Courses

Complementary Therapies

AUTUMN 2021

Supporting our Immune System in this Time of Covid (online)
Counselling
We are not offering any courses in our Autumn 2021/New Year 2022 programme. However if you are interested in a counselling course please email WAVE Trauma Centre for more information at trauma.education@wavetrauma.org

AUTUMN 2021
Freeing Your Inner Writer: Mindful Writing (QUB campus)
How to Write for Profit and Pleasure, Group 1 (QUB campus)
Starting to Write, Group 1 (QUB campus)
Wild Storytelling, Group 1 (QUB campus)
NEW YEAR 2022
How to Write for Profit and Pleasure, Group 2 (QUB campus)
Reading and Writing Poetry (QUB campus)
Starting to Write, Group 2 (QUB campus)
The Healing Pen: Mindful Writing (QUB campus)
Wild Storytelling, Group 2 (QUB campus)

Cultural Studies

AUTUMN 2021
A Year of Celebrations (QUB campus)
Japanese Culture Experience - 'Sesshu's Masterpieces' and 'Japanese Ghosts Paintings' (QUB campus)
NEW YEAR 2022
Lost in Translation: Interpreting Ulster's place-names (online)
Photography and Ireland: A History (QUB campus)
The Perfect Italian Dinner (QUB campus)
The Social Context of Fashion in the Twentieth Century (QUB campus)

Digital Photography

AUTUMN 2021
Basic and Creative Photography Skills, Group 1 (QUB campus)
Photoshop for the Beginner (QUB campus)
NEW YEAR 2022
Basic and Creative Photography Skills, Group 2 (QUB campus)
Creative Photography (QUB campus)

Education and Training

AUTUMN 2021
Performance Analysis and Stats in Sport: An Introduction, Group 1 (online) CANCELLED
Registered Behaviour Technician Course, Group 1 (online)
Teaching English to Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seeker (QUB campus)
The Intercultural School: Working with Newcomer and Traveller Students in Post Primary Schools (online)
The Intercultural School: Working with Newcomer and Traveller Pupils in Primary Schools (online)
Understanding Refugee Resettlement and Asylum (QUB campus)
New Year 2022
Performance Analysis and Stats in Sport: An Introduction, Group 2 (online)
Registered Behaviour Technician Course, Group 2 (online)
The Intercultural School: Working with Newcomer Students in Post Primary Schools, Part 2 (online)
The Intercultural School: Working with Newcomer Pupils in Primary Schools, Part 2 (online)

Environment and Archaeology

AUTUMN 2021
Bird Watching for Beginners, Winter
The Archaeology of Ulster: From First Colonists to Modern Times (QUB campus)
NEW YEAR 2022
Bird Watching for Beginners, Spring
The Archaeology of Irish Towns (QUB campus)

First Aid
There are no classes in First Aid in 2021/2022

History and Politics

AUTUMN 2021
1930s Ireland: New Beginnings and Old Animosities (QUB campus) CANCELLED
A History of the Labour Party 1906-2007 (QUB campus)
A Tale of Two Churches
Barbarossa (online)
Builders of Central Belfast: A Walking Tour
Builders of West Belfast, Part 1 : A Walking Tour
Builders of West Belfast, Part 2: A Walking Tour
Europe’s Torment: The Thirty Years’ War (QUB campus)
History of Pandemics (online)
Immigrants and Ireland (QUB campus)
Lenin, Stalin and the origins of the Russian Revolution 1861-1917 (online)
Lone Star: The Politics and Presidency of Lyndon Johnson (QUB campus)
Napoleon (online)
The 'Concept' of a Republic and Ulster (online)
The Ratline: Nazi Fugitives
The Social History of Belfast and its residents, 1798 to 1914 (QUB campus)
The USSR: The Portrait of a Super Power (QUB campus)
The Year of the Four Emperors (online)
Treasures of the Tsars (QUB campus)
Ulster in the Nineteenth Century (online)
William and Mary, and Anne (online)
NEW YEAR 2022
Catherine the Great and Grigorii Potemkin: Love and Politics in the 18th century Russia. (QUB campus)
Crowns, coups and courage: The Tudor Queens of England (QUB campus)
Plagues and Pox: Medicine and Society in Early Modern Britain and Ireland (QUB campus)
Poland from World War to Cold War (1919 to 1989) (QUB campus)
Resistance and Upising in Poland (QUB campus)
Photography and Ireland: A History (in Cultural Studies section) (QUB campus)
Rome: The Flavians and Antonines (online)
Russian History and Civilisation The Romanov’s Dynasty (1613-1917) (QUB campus)
The Brilliance of the Dark Ages (online)
The Great Patriotic War (online)
The Tories: A History of the Conservative Party in the 20th Century (QUB campus)
They Liked Ike': Dwight D. Eisenhower and His America (QUB campus)

Languages

AUTUMN 2021 and NEW YEAR 2022 courses
French: Beginners', Intermediate, Language Club (Intermediate and Advanced) (QUB campus)
French: Lower Intermediate(online)
French Conversation Club (Intermediate) (online)
French: A Tour de France of Regional Culinary Specialialities (online)
German: Beginners' Lower Intermediate, Language Club (Intermediate and Advanced) (QUB campus)
Greek: Classical Greek: Language Club (QUB campus) WITHDRAWN
Irish: Beginners' , Intermediate and Pronuncition clinic (QUB campus)
Italian: Beginners', Lower Intermediate, Intermediate, Language Club
Smart Italian for False Beginners + Smart Italian for Improvers (QUB campus)
Italian: Andrea Camilleri’s Conversation on Tiresias for Upper Intermediate (QUB campus)
Italian: Boccaccio’s Decameron for Upper Intermediate (QUB campus)
Italian: Gianni Rodari for Intermediate and Upper Intermediate (QUB campus)
Italian: Il Friuli Venezia Giulia, l'angolo Italiano tutto da scoprire (QUB campus)
Italian: Le meraviglie della Liguria (QUB campus)
Italian: Le Mondine for Intermediate/Upper-Intermediate (QUB campus)
Japanese: Beginners' and Post Beginners' (QUB campus)
Spanish: Beginners', Lower Intermediate, Intermediate Conversation (QUB campus)
Spanish: Upper Intermediate and Spanish Book club (online)

Law

AUTUMN 2021
A Brief History of the Law: The Interesting Bits, Group 1 (QUB campus)
NEW YEAR 2022
A Brief History of the Law: The Interesting Bits, Group 2 (QUB campus)
Introduction to International Human Rights Law (QUB campus)

Leisure Skills

AUTUMN 2021
Wine Appreciation: An Introduction (QUB campus)
Wine Appreciation: A Meander along La Loire (QUB campus)
Wine Tasting: Beautiful Beaujolais - the Forgotten Wine of Burgundy (QUB campus)
Wine Tasting: Champagne and Sparkling Wine (QUB campus)
Wine Tasting: The Wines of Bordeaux (QUB campus)
Wine Tasting: Wines of Italy - Top to Toe (QUB campus)

Literature

AUTUMN 2021
American Literature as a Source of National Identity (QUB campus)
Forrest Reid: 'The Proust of Ormiston Crescent' (QUB campus)
Orwell, Ireland and the War (QUB campus)
Storytelling; Making a Start on the Art of Telling Tales (QUB campus)
The Blackbird Bookclub, Part 1 (QUB campus)
World Literature: Global Voices (QUB campus)
Writing Women: A Journey through Contemporary Women's Fiction: Part 1 (QUB campus)
NEW YEAR 2022
Migration in Literature and Film (QUB campus)
The Blackbird Bookclub, Part 2 (QUB campus)
Writing Women: A Journey through Contemporary Women's Fiction: Part 2 (QUB campus)

Media Studies and Drama

AUTUMN 2021
Holocaust Landscapes in Literature and Film (online)
Playing Shakespeare: Hamlet (QUB campus)
NEW YEAR 2022
American Maverick: Martin Scorsese and the Hollywood Renaissance (online)
Playing Shakespeare: Richard III (QUB campus)

Music

AUTUMN 2021
Sir Malcolm Arnold, A Centenary Portrait (QUB campus)
NEW YEAR 2022
Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies (QUB campus)
Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Igor Stravinsky: Life and Work (QUB campus)

Personal Development and Communications

AUTUMN 2021
Basic Psychology: What Makes us Tick (QUB campus)
Change your Mind - Change Your Life! Uncover the Path to a New Reality (online)
Clarity, Confidence, Commitment, Group 1 (QUB campus)
Creative Thinking in Challenging Times: Skills for Life (online)
Facing Life's Challenges (QUB campus)
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Group 1 (QUB campus)
Speaking Confidently (QUB campus)
NEW YEAR 2022
An Introduction to Embodied Communication Skills (online)
Basic Psychology: No Man is an Island (QUB campus)
Clarity, Confidence, Commitment, Group 2 (QUB campus)
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Group 2 (QUB campus)
Public Speaking (QUB campus)

Personal Finance

AUTUMN 2021
Intelligent Investing, Group 1 (online)
Understanding the Stockmarket: An Introduction, Group 1 (QUB campus)
NEW YEAR 2022
Intelligent Investing, Group 2 (online)
Understanding the Stockmarket: An Introduction, Group 2 (QUB campus)

Philosophy and Religion

AUTUMN 2021
Mark in a Day (online)
Philosophy: An Introduction to Plato (QUB campus)
Symbolic Logic: An Introduction, Group 1 (QUB campus)
NEW YEAR 2022
John in a Day (online)
Philosophy: An Introduction to Descartes (QUB campus)
Symbolic Logic: An Introduction, Group2 (QUB campus)

Science

AUTUMN 2021
Our Place in the Universe, Group 1 (QUB campus)
The Story of Evolution: From Idea to Theory (QUB campus)
NEW YEAR 2022
Our Place in the Universe, Group 2 (QUB campus)
The Story of Evolution: From Theory to Fact (QUB campus)

Visual Arts
There are no courses in Visual Arts in the 2021/22 programme
Classes Outside Belfast

Autumn 2021

Holywood: The Immigrant Experience in America (QUB campus)

New Year 2022

Holywood: The First Americans (QUB campus)

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