W.E.A. LECTURES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 8

W.E.A. LECTURES.

CLASSES AND COURSES,

Plans for the coming session of the Workers' Educational Association are now complete. The position lias been relieved by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Two short courses of three lectures each will open on Tuesday and Thursday 01 next week. These are "Peace or War?' in which the speakers concerned will be Messrs. O. E. Burton, W. T. G. Airey, R A. K. Mason and Captain J. (j. O. Wales, and "The Future of the Maori," in which three aspects of the subject will be treated by Messrs. V. I'. i" islier, J. Rukutai and P. Smyth. . The classcs projicr will begin on April !). The classes on modern drama, international relations and natural history will be taken as last year by Mr. J. W. Shaw, the Kev. W. Cr. ]\louckton and j\lr. R. A. Falla respectively. The course on melody and harmony will be conducted by Mr. E. Valley Hudson. The Rev. _\V. Jellie will take as his subject ' lhe French Revolution in Contemporary Literature." while Mr. H. 0. Becrott, who has had a successful class in psychology for the past seven years, will deal with "The Dawn and Development of Philosophy." . Possibly the most interesting new departure will be a course on modern science and its application to human affairs. Tutors in this course will include lrofessor P. W. Burbidge, Professor J. A. Bartrum, Dr. R. A. Robinson, Dr. L- ii. Briggs and Mr. F. H. Sager, all of the science department, Auckland University College, and Mrs. H. D. Dickinson and Messrs. F. L. Armitage and Gilbert Archey. „e The valuable country work by means or box and correspondence courses will be continued, subjects available including "Appreciation of Music, Art and laterature," "18th Century Music, Art ana Literature," "Experimental Psychology, "Questions of the Day," "Western Civilisation—Part 1., An Historical Introduction," and part 11., "The Contemporary Scene," "Our Economic Discontents, "Capitalism and Its Alternatives." The economics class will be taken by Mr. H. D. Dickinson, M.A., of the start of Leeds University, who was tutor of a W.E.A. economies class in Yorkshire, who is on a year's exchange of duties with Mr. IT. R. Rodwell. The subject will be "The World's Economic Distress and Some Suggested Remedies."