PALS FALL 2024 CLASSES
Come To Our Enrichment Classes
PALS (Perimeter Adult Learning Services) is pleased to announce that it will be presenting classes for the Fall 2024 session running for 8 weeks on Mondays, September 9 – October 28. The classes will be at Dunwoody Baptist Church once again. A detailed description of the classes is as follows:
10:00 am – 11:00 am
THE HISTORY OF ROCK & ROLL –THE MUSIC OF THE MID-1960S — Tom Dell will continue his survey of the history of Rock & Roll, this time moving to the mid-1960s. He will delve into the music of The Temptations, Bob Dylan, Joe Tex, The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Junior Walker as well as other Motown artists.
THE IRRATIONAL AND MORE — Shai Robkin will explore many of the ideas featured in the first season of the NBC show “The Irrational” (available for free online). He will also examine some of the new and emerging research into the underlying forces, many unknown to our conscious minds, that drive individual and collective societal behaviors, focusing on the work of behavioral economists, social psychologists and neuroscientists. Where applicable, we’ll see what behavioral scientists have to say about some of the most important and often divisive issues of the day and their possible implications for public policy.
10:00 am – 1:45 pm Mah Jongg — Bring your own Mah Jongg card and come play. There is no instructor for the session – just fun and self-evaluation.
10:00 am – 1:45 pm OPEN CANASTA Bring you score sheet and come play. There is no instructor for the session – just fun and self-evaluation.
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
FROM BOOK TO SCREEN – Michelle Friedman will present Sir Kenneth Branagh’s take on classic novels through his award winning films. The discussion will include topics such as what keeps us coming back to certain iconic pieces of literature and does putting them on film preserve their essence or turn them into something else completely? Let’s see what the works of Mary Shelley, Agatha Christie and Shakespeare become when Branagh takes them on!
POLITICS 2024 – – Preeminent political science university professors and journalists will help us assess the upcoming November 2024 National and State elections. We will get bold predictions as well as how the media impacts the results. We will also assess the effects of the current political polarization on the future of US Democracy and how to deal with it as well as the role of minorities and women in the upcoming vote.