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The course will be a history of important economic eras and the thinking that dominated those eras. The course covers the period from the American founding to the 21st century. The course will address some critical time periods, events, issues, and ideology contextualized by the underlying evolutionary capitalist system and public policy efforts. Why these eras are significant will be identified. The course will be lectures with time for questions and discussion.

Sketch noting is a visual way to take notes. It can be used in nature and vacation journals, meetings, lectures, book groups, podcasts, and even sermons. Sketch noting captures ideas with quick techniques such as using words, simple drawings, lettering, connectors, containers, lines, and star people. It can help organize any page. The class will begin with learning the basics. Anyone who takes notes can benefit from this visual way to take notes; it can really be fun.

An activity-based course focusing on the folk dance traditions of countries around the world with a particular emphasis on the Balkan and Mediterranean regions. National dances of several countries will be introduced, and the dance figures associated with them. All dances will be taught and reviewed several times and repeated over the course. Initially, most dances will be easy to follow but we will progress to more challenging ones. The aim of the course is to allow participants to feel comfortable with many of the dances commonly played at international folk-dance events.

2024 is the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The class will first look at the decision and the Supreme Court that produced it; move on to the law arising from the decision; examine the factors affecting the realization of the goals of the decision; and conclude with a discussion about where we are as a nation and where we need to go in terms of successful public education.

In this course we will discuss how to punch up that summer garden you are hoping for! Specifically, we will discuss watering, mulching, compost and more; weeds, deadheading, and fertilizing; bargains and containers; harvesting and replanting; and getting our gardens ready for fall.

Once, long before Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, there was a magical world called broadcast television in which five networks reigned supreme: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and PBS. In this course, we will survey how these “basic cable” stations became TV titans through savvy marketing and carefully curated programming. Were you a loyal viewer of Masterpiece Theatre? Did you save your Thursday nights for “Must See TV”? Then tune in each week as we explore how these five distinct brand personas helped shape late 20th century entertainment and culture in powerful and surprising ways.