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• Great Decisions

  • Start
    January 29, 2026
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  • End
    March 26, 2026
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    Harbor

  This class has a limited enrollment of 40 students.  For more information see: Limited Enrollment Classes
  

  Course Description:  Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs with content created by the Foreign Policy Association. If you are hungry for thought provoking discussions on world issues, many with serious implications for America, this course is for you. The program covers eight topics, which will be presented in eight sessions this year:

  1. America and the World: Trump 2.0 Foreign Policy
  2. Trump Tariffs and the Future of the World Economy
  3. U.S.-China Relations
  4. Ruptured Alliances and the Risk of Nuclear Proliferation
  5. Ukraine and the Future of European Security
  6. Multilateral Institutions in a Changing World Order
  7. U.S. Engagement of Africa
  8. The Future of Human Rights and International Law

  This is a discussion class and students need to purchase a hardcopy ofthe Briefing Book either at www.FPA.org or Amazon or the E-book edition from Apple Books or Amazon.

  Since this is a limited enrollment course, individuals who can’t commit to do the readings, attend all 8 sessions and actively participate in the discussion should reconsider registering for this course.

  Location:  Harbor Club

  Dates/Times:  Thursday 9:30 to 10:45 am last session March 26

  Instructor: Carol Kunik

  Carol Kunik is a clinical psychologist, leadership development coach, and skilled facilitator. She describes herself as a concerned citizen who wants to learn about the issues of the day. She took the Great Decisions course at Learning in Retirement at Tufts University and then taught it for two years at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement. She has offered Great Decisions several times at Pelican Cove Univ.

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• Make Music with Friends: A Continuing Class for Recorder Players

  • Start
    February 04, 2026
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  • End
    March 25, 2026
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    Harbor Club

  This class has a limited enrollment of 12-15 students.  For more information see: Limited Enrollment Classes

  Course Description:   Open to intermediate and advanced recorder players, the class will focus on small group consort playing. There will also be a short weekly lecture touching on technique, alternate fingerings, and ornamentation in renaissance and baroque music.

  Location: Harbor Club

  Dates/Times:  Wednesdays at 11 am, February 4 to March 25

  Instructor:  Brooke Jaron
  

  

   Brooke Jaron was Music Director of the   Philadelphia Recorder Society for 11 years and   performed with Philomel, Orfeo Ensemble and The   Folger Consort. She was a student of Marian   Verbruggen, the Dutch recorder virtuoso, in   Amsterdam, Holland, and also studied with the   noted recorder player, Bernard Krainis, in Great   Barrington, MA. Jaron has been teaching and performing on the recorder for over 40 years, privately and in workshops. She was on the faculty of George Washington University, University of Rhode Island and Settlement Music School in Philadelphia. 

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• The Music and Legacy of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

  • Start
    February 23, 2026
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  • End
    March 30, 2026
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    Pavilion

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  Course Description:  Between 1969 and 1974, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young was the most successful, influential, and politically active rock band in America. Using their music as a roadmap, this course will review how the supergroup came together, their flawless harmonies, and how their music reflected the politics and counterculture of the time. Finally, we'll see how drug and alcohol abuse, creative tension, and bickering over women threatened to tear them apart.

  Location:  Pavilion

  Dates/Times: Monday, 11AM, February 23 - March 30 (session 3 will be on 3/10 instead of 3/9) 

  Instructor: John Scibak

  

  With a Ph.D. in Psychology , John Scibak worked in health care and human services as a researcher and hospital administrator and held academic positions at Indiana University, UMass-Amherst and Westfield State University. John ran mid-career for elective office, won a state legislative seat as a write-in candidate, and served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2003 through 2019, when he retired and moved to Pelican Cove with his wife, Pat.

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• Philosophy in Literature

  • Start
    March 05, 2026
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  • End
    March 26, 2026
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Harbor

  This class has a limited enrollment of 25 students.  For more information see: Limited Enrollment Classes

  Course Description:  In this course, we will read short stories or poems to discover the philosophical ideas they contain, and discuss them in relation to central questions in both general philosophy, and in the philosophy of literature: Do we learn from literature? If we do, are works better as literature if they contain original ideas? Should literary works make us both feel and think? What is the nature of the emotions these works elicit? 

  Location:  Harbor

  Dates/Times: Thursday, 11AM, March 5 - March 26

  Instructor:  Robert Stecker

  

  Robert Stecker received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from MIT. He is Professor Emeritus at Central Michigan University and the author of five books on the philosophy of art and aesthetics.

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