Language/Literature   

Vamonos means “let’s go!” This course is designed to get students “going”! This is your opportunity to get started learning this beautiful language. Students who have limited or no working knowledge of Spanish will be learning the basics of grammar and conversation skills. Practice will be done in an informal setting to encourage participation in interactive activities. Come join us and you can feel the excitement of being bilingual. You can do it!

Class Size Limit: 15

Suggested Reading: "Spanish for Everyone"" ( On Amazon or Thrift Books) Books

The course explores avenues through which ancient and | traditional Scottish tales can be viewed as part of the larger cohort of globally shared stories. The course may examine fairy tales, folktales, legends, myths, lullabie or other genres found in Scottish literature.

Class Size Limit: 90

This course is designed for students who have a good working knowledge of Spanish. The purpose of the course is to help students continue to enhance their conversational skills to a higher level. We will develop skills in reading, writing and conversation. Reviewing grammar and vocabulary will facilitate conversation. This is done in an informal setting allowing each student to reach their potential in speaking this beautiful language. The aim of the class is to enjoy the learning journey.

Class Size Limit: 15

Suggested Reading: "Spanish for Everyone"" ( On Amazon or Thrift Books) Books

We will explore works by important French literary authors who were also visionaries, considering beauty, humanism, nature and its healing capacities, Home/Away, and France's place in the world. We will read from Victor Hugo's 1831 Notre Dame de Paris  (as Notre Dame re-opens after the fire), St.-Exupery's 1939 Terre des Hommes, Sand's 1842  Winter in Majorca and Maillart's 1937 Forbidden Journey. Class will be taught in English; texts will be provided in English and French.

Class Size Limit: 15

Jennifer Coburn is the author of The Girls of the Glimmer Factory, a historical novel set in a 'glimmer factory' during World War II. The story follows two women, a Jewish prisoner and an ambitious filmmaker, who were once childhood friends and are
willing to risk everything to reveal the truth about Terezin.

Class Size Limit: 15

We'll discuss Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Uncle Tom's Cabin and for context, we'll also read and discuss two recent novels that profoundly reshape those earlier books: Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved and Percival Everett’s James. This rewrite of Huck was among the half-dozen titles on the short list for the 2024 Booker Prize, “the world’s most influential prize for a single work of fiction.”

Class Size Limit: 20

Italian for Travelers is an introduction to the basics with an emphasis on functional language, fun, and enrichment. Through an imaginary journey to six Italian cities, students-- beginner or intermediate-- will learn practical strategies for getting around in Italy through the lens of culture. Students can pace and tailor the course to suit their interests and experience, whether they travel by airplane or armchair.

Class Size Limit: 20

Suggested Reading: Practice Makes Perfect Italian Series, any basic phrase book like Berlitz or Lonely Planet

Six weeks of afternoon tea, crumpets, savories and sweets; with lively discussions of various topics tangentially related to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Get ready for a surprisingly serious look at sense and nonsense, the nature and history of mathematics, word play, non-Euclidean geometry, set theory, logic and the roots of post-modernism.

Class Size Limit: 18

Suggested Reading: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and The Hunting of the Snark