A general listing of all U3A courses given within metropolitan Brisbane is given below. For a description of each individual course, click on the link to the appropriate location, after the general list.
For information on "How to join a class", go to the FAQ webpage. Some classes may have no vacancies, but if you are interested, it is worth contacting the tutor as you may be put on a waiting list. Tutors’ names and phone numbers are not included in this website but are included in U3A’s printed Newsletter for each term. You will receive a Newsletter each term after you join U3A ($35 single or $50 double, per year). Please present your Membership Card at the start of each Term.
Most classes are given at U3A’s main campus on the 4th floor of 150 Edward Street, Brisbane City (the June Dally-Watkins Centre). Additional classes are given at other venues listed in the Term Newsletter. These include other City locations, Bellbowrie/Moggill, Beenleigh, Northside, Southside, Westside and Queensland Art Gallery, Wynnum, and the Queensland Museum. If a course listed below can’t be found in the locations to which links are already provided, check the printed Newsletter.
Art and Drawing
Art – watercolour, drawing and painting
Art group
Art – oils, watercolours, acrylics
Calligraphy
Cartooning
Coloured pencil techniques
Computing – including Computer Kindy, Windows XP, MultiMedia,
Desktop publishing, Email and internet, Publisher, General Computing, Word,
Web page construction, using Pictures, Digital Image 2006, Computer club
Cooking
One-day Cooking Class,Southside – No class Term4; resume T1, 2008
English language and writing skills
Creative writing
English
Story Writing
Writing group
Games
Bridge
Card Games
Chess
Crypic Crosswords
Hand and foot Bolivia
Mah jong
Scrabble
General Discussion
Anything Goes
Discussion group
Mind stirrers
Health
Eating for Health and Pleasure
Food, Lifestyle and Health
History
Ancient and Mediaeval History
Archaeology and Ancient History for the Traveller
British and European
Life on Earth (history of civilization)
Modern History
Modern World History
Russian History and Culture
Social History
Languages (some classes may be full)
Esperanto
French
German
Hungarian
Indian
Italian
Japanese
Latin
Russian
Spanish
Literature
Acting and Drama
Australian Literature
Book Discussion
Nineteenth Century literature
Poetry Appreciation
World Literature
Music
Concert favourites
Jazz Appreciation
Musical appreciation
Music listening
Participation in Music
Philosophy
Budding Philosophers
Philosophy for Everyone
Philosophy – Matters arising
Teachings of the great philosophers
Religion
Beliefs that make History
Buddhism
Know Your Bible
Scripture search
Physical Recreation
Colonial / Heritage / Bush Dance
Country Dancing
Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement
Gentle Exercise and Dancing
Let’s Walk
Psychology, Personal Development and Self-Management
Palmistry
Self-development - Spirituality
Story of the Self
Study of Human Nature
The Greatest Journey – psychology of human development
Understanding yourself and others
Recreational activities
Cinema group
Greeting Card Creation
Interior Decorating
Photography
Science
Astronomy
Environmental geology
Science and the Paranormal