French class ($40) meets Tuesdays, September 17 - December 17, at Sunrise at North Ann Arbor, 1901 Plymouth, and will be taught by Sophie Mongrain, a native French speaker whose degree is in linguistics. We will have discussions of current events, assigned readings of blogs, and a novel by a current French writer (which the group will choose), and there will be some homework.


The Lone Survivors class ($35) meets Tuesdays, Sept 17-Oct 15 at University Commons, 817 Asa Gray. We will read and discuss the title book by Chris Stringer, a leading paleoanthropologist. Dr. Stringer describes a new theory of human origins which posits that several populations of early humans in Africa exchanged genes, tools and behavioral strategies that enabled some of them to migrate out of Africa and populate the world. Facilitator: Sandra Smith.