Special Interest - Non Credit Courses
Anglican Layreaders Preparatory Course
Offered in association with the Diocesan Layreaders Association of NS & PEI
This program prepares individuals for licensing as Layreaders in the Anglican Church. Study at home or in your parish church through a series of 12 DVD lectures and complete handbook. The course prepares individuals for all the duties of a Layreader and includes sections on liturgy, Church history and organization, the BCP and BAS, preaching and more. Contact your parish priest or the Lay Readers Association before requesting your course materials. Begin anytime-Completion usually takes about 12 weeks.
Instructors: Archbishop Arthur Peters, clergy and other experts.
Fee: $35 (includes handbook and loan of DVDs).
Continuing registration, home study.
Free Public Lecture Series
The Keshen Goodman Library and Mount Saint Vincent University are pleased to offer our nineth free public lecture series at the library.
Women and Detective Fiction - January 29- March 19
Location: Keshen Goodman Library: Time: 2:00- 3:00pm
Presented by Dr. Rita Deverell, Nancy's Chair in Women Studies at the Mount.
Women have excelled at writing detective fiction, from the well modulated British tone of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, to the savvy Black lingo of Pamela Thomas-Graham's Harvard economics professor.Cosy up with that most satisfying of recreations, the worlds of women writers who solve problems.
Our guide is Rita Shelton Deverell, broadcaster, theatre artist, and Nancy's Chair in Women Studies at the Mount. Deverell is also a lifelong reader of mysteries, from Nancy Drew and her roadster at age nine until the present moment. Some of Professor Deverell's current favourites are listed and we'll talk about yours as well.