Local Short Courses
Information about any short course to be offered in 2025 will be shown on the Events page.
PREVIOUS SHORT COURSES
One short course was held in August / September 2025
Whittling for Wellbeing
This is a short course for members of Belper & District u3a which will run over 3 consecutive Mondays in mid August - Sept 2025.
For further details please see the listing on the Events page.
One short course was held in March 2023:-
Emperor Franz Joseph and the Decline of The Habsburg Dynasty
In the past our Local Short Courses have covered a wide range of topics:
Personal Safety Training; English Folk Songs; Mixed Media Portrait Painting Workshop; Bridge; Life Story Writing; Gettysburg; Response to the Climate Emergency.
Most of the courses we have already run have emerged from the interest of an individual member who has been keen and willing to share their knowledge with other members. This has worked extremely well.
A second approach is for members to let us know what would be of interest. Where there is enough support, we would advertise across the membership to find someone willing to run such a course.
Popular short courses, such as computer skills, have been repeated several times. We are considering repeating these courses, with an emphasis on utilising to a greater extent the u3a website and communicating via email.
We are always open to other suggestions.
If you have any ideas and are willing to lead a short course in this way, please contact the Short Courses Co-ordinator .
National Learning Opportunities
A range of learning opportunities for members is organised by the National u3a team. For more information about what is on offer and how to join in, please click here National u3a Learning
National u3a Short Courses
National u3a organise a range of short course and events, some of them are available to access remotely so it is worth checking the website regularly to see what is on offer.
For details of any National u3a events or short courses, please click here National u3a Events
National u3a Interest Groups Online
Following the experience of offering online groups during the pandemic, National u3 have continued to offer these and have developed a wide range of online interest groups.
For more information about these and how to join please click here:- Interest Groups Online