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Exploring the depths of culture, philosophy and history has never been so accessible. Learn from experts in the field and create an everlasting bond with some of the world’s most impactful reading material. Our comprehensive humanities and culture courses offered at the University of Sydney provide students with unending knowledge that touches our roots while building towards the future.
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Film. Focus on cinema. This unique and popular movie appreciation course is like having your own private movie club. In it's 20th year, Movies Now offers you ‘private movie premieres’ prior to their commercial release with each featured movie specially selected by the presenter and popular film critic, Andrew L Urban. The selected movies remain a secret until their screening to ensure that you approach each film on its own merits, uncompromised by outside opinions. Following each...
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<p>This unique and popular movie appreciation course is like having your own private movie club. In it's 20th year, Movies Now offers you ‘private movie
...Course added to cart. Checkout now.Close this messageWed 23 Apr 2025 - Wed 28 May 2025 6:30pm - 9pm (UTC+10:00) (1st session)6 sessions, 15 hours total$280 Limited inc GST6-week courseMovies Now Course: Your Movie Club<p>{block name:"Course Tagline - Film"}</p>
<p>This unique and popular movie appreciation course is like having your own private movie club. In it's 20th year, Movies Now offers you ‘private movie
...Course added to cart. Checkout now.Close this messageWed 16 Jul 2025 - Wed 20 Aug 2025 6:30pm - 9pm (UTC+10:00) (1st session)6 sessions, 15 hours total$280 Limited inc GST6-week courseWaitlistIf there isn't a class to suit your preferred time or delivery format, please join the waiting list.Join the waiting list -
Creative writing. Express yourself with the written word. This writing course offers you a rich immersion in creative nonfiction, practical tuition and instruction in composition and style, along with plenty of opportunities to write and be inspired. You’ll learn how to approach nonfiction with imagination, discipline and lyricism. The course explores the distinctions between fiction and nonfiction and the meanings of real and truthful. It encourages writers to understand...
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<p>This writing course offers you a rich immersion in creative nonfiction, practical tuition and instruction in composition and style, along
...Course added to cart. Checkout now.Close this messageThu 6 Mar 2025 - Thu 27 Mar 2025 6pm - 9pm (UTC+11:00) (1st session)4 sessions, 12 hours total$460 Limited inc GSTWriting the Real Course<p>{block name:"Course Tagline - Creative Writing"}</p>
<p>This writing course offers you a rich immersion in creative nonfiction, practical tuition and instruction in composition and style, along
...Course added to cart. Checkout now.Close this messageTue 8 Jul 2025 - Tue 29 Jul 2025 6pm - 9pm (UTC+10:00) (1st session)4 sessions, 12 hours total$460 Limited inc GSTWaitlistIf there isn't a class to suit your preferred time or delivery format, please join the waiting list.Join the waiting list -
Psychology. Explore the human mind. Counselling is being increasingly sought as the pressures of work and personal life continue to increase. This reflects the rapidly changing world we live in and the increasing choices we face as individuals. This counselling course introduces you to the concepts that underpin counselling so that you can offer this assistance to your work colleagues, employees, family members and network of friends when needed. This course is designed for a work...
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<p>Counselling is being increasingly sought as the pressures of work and personal life continue to increase. This reflects the rapidly changing world
...Course added to cart. Checkout now.Close this messageSat 8 Mar 2025 9am - 5pm (UTC+11:00)1 session, 8 hours total$480 Limited GST freeCounselling Course: An Introduction<p>{block name:"Course Tagline - Psychology"}</p>
<p>Counselling is being increasingly sought as the pressures of work and personal life continue to increase. This reflects the rapidly changing world
...Course added to cart. Checkout now.Close this messageSat 26 Jul 2025 9am - 5pm (UTC+10:00)1 session, 8 hours total$480 Limited GST freeWaitlistIf there isn't a class to suit your preferred time or delivery format, please join the waiting list.Join the waiting list -
Creative writing. Express yourself with the written word. Description: What a Poem Is; What a Poem is For; and How You Make One A poem is a sculpture of voice. It’s what a poet’s heart says to her mind, and her voice finds a body for. Each good poem is shapely god; keeping its own secrets, it tells us our own. Poetry, in a sense, is what happens—to the writer and the reader—when we insist on more from language than we do in daily life and prose. A poem, says Marie Howe, is a small...
View The Poetry Workshop detailsThe Poetry Workshop<p>{block name:"Course Tagline - Creative Writing"}</p>
<p><em>Description: What a Poem Is; What a Poem is For; and How You Make One</em></p>
<p>A poem is a sculpture of voice. It’s what a poet’s
...Course added to cart. Checkout now.Close this messageFri 14 Mar 2025 9am - 5pm (UTC+11:00)1 session, 8 hours total$340 Limited inc GSTThe Poetry Workshop<p>{block name:"Course Tagline - Creative Writing"}</p>
<p><em>Description: What a Poem Is; What a Poem is For; and How You Make One</em></p>
<p>A poem is a sculpture of voice. It’s what a poet’s
...Course added to cart. Checkout now.Close this messageFri 13 Jun 2025 9am - 5pm (UTC+10:00)1 session, 8 hours total$340 Limited inc GSTWaitlistIf there isn't a class to suit your preferred time or delivery format, please join the waiting list.Join the waiting list -
Philosophy. Study the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence. The philosophical essay, in its modern form, originates from the late-sixteenth-century France with Michel de Montaigne, who “retired from political life, shut himself in his library, and tried something new”. In 1580, he published the first version of the Essays. In this course we will look at the ideas of some of the most significant philosophers and public thinkers through their essays. The essay form...
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<p>The philosophical essay, in its modern form, originates from the late-sixteenth-century France with Michel de Montaigne, who “retired from
...Course added to cart. Checkout now.Close this messageMon 28 Apr 2025 - Mon 7 Jul 2025 6:30pm - 8:30pm (UTC+10:00) (1st session)10 sessions, 20 hours total$380 Limited inc GSTOnline via ZoomWaitlistIf there isn't a class to suit your preferred time or delivery format, please join the waiting list.Join the waiting list -
Psychology. Explore the human mind. Would you like to understand why and how people think, feel and behave the way they do? In this course, we will explain the nature of psychology as a scientific discipline and how it can answer this question, so that psychological knowledge can be applied to everyday life. Topics covered will include the history of psychology, personality theories, learning, child development and intelligence, psychobiology, abnormal psychology and social...
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<p>Would you like to understand why and how people think, feel and behave the way they do? In this course, we will explain the nature of psychology as
...Course added to cart. Checkout now.Close this messageTue 29 Apr 2025 - Tue 1 Jul 2025 6:30pm - 8:30pm (UTC+10:00) (1st session)10 sessions, 20 hours total$420 Limited inc GSTWaitlistIf there isn't a class to suit your preferred time or delivery format, please join the waiting list.Join the waiting list -
Philosophy. Study the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence. No aspect of life is more important to the quality and meaning of our existence than the passionate embrace of all things good and beautiful, making life worth living. But negative emotions can also make existence an intolerable burden. Many philosophers before and after David Hume opposed morality to the passions, understanding ‘reason’ as the appropriate foundation for choosing right from wrong and how...
View Philosophy of Passion and Reason Course: Hume to Martha Nussbaum detailsPhilosophy of Passion and Reason Course: Hume to Martha Nussbaum<p>{block name:"Course Tagline - Philosophy"}</p>
<p>No aspect of life is more important to the quality and meaning of our existence than the passionate embrace of all things good and beautiful,
...Course added to cart. Checkout now.Close this messageWed 30 Apr 2025 - Wed 2 Jul 2025 10am - 12pm (UTC+10:00) (1st session)10 sessions, 20 hours total$380 Limited inc GSTOnline via ZoomWaitlistIf there isn't a class to suit your preferred time or delivery format, please join the waiting list.Join the waiting list -
Psychology. Explore the human mind. Dreams can be a rich source of information about our real selves, but many people wonder if they communicate anything of significance. In this psychology course, a practising Jungian analyst will introduce you to the symbolic language of dreams. By learning how to correlate dreams with events in waking life, you can use the creative potential of the dreamscape for greater self-awareness. Outcomes By the end of this course, you should be able to:...
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<p>Dreams can be a rich source of information about our real selves, but many people wonder if they communicate anything of significance. In this
...Course added to cart. Checkout now.Close this messageTue 4 Nov 2025 - Tue 9 Dec 2025 6:30pm - 8:30pm (UTC+11:00) (1st session)6 sessions, 12 hours total$295 Limited inc GSTWaitlistIf there isn't a class to suit your preferred time or delivery format, please join the waiting list.Join the waiting list -
Philosophy. Study the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence. This philosophy course aims to develop your critical thinking skills through practical sessions and the study of informal logic techniques. We will learn the basics of a good argument and evaluate the reasons why arguments go wrong. We will work through practical exercises and evaluate examples from everyday life. Aims The aim of the course is to provide you with an understanding of how to construct a...
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Philosophy. Study the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence. Phenomenology has been, and still remains one of the most significant philosophical movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. Phenomenology attempts to take the relationship between body and experience seriously, and find the complex inter-relation of body to mind, consciousness and language. Phenomenology is a vibrant part of contemporary philosophy and the theory has had many applications in fields such...
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