[CAH] Halifax Humanities 101 (Clemente)

[Darcy Harvey]

Hello Members,

The following announcement is organized outside of CAH. Please see the contact infomration provided below to have further questions  or enquireies addressed.


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FYI- Please forward to all who may be interested, especially potential
students. 

Halifax Humanities 101 (Clement)
"promoting Humanities education as the means of enriching the lives of
those living in material poverty"
Telephone: (902) 425-7589
E-mail: director at halifaxhumanities101.ca 
Website: www.halifaxhumanities101.ca 

Halifax Humanities 101 (Clemente) is entering its second year in
Halifax. The program is based on a hugely successful educational model
called the Clemente Course in the Humanities. Developed and first
delivered on the lower east side of Manhattan in 1995 by writer and
educator Earl Shorris, the Clemente Course in the Humanities is a proven
way to radicallly and successfully break the cycle of poverty through
education. This completely free course teaches reflection and critical
thinking, enabling the disadvantaged and disenfranchised to combat
isolation and profound loneliness, and to navigate their way through
poverty to actively participate in changing their lives. Students meet
at the North Branch library in Halifax (Gottingen St.) on Tuesdays and
Thursdays from 3:30 - 5:30 to interact with outstanding academic
lecturers from local universities and to discuss great works of art,
literature, history and film. As well, there are field trips to museums
and art galleries. Last year there were guest lectures from artist, Alex
Colville and author, George Eliot Clarke. We hope to have return visits
from those accomplished creators, as well as first time visits from
other authors, artists and filmakers. The lecturers teach and facilitate
discussion on a variety of texts from the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh
through works by Plato, Dante, Shakespeare and Jane Austen.The students
are asked to read from 5 to 20 pages of text for each class. A group of
last year's students were so moved by their experience that they
continued to meet over the summer to discuss Dante's Inferno. The target
population is people 17 years of age or older, living below the poverty
line, capable of reading an English language newspaper and willing to
attend classes twice a week. The students will be among those living on
social assistance, those living on disability benefits and the working
poor. Potential students are asked to fill out an application form,
available at the North Branch Libraries in both Halifax and Dartmouth,
as well as several other city libraries. Selected students are asked to
come in for a 45 minute interview that explains the course in more
detail, outlines the time committment required and ascertains the
transportation and childcare needs of the students.These needs will be
met with no charge to the student.
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