PLATO Spring Course Preview

The PLATO Spring Preview will take place 1:30 - 3:15PM, Wednesday, February 18, at the Madison Senior Center, 330 W. Mifflin St.

This year, the Preview will have an open house format. Come any time between 1:30 and 3:15. As you enter the Senior Center, pick up an information folder, then freely move from table to table on the first floor to meet and talk to the course coordinators.
Each PLATO committee - Membership, Curriculum, Special Events, Communications, The PLATO Fund, and The Agora will also have an information table. We are always in need to new volunteers to keep PLATO activities going!

The UW Division of Continuing Studies will be there to help people interested in signing up for this year's MOOCs - online short-term courses.
Refreshments and seating will be available throughout the afternoon.

Twice during the afternoon a short question-and-answer session will be held on the second floor to help new and continuing members learn more about PLATO committees, issues, and future plans.
PLATO offers 39 courses during the Spring 2015 semester. New classes include Active Imagination: Art Explorations; Evolution and Creationism; Henry David Thoreau's Walden; Interactive Shakespeare; Make a Difference: Cultivating Peace in Chaotic Times; Memory, Object and Meaning; and Poetry of Rabbi Abraham Heschel. Continuing or repeated classes cover a wide variety of subjects such as personal finance, philosophy, literature and the arts, religion and spirituality, science and the environment, and history.
Most classes begin the week of February 22, and run for 10 weeks. There are exceptions, so please note the start and end dates in the course announcements.
Join with other active, curious seniors in learning new things and making new friends. PLATO classes are open to all PLATO members. If you are not yet a member and are interested in a course, you may attend one or two sessions on a trial basis before joining.
The PLATO Curriculum Committee is always interested in hearing about ideas for new courses, particularly from people who would be willing to coordinate or co-coordinate the course. Let Curriculum Committee Co-Chair Lauren Blough (laurenb1252@yahoo.com) know about your ideas.