Summer Holiday Programme June to September 2011
Art and Art Appreciation
Computing
Environment
History
Language
Leisure
Literature
Maths
Music
Research
World
Please enrol for any of these Summer Holiday courses at the office
Art and Art Appreciation
A1: Art in August
Tutor: Muriel Bradley
Day and time: Wednesday 12.30-3.30
Dates: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 August
Venue: Room 4
No. of places: 8
For all levels. Please bring your own materials. As the rooms are fully carpeted, please do not bring oil-based paints. Each week we shall have a theme which we shall interpret adventurously.
AT1: Introducing Medieval English Cathedrals
Tutor: Lynne Broughton
Day and time: Wednesday 1.00-5.00
Dates: 3, 10 August
Venue: Room 1
No. of places: 40
The great Cathedrals of England attract thousands of visitors each year because of their architectural beauty, historical interest and the artistic treasures which they contain. This course will aim to enhance understanding and enjoyment of all these aspects and more.
Six lectures over the 2 afternoons.
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Computing
Please let the office know if you wish to bring your own laptop computer to any of the computing courses, in which case there will be no fee.
C1: Email and Internet (2-day course)
Tutor: Delia Suffling
Day and time: Monday and Thursday 10.30-3.30 with an hour's break for lunch
Dates: 4 and 7 July or 25 and 28 July
Venue: Room 5
No. of places: 10
Note: extra fee of £2 payable for this course
Email: Creating an email account; creating and editing contacts; sending and receiving messages; adding attachments; removing spam; archiving mail; searching; using labels
Internet: Virus protection; searching for information; copying and pasting information; editing and saving information; downloading software.
Please contact tutor through office before enrolling.
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C2: Picasa (organising and editing digital photos)
Tutor: John Suffling
Day and time: Wednesday 2.00-4.00
Dates: 6, 13, 20, 27 July
Venue: Room 5
No. of places: 10
Note: extra fee of £1 payable for this course
Downloading software, loading photos, saving to hard drive, basic editing (crop, straighten, label etc)
Tuning (fill light, highlight, shadow etc)
Effects (sharpening, contrast, toning, tinting etc)
Slide show, selection, exporting, making a CD
Working on own photos, making a CD of own photos
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C3: Using Powerpoint (Version 2004 and earlier)
Tutor: Jeremy Clare
Day and time: Friday 10.15-12.15
Dates: 5, 12 August
Venue: Room 5
No. of places: 5
This course is for those who wish to learn how to use PowerPoint for presentations. The course is only suitable for those familiar with file handling on computers. Attendees must have ready access to a computer with a relevant version of PowerPoint as there will be homework set between sessions. Please contact the tutor before you enrol to make sure you are on the correct course. You may bring your own laptop to the class, or you can use a U3AC one for which there will be a charge of £2.
C4: Using Powerpoint (Version 2007 and later)
Tutor: Jeremy Clare
Day and time: Friday 10.15-12.15
Dates: 19, 26 August
Venue: Room 5
No. of places: 5
This course is for those who wish to learn how to use PowerPoint for presentations. The course is only suitable for those familiar with file handling on computers. Attendees must have ready access to a computer with a relevant version of PowerPoint as there will be homework set between sessions. Please contact the tutor before you enrol to make sure you are on the correct course. You may bring your own laptop to the class, or you can use a U3AC one for which there will be a charge of £2.
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C5: Digital Photography
Tutor: Ken Turner
Day and time: Friday 10.00-4.00 (with break for lunch)
Date: 8 July
Venue: Room 5
No. of places: 7
Note: extra fee of £1 payable for this course
A basic working knowledge of computers is required. This one-day course for beginners will give an introduction to digital photography.
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Environment
E1: Carbon Conversations – taster session on food
Tutors: Penny Henderson and Tom Bragg
Day and time: Thursday 14 July 9.30-12.30
Venue: Room 4
No. of places: 12
"I love my food, but I didn’t realise what an impact my choices are having."
This taster session invites you to explore how food production, processing, packaging and transport affects the carbon 'load' of your diet.
Discussing how to reduce the carbon footprint of food, our shared ideas can be inspirational.
A first step to change may be to discover useful information. A second step is comparing preferences and what's important to us. We will do both!
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History
HS1: 5th Century Athens
Tutor: Eric Southern
Day and time: Thursday 10.00-11.15 and Friday 10.00-11.15
Dates: 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29 July 11, 12, 18, 19 August
Venue: Room 1
No. of places: 30
A series of 10 lectures to illustrate the life and literature of 5th century Athens via 2 historians, 3 dramatists plus Aristophanes, the visual arts (vases plus architecture). We will add 2 sessions on earlier philosophers plus a brief look at Plato.
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Language
LA 1: French and German fun holiday translation
Organiser: Jill Tatham
Day and time: Thursday 10.00-11.00 (French) 11.15-12.15 (German)
Dates: 23 June-25 August
Venue: Room 5 (NB 7 & 28 July in Room 4)
All abilities welcome – the strong help the weak.
You can turn up if you feel like it and not if you have something better to do. There will be a token charge of 10p each week you come, to help defray the cost of duplicating. Please make sure you have the correct change, to save wasting precious time.
It is just reading aloud (if you want to) and translating.
We will read and translate various fun, interesting, entertaining texts. Contributions are welcome.
Any alterations or cancellations will be published in the weekly bulletin, so please do read it. If there is no bulletin, classes will go ahead as usual, so no news is good news!
Generally it has proved to be a painless way to keep your languages going through the summer – good for the vocabulary too!
The office needs to know the names of anyone who might turn up, so please enrol if you intend to join us at any time over the summer.
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Leisure
L1: Birdwatching
A programme for those who wish to learn about identifying birds, suitable for beginners and those who want to move beyond the garden.
Tutor: Jeremy Clare
Day and times: Wednesday 10.15-1.00 (lectures at Bridge Street)
Wednesday 9.00-12.30 (field visits)
Venue: Room 1, 27-28 Bridge Street
Lectures
13th July: Divers to Wildfowl
27th July: Raptors to Woodpeckers including Waders
10th August: Larks to Warblers (12.45 finish)
24th August: Tits to Buntings
Field Trips
20th July
Trip to Fen Drayton, meet at 9.00 at the reserve car park near Oxholme Bridge (OS map ref TL345695). Guided walk will finish at 12.30. If you wish, bring packed lunch and spend the afternoon there as well.
3rd August
Trip to Hockwold Washes (Lakenheath) meet at 9.00 at the visitors centre on reserve (OS map ref TL722864). Guided walk will finish at 12.30. If you wish, bring packed lunch and spend the afternoon there as well, or visit Wheeting Heath.
17th August
Trip to Paxton Pits meet at 9.00 at the reserve car park (OS map ref TL195635). Guided walk will finish at 12.30. if you wish, bring packed lunch and spend the afternoon there as well.
Please advise Jeremy if you are happy to take others with you and where you plan to meet up.
Maps for Lakenheatth and Paxton, Trip List and birds to see in East Anglia
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L2: Orienteering: A good walk and more
Leader: Peter Allen, assisted by local Orienteering Club
No. of places: 30
Orienteering is a challenging outdoor adventure sport that exercises both the mind and the body. The aim is to navigate on foot in sequence between control points marked on a unique orienteering map and decide the best route to complete the course in the quickest time. It does not matter how young, old, or fit you are, as you can run, walk or jog the course and progress at your own pace.
This U3AC summer activity runs at 6.45pm to 8.30pm on Tuesdays from 7th June to 12th July and the meetings are at the University Sports Centre, Centre for Mathematical Sciences Site, Cherry Hinton Hall, Milton Country Park, and from a punt making its way along the River Cam (you don’t need to be able to punt!),
Further details will be sent to participants.
Contribution of £1 a session to pay for maps and drinks.
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L3: Film Studies
Tutor: Maria Flood
Day and time: Monday 10.00-11.30
Dates: 11, 18, 25 July
Venue: Room 1
No. of places: 10
We have all seen films, and most of us have been moved to laughter, tears or sometimes anger by the images we have watched on the screen. Film is the ‘seventh art’ and it has changed the world we live in. This course will start of by examining what exactly is happening on screen, looking at film techniques and genres, and examining a few key scenes from the classics, for example Citizen Kane. Next, we will think about what is going on behind the scenes, contrasting the workings of Hollywood and European cinema, as well as considering film theory, an the impact that film has had on history, society and politics since its invention.
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L4: Spanish cinema
Organiser: Carlos de la Riva
Day and time: Thursday 12.00-2.00
Venue: Room 1
No. of places: 30
By popular request we will be showing this second set of Hispanic films.
7 July: El Oscuro objeto del Deso
14 July: Pepe, Luci y bom
21 July: Y tu mamá también
28 July: Belle de jour
4 August: Siete mil dias juntos
11 August: Maria full of grace
18 August: Dark Habits
25 August: Noche de los Girasoles
1 September: Pantaleon y las visitadoras
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Literature
L1: Lancashire Rhymes
Tutor: Miles Dodd
Day, date and time: Monday 15 August 2.00-3.15
Venue: Room 5
No. of places: 15
Have you ever wondered why the Lion ate Albert; why the Chancellor was upset about the English Channel; how the price of Bird’s Eye Maple remained stable despite Noah’s flood; how Jonah found the accommodation inside the Grampus; or how the Magna Carta came to be signed? These and other mysteries will be revealed in the rhymes to be narrated in this informal summer session.
L2: A Good Read
Tutor: Rosemary Polack
Day and time: Tuesday 10.30-12.00
Dates: 28 June, 26 July, 23 August, 27 September plus preparatory meeting at 4pm on Wednesday 25 May
Venue: Room 4
This different kind of group for booklovers ran successfully last year in response to a suggestion that U3AC members might like some activities in the long summer break, particularly as we had attractive premises for them. With input from last year’s group it was decided to run it again.
Since it is through holiday periods we appreciate that most people cannot commit to all 4 sessions. Do not be deterred from joining if are not available for all of them.
The format is based on ‘A Good Read’ from Radio 4. Three books are chosen for each session but although it is hoped that everyone who wishes will have a chance to choose and briefly present one book for discussion at one of the meetings, you are not expected to have read everyone else’s choice. We hope to remind people of old favourites as well as introduce some interesting books we may not have come across; any genre can be chosen. The idea is to stir interest in whatever you have found a good read and to enjoy the discussion.
As suggested by last years members, we aim to have a preparatory meeting on 25th May at 4 pm. You are asked to apply through the office: if possible before the 18th May so that we can confirm the ‘pre’ meeting. We ask you to bring your ideas and preferred dates for presenting your choice to this meeting, so we can work out the whole timetable, or if you cannot come on the 25th, send your suggestion in to me. We do appreciate that nobody can be expected to read all 12 chosen books in 4 months and also the expense. I propose to find out whether the charity shops ever have multiple copies or the many U3A groups and clubs would lend us possible good reads they have already discussed.
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Maths
M1: The Maths of Tuning
Tutor: Sarah Payne
Day and time: 10.00-11.30
Dates: Thursday 20 July
Venue: Room 1
No. of places: 20
Requirements: interest in music, basic arithmetic skills and a calculator.
This session (which has grown out of my ‘Maths can be Fun’ course) looks at how mathematics is at the heart of musical intervals and tuning and will show how the tuning of a piano can never be an exact science. Sums will be fairly simple!
M2: The Maths of Tuning 2
A repeat of M1 on Wednesday 4 August.
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Music
M1: Janacek
Tutor: John Hunter
Day and time: Tuesday 11.00-12.30
Dates: 5, 12, 19, 26 July
Venue: Room 1
No. of places: 30
This course has arisen from discussions with two lovers of Janacek's music who attended my class on Dvorak last autumn. Last in the trilogy of great Czech composers after Smetena and Dvorak, Janacek has for many years been known only for his one international success, the opera Jenufa. Nowadays his music is much more widely known and his operas are the most often performed of all the early 20th century composers. We will listen to as much music as we can in the time available and I will recount a little of his life in between the various pieces. If you don't know Janacek's music, come and you might be pleasantly surprised and if not, it hasn’t cost you anything and there is always the possibility of lunch with your friends afterwards!
M2: Handel in Italy 1706-10
Tutor: Charles Bonney
Day and time: Wednesday 11.00-12.30
Dates: 29 June, 6, 13, 20 July
Venue: Room 5
No. of places: 20
A repeat of the course given in the summer term 2011.
At 21, Handel decided to take himself to Italy to further his musical development. Always self-assured he seems to have had little difficulty in finding aristocratic patrons and establishing relationships with them which (most untypical of the times) found him more often at the top table than below stairs. We will listen to extended extracts from Handel's prolific Italian output (which includes the Dixit Dominus, his first oratorio La Resurrezzione, the operas Rodrigo and Agrippina and many delightul chamber cantatas) and examples of the competition (Scarlatti, Corelli etc.). We will take a close look at the development of opera and oratorio and at the city of Rome where Clement Xl was turning his attention to the restoration of some of the ancient Christian basilicas.
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Research
R1: Qualitative research for education, health and social science
Tutor: Helen Heath
Day and time: Wednesday 10.00-2.30
Dates: 10 August
Venue: Room 5
No. of places: 12
Qualitative research is used to study those aspects of human experience where the use of statistical analysis is not possible. The day will start with an overview of approaches used in the social sciences (quantitative, qualitative and post modern) and this will be followed by a detailed description of how researchers carry out qualitative research. The final section will present a detailed description of my research examining the process whereby a newly qualified nurse becomes a knowledgeable, competent member of the ward team.
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World
W1: You're never too old to volunteer abroad
Tutor: Alan Winfield
Date and times: Monday 22 August 11.00-12.30 and 2.00-3.00
Venue: Room 5
No. of places: 25
Alan will give an illustrated talk and lead a discussion about his recent experiences.
AM: Living and working with the Maasai tribe in Kenya
PM: Developing tourism in northern Albania
W2: East Asia
Tutor: Miles Dodd
Date and time: Wednesday 17 August 9.30-4.10
Venue: Room 5
No. of places: 25
Japan, China, Korea, and South-East Asia - Four photo lectures in a day.
9.30–10.50. 11.00–12.20. 1.20–2.40. 2.50–4.10.
W3: Two lectures
Tutor: Miles Dodd
Date and time: Friday 19 August 2.00-4.45
Venue: Room 5
No. of places: 25
1. A working 1961 voyage to Cuba and the South American west coast – a photo record.
2. How "containers" have revolutionised international cargo transportation
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U3AC hopes to be able to provide additional courses during Summer 2010. Further details of these will be published in the Weekly Bulletin.
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