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Senior Academy at USF Sarasota-Manatee adds six new courses for Spring 2006; registration period now open 

(Sarasota, FL, February 20, 2006) -- Twenty-seven courses for the upcoming Spring 2006 session are now open for registration at the USF Sarasota-Manatee Senior Academy. Six of those courses are new additions to the program. 

The Spring 2006 session starts March 6 and ends April 27. Space is limited, so early registrations are preferred. 

New courses for the Spring 2006 session include:

·        Contemporary American Ethnic Literature

·        Daily Life in Dictatorships

·        Emotional and Mental Illness

·        Images of Florida

·        Natural Pharmacy

·        Hitler and Stalin   

“The new courses in our upcoming spring session are wonderfully unique additions to our previous slate of subjects,” said Jerry Meketon, Executive Director of The Senior Academy. “I’m constantly amazed by the wealth of knowledge and experience shared among our members and instructors – all of whom have remarkably extensive backgrounds and extremely interesting life stories.”

 USF Sarasota-Manatee’s Senior Academy is a continuing education program for mature adults.  It is administered in a collegial environment "by the members for the members" under the auspices of the university’s Office of Academic Affairs.  

Senior Academy courses are non-credit. It is affiliated with the Elderhostel Institute Network, a voluntary association of Lifelong Learning Institutes. Most classes are held at the Sudakoff Center on the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus, located at 5700 North Tamiami Trail in north Sarasota County. 

Classes are held once a week for 90 minutes between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday. The cost is $75 for the first course and $50 for the second course.  Call 941-359-4296 to request a catalog. The complete course descriptions and enrollment forms are also located on the web at www.sarasota.usf.edu/senioracademy.