Dates and Planning

2025 planned discussion topics

Monday 3 Feb to Friday 4 Apr 2025

9 weeks followed by a 2 week break (including Easter)
No classes Labour Day, Monday 10 March

Planned topics below are subject to change.

Term 1 discussion topics
Class	Dates	Discussion Topics
1	5/2/2025	Introduction, Etiquette, political vs philosophical discussion
2	12/2/2025	What is Philosophy?
3	19/2/2025	What is Philosophy?
4	26/2/2025	Philosophy of friendship
5	5/3/2025	Philosophy of friendship
6	12/3/2025	Meaning of life
7	19/3/2025	Meaning of life
8	26/3/2025	AI
9	2/4/2025	AI

U3A Nunawading Term Dates 2025

Term	Start	End
Term 4, 2024 (7 wks)	07 Oct 2024	22 Nov 2024
Summer School 2025 - Hub classes	20 Jan 2025	24 Jan 2025
Summer School 2025 - excursions	28 Jan 2025	31 Jan 2025
Term 1, 2025 (9 weeks)	03 Feb 2025	04 Apr 2025
Term 2, 2025 (10 weeks)	22 Apr 2025	27 Jun 2025
Term 3, 2025 (9 weeks)	21 Jul 2025	19 Sep 2025
Term 4, 2025 (7 weeks)	06 Oct 2025	21 Nov 2025

Some important dates for U3A are stated here:  https://u3anunawading.org.au/contact-us/dates/

Public Holidays for 2025

Holiday	Date in 2025
New Year's Day	Monday 1 January
Australia Day	Sunday 27 January2002
Labour Day	Sunday 10 March
Good Friday1	Thursday 18 April
Saturday before Easter Sunday	Friday 19 April
Easter Sunday	Saturday 20 April
Easter Monday	Sunday 21 April
ANZAC Day1	Thursday 25 April
King's Birthday	Sunday 9 June
Friday before the AFL Grand Final	Subject to AFL schedule3
Melbourne Cup	Thursday 4 November2004
Christmas Day1	Wednesday 25 December
Boxing Day	Thursday 26 December

Public holiday dates are based on the following website information on 23/10/24.

1 ANZAC Day, Good Friday and Christmas Day are restricted trading days.

2 As Australia Day falls on a Sunday, the public holiday is on the following Monday.

3 Friday before AFL Grand Final typically falls on the last Friday in September. This website will be updated with the exact date upon release of the 2025 AFL schedule.

4 Melbourne Cup Day is a public holiday across all of Victoria unless alternate local holiday has been arranged by a non-metro council.

Source: https://business.vic.gov.au/business-information/public-holidays/victorian-public-holidays-2025

Possible topics for 2024/2025

• Ethics
• Normative Ethics - Deontology
• Normative Ethics - Virtue Ethics
• Daodejing
• Chan/Zen Buddhism
• Is beauty good?
• Shame (suggested by John)
• AI
• Mencius (Mengzi) Virtue theory (includes a discussion on Shame)
• Meta - ethics
• Punishment (see Wifi Philosophy on Youtube)
• Happiness (see Wifi Philosophy on Youtube)
• History of philosophy (see PPPD blog)
• Conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism and fun (refer to ABC Philosophers' Zone)
• Articles or podcasts from ABC Philosophers' Zone
• Introduction to Ethics - (see Wifi Philosophy)
• Moral Education in Confucianism (see Philosophy Now magazine)
• Other articles from Philosophy Now magazine