The Norton Institute for Continuing Education (NICE) announces its liberal arts offerings for the fall 2016 semester. The three following courses will be held at Wheaton (Norton, MA) College and the Edgewood Church of Christ in Mansfield, as indicated.. The courses are $40.00 each and require pre-registration.????
Fords, Flappers and Fitzgerald ?? ?? ?? ??five sessions????????????????????????
Wednesday mornings September 14, 21, 28, October 5, 26????????????10:00 – 11:45 am
Edgewood Church of Christ, Mansfield, MA
This course deals with the 1920’s: radios and phonographs, motion pictures,??the Charleston, women’s suffrage, the automobile, president Calvin Coolidge, etc. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby will be discussed and used as a reference for many of the points covered.??
Taught by Gary Hylander, Ph.D, Adjunct Professor of History and Education, Framingham State University and a program supervisor at Boston University.????
This is Your Brain on Drugs: An Introduction to Drugs and Behavior??
Tuesday afternoons, October 4 – November 8 ?? ?? Six Sessions ?? ?? 12:30 – 2:00 pm??????
Wheaton College????????
This course will examine how drugs affect our brains and our behavior. ??Are there drugs that are commonly prescribed as we age that often interact with over-the-counter medications in ways that affect our mood, memory and other cognitive skills? How can we make the most of the psychological benefits afforded by some drugs, and minimize the potential harm of others? ??A combination of lectures and demonstrations will be used in this course.
Taught by Kathleen Morgan, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Psychology ?? ??
Wheaton College??
Still Sweet and Lowdown: The Music of George Gershwin??
Section 1: Tuesday afternoons ?? ??10/11 – 11/15 ?? ?? ?? ??3:30 – 4:45 pm
Section 2: Thursday afternoons ?? 10/13 – 11/17 ?? 3:30 – 4;45 pm??
Sections are identical; each is six sessions????????????????????????????????????????????
Wheaton College
Composer George Gershwin is one of the most immediately recognizable figures in all of American music. His works include songs, musical comedies, film scores, piano concertos and his magnum opus, the folk opera Porgy and Bess. He synthesized jazz, classical music and the ethnic music he heard in his native New York City to create a sound that has become a quintessential part of our American musical voice. This course will examine how Gershwin created this unique memorable sound and how his musical legacy still shapes American music in our time.
Taught by Ann Sears, Professor of Music????????????????????????
Wheaton College??????????????
NICE, a non-profit affiliate of the Road Scholar Institute Network and a collaborative effort of Wheaton College and Wingate at Norton, provides non-credit nominally-priced college-level courses and free lectures for over-55-year-olds living primarily in the Norton, Attleboro, Mansfield, Sharon, Foxboro, Taunton, Stoughton, Easton, and Canton areas.
For complete details of the lecture and courses??plus other information, please consult the NICE web site at??www.nicecourse.org??or call Martin Aronson, NICE, at 781-784-8548.