University of Southampton Lifelong Learning Languages & Humanities Open Day Event
- Time:
- 10:00 - 15:00
- Date:
- 23 September 2023
- Venue:
- Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, Southampton, Hampshire
For more information regarding this event, please email Lifelong Learning at lifelonglearning@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
We are pleased to invite you to attend our Autumn Lifelong Learning Open Day. At this event you will be able to find out more about the Lifelong Learning courses on offer in Languages and in the Humanities and join in one of our language taster classes.
It is an ideal opportunity for you to get a taste of the language or languages you are interested in learning and to talk to our tutors about our language courses.
This event is an ideal opportunity for you to get a flavour of the language or languages you are interested in learning and to talk to our tutors about our language courses. We will also present some of our diverse and exciting new Humanities courses which will be on offer in our autumn programme. Topics will include: Historical Narratives of Winchester, Poetry writing, Philosophy of the Mind, Women’s writing, Shipwrecks and Maritime Archaeology, the History of Ukraine. More courses will be added to the programme throughout the year so if these are not to your taste join our mailing list to receive all our latest course updates.
The Taster Day will take place from 10.30 – 15.00 at our Avenue Campus. There will be two sessions for each language (one in the morning which will be repeated in the afternoon) and you can sign up for up to two sessions if you wish to try two different languages. The languages on offer are: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Arabic. All sessions will be at Beginners level.
Programme
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Registration for morning sessions |
| 10:30 – 11:30 |
Taster sessions 1 Languages available: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Break with light refreshments - There will be an opportunity to meet the language tutors - Registration for afternoon sessions |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Humanities courses at Southampton: Find out about our new courses in Archaeology, Creative Writing, Film, English Literature, History and Philosophy |
| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Taster sessions 2 Languages available: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
LLL Helpdesk (opportunity to ask practical questions and to register for LLL courses) |
| 15:00 |
End of event |
To find out more about our language courses and to register for the event please visit Here
Please book in advance in order to secure your place as numbers will be limited.