Short courses
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Move ahead in your career, expand your skillset, and explore new topics on our short courses.
From Summer Short Courses and Continuing Professional Development courses, to National Saturday Clubs for kids, our short courses, clubs and classes are a great way to learn.
Summer Short Courses
This summer, spend five days immersed in drawing or painting. Located in our outstanding facilities, these short courses are a chance to develop your creative practice with specialist technical tuition and support.
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Drawing
This five-day drawing course will lead you on a journey through Cornish places, landscapes and hist...
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Painting: Colour Workshop
This practical five-day painting course is designed to present the principles of colour contrast. Yo...
Continuing Professional Development
Our Continuing Professional Development courses are the ideal way to sharpen your expertise, up-skill your workforce, and get the edge in your industry.
Professional short courses
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Producing Your Own Creative Video Content
Leverage video production to create impactful media.
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UX Design: Creating a Great User Experience
Bring effective user-centered digital experiences to your business or brand.
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UI Design: Designing Engaging User Interfaces
Design user interfaces to elevate apps and digital platforms.
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Consumer Behaviour for Business Success
Use insights to deliver a better customer experience.
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Digital Marketing: Harnessing its Power for Business Growth
Learn to plan and implement a successful digital marketing strategy.
Inclusive training courses
Gain the skills and knowledge to run accessible, inclusive and sustainable events.
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A Greener Future Assessor Training
Take on environmental assessments of events around the world.
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Attitude is Everything Disability Equality Training for Live Events
Help facilitate inclusive, high-quality customer service
Digital skills courses
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Adobe ACP courses
Become an Adobe Certified Professional with our ACP courses and gain the confidence to excel.
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Microsoft Office Certified courses
Get going quickly and easily with Microsoft and accomplish office and business tasks easily and with greater efficiency.
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An Introduction to Blender for 3D Modelling, Animation and Visualisation
Blender is a completely free, cross platform, 3D modelling and animation program. After the Linux op...
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Create compelling Social media content with Canva
Love the idea of creating professional images for social media but not too sure where to start? This...
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Premiere Rush - Quick and easy Video editing
This course is for anyone wanting to learn how to quickly and professionally edit all types of video...
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Getting started with Adobe Illustrator
Grow your skills in Adobe Illustrator and learn handy functions to create your own logo and master v...
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Getting started with Adobe Indesign
Learn the basics of Adobe InDesign and begin creating your own digital material, including brochures...
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Wordpress: Create Websites & Blogs
In this course we will introduce the Wordpress content management system of which nearly 30% of all ...
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Adobe Premiere Pro: Introduction to Video Editing
Learn the basics of video editing and how to save your footage to the best format.
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Creating Motion Graphics with Adobe After Effects
Learn the fundamental skills needed to create stunning animated graphics using Adobe After Effects. ...
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Coding Using HTML & CSS
Learn to create a basic web page from scratch using HTML and CSS. HTML is the key language to get yo...
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Photoshop to Optimise Images for Web and Print: A Beginner's Guide
Make sure your images are prepared correctly for web, print or mobile devices using Adobe Photoshop,...
Opportunities for young people
National Saturday Clubs
Falmouth University’s National Saturday Clubs give 13-16 year olds from across Cornwall the opportunity to study subjects that they love for free at their local university. Clubs run every Saturday 10:30-12:30 during term time and are completely free to attend.
Dance classes
The Arts Centre runs a programme of dance classes, intensive programmes and activities for children and young people throughout the year.
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