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Only the following courses have openings.
MONDAYS
9:30-11:30 Aviation History Lives Today (6 wks) D.O.C. House
12:00-2:00 American Diplomacy (7 wks) D.O.C. House
12:00-2:00 Is There a Distinctively American Form of the Spiritual Quest? (4 wks) D.O.C. House
2:30-5:30 American Culture, Through The Lens of Popular War Movies (8 wks) D.O.C. House6
TUESDAYS
9:30-11:30 NATO 2.0; Reboot or Delete? (8 wks) D.O.C. H ouse
9:30-11:30 Our Lives, Our Legacy (6 wks) D.O.C. House
10:00-12:00 The Significance of Gardens & Landscape (4 wks) Hanover Senior Ctr.
12:00-2:00 Food and Eating (6 wks) D.O.C. House
12:00-2:00 Moby-Dick and the Scarlet Letter (8 wks) D.O.C. House
2:30-4:30 Look What’s Talking! (8 wks) D.O.C. House
2:30-4:30 "I Can’t Do That Puzzle!” “Yes, You Can” ( 3 wks) D.O.C. House
WEDNESDAYS
9:00-12:00 Laughing Out Loud! Great Films of Comedies (8 wks) Lebanon College
12:00-2:00 How Did Julia Child Change America? (6 wks) D.O.C. House
12:00-2:00 Religion vs. Science – The Modern Heresy (8 wks) Hanover Senior Ctr.
12:00-2:00 Vaudeville (4 wks) D.O.C. House
12:00-2:00 Phrasecraft (4 wks) D.O.C. House
2:30-4:30 Poetic Limericks: A New Form of Poetry (6 wks) D.O.C. House
2:30-4:30 Elder Advocates for Youth in Court Proceedings (2 wks) D.O.C. House
THURSDAYS
9:00-11:30 Energy Policy and Environmental Choices (8 wks) Hanover Senior Ctr.
9:30-11:30 What is Going on Now? Engineering, Then and Now (8 wks) D.O.C. House
12:00-2:00 How to Go to Hell (6 wks) D.O.C. House
12:00-2:00 Women Through Literature (6 wks) D.O.C. House
12:00-2:00 Global Warming: Changing CO2urse (4 wks) D.O.C. House
12:00-2:00 Four Major Religious Traditions: A Refresher Course (4 wks) D.O.C. House
2:30-4:30 Restorative Justice: What is it? How Does it Matter? (4 wks) D.O.C. House
FRIDAYS
9:00-12:00 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not Bonnie & Clyde (5 wks) Lebanon College
9:30-11:30 Gerard Manley Hopkins Sprung Loose(8 wks) D.O.C. House
9:30-11:30 How to Create and ILEAD Course (7 wks) D.O.C. House
10:00-12:00 Whose High Note is it Anyway (4 wks) Hanover Senior Ctr.
Your course application must be received by the due date to be included in the enrollment process. If the number of enrollment requests does not exceed the quota allowed for the course, all applicants are enrolled. If there are too few, the course is cancelled.
If there are too many persons for a course, there is a lottery. Each member has an EPH, a priority number that guides the lottery. Its initial value is 50 when a person becomes a member. EPH is decreased for a member enrolled by lottery and increased for a member not enrolled. This increases your chance of winning a lottery enrollment if you lost out previously.
This process takes place for applications for a course as a first choice. Applications are sorted into priority order by decreasing EPH, then decreasing random number. Those with the highest priority are enrolled first. For example, 5 members apply for a course with a quota of 3 places. The applicants might be
Name EPH Random number
Alice 51 46738
Bob 50 88377
Dave 50 54668
Chuck 50 32566
Esther 46 91006
There are three places, so the first three items in the list are enrolled. Alice is enrolled. Esther is not. Bob, Chuck, and Dave compete for the 2 remaining spots by random ordering. Bob and Dave win and are enrolled.
Then all members enrolled have their EPH decreased by 4. Those not enrolled have EPH increased by 1. After the enrollment the EPH scores become
Name EPH
Alice 47
Bob 46
Chuck 51
Dave 46
Esther 47
After the lottery, ILEAD staff may change enrollment status and adjust EPH scores manually using a data entry screen, to accommodate, for example, a situation where two people travel together but only one is accepted. There is no effect on EPH unless the course is oversubscribed.
Next is a process for open courses applied for as a second, third, or fourth choice. If there is room, applicants are enrolled. No applicant is enrolled in more than the total number of classes they asked for.
If there are more applicants than opening, applications are sorted into order by decreasing EPH, increasing choice number, and decreasing random number. For example
Name EPH Choice Random number
Alice 51 2 43748
Bob 50 2 88677
Dave 50 3 44368
Chuck 50 3 22565
Esther 46 2 81606
Thus an applicant prefering a certain course more than another has a slightly better chance to enroll. At each successful lottery enrollment, the EPH is reduced by 4.
If an applicant is enrolled in fewer courses than applied for, the unfilled applications are automatically placed on wait lists for those full classes, in the event an enrolled member withdraws.
Energy Policy and Environmental Choices: Rethinking Nuclear Power
