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This class will cover four main topics:

1) "Archaeology and Cultures of Arizona" will summarize and interpret the archaeology of Arizona from the earliest Paleoindians through Archaic period hunters and foragers, the transition to true village life, and the Formative period Puebloan, Mogollon, Sinagua, Hohokam, Salado, and Patayan archaeological cultures and their relationships to Arizona’s historical Native American peoples, to provide context for the archaeological cultures of southern Arizona.

2) "Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam Indians" will focus on artifacts, architecture, and other material culture of southern Arizona's Hohokam culture. Items the Hohokam left behind provide archaeologists with clues for interpreting their relationships to the natural world, time reckoning, religious practices, beliefs, and deities, and possible reasons for the eventual demise of their way of life.

3) "Ancient Native American Pottery of Southern Arizona" will provide details about Native American ceramic styles that characterized specific eras in southern Arizona precontact and postcontact eras. The instructor will discuss how archaeologists use pottery for dating archaeological sites and interpreting ancient lifeways of the ancient Early Ceramic and Hohokam cultures, and of the historical Piman (Tohono O'odham and Akimel O'odham), Yuman (including Mohave and Maricopa), and Apachean peoples.

4) “Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art" features illustrations of southwestern US pictographs (rock paintings) and petroglyphs (symbols carved or pecked on rocks) and discussion of how specific rock art symbols are interpreted differently from popular, scientific, and modern Native American perspectives.

Our exploration of the Earth, Solar System, and Universe continues. This semester our topics will include the Cosmic Distance Ladder, Stellar Evolution, and Supernova. Constellation Concentration will further our in-depth look at a different constellation each week. And, we will continue with ‘Selected Short Subjects’. There will be several guest speakers from the University of Arizona's Astronomy, Planetary Sciences, and Geosciences Departments.

As always we will discuss on-going discoveries in Astronomy, Planetary Sciences, and Earth Sciences. And, Science Fiction Theatre continues, with short clips highlighting a century of Sci Fi movies and TV shows. And of course there will be ’Geo-feature-of-the-Week’, ‘What’s for Launch’, and ‘Books-of-the-Week’.

Information will be conveyed using short videos, awesome photos, understandable/fun graphics, and class discussions. Please join us for this continuing journey of discovery and adventure. Being in an earlier Astronomy/Geosciences class that I have hosted is neither a prerequisite nor necessary to understand and enjoy this class.

This class will cover past innovations, what is happening now, and what the future may bring in biology and medicine.

Chico Performances is curating a series of lectures prior to six Laxson Auditorium performances during the 2022-2023 season. These pre-show lectures, exclusively for OLLI members, will be held the Tuesday before each performance at The Social Chico.

When you sign up for a lecture, you will receive a 20% discount on two tickets for each performance. You can purchase your discounted tickets through the Chico Performances Box Office using the code in your registration confirmation email.

Chico Performances is curating a series of lectures prior to six Laxson Auditorium performances during the 2022-2023 season. These pre-show lectures, exclusively for OLLI members, will be held the Tuesday before each performance at The Social Chico.

When you sign up for a lecture, you will receive a 20% discount on two tickets for each performance. You can purchase your discounted tickets through the Chico Performances Box Office using the code in your registration confirmation email.

Chico Performances is curating a series of lectures prior to six Laxson Auditorium performances during the 2022-2023 season. These pre-show lectures, exclusively for OLLI members, will be held the Tuesday before each performance at The Social Chico.

When you sign up for a lecture, you will receive a 20% discount on two tickets for each performance. You can purchase your discounted tickets through the Chico Performances Box Office using the code in your registration confirmation email.

Chico Performances is curating a series of lectures prior to six Laxson Auditorium performances during the 2022-2023 season. These pre-show lectures, exclusively for OLLI members, will be held the Tuesday before each performance at The Social Chico.

When you sign up for a lecture, you will receive a 20% discount on two tickets for each performance. You can purchase your discounted tickets through the Chico Performances Box Office using the code in your registration confirmation email.

Let go of stress and come home to yourself. Over millennia, the sages of the Himalayan Yoga Tradition developed highly effective methods of movement, relaxation, and meditation. In this Study Group (SG) you will learn foundational practices from the Himalayan Yoga Tradition. Each session of this SG will have three phases: gentle movement and breathing, deep relaxation, and meditation. Members can expect to leave this class refreshed. Please note that the movements taught in this SG are not acrobatics. They are suitable for people with no yoga experience. If you've attended yoga classes and found them to be too strenuous or otherwise challenging, this SG is for you.

This class will cover the animals and plants living in North America as well as ecology and evolution.

This is a special opportunity to join a class from OLLI at University of North Florida!

That founding father’s contributions were abundant and significant. Discover how milestones in his life led him to become one of the most fascinating figures in American history. Track his youth and immigration to America. Learn about his time as an army officer and George Washington’s trusted confidant. Understand Hamilton’s role as a leading author of the Federalist Papers and his contributions to the Constitution. Consider his contentious relationships with Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr as well as his associations with the Schuyler sisters, one of whom would become his wife. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton: The Musical is woven throughout this course. Before you enter the room where it happens, find out what happened and why the musical’s themes resonate today.

Recommended: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow