1. Lifelong Learning Department
Lifelong Learning courses are open to all adult learners.
A range of courses to enhance your C.V. and provide transferable skills for the job market.
Courses can be taken as stand alone modules and are accredited by the University.
Lifelong Learning Department
- this gives you the opportunity to meet other learners from the community and make contacts/network in the area you may be interested in especially as many of the learners on the courses are working in the area and taking the courses for their own professional development.
I will go through the areas we offer courses in and discuss some examples that may interest you.
Modules are accredited and can enhance your CV

2. Interested? Link Enrolment form Compact form
At present most 10 credit courses cost £100 full price (£80 concession rate). All courses
But selected courses are FREE to all UG and PG students
Link
Need to pre-enrol for course and complete compact agreement. Both forms on line:
Enrolment form
Compact form
Pre-enrol so eligible for the early bird discount
Interested?

3. Ecology and Conservation
Humanities
Art & Design
Modern Languages
Ecology and Conservation
Photography
Psychology
The courses are divided into 5 subject areas

4. Humanities offers courses in:
Creative Writing
Genealogy
History
Archaeology
Literature
Film Studies

5. Humanities courses with professional skills training…
Developing creativity 
For anyone wanting to enhance their creativity.
Presentation skills and Public speaking
Skills to address a live audience.

6. Art and Design offers courses in:
Life drawing
Painting
Drawing
Creative Textiles
The Still Life
Land Art
Ceramics (based at the Art Centre)
Botanical Illustration
Willow Sculpture
Art History (also available
as distance learning)
If you enjoyed art in schoolYou don’t have to give up art when you leave education
Photographs examlpes of students work for Land Art and Willow Sculpture
Can study stand alone modules or towards the CHE in Art and Design

7. can give you the skill set to set up a cottage industry.
A package of courses
can give you the skill set to set up a cottage industry.
Basic Sewing Machine Skills
Up-Cycled Clothing
Further Up-Cycled Clothing
Textiles Techniques
Marketing Yourself as an
Art Practitioner
Textile Design using Photoshop
Web design using Photoshop
Can contribute to co-operative - cottage industry
Progressive routes pattern making …..theatre costumes …….Upcycled theatre costumes
Textiles designs using photoshop can be printed onto fabric and introduced when using up-cycled clothing.

8. Modern Languages
Arabic, Breton, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish
Courses at all different levels; starting with absolute beginners.
Courses delivered at different times of the day.
Regarding employability, languages can add the following:
employers need graduates who speak the language(s) of the country in which they wish to make an impact
an extra selling point in the market place, they will open doors.
Languages will add the following to your degree:
Intercultural competence
International dimension
Cultural awareness

9. Improve your employability
Intercultural competence
International dimension
Cultural awareness
Employers need graduates who speak the language(s) of the country in which they wish to make an impact
Languages will add the following to your degree:
Improve your employability

10. Ecology and Conservation
If you are interested in the natural world or working in the environment sector
the Ecology courses
provide hands on experience and identification skills.

11. Plant Life Plant Diversity Identification of flowering plants
Identification of Mosses, Liverworts and Lichens
Identification of grasses, sedges and rushes

12. Animal Life Animal Diversity Animal Behaviour
Understanding British Mammals
Understanding British Bats
Marine Mammals
Insect courses
Understanding Amphibians
Bird courses

13. Psychology Foundations of Psychology Forensic Psychology
Applied Positive Psychology
Social Psychology

14. Employability and Professional Development
Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace
Exploring Mental Health
Stress Management
Life skills such as developing effective listening skills, dealing with conflict in the work place, dealing with stress and working as part of a team are invaluable in any job. Techniques to enhance theses ‘life skills’ are taught on the following courses
Employability and Professional Development

15. Contact Details Humanities learning@aber.ac.uk 01970 622742
Art & Design Alison Pierse
Languages Antonio Barriga Rubio
Science/Ecology Paula Hughes
Psychology Paula Hughes
Contact Details