The third week of the Lifetime Learning Fall session will include the following courses:

On Tuesday, Oct. 12 from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Steve Reynolds, director of plays and musicals at Eventide Theatre and Cape Rep, presents the second in a four-part course, "The Model of a Modern Musical: Gilbert and Sullivan’s Nautical Comic Operas: H.M.S. Pinafore and the Pirates of Penzance." The class will listen to and watch production videos and discuss each operetta. This class is a hybrid.

On Tuesday from 1:30 to 3 p.m., Richard Finnegan, professor emeritus of Stonehill College, presents the third part in his four-week course on "The South Caucasus Region: Vital Global Conflict Zone." This class is a hybrid.

Wednesday, Oct. 13 from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Peter Zimmerman, faculty at Harvard's Kennedy School, concludes his two-part series "What Were They Thinking? How Are They Thinking? The New (Old) Science of Decision," examining some of the awkward truths emerging from psychology and neuroscience about factors that shape our decisions, behaviors, and unconscious biases. This class is a hybrid.

On Wednesday from 1:30 to 3 p.m., Kathie Gulotta continues her four-part course titled "Souls Of Black Folk." Exploring the role of empathy in social-cultural transformation the class will examine U.S. history through the eyes of Black writers such as James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Martin Luther King,Jr., Malcolm X, Isabelle Wilkerson, Nathan McCall, Barbara Holmes, and Ibram X. Kendi. The title of the course comes from a 1903 book written by Massachusetts native W.E.B. Dubois. This class is a hybrid.

On Thursday, Oct. 14 from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Kerry Brown presents the second of four classes on Shakespeare’s "The Tempest." In his final play, Shakespeare presents diverse issues such as royal legitimacy, colonialism, borderlines between science and magical thinking, and the limits of love. The classes will discuss how Shakespeare blends tragedy and comedy into a genre called romance. This class is a hybrid.

On Thursday from 1:30 to 3 p.m., Paul Kelleher presents the second of four classes on "Fifty Years of Affirmative Action: Remedy for Oppression or Reverse Discrimination?" This class will consider Supreme Court decisions in college admission cases. It will examine the legal conflict between those who believe that laws must be color-blind and those who believe that constitutional decision-making must take race into account. This class is zoom only.

On Friday, Oct. 15 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Mary Ann Eaton presents part two of her "Introduction to Irish Literature." This course provides an overview of key literary eras and genres as well as a literature timeline. It will touch on ancient mythological tales, folklore, poetry, and a journal from the Western island of the Great Blasket. This class is a hybrid. The first class in this course, originally scheduled for October 1, was rescheduled to October 8. The remaining classes are October 15 (1:30), October 22 (1:30) and October 29 (10:30 in the morning).

Register by mail, at the library, or online. Registration is ongoing. Please register at least 24 hours before the class. You may pick up brochures and a registration form and register at Snow Library, 67 Main Street, Orleans. Your registration and donation may also be mailed in. Course information and registration is also available online at www.friendsofsnowlibrary.org/lifetime-learning-program. $10 is the suggested donation per course.