1. Lifelong Learning

2. 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.
- 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

3. At present most 10 credit courses cost £110 full price (£80 with discounts).
But selected courses are FREE to undergraduate and postgraduate students at Aberystwyth University.
You will need to pre-enrol for courses, please contact
Browse through our free courses online:
Interested?
Pre-enrol so eligible for the early bird discount

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

5. Humanities offers courses in: Creative Writing
Genealogy and Local History
Literature
Film Studies
Philosophy

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)
Land Art
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
Willow Sculpture

7. Modern Languages
Chinese, French, German, 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

8. 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.
Or for gaining skills to teach outdoors identification skillls – Forest Skills leaders /outdoor instructors /teachers
Amphibians Course

9. Plant Life Plant Diversity Identification of Flowering Plants
Identification of Mosses, Liverworts and Lichens
Identification of Grasses, Sedges and Rushes

10. Animal Life Animal Diversity Understanding British Mammals
Understanding British Bats
Marine Mammals
Insect courses
Understanding Amphibians
Understanding Reptiles
Bird courses

11. Photography Introduction to Outdoor Digital Photography
Wildlife Digital Photography
Macrophotography for Ecologists
Food Photography
Photography with a natural history slant progress from beginners courses through to more specialised courses in photography and ecology.
Photography

12. Psychology Foundations of Psychology Forensic Psychology
Applied Positive Psychology
Social Psychology
Introduction to different areas in Psychology
Then more applied skills – listening skills ….

13. Contact Details Humanities contact: learning@aber.ac.uk
Art & Design Alison Pierse
Languages Antonio Barriga Rubio
Ecology & Psychology
For all:
We are located in P5, 3rd Floor come and see us ….take compact/enrolment and leaflets to hand out
Contact Details