Mrs. Sunset Coast & I took a Senior memory course at UCLA. We had expected more on the etiology of memory loss, and physical (eg nutritional) ways of combating it.

What we got most were tricks to remember things such as groupings, visual associations, making up small stories, etc. The class started with about 22 folks, of which eight or nine dropped out during the during the third to fifth (and final week).

While the course was fun, Many of us felt that the 'so-called' mnemonics actually made another level of something to remember. The majority students we spoke with after the last class agreed with us that the course was not worth the time or money (negligible) was worth it.