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  • Beginning Spanish from Chapter 10
  • Instructor: Memo Keswick
    Dates: 9/10/2025 - 11/12/2025
    Days: W
    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
    Sessions: 10
    Location: The Social Chico
    Room: Bradley 1
    Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
    Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
    This class uses a group study of the book Complete Spanish Step by Step, Premium 2nd Edition, by Barbara Bregstein, beginning with chapter 10.

    The book is available at Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Amazon, and other booksellers.
 

  • Beginning Spanish from Chapter 2
  • Instructor: Memo Keswick
    Dates: 9/10/2025 - 11/12/2025
    Days: W
    Times: 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
    Sessions: 10
    Location: The Social Chico
    Room: Bradley 1
    Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
    Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
    This class uses a group study of the book Complete Spanish Step by Step, Premium 2nd Edition, by Barbara Bregstein, beginning with chapter 2.

    The book is available at Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Amazon, and other booksellers.
 

  • Beginning Spanish from Chapter 6
  • Instructor: Memo Keswick
    Dates: 9/10/2025 - 11/12/2025
    Days: W
    Times: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
    Sessions: 10
    Location: The Social Chico
    Room: Bradley 1
    Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
    Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
    This class uses a group study of the book Complete Spanish Step by Step, Premium 2nd Edition, by Barbara Bregstein, beginning with chapter 6.

    The book is available at Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Amazon, and other booksellers.
 

  • French 1
  • Instructor: Leanne Ulvang (she/her/elle), Michele Martens
    Dates: 9/8/2025 - 11/10/2025
    Days: M
    Times: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    Sessions: 10
    Location: Online Learning
    Room: Link to be Provided
    Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
    Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
    This class is for people who have studied some French in the past. We study basic French grammar, usage, pronunciation, and vocabulary. The focus is communicating with others in written and spoken French.

    The recommended book, Easy French Step-by-Step by Myrna Bell Rochester, is available at Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Amazon, and other booksellers.


    This class will be live only and not recorded.
 

  • French 2
  • Instructor: Leanne Ulvang (she/her/elle)
    Dates: 9/8/2025 - 11/10/2025
    Days: M
    Times: 2:05 PM - 3:00 PM
    Sessions: 10
    Location: Online Learning
    Room: Link to be Provided
    Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
    Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
    The class is reading Le Chien Jaune by Georges Simonet. The class reads aloud, followed by translation into English, with some discussion of vocabulary, grammar, and the plot.

    The French edition of the book is available at Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Amazon, and other booksellers. The class will pick up where the class left off last term. New students this term will want to catch up before class starts.


    This class will be live only and not recorded.
 

  • French 3: Conversation
  • Instructor: Leanne Ulvang (she/her/elle), Jane Ziad
    Dates: 9/8/2025 - 11/10/2025
    Days: M
    Times: 3:05 PM - 4:00 PM
    Sessions: 10
    Location: Online Learning
    Room: Link to be Provided
    Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
    Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
    On parle français dans cette classe, sans traduction (si nous avons de la chance). On doit avoir l'envie d'entendre et de parler mieux le français, et peut-être un jour le parler couramment. Il n’y a pas de textes.




    This class will be live only and not recorded.
 

  • Spanish Composition and Conversation
  • Instructor: Memo Keswick
    Dates: 9/10/2025 - 11/12/2025
    Days: W
    Times: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    Sessions: 10
    Location: The Social Chico
    Room: Bradley 1
    Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
    Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
    This class covers writing and conversation in Spanish. The class will be conducted mostly in Spanish; English may be used for support. Participants will have the opportunity to speak and to write short compositions for review and discussion. The class may have native speakers and professional Spanish educators as guest speakers. There is nothing like having a professional Spanish educator to help learn Spanish conversation.

    There is an additional $25 materials and speaker fee payable to the instructor at the first class meeting.
 

  • The Power of Words: Euphemism, Metaphor, and Mindset
  • Instructor: Karen Burdette (she/her/hers)
    Dates: 10/14/2025 - 11/4/2025
    Days: Tu
    Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
    Sessions: 4
    Location: The Social Chico
    Room: Gordon 2
    Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
    Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
    This is a participatory, discussion-based class exploring the hidden assumptions in our language. Does the way we speak influence and manipulate the way we think? Our language is replete with militaristic euphemisms and metaphors, political code words and dog whistles, and hidden assumptions about power, patriarchy, hierarchy, and identity. Many of those words and phrases are so ingrained in our lexicon that we are oblivious to the potentially manipulative power they hold over us and our way of thinking.



    This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
 

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