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UNDERSTANDING THE BRAIN 

This DVD-based course presents the background to the modern field of knowledge known as ‘neuroscience’. However, the course is presented entirely in non-technical language and does not rely on the audience having any training in scientific disciplines. Drawing on everyday experiences and popular books, as well as current research, the course ‘seeks to amaze and inform the learner about the remarkable structure that is the brain’.

 The course is presented in four parts: 

  1. Lectures 1-11: the central nervous system
  2. Lectures 12-19: the relation between brain and mind
  3. Lectures 20-29: the areas of the brain thought to be associated with specific human characteristics e.g. language
  4. Lectures 30-36: specific important topics about the brain such as sleep/dreaming and consciousness

The U3A course will present 2 lectures at each weekly screening. We are experimenting with a variation from previous courses of this nature and there will be discussion classes scheduled at intervals, in order to consolidate the various inputs. There will also be occasional breaks of a week to allow time for members to internalise and digest the input. As usual, copies of the text of each lecture will be made available.  

The course is presented by Dr. Jeannette Norden, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Professor of Neurosciences at Vanderbilt University in the USA. She has won various awards for teaching and was the first holder of the Chair of Teaching Excellence at Vanderbilt.  

Season tickets, valid for classes 2 - 15 are available for R120 (+/- R8 per class), or members may opt to attend single classes at R12 per class.  Non-members can attend single classes at R20.

There will be no charge for the first class so that members can decide whether they wish to attend the rest of the course.

POP(ULAR) MUSIC: 1939 T0 1980 

The aim of this course is to give members a pleasant reminder of the songs that were popular during six decades of the 20th century. As these were the decades of our youth and early adulthood, some nostalgia will be unavoidable. But a bit of history is thrown in, as well as some surprises about the origins of songs that later made it to the “hit parade”. 

Pop(ular) music is defined as music that had wide popular appeal the first time it was issued, measured in sales of sheet music, records, albums, tapes and CDs depending on the technology available at the time. Repeated exposures on radio and, in a few cases, television and film have also been taken into account. 

Each class will consist of:-a review of the key events of the decade being discussed and the relations of these to the type of music that was popular. Examples of this include songs associated with World War II in the 1940s and the Vietnam War in the 1960s

- a generous selection of the songs themselves, wherever possible as presented by their original artists. In some cases there are comments on the song itself before it is played. 

To give you a small preview, among the songs to be played during the first class (The 1930s) are: the original of “This Land is Your Land” by Woodie Guthrie; “On the Sunny Side of the Street” (the Carter Family); “Red Sails in the Sunset”; “Paper Doll (The Mills Brothers); “Jeepers Creepers”; and, of course Judy Garland and “Over the Rainbow”. 

Classes will be held on Tuesdays at 09h30 beginning on 5 August in the Stardust Venue.
 
 

 
Contacts: Avril and Reg Steenkamp 028 316 4103;  Cherry Mills 028 316 4333;  Günther Hackmann 028 313 3030; Harold Brassell 312 2433; Marge Campbell 028 316 1922; Max Leipold 028 312 4465; Peter Whyte 028 316 4538; Pieter and Pam Williams 028 312 4455; Robin Lee 028 312 4072; Ruel Heyns 028 314 1840; Verna Leighton 028 316 4177

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