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Winter 2020 Life Calendar COURSES & EVENTS LIFE INSTITUTE WINTER 2020 LEARN • SOCIALIZE • CONTRIBUTE Mission Vision Values MISSION Enable adults age 50+ to pursue their passion for life-long learning through a wide range of educational courses, activities and related opportunities to volunteer. VISION LIFE Institute, a leader in life-long learning, inspiring and fulfilling a community of adults 50+ through Continuing Education at Ryerson University. CORE VALUES Learning - LIFE believes learning is core to healthy ageing, and strive to include educational opportunities in all it does. Community – Create a convivial environment which supports learning, building relationships and enables everyone to contribute. Inclusion - Listen to each other, seek to understand and broaden LIFE’s viewpoint. LIFE welcomes people of all backgrounds and abilities. Integrity - Truthful and honest in all it does. When faced with difficult decisions and hard choices, LIFE does the right thing. LEARN • SOCIALIZE • CONTRIBUTE LIFE in in LIFE About Contents LIFE About “Learning is Forever” … LIFE! LIFE/acknowledgements /disability notice/dates to WINTER LIFE INSTITUTE is the largest program partner in Programs for remember ..................... 3 50+ in The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Ombuddy/20 min reminder 4 Ryerson University. LIFE offers lifelong learning programs to No scents policy ................ 4 adults 50+ who are retired or preparing for retirement. Members of LIFE can attend stimulating daytime classes and participate in Winter welcome/wait lists/ 2020 creative learning at Ryerson or at off-campus locations. All refunds/classroom times members have full access to Ryerson facilities—the library, and locations ............. 5-6 audiovisual materials, bookstore, cafeteria, the Image Arts Centre, LIFE Board members ........ 6 and the Ryerson Athletic Centre. Courses and activities LIFE INSTITUTE offers a wide variety of study groups and lecture by category ................ 7-8 courses in the arts, humanities, sciences, technology, and Accessibility at Ryerson .... 8 contemporary issues. Computer classes, theatre outings, and TAN ................................... 8 creative writing classes are just some of the many programs Course details .............. 9-31 offered in daytime classes throughout the Fall, Winter, Spring and Clubs .......................... 32-34 Summer semesters. Courses at a glance ........ 35 LIFE INSTITUTE is a non-profit organization managed by a board LIFE registration form ...... 36 of directors elected annually by members of LIFE. Members are LIFE additional info .... 37-38 encouraged to participate in the many facets of the board’s activities in furthering new concepts in lifelong learning programs. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Disability Notice Thanks to: If access to classes is difficult • Sharon Zeiler, Eva Bell, Lori Cornwall, Mark Fernley, Glenn due to a disability (mobility, Frost, Wendy Nurgitz, Simon Pearson, Dorothy Rubinoff, and hearing, vision, or other), Martha Wall who formed the core committee please advise your class host or the office at • Elaine Goldbach, Cherie Ferrari, and Marcel Deurvorst, who e: [email protected] provided invaluable help t: (416) 979-5000 • Rosanne Bernard, LIFE Institute, Program Manager Ext. 556989. • Mackenzie Deane, LIFE Institute, Office Assistant • Denise Smith, LIFE Institute, Manager Volunteer Services DATES to REMEMBER – Winter 2020 Session Monday, December 2, 2019 at 7 a.m. Registration commences Thursday, December 12 at 11:30 a.m. Winterfest, LIFE’s Annual Holiday Party Mid-Year Break; Ryerson University closes at Friday, December 20, 2019 – noon on Friday, December 20, 2019 and Monday, January 6, 2020 re-opens on Monday, January 6, 2020 Thursday, January 23 Winter Welcome Back Event Monday, February 17 Family Day; Ryerson University is closed Monday, March 30 Partners in Learning Event Friday, April 10 Good Friday; Ryerson University is closed www.thelifeinstitute.ca 3 (416) 979-5000 x556989 [email protected] 2020 NO SCENTS POLICY LEARN We are committed to WINTER ensuring the enjoyment of all in participants. SOCIALIZE In consideration of those in our classes LIFE CONTRIBUTE who may have allergies and chemical T S WHAT IS ABOUT I ’ LIFE sensitivities, please refrain from wearing cologne, perfume, Want more activities? Look on Pages 32 – 34 in this calendar and after-shave or other discover all the clubs that LIFE offers. scented products. Also, please view our WEBSITE’s ACTIVITIES page where CLUBS and other LIFE’s OMBUDDY will assist VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES are listed members who have special financial needs. If you are experiencing difficulties paying WEATHER ALERT your fees, or if you have any other If weather necessitates problems you wish to discuss cancellations, Ryerson confidentially, please contact your advises media of closures; Ombuddy, Jack Marmer call 416.979.5000 or [email protected] check the For all other enquiries, Chang School web page. call the office at (416) 979-5000, staff ext. 556989 Be aware Remember: As more and more of LIFE’s courses are You have 20 minutes being held off-campus, please consider between morning classes the possibility that and noon classes. You have 20 minutes between back-to-back classes noon classes and afternoon classes. Plan . may not be ideal for you accordingly! www.thelifeinstitute.ca 4 (416) 979-5000 Ext.556989 [email protected] LIFE in in LIFE Welcome to Winter 20 20 at LIFE Institute The calendar for Winter 2020 offers a varied register by mail, you will be notified by mail or selection of courses reflecting a range of styles email that your registration has been processed. WINTER and delivery. NOTE ON WAIT LISTS Membership and course registration Some courses are extremely popular and fill up • Both membership purchase and course very quickly. If you do not get in, you may remain 2020 registration can be done on-line (payment by on the wait list or choose a different course. credit card) at www.thelifeinstitute.ca. Mail-in registrations are also accepted (payment by BE CONSIDERATE individual cheques ONLY; no cash). We regret, As a courtesy to your fellow LIFE members, if you we do not accept walk-in registrations in the know that you are going to be away for several weeks prior to and during registration. classes, please do not register for the course. If • Only LIFE Institute members can enroll in you do register but find that you cannot attend, courses and activities (except as specified in please withdraw as soon as possible so the LIFE the calendar). Membership for the year ending office can add a member from the wait list. Your June 30, 2020 is $80 per person. cooperation is greatly appreciated. • Registration is required for all classes, walks, and events you wish to attend, even for those LIFE policy for refund of fees that are free, except as specially marked in the Refund of course fees, less a $20 administration calendar. charge, will be made upon written application received by The LIFE Institute no less than three • Registration process – please read: business days before: Registration commences Monday, December - the first session of a 1 - 4 week course 2, 2019. On-line registration will begin at 7 a.m. each day. You will enroll for your: - the second session of all courses 5 weeks or more • Monday courses on Monday, Dec. 2 • Tuesday courses on Tuesday, Dec. 3 • Wednesday courses on Wednesday, Dec. 4 Course materials, admission, or other unique • Thursday courses on Thursday, Dec. 5 and costs included in the fee may not be refundable. • Friday, Saturday and Sunday courses on Friday, December 6 If a course is cancelled, the entire fee is refundable, and the administration charge will not For those who wish to register by mail, please apply. submit separate cheques and course registration forms for each course so that the same process No refunds will be made for Theatre Alive, any can be observed. Important: The LIFE office does single-session course, or event. not open until 9 a.m.; consequently, your mailed- in form and cheque will not be processed until after the office opens on each day of registration. Refund of membership fees will be considered only upon written request and may be subject to Priority of registration: registrations are an administration charge. Please mail your processed as received, on a first received, first written withdrawal request to: processed basis. LIFE Institute The Chang School, Ryerson University confirmation is Confirmation of registration: 350 Victoria Street immediate when you register on-line. If you Toronto, ON M5B 2K3 or email it to: [email protected] www.thelifeinstitute.ca 5 (416) 979-5000 x556989 [email protected] 2020 Class times and dates BE AWARE Class times and dates are usually as shown in the calendar. Occasionally, due to circumstances beyond our control, class In the Winter, many of our classes are held off times and/or dates may be changed. Classes campus, due to the University’s space start and end on different dates; please read the constraints. LIFE strives to find offsite locations course descriptions carefully. in close proximity to the main campus, but there WINTER From time to time, due to unforeseen are occasions when the distance between ‘back- circumstances, a class (or classes) in a course in to-back’ classes is an issue. Please check the may have to be cancelled. Should this happen, location of your courses before you enroll so that your understanding will be very much you are prepared. appreciated. As more and more of LIFE’s courses are being LIFE held off-campus, please consider the possibility Classroom location that back-to-back classes may not be ideal for Some rooms for our LIFE courses will not be you. assigned until the week before classes start. As soon as they are available, the full list of rooms Please advise the LIFE office at (416) 979-5000, will be posted on the LIFE website ext. 556989 if you have difficulty with a class due (www.thelifeinstitute.ca), with notification sent by to a disability (mobility, hearing, vision, or other).
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