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- Chico State Faculty Lecture Series
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Instructor: Sandra Flake (she/her/hers)
Dates: 10/8/2025 - 11/12/2025
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 6
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 2
Hybrid Class: Zoom Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
You may choose to attend this hybrid class in person or online. The Zoom link will be provided to all registered participants.
Chico State's tradition of academic excellence goes back more than 130 years. With over 850 faculty members and 13,000 students, the University's teaching and learning community is thriving. Discover the imagination, cutting-edge research, and expertise that flourishes in our own backyard!
This class will be recorded.
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- Poetry for Pleasure
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Instructor: Paul Belz, Jennifer Castañeda
Dates: 9/12/2025 - 11/7/2025
Days: F
Times: 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Sessions: 5
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Gordon 2
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Reading poetry helps you to know things more fully; it commands your attention; and it can sustain good conversation. In this class, participants select poetry from favorite sources to read aloud with fellow enthusiasts.
This class meets September 12, September 26, October 10, October 24, and November 7.
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- Reading Poetry for Inspiration and Enrichment
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Instructor: Kate Foley
Dates: 9/9/2025 - 11/4/2025
Days: Tu
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 8
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Each week the class will read poems by an individual poet, a collection of poems on a specific subject, or a collection of poems in a specific style. A wide range of poets and poetry will be presented, from classic to contemporary. We will discuss poetry from the perspective that the poet creates the work but the reader activates it.
This class will be live only and not recorded.
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- Slow Reading Shakespeare: A Second Look at Hamlet
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Instructor: Jack Ayer
Dates: 9/9/2025 - 11/4/2025
Days: Tu
Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 8
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
"Slow Reading Shakespeare" last tackled Hamlet in 2019. Six years on, it's time for a second look. Those who joined in the first time, those who have joined other "Slow Reading Shakespeare" classes, and complete newbies to Shakespeare are all welcome to join this second look. You'll be encouraged, but not required, to join in the discussion. You will want your own copy of the play, but any good standard edition will do. Email Jack (jdayer@ucdavis.edu) for guidance.
This class will be live only and not recorded.
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- The Word for World Is Forest: An Ecological Novel
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Instructor: Charles Copeland
Dates: 9/29/2025 - 11/10/2025
Days: M
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 7
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
This learning through conversation seminar will discuss a short 1972 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that asks the question, how can an ecological and environmental Armageddon be prevented? Humans from Earth invade an alien planet in order to harvest its natural resources. The indigenous humanoids fight to preserve their world and their culture. Le Guin, daughter of the famous Kroeber anthropologists, imagines an astonishing culture of pacifists.
The required book, The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin, is available at Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Amazon, and other booksellers. The recommended edition for this class is the 2010 Tor Books edition, ISBN 978-0-7653-2464-1.
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- Writer's Workshop
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This writer's workshop serves a community of writers interested in sharing their writing and responding to other writers' work. We will focus on fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, poetry, travel writing, stories for children, and other types of writing. Following a workshop format, this class will be an opportunity for students to receive feedback for their written work and provide meaningful support to fellow writers.
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- Writing Short Plays
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Learn to write a short 10- to 20-minute play. We will cover the basics of playwriting, including format, structure, character, conflict, and dialogue. This is a workshop-style class in which we discuss concepts and techniques, share what we have written, and write short exercises to develop skills. Prompts will be offered to stimulate your ideas. There will be an opportunity for some of the plays to be performed in the annual OLLI Play Festival.
This class counts toward the 3-class limit.
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