Courses: Spring 2010
Life-long Learning - TALK provides those over 50
with creative and stimulating
educational activities.
- Campus Locations and Maps -
Kwantlen Polytechnic University has recently changed to Building Names (instead of letters) at Surrey Campus.
Both letters and names are referenced below.
Pictures of the buildings and information on the names can be found at the following link:
http://www.kwantlen.ca/about/campus_info/surrey_campus/buildingnames.html
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TALK SPECIAL LUNCH EVENT
Topic: Are All Religions Really the Same?
Speaker - Dr. David Atkinson, President and Vice Chancellor,
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Saturday, January 30, 2010, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Meet Kwantlen's President and Vice Chancellor
What better way to spend a winter afternoon?
Lunch - Sandwiches/ Cakes / Beverage
Kwantlen Surrey Campus, Cedar Building (formerly Building G)
Conference Room A & B
$10 Member - $15 Non Member
Please register by January 25
Hungary: The Landlocked Island
Sessions: 3
Date(s): Wed Jan 27, Feb 3, 10
Time: 2 – 4 pm
Course Fee: $22.50
Location: Richmond Campus, Room 2510
Facilitator: Jean Garnett, Tel: 604.277.1130
Please Register By: Wed Jan 20
Guest Speaker: Peter Henderson
Peter Henderson taught at Douglas College for 25 years, having been a founding member of the College Faculty. On leaving at mandatory retir
ement age, he taught Accounting (in English) every fall for eleven years at two institutions in Hungary, the College of Tourism and the University of Economic Sciences.
Peter Henderson worked in Budapest and acquired a knowledge and deep feeling for the country and its people. With maps, photos, facts and anecdotes, he will bring you to an understanding of Hungary’s colourful and turbulent history, the characteristics of its people, and the musical tradition, with recordings of Gypsy violinists and videos of colourful Hungarian operettas not performed outside of Hungary.
With a unique language and surrounded by seven different frontiers, over the past nearly five hundred years Hungary has been ruled successively by the Turks, the Austrians and the Russians, yet has maintained its cultural identity and is today truly independent. Hungarians’ influence on the world in the arts and sciences is far greater than their numbers warrant.
More Than Just Words: Oddities and Peculiarities of English
Sessions: 2
Date(s): Fri Feb 19 and 26
Time: 10 am – noon
Course Fee: $15.00
Location: Cloverdale Campus, Room 2115
Facilitator: Sandra Carpenter
Please Register By: Thu Feb 11
Guest Speaker: David Ingre
Long, long ago, in the spring of 2006, a group of knowledgeable and enthusiastic TALK participants met for three all-too-short sessions with Applied Communication Department Instructor David Ingre. Reports have it that they enjoyed A Little Bit of Language – How English Works and How It Doesn’t almost as much as he did. As TALK’s answer to Olympic fever in February of 2010 therefore, TALK is pleased to offer a kind of reprise.
Naturally enough, David is again hoping to spend time discussing interesting aspects of our language with people who speak it with pleasure, understand it with a tad of tolerance, write it with the respect of those who have read it at its most powerful, and enjoy it with the delight of an eager but skeptical student – which, of course, is how he sees himself.
Having learned from good experience, David is once more planning to let the contributions of the participants themselves influence the direction and even the specific content of the course. Nonetheless, he hopes to introduce topics ranging from the bow-wow theory to Canadianisms, from etymological triplets to euphemisms, from folk etymology to the meaning of Jabberwocky, and from e-mail to texting.
Please attend, and help this otherwise staid and stodgy School of Business instructor have a good time for two two-hour Friday sessions at least. (You’ll get to visit Kwantlen’s new Cloverdale Campus and you just might have fun, too.)
David Ingre has, for some 15 years now, been an Instructor in Kwantlen’s Applied Communications Department, where he teaches business, technical, and professional communications. In what he sometimes thinks of as “past lives” he made his living as a communications consultant – though he says he still doesn’t know what that means; he spent 14 years in a variety of positions with the Federal Government in Ottawa -- and survived; and he taught English as a second language in Barcelona while Spain was just beginning to come out from under Franco’s rule. He has also authored/co-authored business communications textbooks, but will not be selling books or CDs at the TALK sessions. With an academic background in diachronic Romance linguistics, a term he’s still struggling to understand, and though (still, he hopes) fluent in French and Spanish, he remains keen on improving his English, which he has spoken all his life, and on talking about the language with those who share his sense of wonder and frustration with it.
Religions of the World, Part 1
Sessions: 4
Date(s): Tue Mar 2, 9, 16 and 23
Time: 12 noon to 2 pm (time change from published brochure)
Course Fee: $30.00
Location: Surrey, D2424, Fir Building (formerly Building D)
Facilitator: Joanne Cunningham, Tel: 604.541.2432
Please Register By: Tue Feb 23
Guest Speaker: Mr. Sid Bentley
TALK is very pleased once again to offer Mr. Bentley’s excellent course on religions of the world. Many members have repeated the course and have gained an increased understanding of the faiths of the world. For new m
embers this course is a very good introduction to the subject. Mr. Bentley is a well-known teacher of religion and is the author of a book entitled The Religion of our Neighbours.
Tue Mar 2 Introduction to Religion
Tue Mar 9 Hinduism
Tue Mar 16 Buddhism
Tue Mar 23 Sikhism
Mr. Bentley will have handouts available at each session which will provide information on the following week’s lecture. There will be a small charge for these notes.
Part 2 of this course continues on Tue March 30.
Following the conclusion of Part 2 of the course, Mr. Bentley will conduct a tour of various houses of worship. TALK will contract a bus for the tour, and the cost will be announced at the first session of Part 2. The tentative date for this excursion is Tue April 27.
Literary Lunches: Meet the Author - NEW -
Cooperative Venture between TALK and White Rock Leisure Services
Sessions: 4
Date(s): Wed Mar 3, 10, 17 and 24
Time: 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Course Fee: $35
Location: White Rock Community Centre, Miramar Village, 15154 Russell Ave
Facilitator: Joanne Cunningham, Tel: 604.541.2432
Please Register By: Wed Feb 24
A philosopher, a sailor turned ambassador, a children’s author, and a poet. Four respected authors are coming to share their creative process and answer your questions. The format will be a short talk by the author followed by questions from the audience. Bring your brown bag lunch. Beverages will be available at cost.
Wed Mar 3 Dr. Ross Laird
Genre: Creativity and Spirituality
Dr. Laird is an interdisciplinary scholar, consultant, teacher, creative artist, and best-selling author. His first book was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and the BC Book Prize and voted one of the 100 most important books for 2001 by the Globe and Mail. He was also the recipient of the 1997 Cecilia B. Lamont Poetry prize. Dr. Laird is a professor of Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts and Creative Writing at Kwantlen.
Wed Mar 10 Jan Drabek
Genre: Fiction, Memoir and Journalism
Author of four novels and numerous publications, this former president of the Federation of BC Writers has been a sailor, editor, settlement officer, broadcaster, travel clerk, student and teacher. In the 1990’s he was the Czech Ambassador to Kenya and then to Albania. He is currently focusing on his memoirs.
Wed Mar 17 Sue Ann Alderson
Genre: Children’s Literature
Author of many children’s books, Ms. Alderson is most widely known for her successful Bonnie McSmithers series. She has taught at SFU, Capilano College and was the initiator and sole instructor for UBC’s Writing for Children program. Awards include the ASPCA Henry Begh Children’s book award for Best Young Adult Book in 2008.
Wed Mar 24 Heidi Greco (Please note that this is a change from the published brochure.)
Genre: Poetry
Poet Heidi Greco is a longtime resident of White Rock and South Surrey. Her work has been published in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Besides having poems in many anthologies (A Verse Map of Vancouver, Study in Grey, radiant danse uv being and others), collections of her poetry include Siren Tattoo, Rattlesnake Plantain and most recently, A: The Amelia Poems, a chapbook of speculative pieces about the lost flier, Amelia Earhart. Ms. Greco's book reviews, essays, poetry and fiction can be found online, in magazines and newspapers.
Authors may bring books for sale if you would like to have a copy of their work.
Directions to White Rock Leisure Center:
From Highway 99 take 152 Street Exit south. Travel south on 152 Street to one block past 16th Avenue. Turn right at Russell Avenue. The White Rock Community Centre is on the main floor of the Miramar Village (second high-rise apartment). There is parking for 40 reserved for the Leisure Centre in the underground parking. If full, there is street parking and parking in the large parking lot off Foster Street. (Just north of Russell.)
Would you like more information on our authors?
Try: www.abcbookworld.com
and http://bcwriters.com
Great Houses of Britain, Part 2
Sessions: 4
Date(s): Postponed to Fall 2010
Time: noon – 2 pm
Course Fee: $30
Location: Richmond Campus, Room 1380
Facilitator: Nancy Ng, Tel: 604.273.8702
Please Register By: Guest Speaker: Deirdre Plomer, MA (Art History)
The English Country House is a unique experience. There are wonderful houses in other countries, but in England, and the rest of Britain, the number, the variety and the survivors is the greatest. These four sessions will give an understanding of four microcosms of the history of Britain in architecture and art, and at times in politics and personalities.
The size and style of these houses (and they are always called ‘houses’) varies greatly, but they do have a number of common elements: each is very much a part of its landscape, each is a result of social, political and economic change, and each is a work of art created by individuals with different personalities and finances. The main provocation for building these houses as such show places has been the rivalry, pride, acquisitiveness and inquisitiveness of the various owners.
Apparently, intense curiosity is a characteristic of the British, and that has made country house visiting something of a national pastime for hundreds of years. Many of these houses have been open to the public since the day they were built. To gain entry, however, it was necessary to be well dressed. We will join these tour(ist)s in four important houses, by looking at a comprehensive collection of slides of the architecture, the interiors, the furnishings, the art and, where possible, the gardens.
Mar 5 Brighton Pavilion
This was one of George the IV’s fantasies, created while he was still Prince of Wales. He had a sophisticated and well developed appreciation of the arts, but he was also proud, willful and extravagant. Both the government and the Prince’s father, King George the III, were annoyed with the outrageous cost of the Prince’s lifestyle. So the Prince decided Brighton would give him a place to hold court well away from his father’s staid court in London. In the Pavilion’s final remodeling of 1815, it became a 19th century English interpretation of a blend of Islamic and Hindu architectural elements. Quite an evolution from the original farmhouse!
Mar 12 Harewood House
This important house is in Yorkshire, and is the home of the Earl and Countess of Harewood, whose family name is Lascelles. His father having made a lot of money in Barbados’ sugar, Edwin Lascelles commissioned the architect John Carr to build this magnificent home in 1759. Adding to the significance of this house are the interiors by Robert Adam and the furniture by Thomas Chippendale. The exterior was altered mid 19th century to give it even more presence. Unfortunately, the interiors were also altered to the Victorian sense of modernity and comfort, but fortunately the late 20th century has seen these rooms returned to their original grandeur.
Mar 19 Holkham Hall
Holkham Hall was begun in 1734 by Thomas Coke, later 1st Earl of Leicester. It was built as a grand “temple to the arts” to display the enormous number of antiquities and arts Coke had acquired on his extensive “Grand Tour” of Europe. Both Coke and his architect, William Kent, were enthusiastic admirers of ancient Rome, therefore the building’s design is based on Andrea Palladio’s interpretations of this tradition. The yellow stone walls and Corinthian portico create an imposing exterior. Thomas Coke died before the work was completed. He left his descendants a magnificent house, specific instructions for placing the great art collection, and a huge amount of debt.
Mar 26 Ham House
Ham House, Surrey, was first built in 1610, during the reign of James the 1st. By 1626, the house belonged to William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysart, who altered the house considerably in the late 1630s. Murray, however, was a Royalist, and had to leave England during the Civil War. Unusually, on Murray’s death his title and property passed to his eldest daughter, Elizabeth. Her story makes this important house even more intriguing: Elizabeth was described as “a woman of beauty,” widely read and articulate, but “restless in her ambition, profuse in her expense, and of a most ravenous covetousness.”
Guiding Your Grandchildren in Smart Money Management
Sessions: 2
Date(s): Mon Mar 22 and 29
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Course Fee: $l5.00
Location: Surrey Campus, Room G2065, Cedar Building (formerly Building G)
Facilitator: Phillip Warren, Tel: 604.946.4919
Please Register By: Mon Mar 15
Guest Speaker: Sheila Whitehead, MBA
Prior to joining RBC Dominion Securities as an Investment Advisor, Sheila taught business courses at Kwantlen University. Sheila has a passion for helping investors understand how to build and protect their wealth. Her educational background includes a Masters degree in Business Administration from UBC and ongoing professional development in the areas of financial, estate and tax planning.
Some of the best gifts you can give your grandchildren are the tools they need to be effective money managers. Learn how you can prepare them today so that they can prosper tomorrow.
Mon Mar 22
- The investment industry – the pros and cons of working with a broker, planner, banker or doing it yourself
- Investments – stocks, bonds, mutual funds, GICs – what to recommend to your grandchildren and why
- Return vs risk – understanding what can make or break portfolios
- Building a suitable portfolio for your grandchildren
- Library Lab – where you will have an opportunity to build a small portfolio
Mon Mar 29
- Savings strategies for your grandchildren
- How investments are taxed
- Steps required to get started
- Library Lab to review portfolio results
Religions of the World, Part 2
Sessions: 4
Date(s): Tue Mar 30, Apr 6, 13 and 20
Time: 10 am – noon
Course Fee: $30.00
Location: Surrey Campus, Room, Room D2422, Fir Building (formerly Building D)
Please Register By: Tue Mar 23
Guest Speaker: Mr. Sid Bentley
Tue Mar 30 Judaism
Tue Apr 6 Christianity
Tue Apr 13 Islam
Tue Apr 20 The Zoroastrian, Unitarian and Baha’i Faiths. A short lecture on meditation.
Sessions: 2 in one day
Date(s): Wed Mar 31
Time: 10 am – noon and 2 – 4 pm
Course Fee: $15.00
Location: Surrey Campus, Fir Building (formerly Building D), 10 am - noon, Room D118, 2 - 4 pm, Room D232 (Please note times and room numbers)
Facilitator: Trevor Phillips, Tel: 604.536.1627
Please Register By: Wed Mar 24 -
Guest Speaker: Professor Sabine Stratton
Professor Stratton received two undergraduate degrees and her Master of Arts from the University of Alberta. The degree in zoology led to an interest in skeletal biology and a degree in biological anthropology established an enthusiasm for the study of human biology. While serving on the medical examiner’s human identification team investigating the 1986 Hinton Via Rail collision, a fascination for human individualization crystallized. Research since that time has focused upon human skeletal anomalies, ante- and post-mortem x-ray comparison, video superimposition, and public perceptions toward autopsy.
She has most recently worked as a civilian contractor for the Missing Women Task Force of the R.C.M.P. on the Robert Pickton serial murder case. Currently Professor Stratton is a faculty member at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, teaching forensic and biological anthropology. She is a member of the following organizations: American Academy of Forensic Sciences, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, the Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, and The Paleopathology Association.
Please Note: You will need to pay for a full day of Parking, not just 4 hours.
Morning Lecture
Forensic anthropology is a sub-field of anthropology whose practitioners are specialists in the identification of human bones. Their knowledge of human individuality allows the application of that knowledge to human identification problems in the medico-legal context. They contribute to police and coroner investigations by assisting in determining identity and providing opinions on the cause and manner of death. This presentation will describe the role of the forensic anthropologist in human death investigations.
Afternoon Lab – Bone Detective Activity
This lab will follow the lecture on the role of the forensic anthropologist in human death investigations. It will be a hands-on demonstration of the methods used to analyze a human skeleton. Participants will be able to study and apply the factors that are used to determine basic information about a skeleton. Examples of the analysis they will make for themselves are sex determination and stature (height) calculations.
Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology
Sessions: 1
Date(s): Wed Apr 7
Time: 10 am – noon
Course Fee: $7.50
Location: Surrey Campus, Room D118, Fir Building (formerly Building D)
Facilitator: Trevor Phillips, Tel: 604.536.1627
Please Register By: Wed Mar 31
Guest Speaker: Professor Sabine Stratton
This presentation follows the basic forensic anthropology lecture and lab activity of March 31, and it will be assumed the attendees have a basic understanding of this topic area. It will explore case studies in forensic anthropology and related subjects such as forensic archaeology (burial environments) and taphonomy (what happens to a body after it dies). Case study examples will delve into Canadian historical and modern case examples. In addition, we will examine the role of forensic anthropology in addressing international human rights abuses.
Sessions: 2
Date(s): Mon Apr 12 and 19
Time: 2 - 4 pm (time change from published brochure)
Course Fee: $15
Location: Richmond Campus, Room 2500
Facilitator: Jean Prescott
Please Register By: Tue Apr 6
Guest Speaker: Arzeena Hamir
Arzeena Hamir is an agronomist, living and working in Vancouver, BC. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture from the University of Guelph, Ontario, and a Master's Degree in Sustainable Agriculture from the University of London, England. 's love of growing food and teaching others how to do it has taken her around the world. She lived in Thailand for 21/2 years working with CUSO and teaching farmers how to grow organically. She also lived in India for 1 year learning traditional techniques of food production.Arzeena worked with Territorial Seeds Canada (now West Coast Seeds) where she helped develop a Demonstration Garden and Trial Ground site.Currently, she is Food Security Coordinator for Richmond and also works with the Richmond Fruit Tree Sharing Project.Her group has helped create a community garden at Garrett Wellness Centre, South Arm Community Centre and at two Metro Vancouver Housing sites in Richmond.She is a frequent speaker at community and business organizations, environmental conferences, and on CBC's BC Almanac.
Mon Apr 12 How food secure are you?
Have you lived through food rationing? Have you considered what food rationing would be like? Could this really be in our future in the Lower Mainland?
Arzeena will help us look at how food secure each of us might be as we progress into the next decade and beyond living in an urban area. She will help us look at our food preferences and buying habits with an eye to nutrition, social and environmental impact. "Eating is a political act." Do you agree? As individuals and families how can we prepare for the future? What will be our sources of food, especially protein, if and when food importing becomes economically unsustainable? How can we better use food waste and why is this important?
Arzeena will help us make connections between our food choices and what is going on in our community, our country and the world at large.
Mon Apr 19 How food secure is our urban area of the Lower Mainland?
Now that we have looked at our own eating, buying and growing habits, let’s look at those of our own community. Can our region feed itself? If not, where will our food come from if the price of oil continues to increase and areas like California continue to dry up? What will the future hold for our community if we continue as we are? Arzeena will describe what is being done in Richmond, Surrey and Vancouver to prepare for greater food security for all.
Arzeena will also provide suggestions of how we can take part in creating a more sustainable food system within our own individual time and space limitations.
The Trouble with (Northern) Ireland
Sessions: 2
Date(s): Fri Apr 16 and 23
Time: Noon - 2:00 pm
Course Fee: $15.00
Location: Surrey Campus, Room D118, Fir Building (formerly Building D)
Facilitator: Joanne Cunningham, Tel: 604.541.2432
Please Register By: Thu Apr 8
Guest Speaker: Peter Henderson
The popular romanticized view of Ireland ranging from the “Land of Saints and Scholars,” to the drinking of green beer on St. Patrick’s Day, often obscures its turbulent history, not only in connection with England, but also within the island itself. There are fundamental divisions, not only political and religious, but also of that influence of which it is not currently politically correct to speak, that of race. In Ireland there are not only the truly Irish, Celtic like their cousins in Scotland and Wales, but also the Scotch-Irish in the north-east corner of the island.
Peter Henderson’s heritage comes from that disputed corner, being a product of a mixed Catholic/Protestant marriage, whose upbringing took place largely in England.
The Northern Irish have left their mark in many places outside Ireland, notably in the days when the Orange Protestants held sway in Toronto, just as Woodrow Wilson was President of the United States. Bill Clinton’s ancestry was much the same.
The course will survey Ireland’s beginnings, history and character which, unlike England, were free from the influence of the Roman Empire and the Norman French. It will also examine the “Plantation” of the province of Ulster by English and Scots settlers, resulting in that nation whose passports today proclaim citizenship of the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.” The extent to which the violence endemic since the mid 1960’s has been brought to an end is still under question, and the course will examine the prospects of the current settlement.
Peter Henderson taught at Douglas College for 25 years, having been a founding member of the College Faculty. On leaving at mandatory retirement age, he taught Accounting (in English) every fall for years at two institutions in Hungary, the College of Tourism and the University of Economic Sciences.
Sessions: 2
Date(s): Wed Apr 21 and 28
Time: Noon – 2 pm
Course Fee: $15.00
Location: Richmond Campus, Room 2500
Facilitator: Jean Garnett, Tel. 604.277.1130
Please Register By: Wed Apr 14
Guest Speaker: Robin Clark, BScF, RPF, President, Robin B. Clark Inc.
Robin is a Registered Professional Forester in BC and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry from the University of Alberta. He has worked in the BC forest industry for 40 years and has been the President of his own natural resources company for the past 15 years. He provides expertise in forest sector capacity building, forest stewardship, sustainable resource management planning, strategic planning and economic analysis. He has extensive curriculum writing, teaching, training, and tour leading experience with a wide variety of audiences. Robin has written and taught courses on boreal and temperate forest ecosystems, taught Aboriginal land stewardship and forest management, and has co-led forestry tours to New Zealand, Sweden and Finland.
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Canada has 10% of the world’s forests; BC has a large portion of those and the most diverse forests in all of Canada
- BC has the only temperate forests in Canada, which are home to more endangered species habitats than all the rest of Canada
- BC has 14 million hectares of forests killed by mountain pine beetle and, over the next 50 years, those dying forests are a major contribution to greenhouse gas emissions
- Forest fires destroy thousands of hectares each year and the frequency and intensity of fires has increased dramatically in the past two decades
- With 80% of all BC lumber being exported for US house building, the recent lack of housing starts and rising Canadian dollar has created closures of many BC sawmills and caused major disruption in forest dependent communities
With a background in high profile issues, how is BC doing compared to jurisdictions in other countries? Robin has visited forestry operations in Sweden, Finland, New Zealand, Chile and Australia. Photos from BC and other countries will be presented along with the talk.
Bard on the Beach
Sessions: 1
Date(s): Mon Apr 26
Time: 10 a.m. – 12 noon
Course Fee: $7.50
Location: Surrey Campus, Room D118, Fir Building (formerly Building D)
Facilitator: Elizabeth Bordeaux. Tel: 604-538-1477
Please register By: Mon Apr 19
Our speaker for this year’s Bard-on-the-Beach workshop will be Scott Bellis, director of Anthony and Cleopatra. Scott will give us some academic background, insights into Shakespeare’s writing, and production details about this play and Much Ado about Nothing. TALK members have found that our annual workshops greatly enhance enjoyment of the plays themselves.
At the lecture, TALK members may sign up for themselves, families and friends to attend one or both of these plays at the Bard group rate. Production dates (both matinees) and cost will be announced at the class. Two seats per person will be reserved for anyone with disabilities, including hearing impairment.
For more information on Bard on the Beach,
visit their website at http://www.bardonthebeach.org
Our Changing Biodiversity: Giant Salamanders and Japanese Knotweed
Sessions: 2
Date(s): Tue May 4 and 11
Time: 10 am – noon
Course Fee: $15.00
Location: Richmond Campus, Room 1820, and Terra Nova Rural Park
Facilitator: Margaret Edmonds, Tel: 604.272.8100
Please Register By: Tue Apr 27
Guest Speaker: Dr. Hugh Griffith
Dr. Hugh Griffith is a biologist and science writer and former instructor at the University of Toronto and the University of California.
Tue May 4 Wildlife Talk
The flora and fauna of southern British Columbia have changed greatly over the past century, and continue to change.species have disappeared.have become threatened or endangered.others not found in our province until recent decades now thrive, in places overrunning native ecosystems.talk will discuss changes in the wildlife of the most populated areas of our province, their causes, and current measures to protect endangered species and control those new arrivals which are becoming problematic.
Tue May 11 Wildlife Walk
A second, outdoor session will entail a two-hour walk at Terra Nova Rural Park, the best place in Richmond to view wildlife.-watching will be a focus, but we will revel in whatever nature reveals, which can be anything from voles to coyotes.will meet at 9:45 am in the parking lot at the west end of River Road.north on No. 1 Road and turn left at River Road.Follow River Road as it climbs up onto the dike and continue to the parking lot at the end.
Space is limited. Please register early.
Sessions: 2
Date(s): Wed May 5 and 12
Time: 10:00 am – noon
Course Fee: $15.00
Location: Surrey Campus, Room G1040, Cedar Building (formerly Building G)
Facilitator: Sandra Carpenter
Please Register By: Wed Apr 28
Guest Speaker: Allison Richardson, Librarian
Maximum participants: 35
Allison Richardson is a Public Services and Electronic Resources librarian at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. She regularly teaches classes on online search skills and Internet resources.
The Internet provides many ways to share information with your friends, family, and the world! Discover the possibilities of blogging and explore the social networking sites Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about the potential privacy and security dangers of sharing information online. Introductory level, basic computer skills required.
Wed May 5 Facebook and Privacy/Security Dangers
Wed May 12 Blogging and Twitter
The Lower Mainland: A Geological Work in Progress
Sessions: 2
Date(s): Thu May 6 and 13
Time: 10:00 am – noon
Course Fee: $15.00
Location: Richmond Campus, Room 1840
Facilitator: Priscilla Bollo
Please Register By: Thu Apr 29
Guest Speaker: Peter Robbins
Our very popular science presenter, Peter Robbins, returns to show us how interesting the geological surroundings we live in are. First, he will fill us in on the academic background, and then follow up with a field trip starring the stones of the lower mainland, Vancouver style.
Peter Robbins’ geological qualifications include a B.Sc. in geology from UBC and several seasons of field work in BC and the Yukon. He has traveled on five continents and to several oceanic islands picking up rocks. Perhaps you could slip a rock or two in your pocket to bring along to share. Bring your backpacks to fill up with interesting urban pebbles you encounter which Peter may be able to identify for you.
Thu May 6
BC’s Lower Mainland is an active geological boundary zone. Using maps and audio-visual aids, we will overview the geography around us. Some websites display earthquake activity.
Thu May 13
Rain or shine, a field trip to Vancouver! The building stones of downtown Vancouver from the 1900s to the present and what they tell us about geology and the economics of the times. Participants will travel via the new Canada Line from Richmond; they can park either at the River Rock Casino lot (not expensive) or take a bus or Canada Line to the station. The meeting place is the northbound platform of the Bridgeport Station, Canada Line.
Peter will prepare participants to notice on the ride the transition from the flat, Fraser River delta sediments to the gradually sloping glacial material, and then the older sedimentary rock under Vancouver. The walk will start at the Sinclair Centre and continue generally east and south, finishing near the Library. The total time of the trip will be about 90 minutes for the walk plus about half an hour for the Canada Line ride. Add another 30 minutes for delays or participants’ questions.
After the class, participants may wish to join each other for lunch.
If you have any questions regarding the programs, please contact
Jean Garnett, Program Chair
Tel: 604.277.1130
