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- Adventures in Utopia, Eutopia, and Dystopia: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
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Instructor: Charles Copeland
Dates: 9/12/2024 - 11/14/2024
Days: Th
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 9
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
In 1932 Aldous Huxley created an imaginary future to examine the benefits and liabilities of living in a eutopia based on peace, prosperity, and stability. Does the quest for happiness conflict with liberty, knowledge, and progress? Join this learning through conversation seminar as we explore a future world order organized according to the alleged principles of Henry Ford. Published 92 years ago, Huxley's masterpiece confronts many of today's national and global issues.
The required book, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, is available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other booksellers. The recommended edition for this class is the Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, ISBN 978-0-06-085052-4.
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- Chico State Faculty Lecture Series
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Instructor: Sandra Flake (she/her/hers)
Dates: 10/9/2024 - 11/13/2024
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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- Ekphrastic Writing and Art
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Instructor: Joan Goodreau, Jean Varda
Dates: 10/4/2024 - 10/25/2024
Days: F
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 4
Location: The Social Chico
Room: Bradley 1
Fee for À La Carte Members: $30.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
We will design collages on the covers of blank composition books, then write inside the notebooks about the collage pieces and other art provided for viewing. Composition books will be provided by the instructors.
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- Myths, Legends, and Tales of the Celts
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Instructor: Lynn Elliott
Dates: 9/11/2024 - 11/13/2024
Days: W
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 10
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
W.B. Yeats, in his essay "The Celtic Element In Literature," spoke of visions of a world expressed by people who "believed that trees were divine, and could take a human or grotesque shape and dance among the shadows." Once a powerful people who dominated much of Europe, the Celts were reduced to a few small groups after the Roman invasions. However, their mythology survived, thanks largely to the efforts of medieval Irish and Welsh monks who wrote down the stories.
Celtic Myths Posters
This class will be recorded.
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- Poetry for Pleasure
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Instructor: Paul Belz
Dates: 9/13/2024 - 11/15/2024
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 13, October 4, October 18, November 1, and November 15.
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- Reading Poetry for Insight and Pleasure
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Instructor: Susan Bollinger, Kate Foley
Dates: 9/10/2024 - 11/12/2024
Days: Tu
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Sessions: 10
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, and we will discuss them from the perspective that the poet creates the work but the reader activates it.
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- Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Group
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Instructor: Stephen Fritter
Dates: 9/11/2024 - 11/13/2024
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 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 will discuss favorite science fiction authors, their books, and the social, political, and scientific issues they raise. There may be occasional magical journeys into works of fantasy. The books and authors will be chosen by Stephen with suggestions from class participants and former class leader Sydney Wilde. This is a fun, free-flowing gathering of science fiction enthusiasts. Please join us and bring your ideas, insights, and suspension of disbelief.
Several classes will be devoted to the theme of generation starships with works by authors such as Robert A. Heinlein, Brian W. Aldiss, Poul Anderson, and Kim Stanley Robinson as source material. The books for this group will be available in e-book, audio, paperback, and hard-bound formats from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other booksellers.
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- Slow Reading Shakespeare: The Tempest
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Instructor: Jack Ayer
Dates: 9/10/2024 - 11/12/2024
Days: Tu
Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: Online Learning
Room: Link to be Provided
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
Join us for a collaborative read of Shakespeare's The Tempest, a play about colonialism and the dispossessed. You'll be encouraged, but not required, to join in the discussion. This class is for beginners and Shakespeare veterans alike. You will want your own copy of the play, but any good standard edition will do. E-mail Jack (jdayer@ucdavis.edu) for guidance.
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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 non-fiction, 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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Instructor: Pam Loyd
Dates: 9/11/2024 - 11/13/2024
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Sessions: 10
Location: The Terraces
Room: Shasta Room
Fee for À La Carte Members: $55.00
Fee for Unlimited Members: Included
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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