York Courses

The best way to find out more abut the York Courses is to go to their website, but below is a quote from them to give you an idea of what it involves.

1. Study Courses

These are our major publications. Each new course is normally advertised from the end of the summer and available for delivery in early Autumn, ready for Lent the following year. We gear ourselves to having material available for Lent, because this is the most popular time of year for study courses, but the courses are not Lent-specific and can be used at any time of the year.

We now have an extensive backlist of courses.

The course material consists of:

The Booklet with background for 5 sessions including:
o an article on the subject in hand,
o a series of questions for group use,
o helpful quotes and references connected with the subject,
o notes on how to get the best out of the material at the group meeting.

The CD or audio-tape with 5 radio-style discussion starters involving the voices of the guest contributors. Each starter is about 14 minutes long. It can be played in full at the beginning of a session or stopped and started as the discussion goes on. CDs are track-marked for easy access to subjects under discussion.

A Transcript of the entire contents of the CD (or audiotape). Transcripts were first produced for people with hearing difficulties, but they have also proved to be of great help to group leaders as they prepare for the course. Some group members like to use the transcript to follow the audio in greater detail - which gives them greater confidence about joining in the discussion. It also enables them to go over the recorded material at leisure. The transcript cross-references with the track numbers on the CD, making it simple to find the start of each new question posed to the participants