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Browse a wide range of courses for adult learners across all interests and levels.
Explore learning opportunities across languages, arts, humanities, technology, business, and leisure. WEA Sydney offers both face-to-face and online courses, giving you flexible ways to learn in a format that suits your lifestyle and goals.
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Calligraphy for Beginners: Humanist Script
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Calligraphy for Beginners: Humanist Script
<p>The Humanist Script is one of the most graceful calligraphic hands to emerge from the Renaissance, valued for its clarity, balance and timeless beauty. This beginner-friendly course introduces
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Great Roman Collections
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Great Roman Collections
<p>This course takes you to Rome’s great art collections: the Capitoline and Vatican Museums, Galleria Borghese, Palazzo Barberini and Palazzo Pamphilj; their magnificent locations, their genesis and
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Secrets of the Stone Age: Cave Art and Rituals in Prehistoric Europe
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Secrets of the Stone Age: Cave Art and Rituals in Prehistoric Europe
<p>Step inside the painted caves of prehistoric Europe to uncover the mysteries of early human creativity. Explore iconic sites like Lascaux and Chauvet, and discover the rituals, symbols, and beliefs
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ChatGPT for Intermediates
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ChatGPT for Intermediates
<p>This course is for people who have already used ChatGPT and want more consistent results. We’ll focus on how small changes in the way you ask questions can lead to clearer, more useful responses.
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ChatGPT for Intermediates
<p>This course is for people who have already used ChatGPT and want more consistent results. We’ll focus on how small changes in the way you ask questions can lead to clearer, more useful responses.
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Introduction to Email (Part 3)
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Introduction to Email (Part 3)
<p>If you have a working knowledge of email, this is a good workshop for exploring its more advanced features. If you have attended the '<em>Tech Savvy Seniors: Intro to Email Part 1 and 2'</em>
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Eleven "Plagues" of Sydney: Epidemics and their Impact
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Eleven "Plagues" of Sydney: Epidemics and their Impact
<p>Since 1788, Sydney has faced repeated waves of epidemic disease that shaped the city’s development and social life. This course explores eleven major outbreaks, examining how fear, politics,
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Dame Marie Bashir Memorial Lecture 2026
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Dame Marie Bashir Memorial Lecture 2026
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<p>Are human rights
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A Celebration of 400 Years of Women Artists
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A Celebration of 400 Years of Women Artists
<p>In every century there have been outstanding women artists who have achieved a reputation that has tested time and sat well-earned, alongside their male colleagues. Often their life stories are
...Approximately 5 hours
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From French Royalty to Empire - Art and decorative elegance from Louis XIV's Versailles to Napoleon
<p>French monarchs managed their images as carefully as any self-branded celebrity today. How did Louis XIV use the artisans and artists of the day through his patronage to enhance and dazzle his
...Approximately 4 hours
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Portraits of Russia: Rublëv, Pushkin, Turgenev, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky
<p>This course, focussed on the life and work of some of Russia’s most outstanding personalities, will begin with the work of Andrey Rublëv, Russia’s most famous icon painter, and his circle, and the
...Approximately 6 hours
