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Instructor: Andrew Wilson
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Sessions: 6 Dates: 10/31/2019 - 12/12/2019 NOTE: This course does not
meet on November 28.
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Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: Th
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Course Location: Homewood Suites - Albemarle Room
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Location Address: 2036 India Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $54.00
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Course Description: Global warming and resulting climate change
are the 21st century's most important environmental
problems. Beginning with a brief introduction to the science of climate change, we will then examine the
new scientific finding on climate change impacts,
feedback loops, and tipping points such as sea level
rise and ocean acidification, melting polar ice, species
migration and extinction, increases in extreme
weather, and effects on human health. Having determined
the extent of the problem, we will study what
can be done to slow or halt climate change such as
clean wind and solar technologies, carbon taxes, and
government regulations.
Suggested Reading
Kolbert, Elizabeth. 2006. Field notes from a catastrophe: man, nature, and climate change. Bloomsbury USA. New York, New York.
Nordhaus, William. 2013. The climate casino: risk, uncertainty, and economics for a warming world. Yale University Press. New Haven, CT
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Instructor: David Lee Rubin
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Sessions: 6 Dates: 10/31/2019 - 12/12/2019
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Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Days: Th
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Course Location: The Center - Boardroom
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Location Address: 491 Hillsdale Drive Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $54.00
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Course Description: Winner of the Grand Prize for best dramatic feature at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival,
Joyce Chopra's Smooth Talk instantly became - and remains to this day - both iconic and
controversial. In this course, we will analyze and interpret Smooth Talk as a work of art, as a
strategic rewriting of a Joyce Carol Oates short story, and as a focal point of critical
commentary. To stimulate and inform each week's discussion, participants will identify
and present significant interpretive (as opposed to factual or evaluative) problems.
Suggested Reading/Viewing:
Smooth Talk on DVD, available at Amazon Prime and NetFlix as well as local video shops and libraries.
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" a casebook edited and introduced by distinguished scholar Elaine Showalter. Contents: the Oates story and many examples of critical reaction to it as well as the film.
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Instructor: Claudia Hanna
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Sessions: 4 Dates: 10/31/2019 - 11/21/2019
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Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Th
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Course Location: Brooks Family YMCA - Community Room
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Location Address: 151 McIntyre Park Dr. Charlottesville, VA 22902
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Fee: $44.00
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Course Description: The Mediterranean diet has been hailed as the best diet for overall health. This course will provide building blocks for eating simply, healthfully, mindfully and seasonally. Class members will learn to prepare traditional recipes using fresh produce, herbs, and spices. It is a hands-on class, where we will chop, season, and learn authentic recipes from Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon.
Note: This course has a $20 materials fee to be collected by the instructor at the first class.
Required Materials:
Please bring a cutting board and knife to class
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Instructor: John Brown
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Sessions: 6 Dates: 10/31/2019 - 12/12/2019
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Times: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Days: Th
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Course Location: Homewood Suites - Albemarle Room
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Location Address: 2036 India Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $54.00
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Course Description: The United States today is a high-energy society.
For over a century, Americans also wielded vast
economic, political, and military powers. How do
energy sources and applications relate to the exercise
of social, corporate, military, or political power? In
considering these sprawling questions, this course sets
energy in six historical contexts: the transition from
coal to oil, energy policy in the New Deal, energy in
the strategy and tactics of World War Two, the postwar
technocrats behind civilian nuclear power and
the interstate highway system, energy's role in globalization,
and factors shaping US energy supply and
demand today.
Suggested Reading
Students registered for the class should contact the instructor if they wish his suggested readings on topics, technologies, or energies of particular interest
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Instructor: Henry McHenry
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Sessions: 6 Dates: 10/31/2019 - 12/12/2019
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Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Th
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Course Location: Meadows Presbyterian - Choir Room
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Location Address: 2200 Angus Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $54.00
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Course Description: Reading Shakespeare carefully, attending to dramatic
texture and poetic nuance, and seeing and
thinking about productions are the main class activities,
along with examining the design of ideas and the
progression of feelings as they build. NOTE: We will
complete our study of the Henriad with Henry IV Part
1 and Henry V, but the previous course is not a prerequisite.
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Instructor: Jared Troutman
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Sessions: 6 Dates: 10/24/2019 - 12/12/2019
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Times: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
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Course Location: Country Inn & Suites -
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Location Address: 1600 Emmet St N Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $54.00
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Course Description: Our historical love-hate relationship with money
is brief and wondrous. We will explore the concept
of currency, its origins, and its global dominance. We
will work to demystify this taboo subject, on whose
dependence we cannot deny.
Suggested Reading
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Fergusen
You are a Badass at Making Money by Jennifer Sincero
Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money by James Buchan
Money: A History edited by Catherine Eagleton and Jonathan Williams
The History of Money: From Bartering to Banking by Martin Jenkins illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura
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Instructor: Steven Nichols
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Sessions: 4 Dates: 11/7/2019 - 12/5/2019 This course does not meet on November 28th.
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Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
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Course Location: Country Inn & Suites -
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Location Address: 1600 Emmet St N Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $44.00
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Course Description: Upon his death in 1826, Thomas Jefferson left
written direction for the inscription he desired for his
tombstone. It was to read: "Here was buried Thomas
Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American
Independence, and the Virginia Statutes for Religious
Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia."
This class will be a guided examination of each of
these three elements, reviewed in both a short- and
long-range historical context.
Suggested Reading
Thomas Jefferson- America's Paradoxical Patriot
Alf J. Mapp, Jr.
1987.
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Instructor: Bob Lorish
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Sessions: 4 Dates: 10/31/2019 - 11/21/2019
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Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Th
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Course Location: OLLI Main Office - Conference Room
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Location Address: 485 Hillsdale Drive Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $44.00
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Course Description: This seminar will value the input of all class members.
We will examine the upcoming 2020 Presidential
primaries. Special attention will be paid to the calendar
of the state primaries/caucuses, candidate messaging,
media coverage, and campaign financing. We will
also take a shot at predicting who will win various
primaries/caucuses, including the Republicans, if they
have contested primaries.
Suggested Reading
Washington Post
New York Times
Wall Street Journal
Politico
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Instructor: Ralph Rush
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Sessions: 3 Dates: 11/7/2019 - 11/21/2019
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Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: Th
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Course Location: Meadows Presbyterian - Choir Room
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Location Address: 2200 Angus Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $33.00
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Course Description: We will examine the blues from its African roots,
to work songs and gospel, to rock and roll, and everything
in between. Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson,
Bessie Smith defined styles of American music that
have contributed to later work as varied as Miles
Davis and the Rolling Stones. Where did this music
come from? How did it develop? It is an exciting story
that, by itself, tells much of the local history of the
American soul.
Suggested Reading
Bastin, Bruce. Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast, 1995.
Cook, Bruce. Listen to the Blues, 1995.
Wald, Elijah. Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues, 2004.
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey. Edited by Peter Guralnick, et al, 2004.
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Instructor: Robert Reid
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Sessions: 6 Dates: 10/31/2019 - 12/12/2019
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Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Days: Th
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Course Location: Unity of Charlottesville - Large Classroom
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Location Address: 2825 Hydraulic Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $54.00
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Course Description: Drawn from thirty years of teaching Great Books,
this course surveys six early stages of the epic: 1) epics
of warfare (Iliad, Aeneid, Mahabharata); 2) heroic
slaying of cultural monsters (Beowulf, Germanic
sagas); 3) homecoming or pilgrimage epics (Odyssey,
Aeneid, Divine Comedy); 4) chivalric romance epics
(Lancelot, Perceval, Morte Darthur, Orlando Furioso,
Faerie Queen); 5) mock-epics (Don Quixote, Gulliver's
Travels, Rape of the Lock, Candide); and 6) encyclopedic
moral-spiritual epics (Paradise Lost, Faust,
Vala, Prelude). For each work, a summary and outline
including date, cultural era and ideals, heroic avatars,
and plot structure will be given. NOTE: In spring of
2020 "The Epic, Part 2" will survey the greatest works
of modern times in novels & films.)
Required Material
NONE. Summaries will be provided in advance. Brushing up on some works and adding to a lively discussion is highly encouraged. We will question what values changed the epic and its heroic avatars.
Suggested Reading
ALL OPTIONAL: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Carole Satyamurti's trans. of Mahabharata (esp. "Song of the Lord"); Beowulf; Dante's Divine Comedy; Chretien's Lancelot & Perceval, Malory's Morte Darthur, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Spenser's Faerie Queene; Cervantes' Don Quixote, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Pope's Rape of the Lock, Voltaire's Candide; Milton's Paradise Lost, Goethe's Faust, Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Vala, Wordsworth's Prelude.
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Instructor: John Burt, Richard Elder
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Sessions: 5 Dates: 12/9/2019 - 12/13/2019
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Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: D
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Course Location: Rockfish Presbyterian - Fellowship Hall
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Location Address: 5016 Rockfish Valley Highway (Rt 151) Nellysford, VA 22958
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Fee: $55.00
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Course Description: This course will highlight our understanding of the aging process with emphasis on cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease. Participants will take a virtual biking trip across Europe from the comfort of their own chair, at their own pace - even if that is just sitting still. We will discuss willpower, health behavior, the connections between pleasure and happiness, and the role of each in a good life. Finally, we will discuss the role of genetics and epigenetics in positive aging.
NOTE: This course meets on five consecutive days.
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Instructor: Joan Fry
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Sessions: 4 Dates: 10/31/2019 - 11/21/2019
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Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: Th
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Course Location: OLLI Main Office - Conference Room
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Location Address: 485 Hillsdale Drive Charlottesville, VA 22901
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Fee: $44.00
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Course Description: In this course, we will discuss the importance of
passing down your family's favorite foods to your
children and grandchildren. What started as quality
time, cooking favorite family recipes together for the
instructor and her grandson, soon turned to the creation
of a family cookbook. Participants will write
about food memories along with recipes and create a
booklet to pass on to children and grandchildren. In
our class meetings, we will share stories about these
favorite recipes and share some of the foods.
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