U3A Clarence - 2007 Term-3 courses

Clarence University of the Third Age

COURSE PROGRAM TERM 3, 2007

MONDAY SESSION 1 - 9.30

M311	WATERCOLOUR PAINTING	SUZANNE BANKS
	Suzanne will coordinate this course and bring themes for each lesson. Suzanne has painted for about twenty years. She travelled overseas with painters Nerida De Yong and Irish painter Pauline Bewick. Both these teachers have influenced her work. She has had a solo exhibition and has showed work at various exhibitions around Hobart and in Canberra.
	Class limit 10	Levy $2

Watercolour Painting — Tutor: Suzanne Banks
Participants will be encouraged to try a range of ideas using the versatile medium of watercolours. There will also be drawing classes within this programme. The class will work in a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere.
Content: A time will be spent sharing experiences and celebrating the wonderful moments that occur during the making of a piece of art.
Week 1	Still Life — tutor will set up this still life.
Week 2	Boats on the Derwent
Week 3	Faces – (working from a chosen study).
Week 4	Faces – continuation.
Week 5	Drawing old buildings with pencils.
Week 6	Birds – Bring a picture of your favourite bird to class.
Week 7	Interiors – emphasis on colour relationships.
Week 8	Indoor/Outdoor painting.
Week 9	Painting cards for Christmas gifts.
Week 10	Painting cards for Christmas gifts – continuation.

M312	COLOUR	PETER STEVENSON AND JENNIFER LINE
	The science of coloured light and materials – beauty and aesthetics
	Class limit 30	Levy $2

M313	GREAT DISCOVERIES #1	DAVID LEAMAN
	Come and consider 10 eclectic and off-the-wall great discoveries. As always I examine the people involved, their attitudes and how things have panned out for us today. How important were they?

M314	HIGHER INTERMEDIATE FRENCH	HILARY FAWCETT
	A small group, able, with support, to converse in French. As well as practising conversation, we read, translate and familiarise ourselves with old and new grammatical constructions. A relaxed, flexible, friendly group, but a secure knowledge of the present tense of verbs and reasonable confidence with the perfect and imperfect tenses are necessary prerequisites. Hilary has degrees in Medieval History and in French. She worked in music administration and stumbled into teaching via U3A.
	Class limit 8	Levy $5

M315	PLAY READING	SELF DIRECTED

	Class limit 10

M316	HABITATS, HOBBITS AND HUBRIS	HELEN LAWRENCE
	An examination of the prehistory of modern humans with a view to how we have adapted and how our success rates in comparison with other species of humans. Helen has a fellowship in physiotherapy, a degree in Archaeology and Paleoanthropology and is the author of three books on paleoanthropology.

MONDAY SESSION 2 - 10.55

M321	COUNTRY DANCING	ALISON JONES
	We try a variety of dances from various sources – whatever we enjoy with the occasional challenge. Why jog on your own when you can jig in company? Alison has been dancing since she was a small child, socially in displays in various countries. She attended Royal Scottish Country Dance Society classes in Scotland, including a teaching qualification and she likes sharing her enjoyment with others.
	Class limit 32

M322	AUSTRALIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS	MARGARET ROSE
	An interactive course which will look at aspects of the physical geography, climate and history of our neighbours, particularly those in the South Pacific.

M323	SO YOU WANT TO WRITE YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY?	JENNY WILLIAMS
	The process of writing, where to start, what to include and what to leave out. An interactive course. Jenny has written her autobiography called YENNI – A Life Between Worlds which became one of the 15 best read books in Tasmania in September 2006. Her second book received a grant from Arts Tasmania to cover editorial costs. Jenny arrived in Tasmania in 1969 as assisted migrants.
	Class limit 14

So you want to write your autobiography?
This is a progressive course, each week addressing different techniques/issues in writing your autobiography. As in the chain, each link supports the next one.
Week 1	Introduction, short intro of students and some thoughts to ponder on.
Week 2	Where to begin,
Week 3	How to begin,
Week 4	The voice,
Week 5	Point of view,
Week 6	The tools of writing,
Week 7	Dress up your memories,
Week 8	Structuring,
Week 9	Reviewing, editing, agents and publishers,
Week 10	Review of the course, discussion, a list of smart words.

M324	WRITERS WORKSHOP	FRANCES COLL
	An opportunity for those who enjoy writing (or would like to) to share their efforts in a friendly atmosphere of mutual support and encouragement.
	Class limit 12

M325	ITALIAN	ROSIE JOYCE
	This course can be either beginners or more advanced, depending on the demand. Mainly conversational, grammar as requested or required. Family, friends, meals, travel, interests, clothing, emotions, weather etc.
	Class limit 10	Levy $5

MONDAY SESSION 3 - 12.05

M331	TAI CHI	MARY NEWMAN
	Tai Chi is a universal medium for the cultivation of body, mind and spirit. It is for everyone, of all ages.
	Class limit 25	Levy $2

M332	LATIN 5	ROSIE JOYCE
	Revision of Cambridge Latin Course Book 3 and cultural background. Rosie majored in Latin with distinction (a long time ago).
	Class limit 10

M333	ARMCHAIR TRAVEL	JOHN AND PAT OLDING
	Take a journey with us to see exciting destinations and different cultures from the comfort of your chair. Some countries you may recognise and enjoy revisiting and others will be a new experience. John and Pat and their friends have travelled extensively in Europe, Australia, Asia and Southern Africa and they would like to share their memories and photographs.
	Class limit 30

M334	LOWER INTERMEDIATE FRENCH	HILARY FAWCETT
	A revision and 'rehabilitation' course for those with a little French who would like to retrieve what they once knew and make further progress. One of our aims is that students gain confidence in speaking French, in a friendly, mutually supportive group. Reading, translation and grammar revision also form important parts of the course. NB: this is not an absolute beginners' class and prospective students should at least be able to cope with the present tense of regular verbs and of the 4 main irregular verbs.
		Levy $5

M335	NUCLEAR POWER AND OTHER ENERGY SOURCES IN THE FUTURE	FRED THORNETT
	We will discuss the possible role of nuclear energy in Australia – and the world. We will consider safety issues, the comparative roles of renewables such as wind power, solar energy, biological fuel and so on compared with fossil fuels. We will look at reasons why fossil fuels should NOT be burned. Do they have better uses than as fuels? What is the future of the motor car? Related to this will be the world supply of metals and their likely exhaustion. Conservation measures will also be discussed. We will look at what is happening in several other countries. There will be plenty of time for course members to present points of view, preferably – but not entirely – those based on evidence rather than emotion. The course will be confronting for some and comforting for others. No prior reading is necessary but a sharply honed mind would be helpful. Fred became aware of the likely role of nuclear energy in Australia’s future whilst living in Russia in 2001. At that time the European Union had just paid billions of dollars to close down the nuclear reactors at Visaginas in Lithuania. These supplied all the electricity of the Baltic States and Northern Belarus. This meant the building of fossil fuel powered generators emitting CO₂, particulate pollutants and acid rain.
	Class limit 20

M336	GERMAN FOR BEGINNERS	ADRIAN HARMSEN
	This is a continuation of the course begun in Term 1 and continued in Term 2. Students with an experience of at least one term on high school studies of German are welcome to join the class. Emphasis will be given to vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and simple conversation. Aspects of German culture will be part of the course and active participation will be encouraged. CDs of German songs will be used to assist in pronunciation. Adrian was a teacher of French and German in various High Schools and at Hobart Matriculation College. He lived in Germany for two years.
	Class Min 10 - Max 25

WEDNESDAY SESSION 1 - 9.30

W311	ECCENTRICS AND ECCENTRICITIES	PETER SOUTHGATE
	We shall look at the lives and work of some people who have been a little `differed’. Mostly British – and mostly male – they include architects, cartoonists, artists, writers, aristocrats and engineers. We shall see what they did and why. Peter retired to Hobart 3 years ago after a career as a British government criminologist and has lectured regularly at U3A since then. He also works for the UTAS Institute of Law Enforcement Studies and is a Justice of the Peace and a Fellow of Jane Franklin Hall.
		Levy $2

W312	THE ANIMATED SHAKESPEARE	GILLIAN SOUTHGATE
	Five videos of Shakespeare’s most popular plays in animated form will be shown on alternate weeks and discussed in alternate weeks. Members need to buy or borrow or share these plays, starting with Romeo and Juliet. Suggested course reading: Copies of plays Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Tempest. Try Red Cross Shop in Melville Street. Also any critical books/essays on Shakespeare that students choose. Gillian has an Honours Degree in English in American Literature and a Master of Arts in the same. She is a Lecturer at U3A, Honorary Fellow of Jane Franklin Hall, Lecturer at Christchurch University Kent UK and a member of the Hamilton Literary Society.
	Class limit 25	Levy $2

W313	SPANISH	FRED SCHLUTER
	This is a continuing course so new students should have a basic knowledge of the language. Fred has had many years of experience as an interpreter. Teaching helps him to maintain his own knowledge of languages.
	Class limit 12	Levy $5

W314	BRUSH UP YOUR MATHS	NOELA FOXCROFT
	A non-threatening refresher course on High School Maths. The term will concentrate on Algebra. New members most welcome. Noela spent 30 years teaching Maths in Hobart High Schools. She is passionate in her belief that Maths should be enjoyable and tries to make it so.
	Class limit 20.	Levy $2

W315	CRYPTIC CROSSWORDS	FRANK BROWN
	Continuing excursions into the convoluted consciousness of cryptic crosswords. Beginners welcome as well as the experts – we all help each other.
	Class limit 15	Levy $2

WEDNESDAY SESSION 2 - 10.55

W321	TAI CHI	MARY NEWMAN
	Tai Chi is a universal medium for the cultivation of body, mind and spirit. It is for everyone, of all ages.
	Class limit 25	Levy $2

W322	PLAY READING	TONY MANLEY
	MEN WANTED! Here’s a chance to interACT with lots of arty women. If anyone enrols for this as well as another playreading group, we’ll have different plays.
	Class limit 10

W323	HEALTH MATTERS #2	PAM TERRY
	This is a continuation of the course from Term 1 and is not a repeat. Ten experts on matters relating to health.
	Class limit 30

26th Sep	Tread lightly on the Earth	Helen Burnett
3rd Oct	Kidney health Australia	Caroline McIntosh & patient
10th Oct	Arthritis facts from fiction	Tracy Parry
17th Oct	TBA	TBA
24th Oct	Hearing Australia	Audiologist Stephanie
31st Oct	General health & eyes - continuation from previous lecture	Andrew Hogan
7th Nov	Medicines talk	?Jane from Cota
14th Nov	"Mind your mind"	Alzheimers
21st Nov	Recent Osteoporosis Reseach in Tasmania	Tania Warenburg
28th Nov	More communication	Megan Hanley

W324	MAPS AND MAPMAKERS	HEINZ VOJACEK
	We will look at famous cartographers such as Ptolemy, Mercator, Ortelius and Waldseemüller. Cartographically speaking we will visit Gondwana, the Holy Land, Antarctica and other regions. Maps for bushwalkers should be interesting. The course concludes with the cartographic history of Australia and Tasmania. Heinz-Jurgen Vojacek was born in Berlin in 1935. He gained a degree in Cartography from Engineering College in Berlin. He worked as a map editor and later as chief cartographer for the publishing firm Kummerly and Frey in Berne, Switzerland. He came to Australia in 1960 and worked for National Mapping in Canberra where he met his wife Helen. After moving to Hobart, Heinz was employed by the HEC in the Survey Section designing and drawing many of their maps. He joined the Mercury as chief cartographer and later Mercury Walch in the same position. He was responsible for winning the UNESCO contract for the production of the Geological World Atlas and a map of Gondwana. This is apart from overseeing the production of many maps and winning prizes for the best printing in Australia and cartographic excellence. Heinz was president of the Tasmanian Division of the Australian Institute of Cartographers for many years and in 1976 he was federal president of the same organisation. In the 1970s and 1980s he taught cartography in a part-time capacity to survey students at the University of Tasmania and to mapping students at the Technical College in Hobart. For the last 20 years of his career with Mercury Walch, Heinz held the position of Assistant General Manager and then Production Director at Mercury Walch. Heinz is married and has two children. His interests are photography, bushwalking and collecting ` Maps on Stamps’ for which he won a bronze medal at the 1988 Bi-Centennial Stamp Exhibition in Sydney.

W325	ADVANCED GERMAN AND CONVERSATION	FRED SCHLUTER
	This is a continuing course. New students should be reasonably fluent in the language.
		Levy $5

W326	SOILS AND VEGETATION	ALBERT GOEDE
	The nature of soil and plants. Soil aspects to be looked at are variety, nutrients, accumulation, erosion and salinization. Aspects of plants to be examined are classification, survival, dispersal, migration, succession, significance of fire and effects of human activities. Albert is a retired university lecturer in physical geography from the School of Geography and Environmental Studies. Hobbies are bushwalking, digital photography and gardening.
	Class limit 30.	Levy $2.

W327	CHESS	DON FARNELL AND MERV KERSHAW
	This is an opportunity for new players to learn chess and for those who haven't played for a while to refresh and improve their game.
	Class limit 12

WEDNESDAY SESSION 3 - 12.05

W331	CIRCLE DANCING	KRISTA SANDS
	We will dance folk dances from a range of cultures as well as modern choreographed dances. Steps will be easy and tempo moderate to slow. We dance singly in a circle, hence circle dancing. If you have two left feet don’t worry, the dances are adaptable. Krista is a self-confessed dance addict who just doesn’t know when to stop.
	Class limit 30.

W333	POT POURRI	RAY MADDEN
	Ten speakers, some our own members and some not, will give talks on a great range of topics.

Date	Speaker	Topic	Equipment	Phone
26 Sep	Mickey Benefiel	Messing about in Business	Whiteboard PowerPoint	6243 5232 0417 324235
3 Oct	Dr Niall Doran	Tasmanian cave flora and fauna (plants, cave spiders)	PowerPoint	6239 1174
10 Oct	Mr Alan Gray	Understanding Eucalyptus	Whiteboard PowerPoint	6239 6441 0409 970112
17 Oct	Peter Stevenson	Surprise	TBA	6243 8047
24 Oct	Mrs Joan Carr	TBA	TBA	6248 1225
31 Oct	Robert Hughes	Impressions of the United States of America	TBA	6265 7738
7 Nov	Margaret Watson	Is travelling worthwhile?	TBA	6243 5481
14 Nov	Alison Jones	Letters from the past - Circa 1869	Epidiascope	6225 2289
21 Nov	Dr Regina Magierowski	BlueNet	PowerPoint	TBA
28 Nov	Ms Danielle Madden-Hallett	Tasmanian Native Orchids	PowerPoint	6223 4913

W334	PLAY READING	TONY MANLEY/ANN BROWN
	See Session 2.
	Class limit 10

W335	FACING THE MUSIC	CHRIS CARSON
	An introduction to classical music with some knowledge and appreciation by listening to recordings and non-technical discussion. Covers major composers, history, trends - from medieval to 20th century. Chris was a radio broadcaster for 12 years and has sung roles in opera, oratorio and on ABC radio.
	Class limit 20

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