Courses
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.
Find the right course for you
The Great White Wines of Germany
The Great White Wines of Germany
<p>Germany is renowned for producing elegant, expressive white wines of exceptional quality. This course introduces participants to the country's major wine regions, including the Mosel, Rheingau and
...
Poets and Revolution: Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Mayakovsky
Poets and Revolution: Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Mayakovsky
<p>The Russian Revolution inspired hope, upheaval and profound personal tragedy. This course compares two of Russia's greatest twentieth-century poets—Vladimir Mayakovsky, who embraced the Revolution,
...
Fever, Filth and the Surgeon's Scalpel: Epidemics Below Decks in the Age of Sail
Fever, Filth and the Surgeon's Scalpel: Epidemics Below Decks in the Age of Sail
<p>Far more sailors died from disease than from storms or enemy action. This fascinating course explores the hidden medical world below decks, where cramped conditions, poor hygiene and limited
...
The Things We Do for Fashion
The Things We Do for Fashion
<p>Fashion has always reflected more than clothing—it tells us about beauty, status, identity and the pressures of the societies in which people lived. This entertaining course explores some of
...
The Things We Do for Fashion
<p>Fashion has always reflected more than clothing—it tells us about beauty, status, identity and the pressures of the societies in which people lived. This entertaining course explores some of
...
A Celebration of 400 Years of Women Artists
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
TAESS00019 Assessor Skill Set
TAESS00019 Assessor Skill Set
<h3 id="header-taess00019---assessor-skill-set---your-pathway-to-independent-operation-in-the-vet-sector">TAESS00019 - Assessor Skill Set - Your pathway to independent operation in the VET sector</h3>
...Approximately 360 hours
90 maximum days to complete
TAELLN423 - Integrate employability skills support into training and assessment
TAELLN423 - Integrate employability skills support into training and assessment
<p>This unit describes the skills and knowledge needed to identify employability skill demands in nationally recognised training products, and in related workplace, learning and assessment context
...Approximately 120 hours
90 maximum days to complete
TAELLN421 - Integrate core skills support into training and assessment
TAELLN421 - Integrate core skills support into training and assessment
<p>This unit describes the skills and knowledge needed to identify core skill demands in nationally recognised training products, and in workplace, learning and assessment context tasks and texts. It
...Approximately 120 hours
90 maximum days to complete
From French Royalty to Empire - Art and decorative elegance from Louis XIV's Versailles to Napoleon
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
Portraits of Russia: Rublëv, Pushkin, Turgenev, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky
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
