SCANS
SENIORS' COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA
SENIORS' COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA
Continue your life-long learning by joining the Seniors’ College Association of Nova Scotia, a volunteer-based registered non-profit organization dedicated to providing affordable non-credit academic courses to seniors (age 50+) in Nova Scotia. Courses are for your learning enjoyment, without tests or assignments. Membership entitles you to enrol in any number of the courses offered per year. It also allows you to participate in further developing this dynamic learning organization. Classes are offered in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Chester, Liverpool, Mahone Bay, and Truro.
More about SCANS
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Message from the President of the seniors' college (April 28, 2021)
Dear Seniors’ College Members,
Just as we were all getting vaccinated, and hope was in the air, this happened! The main thing, of course, is that we all stay safe.
Three of our courses are being delivered remotely by our instructors from their homes, thereby requiring only one technical support person in our broadcast studio in Hope Church. These courses are :Mondays Class - Addiction, Mental Health and Suicide with Barbara Ross, Wednesday's Class - The Prescient Hannah Arendt with Daphna Levit, and Fridays Class - The Manhatten Project with Cameron Reed. All three courses will continue to be offered as scheduled.
However, two of our courses: Tuesdays Class - Ageing Well with Food and Nutrition with Sandi Berwick, and Thursdays Class - How To Talk Back To an Economist with Alex Roberts, are delivered from our broadcast studio. The instructors and technical support persons are together in the studio, and this poses a violation of the current COVID 19 lockdown restrictions announced last evening. Both Sandi and Alex have agreed to postpone their classes for the two weeks in which these sanctions have been imposed. Their courses thus will be extended until June 8 and June 10 respectively, assuming the current two week lockdown is lifted.
These are indeed uncertain times, and of course our plans have to be fluid as we adjust to the changing circumstances.
We thank you for your understanding and support. Stay safe and keep well.
Kind regards,
Lois Block
On behalf of the Seniors’ College Board of Directors
Just as we were all getting vaccinated, and hope was in the air, this happened! The main thing, of course, is that we all stay safe.
Three of our courses are being delivered remotely by our instructors from their homes, thereby requiring only one technical support person in our broadcast studio in Hope Church. These courses are :Mondays Class - Addiction, Mental Health and Suicide with Barbara Ross, Wednesday's Class - The Prescient Hannah Arendt with Daphna Levit, and Fridays Class - The Manhatten Project with Cameron Reed. All three courses will continue to be offered as scheduled.
However, two of our courses: Tuesdays Class - Ageing Well with Food and Nutrition with Sandi Berwick, and Thursdays Class - How To Talk Back To an Economist with Alex Roberts, are delivered from our broadcast studio. The instructors and technical support persons are together in the studio, and this poses a violation of the current COVID 19 lockdown restrictions announced last evening. Both Sandi and Alex have agreed to postpone their classes for the two weeks in which these sanctions have been imposed. Their courses thus will be extended until June 8 and June 10 respectively, assuming the current two week lockdown is lifted.
These are indeed uncertain times, and of course our plans have to be fluid as we adjust to the changing circumstances.
We thank you for your understanding and support. Stay safe and keep well.
Kind regards,
Lois Block
On behalf of the Seniors’ College Board of Directors
Message from the Chair of the Curriculum Committee (May 10, 2021)
Due to COVID restrictions in our studio, we have to cancel the remaining classes of "Aging Well with Food and Nutrition" with instructor Sandi Berwick (Tuesdays 10:00 am), and also "How to Talk Back to an Economist: Updated Pandemic Version" with instructor Alex Roberts (Thursdays 1:30 pm).
Anne Chisholm
Chair, Curriculum Committee.
Anne Chisholm
Chair, Curriculum Committee.
2021 Spring term
Program (via Zoom)
- Addiction, Mental Health & Suicide: The Question is Not Why the Addiction But Why the Pain - Barbara Ross
- Ageing Well with Food and Nutrition: Achieving a Sense of Well Being - Sandi Berwick (cancelled)
- The Prescient Hannah Arendt - Daphna Levit
- How to Talk Back to an Economist: Updated Pandemic Version - Alex Roberts (cancelled)
- The Manhattan Project: The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Cameron Reed
Free Public Lecture
June 3, 2021, 10:00 a m, via Zoom
Welcome Home: Newcomers to Nova Scotia
For many people, Nova Scotia is their new home. We’d like you to meet your new neighbours in this presentation by Nabiha Atallah. Nabiha will provide insight and information on how many newcomers are now living in Nova Scotia, where they are from, and the different routes they take to find their way here. She will discuss the challenges newcomers face and programs and services to help address these challenges, describe the volunteer opportunities available at the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS) and the ways we can all help newcomers feel at home.
For many people, Nova Scotia is their new home. We’d like you to meet your new neighbours in this presentation by Nabiha Atallah. Nabiha will provide insight and information on how many newcomers are now living in Nova Scotia, where they are from, and the different routes they take to find their way here. She will discuss the challenges newcomers face and programs and services to help address these challenges, describe the volunteer opportunities available at the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS) and the ways we can all help newcomers feel at home.
Nabiha Atallah (Photo - CBC)
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NABIHA ATALLAH is the Advisor on Strategic Initiatives at ISANS, a multi-service immigrant settlement agency in Atlantic Canada. She leads ISANS’s research strategy development and implementation and advises on policy development, sector best practices, institutional knowledge integration, and government relations. Nabiha is a member of several national immigration networks, including the Canadian Index for Measuring Integration, the Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition, and the National Immigrant Settlement Community of Practice, SettleNet.
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