Courses and resources

Dates for 2018

Winter courses 2018

• 2018 - Series 2 - Courses Offered
• A - Nobel Prizewinners 2016-2017
  
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  • 1 Introduction to the Nobel prizes
  • 1a Bob Dylan - Paul Tankard
  • 1b Nobel Chemistry 2016
  
• B - A Bitter Truth - Effect of WWI on the Arts
  
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  • Avant Garde Art Class Notes 2018
  • Session 1 ww1 propaganda 2018 notes
  • Session 1 ww1 propaganda 2018 slides
  
• C - The Formative Years
  
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  • 2a The Melville Carr story
  • 2b A Southern Perspective of Children of the Migration
  • 3a My Formative Years - John Burton
  • 3b My formative years - Elizabeth Hanan
  
• D - High Renaissance Art
  
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  • Michaelangelo 1
  • Michaelangelo 2
  
• E - Introduction to Brain Health
  
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  • Ashburn 3rd Age
  • Can we prevent AZD
  • Exercise Dose for Brain Health
  • Fruits Vegies Happiness
  • MIND diet implementation
  • MIND diet
  • Mindfulness
  • Music and Memory
  • Music as Medicine
  • Nanosweepers
  • Oamaru BARAK Successful Aging
  • The Social Brain
  • U3A Dunedin brochure
  
• F - Passions
  
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  • 1 Johnson and Boswell
  • 2 ST Coleridge - Table Talk + poems
  • 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  

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Available spaces on courses for Series 2

The only course to be fully subscribed is the one on Brain Health (course E).

Members can join any of the other courses (and there will be a graded fee) or join single sessions for $10 (pay at the door).

To ensure adequate catering, please contact the Course Convenor (contact details on the course brochure) in advance.

Changes to Plan

Passions Course - 29th June

Prof Lyn Tribble will offer the talk on the subject of William Shakespeare. Dr Michael Cop sends apologies, family matters need him to be away from town at that time.

Nobel Prizes Course - 3rd July

The lecture on the Economics Nobel prizes originally scheduled for 3rd July has been postponed until July 17th - there is now NO Tuesday morning lecture on 3rd July but the 10th July one is as scheduled.

Cancellations

In the event of a cancellation/postponement:

These details are normally read out at the first lecture in each session.

Catering

Gluten-free food - if anybody wants this consideration, please contact your Course Convenor(s) (details on the course brochure(s)) before the course(s) start.

Refund of Course Fees

• Any member who has to withdraw from a course, for reason of illness, before the course begins, shall be entitled to a full refund of the course fee paid provided that he or she notifies the Programme Convenor one week before the course begins.
• Any member who withdraws from a course for any other reason shall be entitled to a refund of 80% of the course fee provided he or she notifies the Programme Convenor before the course begins.
• No refunds shall be given once a course begins.

The U3A Board may vary these refund conditions in individual cases.

To apply for a refund use this enquiry form.