ONE DAY UNIVERSITY
May 10 at the Cobb Galleria Centre, 2 Galleria Parkway, Atlanta. Classes begin at 9:30 a.m., and the last class starts at 2:45 p.m. Each class is 75 minutes long, and a lunch hour is provided. Tickets are $239 and available at www.onedayu.com/events/detail/133; these tickets give you access to your choice of four classes. Use promo code "ajc149" to receive a discounted ticket for $149 including lunch.
Your college days may have ended years ago, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop learning.
For the first time, One Day University comes to Atlanta. On May 10, classes begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Cobb Galleria Centre.
This gives adult “students-for-a-day” the opportunity to take a course in a subject they may not have been able to while in college. With a list of eight classes, attendees are able to choose four classes they want, and each class is 75 minutes.
Sponsored by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, One Day University Atlanta is part of a nationwide event that brings together student top-rated professors from schools all over the country.
“There is an interest and a hunger for education,” said Steven Schragis, who founded One Day U in 2006. Schragis encourages professors to “give their best one-hour lecture.”
Carol Anderson of Emory University will teach a class on World War II titled, “What We Know Now (That We Didn’t Know Then).” Craig Wright of Yale University will provide a lecture, “The Nature of Genius: From Leonardo da Vinci to the Beatles.” Professors from Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell and the University of Arizona also will give lectures.
Schragis reassures attendees it is a one-day commitment, with no tests or homework given.
“It’s teaching for entertainment,” Schragis said.
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