Van Gogh in Context

Graham Whitham PhD
Study Day:            10am - 4pm*
Offered twice:        (A) Wednesday 5 June (B) Saturday 6 July

Course fee: £25      Course code: 12-TON-073 (A or B)
*please note: there will be a lunch break, but refreshments are not provided 

We all know van Gogh’s art – or do we? He was an artist for only the final decade of his life, with sunflowers, night café, and other vividly coloured paintings executed in his last two years. So how and why did his art develop and what inspired its dramatic genesis?

Although his sister-in-law, Johanna, promoted his paintings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Vincent van Gogh’s life and work was not well known until 1934, when Irving Stone’s book Lust for Life was published. Based on his letters, it inspired Vincente Minnelli to direct a Hollywood ‘biopic’ in 1956, where Kirk Douglas took on the role of the artist, and from this point onwards, van Gogh’s reputation, and the prices paid for his work, increased rapidly. In 1973 a museum devoted to him opened in Amsterdam (a city he rarely visited) and by the end of the 1980s £43 million was paid for one of his portraits.

We all know van Gogh’s paintings. Characterized by bright colour, palpable brushwork, and thick paint, it depicts French landscapes, portraits of friends and acquaintances, still life and flower subjects, and some town scenes, interiors and gardens. But perhaps we might not know that these familiar pictures were the culmination of style that had been evolving for the previous eight years.

Moreover, this definitive style was the result of a complex series of influences, from the Hague School to Impressionism, Symbolism to Japanese prints, not to mention his earlier experiences as a picture dealer, lay pastor in the Belgian coal fields, collector of images from popular English magazines, and victim (in all likelihood) of a form of epilepsy.
Through a wide range of van Gogh’s work, paintings and drawings, this Study Day will examine the artist in the context of his life and times, tracing his artistic development and evaluating the creation of a distinctive and arresting style that has become accessible and popular.

10.00 – 11.15              The Early Years 1853-1885
11.15 – 11.30              Break
11.30 – 12.45              Paris 1886-1888
12.45 – 1.45                Lunch
1.45 – 2.45                  Arles 1888-89
2.45 – 3.00                  Break
3.00 – 4.00                  St Rémy and Auvers 1889-90

Suggested reading
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of books about van Gogh. Whilst many are worth a look, those that follow certainly are:

For fascinating detail about Van Gogh’s early life:
Martin Bailey, M. and Silverman, D. (Eds.) (1992) Van Gogh in England: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man London: Lund Humphries

For a great read about this (in)famous friendship:
Gayford, M. (2007) The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles London: Penguin

A biography: Naifeh, S. and Smith G.W. (2011) Van Gogh London: Profile Books

Pomerans, A. (1997) The Letters of Vincent van Gogh London: Penguin Classics

For 100 paintings, beautiful illustrations and an informative text:
Thomson, B. (2007) Van Gogh: The Masterpieces London: Thames and Hudson

This is expensive, but available second hand, and shows every painting!:
Vincent van Gogh – The Complete Paintings (1993) Cologne: Taschen

Websites
http://www.vggallery.com
http://www.vangoghgallery.com
http://vangoghletters.org/vg
http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

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Tonbridge
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The Real, Ideal & Endangered: British Landscape Painting

Graham Whitham PhD
4 weeks: June 12, 19, 26, July 3                      Wednesdays, 10.30am – 12.30pm
Course fee: £40                                                Course code: 12-TON-074
                   
The British landscape has inspired artists from Thomas Gainsborough to David Hockney. Once prescribed by aesthetic notions such as the picturesque, sublime and ideal, landscape painting evolved as both a preservation of and nostalgia for what remained after the Industrial Revolution, never losing its quintessential appeal for British artists.

Each week we will examine a different but interrelated aspect of British landscape painting. In week 1, the antipathy between naturalistic and idealized depictions is considered alongside aesthetic ideas of the 18th century and 19th centuries, such as Gilpin’s notions of the picturesque and Burke’s ideas about the sublime. All this influenced the way artists portrayed the landscape and we will look and discuss a wide range of examples to illustrate this.

Week 2 considers watercolour painting, essentially a British (or more specifically, English) development that grew out of a desire to paint accurate representations of landscape (topographical works). This developed relatively quickly into more subjective interpretations, such as those by Turner, Girtin and the Norwich School. We will see how the contribution of the medium of watercolour was immensely important to the overall development of British landscape painting.

One might consider landscape painting in Victorian Britain as an apogee of the genre, by Constable, the Pre-Raphaelites and, at the end of century, those influenced by French Impressionism. In week 3 we will study a range of examples and then look at the way the depiction of landscape changed in the earlier 20th century as newer, more modern approaches were embraced.
The final week will take up the course’s reference to the ‘endangered’ by exploring ways the British landscape itself changed, and how (and why) artists responded to this. Not only will we consider urbanization, roads and other more recent threats to the natural environment, but also earlier ones – industrialisation, rural unrest, the effect of the Corn Laws and the decline of farming, emigration, and other factors that changed the landscape and, consequently, how it was portrayed in art.

week 1             The Classical and Romantic Landscape
week 2             The Triumph of Watercolour
week 3             From the Victorian to the Modern Landscape
week 4             The Open Road and Other Hazards

Suggested reading
There are many books about landscape painting, but fewer that specialise in British landscape painting. Sadly there are no recently published books and some of the below are out of print but available second hand or through libraries.

Barrell, J. (1983) The Dark Side of the Landscape: The Rural Poor in English Painting 1730-1840 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Collins, J. (1983) Landscape in Britain 1850-1950 London: Arts Council of Great Britain
Jeffrey, I. (1984) The British Landscape 1920-1950 London: Thames and Hudson
Quaintance, R. (1996) Glorious Nature: British Landscape Painting 1750-1850 Easthampton, Mass.: Hudson Hills Press
Rosenthal, M. (1992) British Landscape Painting Oxford: Phaidon
Rosenthal, M. (Ed.) (1997) Prospects for the Nation: Recent Essays in British Landscape, 1750-1880 New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Wilton, A. and Lyles, A. (2011 reprint) British Watercolours, 1750-1880 Munich: Prestel

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

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Tonbridge
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New York in the 50s and 60s: Art, Literature and Film
Diana Newall PhD, Denyse Straker MA
4 weeks: May 16, 23, 30, June 6                           Thursdays, 10.30am-12.30pm
Course fee: £40                                                     Course code: 12-TON-075

This course will explore some of the literary and artistic influences that helped define New York in the 1950s and 60s. This will include a selection of extracts from influential writers of the period, famous film clips and discussion of art movements such as Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art including such artists as Warhol and Pollock.

This short course will explore some of the art and literature which reflects the atmosphere of New York in the 1950s and 60s. The books studied will be Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, Capote’s novella Breakfast in Tiffany’s and Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby as well as a selection of passages from the writers of the Beat Movement. There will also be clips from some films of the period and we will discuss their contribution to our view of New York in the 50s and 60s. The artistic developments of the period were hailed by an article on Jackson Pollock in 1949 asking if he was the United States’ greatest living painter. The course will consider Abstract Expressionism and this claim for the artistic dominance of New York after the end of WWII. It will go on to consider New York in the 1960s, which saw the rise of Pop Art and a range of innovative responses to economic growth and the social changes of the period.  We shall be inviting discussion on the importance of the literature and art of the times and its legacy.

Weekly Programme
16 May         Denyse Straker: Literature. Salinger, Ginsberg and the Beats.
23 May         Diana Newall: Art History. Post-war New York and Abstract Expressionism
30 May         Denyse Straker: Literature. Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Ira Levin, Rosemary’s Baby.
6 June         Diana Newall: Art History. Pop Art, Fluxus and new art movements of the 1960s

Recommended Reading
J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Ira Levin, Rosemary’s Baby
David Anfam, Abstract expressionism (London: Thames and Hudson, 1990 (reprinted 1996))
David  McCarthy, Pop Art (Tate Publishing, 2000)
Diana Crane, The Transformation of the Avant-garde: The New York Art World, 1940-1985 (Chicago and London: Chicago UP, 1987), key chapters 1-4 but the rest provides additional context

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

University of Kent Tonbridge Centre
Avebury Avenue
Tonbridge
TN9 1TG

01732 352316
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www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge 

Sophocles: Poet and Playwright of Athens
Chris Wilson PhD

4 weeks; May 13, 20, June 3, 10                                Mondays, 10.30am - 12.30pm
Course fee: £40                                                          Course code: 12-TON-076

Sophocles’ lifetime is extraordinarily close to the age of Athens’ greatness and great achievements. His consistent and extraordinary success in the dramatic competitions entitles us to think of him representing contemporary Athenian thought in a uniquely appropriate way. He is best known for his Oedipus plays and Antigone, but in this course we shall be looking at some of his other works – his Electra, Ajax, Trachiniae and Philoctetes, and seeing how in each of these works he takes a traditional story and injects real contemporary reference into it.   

Course content
Week 1 Ajax           Suicide in the contemporary state.
Week 2 Electra       Vengeance and the contemporary state.
Week 3 Trachiniae The new definition of the hero.
Week 4 Philoctetes Does the end always, or ever, justify the means?

A sheet for focussed reading prior to each class will be given out by the tutor. A sheet for preparation for the first week will be sent out with enrolment confirmations.

Required and recommended reading

• Please obtain and bring each week: Sophocles Electra and other plays. (The latest Penguin Classics translation by David Raeburn with Introduction by Pat Easterling, is strongly recommended by the tutor.)
• for secondary reading, the following books are particularly recommended by the tutor:

B.M.W. Knox, The Heroic Temper
R.P. Winnington-Ingram, Sophocles

Introducing You to the Iliad
Christine Spillane PhD
4 weeks: June 12, 19, 26, July 3
Wednesdays, 10.30am -12.30pm
Course fee: £40                                                        Course code: 12-TON-077

It can be daunting to think about reading Homer's epic, the Iliad, one of the world's greatest poems. This course will provide the essentials for tackling this action packed poem from historical background and style of composition to an introduction to the narrative content.

There is no need to purchase a copy of the Iliad. All extracts will be provided and translations worth buying will be discussed during the course.

Weekly schedule

Week 1: the historical and mythical background to the poem: we shall consider
whether the poem is based on a real event and then consider the main players in the poem.

Week 2:  we shall examine the style of Homeric poetry and the structure of the poem.

Week 3:  using extracts from the poem (in an English translation), we can now begin
to look in detail at the narrative, following the tale of Achilles' anger.

Week 4:  we shall continue to explore the anger of Achilles.

Suggested reading

The Legend of Odysseus by Peter Connolly OUP 1986
ISBN 9780199171439 (designed for school children, but a brilliant introduction to Homer's poems; however, this is now out of print but you may find one in the public library or second-hand).

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

University of Kent Tonbridge Centre
Avebury Avenue
Tonbridge
TN9 1TG

01732 352316
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www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge 

Meet the Ancient Pompeians and their Neighbours
Christine Spillane PhD
Study Day: Saturday, 6 July 10am – 4pm*
Course fee: £25                                                        Course code: 12-TON-078
*please note, there will be breaks but refreshments are not provided.

Discover the sights, sounds and smells of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum, as we spend the day walking through the streets and buildings of these towns on the Bay of Naples. The eruption of 79AD has preserved a wealth of material which provides an insight into life in the Roman world.

The day will look at some of the major buildings and their decorations, but will focus on how a modern visitor can re-create what life was like for the people of the Bay of Naples before the 79AD eruption. We shall try to use the often overlooked aspects of the towns to get inside the skin of the Pompeians and their neighbours. Expect to see, hear and even smell the activities of the streets, places of entertainment, shops and businesses (imagination required!).

This will be of interest to those who have already visited the Bay of Naples and to those who still have that joy to come!

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

University of Kent Tonbridge Centre
Avebury Avenue
Tonbridge
TN9 1TG

01732 352316
tonbridgeadmin@kent.ac.uk
www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge 

Dorothy Lehane BA
Workshop
This is offered twice:
(A) Saturday 18 May, 10am – 1pm
(B) Monday 1 July 1 – 4pm
Course fee: £15                                                        Course code: 12-TON-079 (A or B)

This workshop is designed to help you tackle the process of editing your work. During the class you will discover different ways to redraft your poems and think about subsequent drafts as evolutionary steps toward the final version.

Is your poem unmanageable, unruly or tangential? Does your poem seem to work, but as yet has found no one to publish it? Are there many ideas locked into one poem? This class will give you the opportunity to reassess those poems, reorder them, turn them over to examine their shape and perspective, recasting them to discover new insights or new ways to strike at the message within. There will be exercises to pare down or expand your poems and you may be surprised to see your poems emerge as new pieces altogether.

Bring poems you wish to work with to the session.

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

University of Kent Tonbridge Centre
Avebury Avenue
Tonbridge
TN9 1TG

01732 352316
tonbridgeadmin@kent.ac.uk
www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge 

Introduction to Minerals
Peter Golding BSc, FGS
Study Day:  10am – 4 pm*
This popular course is offered twice:       (A) Saturday 18 May (B) Thursday 27June
Course fee: £25                                    Course code: 12-TON-080 (A or B)

*please note: there will be a lunch break, but refreshments are not provided 

Our world is built from minerals.  Come to this Study Day to learn about their occurrence, structure and beauty.  Some are mixed together to form rocks whilst many are economically valuable.  During the day you will be able to handle and identify mineral specimens.

When we think of minerals, the beautiful green of malachite or the vibrant blue of azurite come to mind.  Most minerals are much less colourful and frequently not well crystallised.  Nevertheless, these are the most important minerals as rock-formers or as economic deposits. 

We will begin with a brief history of what people believed about minerals in historical times.  We will seek to explain why some elements and hence minerals are rare, whilst others are extremely common.  This will lead us to consider the structure of the Earth and how it arose.  Minerals are divided into families, each with their own set of physical and chemical characters.  By careful use of these characters individual members of each family can be identified.  We will try this out in our first practical.  Minerals are, of course, more than beautiful objects.  They are an economic resource whether metals, non-metals or the currently topical rare earths.  We shall explain the conditions under which major deposits form.  Some are sedimentary in origin, such as, “banded ironstone” and placer deposits.  Others require high temperatures deep within the Earth, such as platinum group elements or chrome deposits, whilst others form during the weathering of rocks.  Finally we shall study the silicate minerals.  Although not beautiful, they are the rock-forming minerals.  When mixed in various proportions they create the vast majority of the Earth’s rocks, so correct identification is vital.  Silicate atomic structure is wonderfully ordered which is reflected in their physical properties.  We can therefore use the tests we practiced earlier to identify them during our last practical session.

Suggested reading
There are many guides to rocks and minerals available.  As an example Rocks and minerals by Chris Pellant published by Penguin ISBN 9781405359887

Additional information
Please bring a hand lens if you have one.

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

University of Kent Tonbridge Centre
Avebury Avenue
Tonbridge
TN9 1TG

01732 352316
tonbridgeadmin@kent.ac.uk
www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge 

Keep Calm and Carry On: British Propaganda in WWII
David Budgen PhD
4 weeks: June 18, 25, July 2, 9                                  Tuesdays, 1-3pm
Course fee: £40                                                        Course code: 12-TON-081

This course will focus upon British propaganda of the Second World War produced by the Ministry of Information.  Utilising such sources as posters, radio broadcasts and film, we shall develop an understanding of propaganda’s role on the Home Front, and its continued influence upon the memory of the War.

The Second World War has cast a long shadow over British history and culture.  Its impact upon the civilian population was great.  The Ministry of Information was re-established on 4 September 1939, one day after Britain’s declaration of war on Germany.  It became vital for maintaining morale during a period in which Britain faced the serious threat of invasion.  It gave people instructions and advice, enabling them to contribute to the war effort.  Propaganda also aided recruitment, as every citizen became a vital cog in the British war machine.  Finally, as the prospect of invasion receded, propagandists started to look to the future, encouraging the people to imagine a better society emerging from the conflict.

But propaganda did not just speak to citizens in wartime.  It helped to shape an image of the period that still exists today.  From The King’s Speech to ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ mobile phone covers, the legacy of wartime propaganda still permeates modern British culture.  Taking a thematic approach, this course will look at examples of British propaganda (film, radio, posters, and pamphlets) and some of the debates that took place at the time.  We shall develop an understanding of how each campaign functioned, how successful (or unsuccessful) they were, and how they have helped to shape our memory of the conflict. 

Weekly schedule
Week 1: The Nature of the Enemy
How was the enemy depicted in both official and unofficial propaganda?  How did this shape people’s understanding of the war, and why was this necessary?  Did perceptions of the enemy change?

Week 2: Maintaining Morale
Given the largely unprecedented attacks on Britain’s civilian population, how did propaganda encourage ordinary people to maintain hope and belief in the cause?

Week 3: Recruitment
Although conscription eliminated some of the problems seen in the First World War, many industries and organisations still needed to encourage recruitment.  How did they do this, and which areas needed the most input?

Week 4: Looking to the Future
As invasion began to look less likely, some propagandists started to think about what would happen after the war.  What kind of society did they imagine?  How did they sell such ideas to the British public?

Suggested secondary reading
James Chapman, The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-45
Anthony Aldgate and Jeffrey Richards, Britain Can Take It: British Cinema in the
Second World War
Angus Calder, The Myth of the Blitz
Angus Calder, The People's War: Britain 1939-45
Juliet Gardiner, Wartime: Britain 1939-45

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

University of Kent Tonbridge Centre
Avebury Avenue
Tonbridge
TN9 1TG

01732 352316
tonbridgeadmin@kent.ac.uk
www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge 

Dance Me to the End of Love: Courtship and Dance in Literature
Sarah Anthony MA
Study day: Monday 10 June                                   10am-4pm*
Course fee: £25                                                     Course code: 12-TON-082

*please note, there will be a lunch break but refreshments are not provided

This Study Day traces the depiction of dance in literature from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the Country Dance to the Charleston, we will look at dance as symbolic motif and courtship ritual, but also as an exploration of physical space, gender politics and social structures.

“There is nothing like dancing after all.” So convinced are the inhabitants of Meryton of this fact that Mr Darcy’s distaste for the practice at once condemns him in their eyes. This Study Day traces the history of dance and its depiction in literature through an exploration of texts from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Nothing will satisfy Bingley but to dance with Jane; Emma Bovary dances with a Viscount; Vronsky’s failure to dance the Mazurka with Kitty marks an important turning point in Anna Karenina. From the Country Dance to the Charleston, in novels and short stories from Austen to Scott Fitzgerald, this Study Day looks at dance as symbolic motif and courtship ritual, but also as an exploration of physical space, gender politics and social structures.

Texts will be addressed through a series of extracts which will be provided in booklet form before the start of the course. Close readings of these extracts will be supplemented with an exploration of the historical context of the various dance forms, and illustrated with extracts from cinematic interpretations of the texts.

A course booklet will be provided. Texts covered will include, but not be restricted to, extracts from Austen, Thackeray, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Mansfield and Scott Fitzgerald.

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

University of Kent Tonbridge Centre
Avebury Avenue
Tonbridge
TN9 1TG

01732 352316
tonbridgeadmin@kent.ac.uk
www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge 

BANNED!
Janet Mace MA
4 weeks: May 15, 22, June 5, 12                    Wednesdays, 1-3pm
Course fee: £40                                              Course code: 12-TON-083

‘Where they burn books, they will also in the end burn people’ said Heine in 1821. Have you ever burned a book? Hidden one? Civic and religious leaders do it all the time: Anne Frank’s Diary, Alice in Wonderland, Frankenstein … We find out what makes banned books so powerful.
People in power have banned, burnt and hidden books for millennia and still do. It’s obvious why Stalin banned Solzhenitsyn’s work exposing the horrors of the Gulag – by why did the French government ban Madame Bovary?
Is there ever a good reason to suppress a book? Politicians, religious leaders, parents, teachers and librarians ban books as obscene, heretical or blasphemous, or politically or socially disruptive. If they say anything, they say they are drawing a line to protect us.
We shall read some books which have been – or still are – suppressed, discuss why the authorities fear them, and consider why authors write books which they know will be seen as dangerous. Do they set out to provoke? Or do writers self-censor to protect themselves? (E M Forster didn’t allow Maurice, his novel about homosexual love, to be published in his lifetime.)
The weekly focus will be on one book each week with a photocopied extract from another text to look at as a comparison in the same session.  

Required reading for study in:

Week 1:               James Baldwin: Go Tell it on the Mountain                               
Week 2:               Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita 
Week 3:               Truman Capote: In Cold Blood 
Week 4:               Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Extracts will be provided a week in advance for the following sessions:
Week 1:               Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (Prologue to The Pardoner's Tale and extract from
General Prologue)
Week 2:               D H Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover 
Week 3:               Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange 
Week 4:               Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

You might also find it interesting to read:
Voltaire:                           Candide
J D Salinger:                    The Catcher in the Rye
Graham Greene:              The Power and the Glory
Erich Maria Remarque:    All Quiet on the Western Front

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

University of Kent Tonbridge Centre
Avebury Avenue
Tonbridge
TN9 1TG

01732 352316
tonbridgeadmin@kent.ac.uk
www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge 

Historic buildings along the River Thames from Teddington to the Nore
Tutor: Moreen Biron Dip. Int. Design, FIDDA, Cert Ed
10 weeks from 9 April 2013: REVISED DATES & TIME IN COURSE INFORMATION BELOW

APRIL 9, 16, 23, 30, MAY 7, 14, 21, JUNE 4, 11, 18        

Tuesdays, 10.15am - 12.15pm
Course fee: £100                            Course code: 12-TON-020

This course follows on from the autumn course ‘Historic buildings along the River Thames from its source to Teddington’ but can be taken independently.

From Teddington the river is tidal and there are plenty of interesting buildings to consider for their architectural style. Along the riverside, for it has always been a prime location, we will discuss churches, cathedrals, houses and gardens, botanic gardens, hospitals, galleries, bridges, palaces, stations and modern buildings.

A selection of buildings will be chosen for discussion and others mentioned to enable the class to discover many of the different styles and locations as possible. There has been much written about the Thames, many famous artists have painted it and some owners have led fascinating lives – we will discuss as many of these as time permits.

Students will be encouraged to research a building that is of particular interest and share this with the class. By the end of the course students should be able to identify many different styles of architecture and recognise the buildings studied.

Depending on the weather, it may be possible to visit a particular area or building of interest. Travel and entry expenses are not included in the course fee.

Suggested reading
There are many books available from Public Libraries; advice will be given at the first class should you wish to purchase any.

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

University of Kent Tonbridge Centre
Avebury Avenue
Tonbridge
TN9 1TG

01732 352316
tonbridgeadmin@kent.ac.uk
www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge 

Happy, Normal or Real? Exploring Identity in late 20th Century Literature
Sarah Anthony MA
4 weeks: June 21, 28, July 5, 12                               Fridays, 10.30am - 12.30pm
Course fee: £40                                                        Course code: 12-TON-084

This four week course will look at key texts from the late 20th century, focusing on the ways in which identities are forged and perceived. Themes covered will be gender identity (Atwood), sexual identity (Winterson), national identity (Ondaatje) and racial identity (Tan).

The aftermath of the Second World War, the liberalisation of sexuality and gender roles and the impact of immigration and emigration have led to dramatic changes to culture and society. This four week course will look at key texts from the late 20th century, focusing on the ways in which identities are forged and perceived. We will start by examining the construction of a gendered identity in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. As well as exploring anxieties for the future emerging from second-wave feminism, Atwood’s text looks at power constructs which influence identity, such as religious constraints, and we will continue that exploration when we look at sexual identity in Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges are Not the Only Fruit. In week three we will move on to national identity in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient and we will finish the course by looking at the ways in which that national identity might be complicated by racial considerations and echoes from the past in Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife.

Crucially these texts share a postmodern preoccupation with the process of representation and in an ongoing exploration of narrative style we will address key questions relating to the nature of (auto)biography, the representation of history and the possibility (or otherwise) of establishing absolute truth.

Seminar discussions will be supplemented with film extracts and podcasts of interviews with the authors.

Weekly schedule

Week 1: Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Week 2: Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are not the Only Fruit
Week 3: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Week 4: Amy Tan, The Kitchen God’s Wife

Students may also like to read Jeanette Winterson, Why be Happy When You Could be Normal to supplement the text for week 2.

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

University of Kent Tonbridge Centre
Avebury Avenue
Tonbridge
TN9 1TG

01732 352316
tonbridgeadmin@kent.ac.uk
www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge 

The Bloomsbury Group
Geoff Doel PhD
4 weeks: May 21, 28, June 4, 11                    Tuesdays, 1-3pm
Course fee: £40                                              Course code: 12-TON-085

The Bloomsbury Group helped enormously to drag British art and literature screaming into the twentieth century world of modernism and post-modernism. It gave us a new European focus and challenged convention and advocated tolerance, particularly in sexual practices. Yet it remained elitist despite its links with socialism.

The Bloomsbury Group was never a specific organisation, but rather an informal association of artists, critics, writers and economists whose dissatisfaction with Victorian attitudes and aesthetics led to a fundamental cultural and social revaluation. The group turned from religion, Empire and conventional sexual ethics and helped to reinvigorate the fossilizing British literary and artistic conventions through European and Modernist ideas.

This course will explore the Bloomsbury Group’s artistic, literary, social, political and economic influence through the written and artistic works and vision of Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell & E M Forster.

Specific literary texts to be explored which shed light on the attitudes of the Bloomsbury Group are E M Forster’s gay novel Maurice, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse andLytton Strachey’s ground-breaking biographical study Eminent Victorians.
On the artistic front we’ll explore the theories of Roger Fry & Clive Bell, the Omega Workshops, the art of Duncan Grant & Vanessa Bell and the Berwick Murals.

Weekly schedule and required reading

Week 1:           general introduction
Week 2:           E. M. Forster:  Maurice
Week 3:           Lytton Strachey:  Eminent Victorians
Week 4:           Virginia Woolf:  To the Lighthouse

General recommended (though not essential) reading:

Quentin Bell          Bloomsbury Recalled   (Columbia University Press)
Angelica Garnett   Deceived with Kindness (Hogarth Press)
Hermione Lee       Virginia Woolf  (Chatto & Windus)
Frances Spalding   Duncan Grant (Chatto & Windus)
Frances Spalding   Insights: The Bloomsbury Group (National Portrait Gallery)

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

University of Kent Tonbridge Centre
Avebury Avenue
Tonbridge
TN9 1TG

01732 352316
tonbridgeadmin@kent.ac.uk
www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge 

The Hop Bin – the Culture & Traditions of Kent Hop-Picking
Geoff Doel PhD
Lecture:  Thursday 4 July, 10.30am-12.30pm
Lecture fee: £10                                             
Course code: 12-TON-087

This lecture gives a cultural survey of hop picking in Kent over 400 years through literary accounts, researched descriptions by hop-farmers and hop pickers, press cuttings, songs and drawings and early photographs and archival film.

This is not a technical or scientific examination of hop-picking. But rather an attempt to explore an evolving seasonal way of life and its influence on those involved and on the Kent landscape. In particular we’ll explore the role of the migratory hop-pickers from London and from communities of Travellers who came each Autumn for ‘a holiday with pay’ and developed a distinctive and colourful life-style.

Margaret Lawrence: The Encircling Hop (Sawd)
Richard Filmer; Hops & Hop Picking  (Shire)
Gilda O’Neill: Pull No More Bines (The Women’s Press)
Fran & Geoff Doel: Folklore of Kent (chapter 4) (History Press)
Fran & Geoff Doel, The Hop Bin (History Press) due to be published Summer 2013

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

University of Kent Tonbridge Centre
Avebury Avenue
Tonbridge
TN9 1TG

01732 352316
tonbridgeadmin@kent.ac.uk
www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge 

Handel’s Dixit Dominus
Peter Medhurst.  GRSM ACRM
Study Day:  Friday 5th July 10am - 4pm*
Course fee: £25                                             
Course code: 12-TON-087

*please note: there will be a lunch break, but refreshments are not provided 

Dixit Dominus is a setting in Latin of Psalm 110 (Vulgate 109) and was finished in April 1707 while Handel was living in Italy. The music was first performed on 16th July 1707 in the Church of Santa Maria in Montesanto, under the patronage of the Colonna family.  Dixit Dominus is always regarded as one of the highlights of Handel’s Italian period of composition (before he came to England) and the study day examines in detail the remarkable structure and flow of this most energetic of choral works.

Suggested reading

Handel. Christopher Hogwood. Thames & Hudson
Handel – the man & his music. Jonathan Keates. Gollancz Paperbacks

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

University of Kent Tonbridge Centre
Avebury Avenue
Tonbridge
TN9 1TG

01732 352316
tonbridgeadmin@kent.ac.uk
www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge 

Mad, Bad or Sad? Introduction to Psychology
Sarah Hamilton MA
Study Day: Friday June 28                             10am - 4pm*
Course fee: £25                                              Course code: 12-TON-088
*please note: there will be a lunch break, but refreshments are not provided 

As part of our ‘Introduction to Psychology’ series, this course explores psychological history and ideas about relationships with others and judgement of behaviour.

The issues concerning thoughts and behaviour begin with the historical context of sanity and madness and include the role of fiction and fantasy throughout development.   An exploration of how, when and whether we perceive and treat madness as well as ideas of ‘good and evil’ and the concept of just being sad or unhappy. What is normality? 

The course will include exploration of how aspects of the mind develop throughout physical development, how they differ across individual people and cultures and how they break down during illness and injury.

Essentially we will consider mind and behaviour and what is deemed to constitute ‘normality’: Emotional and behavioural disorders are generally defined by a combination of how a person feels, acts, thinks or perceives. “If sanity and madness exist how shall we know them?” (Rosenhan). How do we know precisely what constitutes mental illness? We often expect that specially trained professionals know best about how to make an accurate diagnosis, however that assumption has been challenged by research.  What may or may not be “normal” may have much to do with the labels that are applied to people in particular settings. 

Some topics included will be the development of perception, communication, learning, issues of memory, religion, and the role of fantasy fiction and dreams.

The course is suitable for anyone with a general interest in psychology as well as a professional interest in assessing and dealing with behaviour in all age groups, teachers, health professionals or those involved with crime deviance and the courts. 

Suggested reading
Gross Richard, Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour, Hodder & Stoughton
No prior knowledge of psychology is required. It might be helpful (but not necessary) to recognise and / or have basic knowledge of the approaches used to understand behaviour: Psychodynamic, Behaviourist, Humanistic, Cognitive & Biological.

How to book a place on this course
Online Booking at www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge
By Post to us at the address below, using the application form in the Programme pamphlet
These courses are very usually popular and you are advised to apply as soon as possible as courses fill up quickly. Places cannot be held without payment of the course fee.

General conditions and information
Mailing List and data protection
Those attending our courses are automatically added to our database and kept informed about new courses. This information is not released to outside organisations. Please write to us if you do not wish your details to be kept on our database.

Course viability
As these short courses are self-financing there must be sufficient enrolments on each course for it to proceed.  Course fees are not usually processed from the Tonbridge office until the viability criteria is met. In case of course cancellation due to insufficient enrolments we will aim to notify you approximately one week before the course start date. If there is no suitable alternative, we will refund the course fee in full. The University of Kent reserves the right to cancel a course for this or any other reason it deems appropriate in which case the relevant course fee will be refunded in full.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course, please let us know as soon as possible. We reserve the right to retain your fee. We will give consideration to a request for refund of a course fee up to 14 days before a course start date but a £10 administration fee will apply. Refund requests should be made in writing or by email to us at the address below.

The University reserves the right to:

1. exclude any student if the student’s presence is making it difficult for the class to function properly
2. cancel or amend the length of any course if the circumstances so warrant.

Neither the University of Kent, nor its staff, can be held responsible for any damage, loss or injury however sustained, suffered by participants attending courses. Insurance is the student’s responsibility.

University Centre Tonbridge
You might like to view the University Centre Tonbridge web-pages by visiting www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge where you will find details of our other courses, news, events and location. There is plenty of public pay and display car parking locally; more information is available from www.tmbc.gov.uk . Please note that no parking is available here on site. There is a café on site or various commercial outlets in the High Street just a few minutes’ walk away where refreshments can be purchased.

We look forward to welcoming you here soon. Please contact us if you have any queries.

University of Kent Tonbridge Centre
Avebury Avenue
Tonbridge
TN9 1TG

01732 352316
tonbridgeadmin@kent.ac.uk
www.kent.ac.uk/tonbridge