0 0" 0 I General Information Ann Arbor Learning Network 617 E. Universit y #260 Ann Arbor Michigan 48104 31$/996-9 67 Director: Paul Samarco Program Secretary: Virginia Hellner Catalog Art: Glenda Haut, Ann Arbor News Layout & color design: Susan Tanner, Ann Arbor News Typesetter: Judith Holly, Ann Arbor News The Ann Arbor Learning Network (AALN) is a private community educational program. This program was formerly administered by the University of Michigan as the U-M Courses for Adult Education (UMCAE). The main purpose of the Learning Network is to administer a program of learning activities designed to help local individuals, groups, and organizations to actualize their positive potential. By sponsoring or co- sponsoring a year-round series of classes, workshops, films and lectures, the Learning Network endeavors to provide opportunities for persons to gather together and obtain the knowledge, skills, and guidance necessary for growth and development in the direction of their choice. COURSES in this catalog are planned and administered by the Ann Arbor Learning Network. ADMISSION4s open to all. Prerequisites, if any, are stated in the course descriptions. COURSE FEES are the sole source of support for this program. They are payable in full at the time of registration. A registration fee of $4.00 is charged to each person once each term (not once for each course). TEXTBOOKS AND SUPPLIES are required for some courses and recommended for others. Specific instructions about materials or books will be given either at the time of registration or at the first class session, whichever is appropriate. REDUCED FEES: When specifically indicated in the course description, individuals may be admitted atone half the full tuition if (1) they are over 65 or (2) they are second or additional members of a family unit registering in the same course. Only one reduced fee plan may be applied per course. Each individual must pay a $4.00 registration fee. SCHEDULE CHANGES or postponement of classes is sometimes unavoidable. In such cases every attempt is made to notify you by telephone or letter. If in doubt about your class schedule, inquire at the AALN office. NO GRADES are given for these courses. A letter, however, verifying your enrollment in a course will be issued if requested before the end of that course. REFUNDS: After the first session, the full course fee is refunded if your notification of withdrawal reaches us before the start of the second session. After the second session, 50% of the course fee is refunded if your. notification of withdrawal reaches us before the start of the third session. There are no refunds given after the start of the third session of any class. AALN does not refund: (1) the $4.00 registration fee in withdrawal cases, (2) course fees for withdrawals from single session or weekend programs when notification of withdrawal reaches us less than 72 hours prior to the beginning session, (3) course fees for withdrawls from programs that last three sessions or less after they are half over, or (4) sums of less than $2.00. Processing of refunds takes approximately six weeks. CANCELLATION: If enrollment is insufficient to justify continuing a course, a full refund of course fee and registration fee is made. The Beginning Investor: Strategies for the 80's This "how to" course communicates strategies for individuals who have already determined the amount of discretionary dollars they have to invest. Learn how to structure your portfolio across foundation assets, how to move into fixed and variable assets, and even how to position yourself for speculation. Includes techniques for researching investments: reading the financial page, prospectuses and memoranda, market letters, and so on. 1907.2 sessions. $24. Reduced fees apply. (Campus Area) W 7-9 p.m. (May 2-9). Instructors: G. Phil Zepeda, M.A., C.L.U., Ch. F.C. and John R. Gill, M.A., C.L.U., are president and chief financial officer, respectively, for Financial Blueprints, Inc., registered investment advisors with the state and federal securities and exchange commissions. IRA'S: Everyone's Tax Shelter Last year 80 % of all IRA's returned 8% or less. Find out why. Learn how to pack some "investment punch" into this popular long-term retirement vehicle and cash in on the million dollars that should be yours. 1908. 1 session. $12. (Campus Area) W 7-9 p.m. (May 16). Instructors: G. Phil Zepeda and John R. Gill. See The Beginning Investor (1907) for more details. Tax Shelters and Tax Free Income for Everyone For more sophisticated investors or individuals who find that their high income or "bracket creep" forces them to seriously consider tax-reduction strategies. Session one covers the broad categories of available shelters broken into low, medium, and high risk. It goes on to deal with legal strategies investors can employ to shift, defer, transfer, or reduce taxes through uses of trusts, gifts, interest-free loans, and other creative approaches. Session two introduces specific investments as tools for trimming tax liability. Discussion includes: "due diligence"; measuring tax risk; varieties of programs (e.g., in the drilling, developmental, and income areas); real-estate limited partnerships; and equipment leasing. 1909.2 sessions. $30. Reduced fees apply. (Campus Area) W 7-9 p.m. (May 23-30). Instructors: William Drollinger, J.D., C.L.U., Ch. F.C., G. Phil Zepeda, and John R. Gill. Mr. Drollinger is a nationally-known attorney whose book, Tax Shelters and Tax Free Income for Everyone has been on the McMillan Business Book Best Seller list. See The Beginning Investor (1907) for more details about G. Phil Zepeda and John R. Gill. College Financial Planning Designed for middle and upper- middle income parents of college-bound students. Focuses on financial methods for meeting the ever-increasing costs of higher education. Session one covers projecting college costs and identifying, explaining, and evaluating classic investment vehicles and strategies for meeting those costs. Topics include: Uniform Gifts to Minors, intra-family interest-free demand loans, short-term trusts, and investments that can most fully utilize the planning potential of these different strategies. Session two focuses on how parents can structure their finances to better qualify for need-based financial aid for their college-bound children. Emphasis is placed on understanding the financial aid process, why the classic planning vehicles previously covered may make it more difficult to qualify for financial aid, and what strategies are best suited to deal with this problem. Attention to relating college financial planning to a family's overall financial planning is also featured. 1910.2 sessions. $24. Reduced fees apply. (Campus Area) M 7-9 p.m. (May 7-14). Instructors: G. Phil Zepeda and John R. Gill. See The Beginning Investor (1907) for more details. Cb Tb~ Arbo orga shop Prog MAI sive smal and, ees. grow smal Sc Ap recti Ap;: Peop Ma Cont Al Thur ber a bor. $104 men Car: vices -INN Iq Registration Information Registrations are accepted during regular office hours (9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.. Monday through Friday) beginning Monday, April 9. Most Spring term classes begin the week of April 30. FREE PREVIEW for PIANOis on April 24. FREE PREVIEW for RAPID READING is on May 1. IMPROVING COMMUNICATION, MASSAGE FOR COUPLES, and RECORD- KEEPING all take place on May 12. COLLEGE FIN. PLANNING begins May 7. IRA 'Sis on May 16. TAX MANAGEMENTis on May 19. DRA WING - R T. BRAIN begins May 19. PSYCHICABILITIESmeets on May 20. TAX SHELTERSstarts on May 23. MARKETING takes place on June 2. INTERPRETIVE AR Tis on June 3. WRITING - RT. BRAIN meets on June 9. COMEDY WRITING-TV gets underway on June 22. COMEDY WRITING - THEA TRE & FILMcommences on June 29. EXPLORING GREECE begins Aug. 18. MAGIC OF VIENNA starts Sept. 1. You may register for Learning Network courses by phone with Visa or Master Card only. To register by mail, enclose a registration form or facsimile and your check, company purchase order, or credit card number and expiration date. A stamped, self-addressed envelope speeds processing. Pre-registered students will be notified if there are any schedule changes. MAIL TO: ANN ARBOR LEARNING NETWORK 617 E. UNIVERSITY, ROOM 260 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN 48104 MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: ANN ARBOR LEARNING NETWORK AALN f Last ..........,r...........mm.............................................m..m. m Spring 1984 Middle First name name initial home address city zip Home telephone . Business telephone Occupation Employer Social Security No. Date of birth Course Title Sec. No. Time Dates Fee Q Check enclosed l Purchase order enclosed Reg. fee $4.00 Charge No. Ex. Date T otal_ *JJ.u.~I.m m m ew m fv CIS mm l~ m1 mm mmt Mm vm m I S*AALN Spring 1984 Last First Middle name name initial Home address City Zip Home telephone Business telephone_ Occupation Employer Social Security No. Date of birth Course Title Sec. No. Time Dates Fee 0 Check enclosed O Purchase order enclosed Reg. fee $4.0 I Charge No. Ex. Date Total_ Lmusmmm m .....,.. . in... ... ... ....mmn Artistic Expression SPRING CREATIVITY- SPECIAL For those electing to take all three of our Saturday creativity workshops, the course fee for the series is $100. Taken individually, the course fee is $40 for each. Workshops in the series are: Rea wakening Imagination: Breaking the Creative Block, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and Writing from the Right Side of the Brain, all taught by Kay Gould-Caskey. Reawakening Imagnation: Breaking the Creative Block Discover the unlimited imaginative potential within and experience the joy and excitement of learning how to develop and use it. The process, which uses various visual, tactile, auditory and meditative techniques, is both simple and fun. The "block-busting" excercises employed are the keys for opening the doors that reveal previously undiscovered or little used pathways to your elusive hidden core of creative genius. Bring lined and unlined paper and a box of crayons or colored pencils or markers. A114. 1session. $40. Reduced fees apply. If elected with A115 and R1809, the course fee for all three is $100, (Campus Area) Sat. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (May 5). Instructor: Kay Gould-Caskey, owner/director of the Center for Creative Pursuits, conducts classes and workshops throughout the Mid. West, promoting creative living, increased personal potential, and expanded awareness. She has a Fine Arts degree from U-M and a certificate from the Arthur Ford Institute of Parapsychology in Miami, Florida. She has served as an interpretive art consultant to psychologists and has been teaching art and helping people break through creative blocks since 1971. Drawing On The Right Side of the Brain Have you always wanted to draw, but felt you couldn't? Here is the class that helps you to fulfill that desire. You learn how to release and develop the creative potential within. Students are encouraged to shift from the symbol-oriented, left-brain mode to the spatially perceptive, image-oriented, right-brain mode. Exercises and techniques designed specifically to facilitate this shift are introduced and implemented. The exercises include deep breathing relaxation, blind contour drawing, negative-positive drawing, tactile drawing, and music drawing. Employing these techniques, you learn how to see as one must in order to draw successfully. Your improvement and development as an artist are dramatic and exciting. Bring either a No. 2 pencil or a No. 4B drawing pencil and a pad of inexpensive drawing paper to the first class. A115. 2 sessions. $40. Reduced fees apply. If elected with A114 and R1809, the course fee for all three is $100. (Campus Area) Sat. 1-4 p.m. (May 19 and June 2). Instructor: Kay Gould-Caskey. See Reawakening Imagination (A114) for more details. Exploring Greece The relics of ancient Greece, the temples, sculpture, pottery, and architectural complexes startle the mind of modern man with the sophistication and purity of their design. Likewise, the azure sea contrasting with the rugged hills and mountains, and the gaily colored villages nestled in the countryside have charmed the modern visitor. You are invited to explore this land so rich in history and so important to western culture. Explore the Athenian Acropolis, visit the site of the Delphic Oracle, walk the land of Alexander the Great, swim in the Aegean and haggle in the bazaars of the Plaka in Athens. Trip includes: - round-trip airfare between NYC and Athens - transfer to and from hotel and airport all lodging (double occupancy) -Continental breakfast -- some meals - air-conditioned motorcoach for travel between sites - boat trip to the Island of Aegina -- air flight from Athens to Crete and return museum admissions for sites indicated in tour - lecturer and guide - handouts, maps, and other materials T2003. 12.Days. $1,895. Deposit of $250 required to hold place. Balance is due by June 15, 1984. (Aug. 18-31, 1984). Organizer: Tours are organized and run by TraveLearn of Columbus, Ohio. All departures are from New York City. Call the Learning Network office (313/996-9667) for more details. Travel T m H gl ca de V on V of lo ai n( of rf A C (3 .S' . i':4iYp P.