W.E.A. Spring Courses

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32359, 27 July 1970, Page 7

W.E.A. Spring Courses

The Workers’ Educational Association’s spring programme, covering the next three months, will include further courses in liter- ( ture, creative expression, • science, education, and I environmental studies. Classes on recent American 1 novels, the work of Bartoki as a composer, the great silent film comedians, such as I Chaplin, Keaton, and the Key- i

~ stone Kops, and photography, , will begin early in August. A ' chamber orchestra course for those with a limited experiilenee of string and woodwind , playing will follow, and a course called “Sound And ! Sense,” relating literature to music, will be held in September. A morning class in i creative drama and selfj expression, as well as a , I course in creative writing, .' will also begin in September. , Among the environmental ■ I studies are lectures in “Moral .' and Social Issues in Science i Today," beginning late in 'August. Six lectures on such problems as traffic, noise, city waste and air pollution will be introduced by a panel discussion which will include the Minister of Education and i Science (Mr Taiboys), and working scientists. Another ' symposium of 10 lectures will : ; deal with the place of “Art In ; Our Environment"—covering architecture, sculpture, paint-■ i ing, town design, and weav-' i ing—in a number of different ‘ i situations. I; A third course of eight i ’I meetings will be on “The Disturbed Community” and will treat such topics as child adolescence, delini quency, the family structure, | and marriage. A fourth I course, “TJue Rational Use .Of Our Natural Resources" will examine the exploiting and ' conserving of New Zealand’s II natural heritage. i; Prominent scientists from lithe university and Lincoln ’ College will discuss the problems of managing the environment, pollution, landscape design, cities, and the 'relation of man to his environment. Other topics are national

parks and reserves, the high country, minerals development, water reserves, and an analysis of the Comalco agreement. The course will also include two panel discussions.

Science courses will include introductory studies of the geology of Canterbury, and astronomy. These will begin early in September. A course in astro-navigation for members of previous courses in safe boating will also begin in September. International Education Year will be marked by a public lecture in August on “the strengths and weaknesses of New Zealand education,’; by Mr W. J. Scott, of Wellington, a former principal of Wellington Teachers’ College. Shortly after there 'will be a study-discussion course on education in New Zealand for the seventies:) reading and fact-finding marks! (this course.

In September and October a two-year programme of istudies in industrial relations will begin. Two schools, directed by Mr F. J. L. Young (director-designate of the Victoria University Industrial Relations Centre), and Mr N. S. Woods (formerly Secretary of Labour) will be held in October. These Will be introduced with a public lecture by Professor F. W. Holmes, of Wellington, chairman of the Monetary and Economic Council on “Problem areas in the New Zealand Economy.” • Other courses include a Saturday morning class in Mandarin Chinese for beginners, a short practical class on effective study, eight lec-

tures on the settlement of Canterbury by working historians, maps and mapping, and how to use a library. All courses are now open for enrolment, and several of them now require preliminary enrolments before the first meeting.