Do you have an aging parent or partner with declining health? Each person has a unique situation and navigating the journey to the end of life is challenging. Explore the complex issues you may encounter when assisting the elderly and discover strategies and resources to manage successfully. Topics include legal documents, medical, insurance, housing and financial options, hospice, emotional, and family dynamics.

Creating Belonging Through Small Group Storytelling: a trauma-informed pathway to individual and community resilience

This interactive, student-centric course will offer participants a measurable increase in the experience of belonging as they learn how the natural laws of the interdependent human system provide us with guidance to restore the social connectedness that fosters mental, emotional, behavioral, social, spiritual, and physical health. We will explore the structure and application of stories and storytelling in small group settings as a tool to weave together a shared narrative in which our identity, value and needed social resources are discovered and activated. This content is rooted in the NEAR sciences (neuroscience, epigenetics, ACEs, and resilience) and the gathered wisdom of respected psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and literary masters. The learning in this course will be valuable within the course itself and immediately applicable in family relationships, business and career contexts, community building, and personal development. Participants will be able to facilitate small group storytelling as a way to share and increase belonging in a variety of settings and circumstances. It is not a writing class, though participants may find writing or journaling to be a benefit.

The ACT and SAT are unlike any test you’ve ever taken.They will cover everything you've learned from first grade on. Get strategies for confidently selecting the right answers, learn how to make the best use of your allotted test-taking time, and determine if you should take the ACT, SAT, or both. Class includes materials for practice and evaluation at home. Note: this class focuses specifically on ACT and SAT material and is not intended as a review of school curriculum. While some colleges are waiving these exams, others are still requiring them. Make sure you are prepared!

Increase meaning and fulfillment in your life by purposefully designing your life. This hands-on workshop provides a process and exercises to help you identify and plan for changes to your life that align with your values and talents. Learn how the design thinking process used by product designers and innovators can be leveraged to intentionally plan and build an authentic life. Take away the process to map out potential life paths, assess options, and solicit feedback and support.

You've gathered the tools now put them into action! This hands-on workshop provides a process to help you identify and plan steps to actualize your life or career consistent with your values and talents. Learn how the design thinking process used by product designers and innovators can be leveraged to intentionally create an authentic life. Build your own plan to help map your way to an Authentic Life!

Want to communicate in the most widely spoken language in the world? Gain a basic understanding of Mandarin and its phonetics, and be able to communicate and understand simple expressions based around the topics of everyday life. Participate in fun role-playing exercises such as bargain shopping, location direction, ordering food/drink, people introductions, and cultural experiences such as cooking, mahjong, and etiquette.

The course uses a strong communicative approach to prepare students to acquire a wider range of vocabulary, grammatical structures, and phrases to expand their knowledge of Chinese (Mandarin). Students will also be exposed to some cultural topics that will help to broaden their knowledge of Chinese Language as well as their skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Recommended to take level I or equivalent knowledge.

Have you been wishing you were on a tropical island? Pineapples, coconuts and vanilla have amazing skin-healing properties. Let's make a pineapple face mask, a solid lotion bar, a date sugar hand scrub and other products inspired by the tropics. This will be a demonstration class with recipes provided.

Discover the power of gemstones and crystals and how to utilize them in your life for wellness. Learn about the properties of crystals, crystal gridding, pendulums, and chakra balancing.

Develop English grammar skills and take your writing and speaking prowess to the next level. This course explores the eight parts of speech, punctuation and mechanics, foundational sentence construction, phrases, clauses, problem words, common mistakes, and more with practical, hands-on exercises.

Take your grammar and writing skills to the next level! In this course, you'll review the foundational elements of grammar, including the parts of speech, and master the basics of punctuation and mechanics. See how different phrases and clauses fit together in sentences so that your writing is clear, concise, and meaningful. Finally, put your skills to work as you explore practical business writing, paragraph writing, and even formal essay writing.

Do you love animals? Have you ever thought about a career as a veterinary assistant? This course, taught by a practicing veterinarian and college instructor, will give you the information you need to prepare for work in veterinary hospitals. Special lessons will target specific aspects of veterinary assistant duties. You'll also understand the hazards of working in a veterinary setting so that you can protect yourself from x-ray exposure, infections carried by animals, and potential damage from teeth and claws.