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Some upcoming events at the Centre for Open Studies, University of Glasgow, May, 2014

Some upcoming events at the Centre for Open Studies. Including Counselling Skills Taster, Summer School in Counselling Skills, Spotlight on the Commonwealth Games 2014 – walks round Glasgow and Day Events: Spotlight on Scottish Referendum and
Independence Debate.

Counselling Skills

DAY EVENT
Counselling skills taster session
Day:
Saturday 24 May 2014
Time:
10.00-16.00 (1 meeting)
Are you interested in the skills used by counsellors to
help people? Participation in this session will provide
you with a better idea about whether you would like to,
or are ready to, embark on a counselling skills training
course with all that entails. This is an excellent one day
taster session to help you explore these listening and
communication skills.
Tutor:
Caterina O’Connor MA CQSW CASS DipCPS
DipTP
No Credits
Cost:
£25.00
Course code:
19054

WEEK-LONG EVENT
Summer school in counselling skills
Day:
Monday-Friday, 16-20 June 2014
Time:
10.00-15.00 (5 meetings)
This course offers entry level students with or without
prior training or experience in using counselling
skills, the opportunity to spend five days working with
accredited trainers to develop communication and
counselling skills. This is an ideal course for those
who want to explore and develop their listening and
responding skills and/or explore their suitability for
a career in counselling without committing to initial
lengthy courses. Individuals will have the opportunity
to enhance their own personal and professional
development.
Tutors:
Richard Michael McCalmont BA BACP
Counsellor and Caterina O’Connor MA CQSW CASS DipCPS
£130
Code 19555

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Spotlight on the Commonwealth Games 2014

Walks around Glasgow 7
Day: Thursdays from 15 May 2014

Time: (6 walks, two per day) 10.00-12.00 and 14.00-
16.00 (6 meetings)

Come and find out about the city which is about to
host the Commonwealth Games. This is the 7th series
of walks due to demand by students. We are moving
steadily away from the city centre and finding lots of
interesting sides to the city as we do so. This series
will look at another side of Bridgeton, at Queen’s Park
area, Kelvinside (west of Kirklee Road), Ibrox area
towards Dumbreck, and further South Side areas.
Some of these have always been residential areas,
others industrial, and one area has been farmland and
then parkland. We can even feature Mary, Queen of
Scots this time!! There is no need for students to have
done such walks before but they should prepare for
the terrain and weather with suitable strong clothing
and footwear; there will be hills involved at times.
Please avoid umbrellas.
Tutor:
Margaret Anderson MA MSc
No Credits
Cost:
£63.00 (Concession £31.50)
Course code:
19091

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Spotlight on Scottish Referendum and
Independence debate

DAY EVENT
Scotland 1603-1707: Union of the Crowns
to Union of the Parliaments
Day:
Saturday 24 May 2014
Time:
10.00-13.00 (1 meeting)
In the year of the referendum for Scottish
independence, this class will briefly examine the
relationship between Scotland and England in the 17th
century, from the dynastic union in 1603 through to the
incorporating union of 1707. Was the Treaty of Union of
1707 an inevitable consequence of what happened in
1603? Why did union negotiations succeed in 1705-7
when a number of previous attempts had failed?
Tutor:
Kirsty McAlister BA PhD PGCE
£15
Code: 19071

Spotlight on Scottish Referendum and
Independence debate
DAY EVENT
Secession, self-determination and
independence: Scotland in historical and
comparative context
Day:
Saturday 17 May 2014
Time:
10.00-16.00 (1 meeting)
This one day event will examine the nature of
secessionist movements and evaluate the history of
self-determination in an historical and comparative
context since 1917. It will discuss movements that have
been successful and those that failed. Special attention
will be paid to cases where secession has been
achieved peacefully. We will ask why the international
community is so reluctant to accept secession and
investigate whether it is possible to establish rules that
would allow secession to be achieved without violence.
Scotland will be placed in a comparative context with
other secessionist movements such as Quebec and
Catalonia
Tutor:
Brian Girvin BA MA PhD FRHS
No Credits
Cost:
£25.00
Course code:
26162

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| www.glasgow.ac.uk/centreforopenstudie

Spotlight on Scottish Referendum and
Independence debate
DAY EVENT
National identity in Scotland
Day:
Saturday 7 June 2014
Time:
10.00-16.00 (1 meeting)
This one day event will consider the issue of national
identity in Scotland from an historical, social and
political perspective. We shall examine Scottish
society and the Scottish political system and look
at how national identity underpins our institutions,
behaviours and political outcomes. This course
will provide insight into the nature of contemporary
Scotland, important in the light of the 2014 referendum.
Tutors:
Murray Stewart Leith BA MA PhD and Duncan
Sim BA PhD
No Credits
Cost:
£25.00
Course code:
19125

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| www.glasgow.ac.uk/centreforopenstudie
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