Below is a list of available courses for the academic year 2026–27, offered either online or face-to-face. Further details can be found on the course pages under 'Available Sessions'.
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- A history of modern terrorism, 1800 onwards (online)
- A history of the western seaboard of Scotland (online)
- Arabic beginners A1
- Arabic post-beginners A2
- Arabic in 5 weeks: an introduction
- Maths: Accelerated Level 5 (online)
- American politics in the 21st century (online)
- An introduction to Italian Renaissance Art
- Ancient Egyptian texts: an introduction to hieroglyphs (online)
- Ancient Egyptian Archaeology 1A (online)
- Ancient Egyptian texts: further hieroglyph skills (online)
- Archaeology of medieval and post medieval Scotland (online)
- Archaeology of prehistoric and Roman Scotland (online)
- Art nouveau: the DNA of modern life
- British Sign Language Unit 1
- British Sign Language unit 2
- British Sign Language unit 3
- Birth of the Roman Empire: The Age of Augustus, 44 BCE - 14 CE. (Online)
- COSCA Counselling Skills (online)
- Child development: an introduction
- Cognitive psychology: an introduction (online)
- Creative drawing and painting: developing skills and techniques
- Creative writing: workshop
- Danish in 5 weeks: an introduction (online)
- Data Science: Introduction to R (online)
- Drawing and painting 1
- Dutch 17th century painting (online)
- Egyptian art in the Late Period (online)
- El Greco to Goya: Spanish painting in focus (online)
- Environmental Ethics: right and wrong in the age of climate crisis (online)
- Existentialism: Nietzsche and Sartre (online)
- Exploring Glasgow's libraries (on location)
- Exploring Scotland’s slavery past in 5 locations (online)
- French beginners A1
- French improvers A2+
- French intermediate B1+
- French language and culture (Intermediate B2)
- French lower intermediate B1
- French post-beginners A2
- French in 5 weeks: an introduction
- Feminist Philosophies: an introductory guide (online)
- Fighting the Second World War (online)
- Five Artists: Landscapes
- Forensic Psychology: an introduction (online)
- Gaelic beginners A1
- Gaelic Post Beginners A2
- General English Advanced C1
- General English Upper Intermediate B2
- German Beginners A1
- German improvers A2+
- German intermediate B1+
- German lower intermediate B1
- German post-beginners A2
- German Upper Intermediate B2
- German in 5 weeks: an introduction
- Glasgow's Art Scene: Galleries and Archives
- Glasgow's art collections: paintings
- Hitler's Lightning War: The Battle of France, 1940 (online)
- Italian Advanced C1
- Italian beginners A1
- Italian improvers A2+
- Italian intermediate B1+
- Italian Language and Culture (Intermediate B2)
- Italian post-beginners A2
- Italian in 5 weeks: an introduction (online)
- Intermediate Creative Writing (online)
- Intermediate life writing, memoir and autofiction (online)
- Intermediate novel writing: getting to the end (online)
- Intermediate short story writing (online)
- Introduction Art Psychotherapy (online)
- Introduction to Landscape Painting
- Introduction to drawing techniques
- Introduction to novel writing: getting started (online)
- Introduction to painting techniques
- Introduction to novel writing: keeping going (online)
- Intro to writing from real life, memoir & autofiction(online options available)
- Ireland through union, Rebellion and Famine 1798-1885 (online)
- Japanese beginners A1
- Japanese improvers A2+
- Japanese post-beginners A2
- Learn to draw in a week
- Learn to paint in a week
- Level 2 Politics: Global case studies in Nationalism, Democracy and Sovereignty
- Light & shade, Glasgow architecture
- Mandarin beginners A1
- Mandarin in 5 weeks: an introduction
- Modern Greek beginners A1
- Michelangelo to Rodin: an introduction to European sculpture
- Modern and contemporary Scottish art
- Norwegian beginners A1
- Norwegian improvers A2+
- Norwegian post-beginners A2 (online)
- NORWEGIAN in 5 weeks: an introduction
- Portuguese beginners A1
- Explore Glasgow’s industrial architecture (On campus with gallery visits)
- Philosophy of the self
- Russian beginners A1
- Russian improvers A2+
- RUSSIAN in 5 weeks: an introduction
- Reading contemporary Gothic Horror writing (online)
- Reading contemporary short stories from the 21st Century (online)
- Reading modern Gothic Horror writing (online)
- Spanish beginners A1 (online options available)
- Spanish improvers A2+
- Spanish intermediate B1+
- Spanish Language and Culture (Intermediate B2)
- Spanish lower intermediate B1
- Spanish post-beginners A2
- Spanish upper intermediate B2
- Spanish in 5 weeks: an introduction
- Swedish beginners A1
- Swedish Intermediate B1+
- Swedish in 5 weeks: an introduction
- Scotland after the Union 1707-1838 (online)
- Scotland in ten buildings
- Scotland 1124 - 1371: The Middle Ages (online)
- Scotland into the modern age 1837-1952 (online)
- Scotland under the early Stewart kings 1371-1603 (online)
- Scotland: the making of a kingdom c.500 - 1124 (online)
- Short Introduction to Writing Crime Fiction (online)
- Short introduction to writing flash fiction
- Starting Creative Writing (online options available)
- The 12 Caesars: from Julius to Nero, 14 - 70 CE (Online)
- The Hunterian Art Gallery collection (on campus with gallery visits)
- The Irish Revolution 1912-1925 (online options available)
- The Scottish Gothic: fantastic and supernatural (online)
- The history and mystery of psychogeography
- Topics in Psychology (online)
- Understanding ADHD (online)
- Understanding Autism (online)
- Walking Glasgow's cemeteries and Crematoria (On location)
- Working with trauma (online options available)
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