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History, Culture and Heritage

There are lots of courses on this page - There is a summary list to help you find your course more easily.

Atlantis - Myth, Belief or Reality?
Myths, Monsters & Marble Halls - Our Debt to Greece & Rome
Ancient Greek Architecture - The Parthenon
Ancient Greek Sculpture - the Venus de Milo's Arms
Art in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
BC Is Best - The World of Ancient Greece and Rome
Brighton & Hove 21st Century Landscapes
Culture and Society between the Wars 1918-1939
Painting & Patronage: The Pre-Raphaelites and Victorian Painting
Places of Worship - City of Brighton & Hove
Victorian and Edwardian City 1830-1914

Courses

Atlantis - Myth, Belief or Reality?Over 2000 years Plato wrote of a remarkably advanced and civilised people whose city mysteriously disappeared under the waves: was this a work of Plato's imagination or did it really exist?
You can apply to enrol on this course online. 5 places 13 Feb 2010  (Spring )    one day  Sat 10:00-13:00 Ivory Place 
Myths, Monsters & Marble Halls - Our Debt to Greece & Rome‘We are all Greeks, our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley, Preface to ‘Hellas’. Was Shelley right? To out we trace the influence of Ancient Greece and Rome on the western world over the last two thousand years.
You can apply to enrol on this course online. 7 places 06 Mar 2010  (Spring )    one day  Sat 10:00-13:00 Ivory Place 
Ancient Greek Architecture - The ParthenonWe will examine the Parthenon and many other famous buildings from Ancient Greece including temples, theatres, and sports centres such as Olympia and Delphi to see how and why they were constructed.
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Ancient Greek Sculpture - the Venus de Milo's ArmsWe owe a lot to the Greeks but nothing more so than the ideas of sculpture - they were, in fact, the originators of our ideas of portraying the human form.
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Art in the Second Half of the Twentieth CenturyWorld war II ushered in a new era in art. Meet the rich diversity of personalities who produced it, through the fascinating and vivid kaleidoscope of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Each term will have a gallery visit.
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BC Is Best - The World of Ancient Greece and RomeWe bring the ancient world to life by looking at the Romans and how they related to the other peoples of the world, including the Greeks.
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Brighton & Hove 21st Century LandscapesBrighton & Hove, a gem of a city to study and explore; this course looks at its history and 21st century face, to further understand the 'spirit of the place.'
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Culture and Society between the Wars 1918-1939This course focuses on cultural changes that followed World War 1, when high living declined for the wealthy due to the lack of servants, and cultural life took on a particular aspect, reflected in the architecture, design, fashion, literature and cinema of the era.
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Painting & Patronage: The Pre-Raphaelites and Victorian Paintingcourse focuses on artistic ideas and practice generated in the wider nineteenth century.
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Places of Worship - City of Brighton & Hove
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Victorian and Edwardian City 1830-1914We will examine the major social, political and cultural developments transformed the world of the Victorians and the Edwardians between the 1830s and 1914.
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