WEA courses

Explore calligraphy in a welcoming course, perfect for all skill levels. No artistic background required. Delve into the elegant Uncial style, mastering expressive letterforms. Tailored to enhance basic skills, the course focuses on accessible tools and straightforward techniques. Whether a novice or seeking deeper insights, join us to strengthen your connection with modern calligraphy. Emphasizing hands-on learning, the experience equips you with knowledge and skills for creating personalized artworks. Experiment with variations, ensuring historical accuracy. Leave with confidence and proficiency, utilizing easily available equipment and effective techniques in your artistic endeavours.

Explore the art of calligraphy, no artistic background required. Join us to try your hand at creating elegant italic letter forms. This course offers a solid grounding in various aspects of this captivating craft, catering to beginners and enthusiasts alike. Work with readily available equipment and employ simple yet effective techniques. The primary goal is to provide you with a foundational understanding of calligraphy, emphasizing accessibility and ease of learning. Whether you're a novice or looking to refine your skills, this course will immerse you in the world of italic lettering. If you like stationery you will love calligraphy

Explore the art of calligraphy, no artistic background required. Join us to try your hand at creating elegant lettering. This course offers a solid grounding in various aspects of this captivating craft, catering to beginners and enthusiasts alike. Work with readily available equipment and employ simple yet effective techniques. The primary goal is to provide you with a foundational understanding of calligraphy, emphasizing accessibility and ease of learning. Whether you're a novice or looking to refine your skills, this course will immerse you in the world of italic lettering. If you like stationery you will love calligraphy.

In this course we will read and discuss books by an author who excelled at comic writing and whose books have mostly been overlooked in recent years. Angela Thirkell’s novels, set in Anthony Trollope’s fictional county of Barsetshire, offer a gently satirical take on social mores and pretensions in upper and middle-class society of the 1930s and 1940s. We will be focusing on two comic novels: High Rising (1933) and Northbridge Rectory (1941). Through friendly and accessible discussions of both texts, we will learn more about their stories, characters and themes, and consider the nature of their author’s distinctive comic voice.

This course explores fascinating artworks made by Scottish artists from c. 1750 to 1914. We explore ways in which Scottish artists responded to European styles (for example in History Painting and Portraiture in the 18c and Japan in the late 19c) at the same time as making distinctively Scottish work. The course covers oil painting, watercolours, photography, design and some architecture. We also look at some multi-media work, including Margaret Macdonald’s murals in gesso, paint and applied beads. We look at artistic groups and examine ways in which members influenced one another as well as responding to European art: examples include the Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists.

This course offers an introduction to small treatments in beauty. The course will give you the opportunity to try out and learn professional methods used in this creative Industry. Come and learn in a friendly environment and meet people with similar interests! Your learning is our priority. The WEA pride ourselves on our ability to create a friendly classroom atmosphere, at a venues within your community. Your tutor will support you through your learning journey, every step of the way. Our courses are free for most of our learners, but please bring proof of eligibility when you come to enrol. We can’t wait to see you there!

During this friendly 6-week course, for those whose first language is NOT English, you will be able to improve your reading, writing, speaking and listening in English. The course will use the themes of Shopping, Cinema and Heroes to practise English in a relatable and meaningful way. It will include individual, pair and group work with opportunities to improve all four main skills. To join this course, you will need to have a reasonable level of English as materials will be at Level 1 (B1/B2) proficiency. The course will cover some aspects of pronunciation and grammar in addition to practising the 4 main skills.

This 10-week course will prepare you with necessary skills and knowledge to become effective maternity support worker. This course introduces the role and responsibilities of a Maternity Support worker, understanding the importance of supporting pregnant women and newborns and introduction to basic healthcare practices and ethics in maternity care. This course also emphasizes personal and professional development, critical thinking, and the application of learned concepts in practical settings. Through a combination of theoretical learning, practical exercises, and group activities, you will be prepared to make meaningful contributions in the field of maternity care. It includes study skills and referencing to also help you prepare for further study.

In this 10-week, online course learners will read, explore and enjoy stories from an array of the great texts that belong to the mythic traditions of the Classical world and wider antiquity; you will consider the hold that mythology continues to have over the modern mind, thinking about how and why these works and stories still resonate today and have persisted for so long, as well as setting them against their own time and seeking to understand their original intent. In doing so we will think about genre, style and form, as well as considering authorship and culture through appraising the backgrounds and context of each text, and particular writers, whilst also looking into more modern art and culture that has been influenced by and reworked these myths, this will add crucial context but also dive into the modern reading of the texts and myths. All texts will be read in English translation in a supportive atmosphere and with a knowledgeable tutor

Opera is often seen as an exotic and irrational art form, with some strange practices such as a woman playing the part of a man. By examining how opera has developed from its origins around 1600, this course explains how opera has responded to changes in society and the differing tastes of different countries in Europe. This course is for anyone whether you enjoy opera or are simply curios to know more.