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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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Meteorology and its Mysteries
Meteorology and its Mysteries
<p>Weather can seem unpredictable, yet it follows clear physical patterns. This course introduces the fundamentals of meteorology, explaining how clouds, rain and storms form, and what highs, lows,
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First Fleeters and First Nations on the Hawkesbury
First Fleeters and First Nations on the Hawkesbury
<p>This Windsor walk explores an early and confronting moment in frontier history. Centered on First Fleeter Robert Forrester and the 1795 murder charge over the killing of an Aboriginal boy, the
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Advanced Italian through Art (B2-C1)
Advanced Italian through Art (B2-C1)
<p>This course revises and expands knowledge of the Italian language through basic readings and listenings on Italian art. It is suitable for students with intermediate language skills, or who have
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The Yirrkala Bark Petitions and Australian Democracy
The Yirrkala Bark Petitions and Australian Democracy
<p>The Yirrkala Bark Petitions are among the most important documents in Australian history, yet many Australians know little about them. This course tells the story of how Yolngu leaders in Arnhem
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Spanish for Travel
Spanish for Travel
<p>Learn essential Spanish for travel in this short, practical course - perfect for tourists or business travellers seeking the confidence to communicate abroad.</p>
<p>This short, intensive course
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Portuguese Beginners 2 - F2F (A1)
Portuguese Beginners 2 - F2F (A1)
<p>In this course you learn the basic skills to understand, read, write and speak everyday Portuguese language, grammar and culture for when you travel or go on a business trip. You will also learn
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Portuguese Intermediate 1 (B1)
Portuguese Intermediate 1 (B1)
<p>This course aims to provide students with knowledge and skills to be able to speak, read and write the Portuguese language with more fluency. Students will have the opportunity to focus on specific
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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
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
Portraits of Scandinavia: Norway and Denmark
<p>The cold lands of the far north have in fact produced inspiring examples of music, drama, art and philosophy to match the best of the more famous cultures of France and Italy. Explore the genius of
...Approximately 6 hours