Spring Term 2024
April 8 - June 14, 2024
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2024 Spring Term Course Catalog
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List of Courses
The following list of courses is sorted by weekday(s) and format (In-person, HyFlex, or Zoom). As courses fill (or if any changes take place in terms of scheduling, etc.), we will move them to the bottom of the page.
Monday
HyFlex
- 12:30 PM - Mary Ann Haagen - A Peculiar People: The Enfield, NH Shakers
In-person
- 9:30 AM - Rick Hutchins - Creating Photobooks
- 9:30 AM - James Wilson - A Nation Adrift: Our Democracy, Like Humpty Dumpty, is Teetering
- 9:30 AM - Richard Comi - Demystifying Metabolism, Obesity and Diabetes: You’re Not Just What You Eat
- 12:30 PM - Sarah Welsch - Fiction & Fact in S.O. Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
- 12:30 PM - Arthur Rosen - A Deconstruction of the Bible
- 1:00 PM - Kat Dechant - The Basics of Floral Design
- 1:30 PM - Mark Nelson - Preparing to Hear J. S. Bach’s John Passion
- 3:00 PM - Steven Solomon - Five Formidable Femmes Fatales on Film
Zoom
- 9:00 AM - Steven Shama - Tips and Tricks for Planning Exciting Memorable Low-Cost Vacations
- 2:00 PM - Margaret Cunningham - Introduction to Supply Chains for Consumers
Tuesday
HyFlex
- 9:00 AM - John Sanders & Jim Wooster - Great Decisions 2024
- 5:00 PM - Clara Sava-Segal - Brain and Behavior Part 2: How Do We Process the World
Around Us?
In-person
- 9:30 AM - Paul Brogan - Pass the Kleenex: Classic Hollywood Tearjerkers!
- 9:30 AM - Stephen O'Dwyer - Mindfulness Meditation: Establishing or Deepening a Daily Practice
- 9:30 AM - Rick Hutchins - What Does It Take to be Elite?
- 10:00 AM - Alice Schori & Lynnwood Andrews - Spring Wildflowers and Ferns
- 12:30 PM - Kate Farricker - Mixed Media Art Journaling
- 12:30 PM - David Liben - Why is K-12 Public Education Constantly in Crisis?
- 2:00 PM - Dianne Burger - Handbuilding with Clay
Zoom
- 10:30 AM - Peter Gilbert - Frost in Summer—A Few Months Early
- 1:30 PM - Mark Nelson - Preparing to Hear J. S. Bach’s John Passion
Wednesday
HyFlex
- 12:30 PM - Lana Leggett-Kealey - Genealogy & DNA Case Studies
In-person
- 9:30 AM - Toni Egger - A Taste of August Wilson’s “Century Cycle”
- 10:00 AM - Maynard Goldman - The Road to the White House: The Primaries and Beyond
- 10:00 AM - Alice Schori & Lynnwood Andrews - Spring Wildflowers and Ferns
- 1:00 PM - Rob Nawojchik - Whales, Dolphins, Seals, and Sea Lions: The Biology of Marine Mammals
- 2:00 PM - Elias Deeb, et al - Hot Topics at the Cold Regions Lab
- 5:00 PM - Dan DeMars - Mercury, Gemini & Apollo, NASA’s Golden Age: A 50-Year Retrospective
Zoom
- 11:00 AM - Sarwar Kashmeri - Present at This Creation
- 11:30 AM - Jim Bays - The Hour That Changed Ben Franklin Forever
Thursday
HyFlex
- 3:30 PM - Martin Jeffries - The Mile of Manufactories on the Merrimack at Manchester
- 4:30 PM - Iain Sim - In Your Genes: Hope or Hype, Promise or Peril
In-person
- 9:00 AM - Tom Urgo - What Is Art? Six Movies That Explore the Question
- 9:30 AM - Susan Brink - Morocco Today
- 9:30 AM - Roy Finney - Grasping the Universe
- 12:30 PM - Kate Farricker - Mixed Media All-Occasion Card Making for Spring
- 3:00 PM - Jim Kennedy - No Mow: Wild Lawns and Meadows
Zoom
- 10:00 AM - Richard Thames - How to Report and Write News in Your Community
- 11:00 AM - Alina Fiorella - The Master and Margarita: A Brief Introduction
- 11:30 AM - David Gordon - Plein Air: Painting Outdoors
- 2:00 PM - Larry Canepa - Food, Glorious Food!
- 2:00 PM - Morris Kaplan - Intermediate Spanish Grammar & Conversation, Part 2
- 2:00 PM - Hilary Llewellyn-Thomas - How Well-Told Novels Capture Our Brains
- 3:00 PM - Larry Canepa - Is It Soup Yet?
- 3:00 PM - Gloria Finkelstein - Active French - Beginner Français
Friday
HyFlex
- 9:30 AM - Bruce James - Bread and Soil in Ancient Rome: Environmental Challenge and Cultural Response
- 12:30 PM - Robert Hargraves - New Nuclear is HOT
In-person
- 9:30 AM - Lela Jaacks - Art of Wellness: Human Design & Healing Power of Essential Oils Intro
- 1:00 PM - Susan Brown - Ovid, the Silver Age Poet
Zoom
- 11:00 AM - Eli Joseph - Applied Games of Modern Economics
Tuesday & Thursday
Zoom
- 9:00 AM - Phyllis Deutsch - Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native
- 9:00 AM - Phyllis Deutsch - The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James