Winter Term 2024

January 8 - March 29, 2024

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The video below provides a general overview of the registration process. You can build a 'wish list' of courses you'd like to take; this may save you some time once registration is open. The wish list section begins at around the 5:50 minute mark in the video.

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Winter 2024 Courses

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MONDAYS

HyFlex

  • Paul Etkind - The Current Pandemic of Pseudoscience, Mis-Information, and Dis-Information
  • Jürgen Ewert - My Life in the German-Soviet Satellite State

 

In-person

  • Rick Hutchins - Issues of Our Times: Frank Discussions
  • Inge Brown - Geological Wonders of the Earth
  • Peter Graves - The History of American Skiing
  • Marc Smith - The Curious Minds of Transcendentalists
  • Lynne A Miller - The Thoroughbred: More Than Just a Racehorse
  • Stephen Flanders - Four Films By Akira Kurosawa With a Companion Film Inspired by Each

 

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  • Thomas S Hodgson - Only a Game?: An Inquiry Into the Significance of Sports
  • Lee Webster - Green Funerals: Separating Fact From Fiction
  • Annie Ross - Svaroopa® Yoga - Gentle, Deep and Profound (Sect. 1)
  • Clare Innes - Intro to Ukulele—Tiptoe Into the Joy of Making Music

 

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TUESDAYS

In-person

  • Iain Sim - Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches and Beyond
  • Edward Bradley - Homer’s Iliad, translation by Richmond Lattimore
  • Mark McNamee - It’s Your Brain: An Introduction to Neuroscience
  • DeWitt Mallary - Islamic Prayer Rugs

 

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  • Terrance Darcey - More Short Fiction From The New Yorker Archive
  • Ellen Bettmann - Racism in 2024: Do the Work!
  • Anne Shivas - The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse
  • Alan Perper - American Civics 101+ -  A Crash Course!
  • Jim Bays - Marbury v. Madison: The Untold Story
  • Marilyn Roberts - Shakespeare’s Twin Plays: Romeo and Juliet & A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Kaushal Trivedi - Improve Memory with Mental Mathematics

 

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WEDNESDAYS

HyFlex

  • Bruce James - The Global Water Paradox: Scarcity Amid Abundance


 
 In-person

  • Alice Schori & Lynnwood Andrews - Winter Botany
  • Tom Urgo - Science Fiction; Science Fantasy; Science Fact
  • Stella Lackore & Mark Nelson - Introduction to Hildegard Von Bingen (1098-1179)
  • Ellen Jonsson - Creative Photography 2
  • Bill Sullivan - U.S. Foreign Intelligence: From George Washington to the Present Day
  • John Peterman - Ball of Fire: The Outrageous Early Films of Barbara Stanwyck, 1933-1944
  • Tom Wilson - Our National Parks
  • Ford Daley - The Big Band Era

 

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  • Annie Ross - Svaroopa® Yoga - Gentle, Deep and Profound (Sect. 2)
  • Elayne Clift - Pictures, Poems, and Prose: An Ekphrastic Experience
  • Dennis Kato - Imprisoned Without Trial: The Japanese Internment in WWII
  • Gloria Finkelstein - Active French: Fun French Musical Jukebox
  • Barnes Boffey & Jeremy Cutler - Useful Tools for Difficult Transitions

 

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THURSDAYS

In-person

  • Gaal Crowl - The Best of the West of Ireland
  • Tom Ebert - Why the US Will Not Adopt Medicare For All
  • Gael Clauson & Patti Warren - Let’s Put Some ART in Your HEART - Tear It Up 4

 

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  • Brad Truax, MD - Why Accidents Happen
  • Gary Cahn - The Greatest Performances in Figure Skating History, 1968-2024
  • Alan Schnur - Does the U.S. Constitution Need a Tune-up?
  • Morris J. Kaplan - Spanish Grammar & Conversation, Part 1

 

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FRIDAYS

HyFlex

  • Joseph Ronan - Irish Poetry—The Shadow of W. B. Yeats
  • Evan Roberts - Winning in Retirement: How to Manage Market Volatility

 

In-person

  • George Angwin - Killer Sudoku: How to Solve Them

 

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  • Eli Joseph - Principles of Skills-Based Economics

 

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TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY

In-person

  • Martha Lorden - The Atomic Kitchen: Cold War Cuisine and the Nuclear Family

 

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LECTURES

  • Jeannie Lindheim - Loving Animals: Conversations With an Animal Communicator (This lecture is free; membership required)

The following lectures are open to the public. Unless otherwise indicated, there is a $30 registration fee for each; there is no membership requirement.

  • Maryanne Garbowsky - Frida Kahlo: A Life Reflected in Art
  • Bob Koester - What—Another Great American Eclipse?
  • Tom Martz - Becoming a Novelist in Retirement: The Journey, Trials, and Tribulations of Self Publishing

 

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Winter 2024 Courses Sold Out:

  • Vic Henningsen - Portrait of a Mind - Three Letters From Thomas Jefferson
  • Susan McCaslin - In the Beginning: The Book of Genesis
  • Moby Pearson - Not Your Usual Music Appreciation
  • Jonathan Stableford - A Collection of Collections

 


CANCELLED:

Jed Williamson - Triumph of the Human Spirit— High Mountains, Vast Oceans, Extreme Cold, Remote Settings

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