feedback. Guidance on feedback techniques will be provided. The course content has flexibility, and will be adapted to suit the needs of the group. Suitable for improvers.
This course uses the same content as the Friday morning course, Creative Writing: Point-of-View, and the Thursday morning fortnightly course, Creative Writing: Point-of-View, therefore you need only enrol on to one of them.
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Dates:Thu 23/01/2025 -
Thu 03/04/2025Times:7:00pm - 9:00pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Catherine HumphrisCourse code:Q00012327How you'll learn:OnlineStatus:Waiting listFee rangeFree to £74.00
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Duration:12 monthsFee:£15
Creative Writing: Wellbeing and Writing Skills
Are you interested in creative writing as a tool for well being? We will explore creative writing as therapy or personal memoir as a tool for well being and developing writing skills, imagination and confidence and look at different ways of writing about life experience, memory, incidents and details that illustrate a narrative and how the use of imagination can often lead to the development of a story or poem.
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Dates:Sat 25/01/2025 -
Sat 25/01/2025Times:10:00am - 3:30pmDuration:1 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Stella StockerCourse code:Q00018503How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £20.35
Psychology: Perspectives on Mental Health Part 2 (online)
We will explore the meaning and our experience of mental distress from four very different viewpoints; the Biological or medical model, various psychological approaches, the societal perspective and a spiritual one. Each has something to offer, none has the whole story.
This is an introductory level course, so no previous knowledge is assumed. It is suitable for those on a recovery journey, for those seeking to use their own experience to help others or for those simply curious about mental health. It follows on from part 1 but it is not essential to have completed that to do this course.
Teaching is a mix of short presentations of key ideas, challenging open questions and lots of open discussion in small groups online.
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Dates:Wed 23/04/2025 -
Wed 28/05/2025Times:2:30pm - 4:30pmDuration:6 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Kevin WalkerCourse code:Q00019524How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee:£44.40