Adult Education Classes Begin in Alpharetta and Roswell

This Fall

Seniors Enriched Living (SEL) is offering a variety of interesting classes on Tuesdays

and Thursdays, from September 24 through November 14!  SEL’s $50 quarterly

membership fee entitles all adults to enroll in eight weeks of courses.  Classes

will be held on Tuesdays at Roswell United Methodist Church’s Youth Building,

95 Pratt Street in Roswell and on Thursdays at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, 535 Rucker Road in

Alpharetta.

For over 20

years, the quality of instruction and group participation has made SEL an outstanding

intellectual and social experience.  Each

semester several hundred people interested in lifelong learning get together to

listen, to learn and to discuss.  Participants

call it “the best educational value around!”

Courses on Tuesdays, from 10 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., include

Shakespeare & Two King Lears, The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, the Scots

Irish in America, the Decline of the Middle Class, and A New World of Ideas:

The West from 1500-1900.

On Thursdays, from 10 a.m. to 2:15 p.m., SEL offers a

wide range of courses including Current Events, Art History, several aspects of

U.S. History including classes on our Presidents, the Senate, and the American

West, Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories, Theology including classes on the

Apostle Paul and on Islam, Memories & Eye Witness Accounts of the

Holocaust, and others on Health Issues, Henry VIII’s Wives and Digital

Photography.   Two hour classes include

Watercolor Painting and Advanced Beginner Bridge and afternoon Mah Jongg,

Multi-media art and Intermediate Bridge are additional

options.  Lunch on Thursdays is available

for $7.

Instructors volunteer their time; several have taught at local

colleges and in general have advanced degrees.

Full

course descriptions and registration forms are available at selroswell.org

or by calling (770) 587-3750.

A

non-profit interfaith community organization, SEL classes are the ideal place

for persons interested in discussing ideas, gaining knowledge and meeting new

friends.  SEL is

interdenominational; facilities are provided by local churches and temples.