Courses | Open Learning | Queen's University Belfast

Trauma Education

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Creative Writing

Beat the Blank Page

Creative Writing in Genre Fiction

How to Write for Profit and Pleasure

Life Writing: What is My Story?

Starting to Write

Tell Your Story: Writing and Publishing Life Writing/Memoir

Writing Short Stories

Cultural Studies

Ekphrasis: Poetry Inspired by Art

We’re Not Just Pottering Around: Arts, Crafts and “Women’s Work"
Digital Photography

Basic and Creative Photography

Creative Photography

Photoshop for the Beginner

Education and Training

Boost Your Reading Brain

Critical Thinking

Teaching English to Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers

The Intercultural School: Working with Newcomer and Traveller Pupils in Schools: Primary Schools, Part 1

The Intercultural School: Working with Newcomer Pupils and Traveller Students in Schools: Post Primary Schools, Part 1

The Intercultural School: Working with Newcomer Pupils in Schools: Primary Schools, Part 2

The Intercultural School: Working with Newcomer Pupils in Schools: Post Primary Schools, Part 2

Understanding Refugee and Asylum Systems - a Beginner's Workshop

Understanding UK Asylum systems: An Advanced Workshop

Environment and Archaeology

Affecting Ecological and Environmental Change

Easy Bird Watching for Beginners

How Plants Work

Native Trees: Their Identification and Place in Society

Rewilding: Breathing New Life into Conservation

The CAPNI Introduction to the Practice of Archaeology in Ireland. An illustrated Lecture Series

Woodland: A Hidden Wealth of Wildlife

First Aid

Practical First Aid

History and Politics

A Deadly Rivalry: A History of Franco-German Conflict and Eventual Partnership

A History of Modern Britain, Part 8: Early Victorian Britain, 1837-1857

A History of the USA, Part 7: The Progressive Era, 1900-1920

Belfast's Slavery Past, 1613-1866

Big House” in Ireland – North and South

Builders of West Belfast, Part 1: A Walking Tour

Builders of Central Belfast: A Walking Tour

Call the Midwife! A Brief History of Pregnancy and Childbirth

Crowns, Coups and Courage: The Tudor Queens of England

“Gott Strafe England”

History of India 1: The Indus Valley to the Moghul Empire

Introduction to the Archaeology of Greece

Israel/Palestine and The Middle East

Love in the Time of Jane Austen

Napoleon

Plagues and Pox: Medicine and Society in Early Modern Britain and Ireland

Richard Nixon: A Life in Politics

Russia-Ukrainian Conflict in Context

Technowar

Ten Radical Belfast Women

The Fight for the Falklands

The Medieval Church

The Norman Invasion of Ireland

The Second World War, Year by Year - 1941: Annihilation

The Social History of Belfast and its residents, 1798 to 1914

The Tories: The Conservative Party in the Twentieth Century

Thomas Becket: Turbulent Priest

Ulster in the Nineteenth Century

Languages

French Beginners’ (10 weeks)

French: False Beginners’/Upper Beginners’

French: Lower Intermediate (10 weeks)

French: Lower Intermediate/Intermediate

French Conversation Club (Intermediate),

French: Conversation Club, Intermediate to Advanced

French: Upper Intermediate

French: Perfect Grammar,

French: Perfect Pronunciation

French: The French Club (monthly)

German: Beginners'

German: Lower Intermediate

German: Intermediate

German: Language Club, Intermediate

German: Language Club, Advanced

Classical Greek: Language Club

Irish: Beginners'

Irish: Advanced Irish Conversation

Italian: Refresher Course for Post-Beginners

Italian: Beginners'

Italian: Lower Intermediate

Italian: Fables to Rewrite, Lower Intermediate/Intermediate/Upper Intermediate

Italian: Five Lesser-Known Venetian Islands, Lower Intermediate/Intermediate/Upper Intermediate

Italian: Vocabulary Accelerator

Italian: Intermediate

Italian: Upper Intermediate

Italian: Language Club

Spanish: Beginners'

Spanish: Lower Intermediate

Spanish: A Taste of Spain, Intermediate

Spanish: Intermediate

Spanish: Upper Intermediate

Spanish: Upper Intermediate Conversation

Spanish: Grammar Clinic

Law

A Brief History of the Law: The Interesting Bits

Leisure

There are no courses in this category in the 2025/2026 programme.

Literature

Contemporary American Novel

Donne and Herbert - Poet Priests

Forrest Reid: 'The Proust of Ormiston Crescent"

Inside the Walls: Big Houses Literature

The Blackbird Bookclub

The Golden Age of Russian Literature

World Literature: Global Voices

Writing Women: A Journey through Contemporary Women's Fiction

Personal Development and Communication

Basic Psychology: Theory, Research and Application

Compassionate Listening

Creative Thinking Skills

Daoyin: Chinese Health Exercises

Developing Resilience through the Arts

Developmental Psychology: From Infancy to Adolescence

Making Sense of Healthy Eating: A New Paradigm

Manifesting: Science or Wishful Thinking?

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Personal Finance

Understanding the Stockmarket: An Introduction
Religion
There are no courses in this category in the 2025 / 2026 programme.
Science
Our Place in the Universe
Visual Arts

Caravaggio: Brushes with the Law

Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Man
Classes outside Belfast

Holywood: Israel/Palestine and the Middle East

Holywood: Big House, Wee House in Irish Literature