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(PBAF054)
Instructor: David Throup
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Day of the Week: F
Times: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Dates: 4/7/2023 - 5/19/2023
This course has moved to Unity.
Number of classes in this course: 7
Fee: $77.00
Course Location: Unity of Charlottesville - Classroom
Location Address: 2825 Hydraulic Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
Limit: 20
Course Description:
This course shall examine political crises in Africa over the past 35 years. The first class will examine Somalia in the 1980s and 1990s, including the involvement of the US and the UN. The second class will discuss the genocide in Rwanda and explore how political events in Rwanda interacted with those in neighboring Burundi. classes three and four consider the prolonged civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone., and the institutional collapse of the two states. class five will study the conflict in Cote d'Ivoire from the overthrow of the Bedie regime in 1998 to the end of the civil war in 2011. Algeria and Libya will be considered in class six, and the jihadist threat in Mali and Burkina Faso will be examined in the final class.
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(ARTS023)
Instructor: Pam Roland Lengel
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Day of the Week: Th
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Dates: 4/20/2023 - 5/25/2023
Number of classes in this course: 6
Fee: $66.00
Course Location: The Center - Classroom
Location Address: 540 Belvedere Blvd Charlottesville, VA 22901
Limit: 20
Course Description:
If you recently took Yes, You Can Learn to Draw (OLLI Fall 2021) and want to learn more, this course will provide time for practice and feedback. We will explore the geometry and patterns of the world around us, including nature, man, and the things we love.
*Recommended supplies:
ESSENTIALS—Bring that “can-do” attitude and willingness to go beyond where you are. For the first class, bring something you have drawn to share and your favorite drawing tools and paper. Invest in and bring a sketch book you will add to regularly. Great line to use is Stillman and Birn; there are several weights of paper to pick from depending on if you want to add watercolor or use inks. These journals are available at the Art Box in Crozet and at the Plaza with Foods of all Nations or online at https://www.stillmanandbirn.com
There are MANY books on drawing. Find your favorite and bring to share! My favs are Edwards, Betty. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Lohan, Frank J. The Drawing Handbook; and Martin, Judy. Sketching School.
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- Instructor: Jill Trischman-Marks
- Day of the week: Th, Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM.
- 4/27 is a tour of the Botanical Garden
- Dates: 4/20/2023 - 4/27/2023
- Sessions: 2
- You will not be charged the $22.00 course fee unless you are admitted to the opportunity.
- Limit (we do monitor enrollment and when possible may add seats): 18
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Building a public botanical garden is not an easy feat. Botanical Garden of the Piedmont (BGP) is driven by the Central Virginia public’s input, aspirations, and desire to be a place of beauty, education, healing, and unity. The input phase of the garden design process is ongoing. Through continuous outreach, we hope to ensure that the built garden will represent the hopes and dreams of the entire community.
This course will outline what has already been achieved in the process toward building the garden and give insight into the road map ahead. The first class will be in the classroom and the second class will be a tour of the garden site. The tour will let you see for yourself how the Garden is already working to showcase some of the unique flora of the Piedmont region, to enhance public knowledge of nature and land stewardship, and to increase access to a place for solace and comfort in the community. For more information about the Garden: https://piedmontgarden.org/
*Directions for the tour will be shared with enrolled members.
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- SPECIAL NOTICE: Echoes of Our War The American Experience in Combat in Vietnam, The GeoPolitics of the VietNam War and Significant Years in the Vietnam War era are available as individual courses and all together as a bundle. Due to the connectedness of these enrollments we are now manually enrolling members in the individual courses listed above and the bundle, if there is space. Please place yourself on the waitlist and we will contact you if space is available.
- Instructor: Bob Lorish, Heyward Macdonald, Marc J. Selverstone, Robert Toplin
- Day of the week: M Tu W, Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM.
- Dates: 4/17/2023 - 5/15/2023
- Sessions: 13
- Location: The Center
- You will not be charged the $100.00 course fee unless you are admitted to the class.
- Limit: will not be increased for this course: 30
- Course Description:
This mix from both experiential and academic backgrounds promises to be both informative and challenging.
Multiple aspects of the Vietnam War will be presented, as well as the important events happening in 1963-1965 and 1968. The policies of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon will be examined.
Take one or take them all for views of this turbulent time from various perspectives and disciplines.
Enroll in all three at a discounted rate of $100.
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- Instructor: Bob Lorish
- Day of the week: Tu, Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM.
- Dates: 4/18/2023 - 5/16/2023
- Sessions: 5
- Location: The Center
- You will not be charged the $55.00 course fee unless you are admitted to the class.
- Limit: will not be increased for this course: 30
- Course Description:
This course will be an up close and personal view of what it was like for Americans to be in active combat in Vietnam. Topics to be explored are the draft, military training, arrival in Vietnam, the daily existence of combat troops, tactics, the Vietnamese, death, coming home, and the impact of combat on one's life. Additionally, we will discuss the similarities of Vietnam and Afghanistan. Videos will be utilized that are graphic, contain harsh language and generate strong emotions.
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- Instructor: Faith Andrews Bedford
- Day of the week: Th, Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM.
- Dates: 4/27/2023 - 5/18/2023
- Sessions: 4
- You will not be charged the $44.00 course fee unless you are admitted to the opportunity.
- Limit (we do monitor enrollment and when possible may add seats): 15
- Course Description:
Our life journeys are made up of many threads woven together to form a rich tapestry. Young or old, experienced or not, we are all weavers and storytellers. Through writing exercises, tips, memory triggers, and examples, you will be encouraged to create your own unique chronicle to treasure and pass down to the generations to come.
Required materials: A notebook and pen or pencil
Recommended reading: Andrew Bedford, Faith. Barefoot Summers. Herst Publishing 2000.
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(LIFE033)
Instructor: Anna Askounis
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Day of the Week: F
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Dates: 4/7/2023 - 4/21/2023
Number of classes in this course: 3
Fee: $33.00
Course Location: Meadows Presbyterian - Fellowship Hall
Location Address: 2200 Angus Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
Limit: 12
Course Description:
In this class, we will write, reflect upon and discuss our experiences growing up in the military or foreign service or simply as a child whose parent moved frequently for work.
“As the child of an Air Force officer and test pilot, I moved every two years and ultimately found, as an adult and as a marriage and family therapist, that these experiences affected me profoundly and shaped me in ways I never realized or understood.”
We will examine these experiences as young children of elementary age and later as middle and high school students and later over our life spans to discover and understand how these experiences shaped us and influenced the choices we made in our professional and personal lives.
“I look forward to including you in this exploration!”
* Prerequisite: This course is for those whose childhoods were characterized by frequent moves.
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(HUMN064)
Instructor: Robin Reid
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Day of the Week: Tu
Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Dates: 4/11/2023 - 5/16/2023
Number of classes in this course: 6
Fee: $66.00
Course Location: Unity of Charlottesville - Classroom
Location Address: 2825 Hydraulic Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
Limit: 25
Course Description:
In surveying the changing stages of epic storytelling from Homer to Blake, we will explore its dynamics as a ground for mystic completeness, making it a holistic story: its uses of epiphany (encounters with divinity), ascesis (the growth of self-restraint), and emanation (the outburst of prophecy and mystic creation).
*Recommended reading will be shared with those enrolled in this course.
ADDENDUM to “Harvesting Mysticism in the Epic, from Homer to Blake”:
To enhance discussion in this course I have decided to focus mainly on the culminating figure, William Blake, especially his early poems, with brief summaries of the great epics. Relevant material from the epic tradition will be visited in brief lectures and summaries. Our excellent and inexpensive texts are the Erdman & Bloom edition of Blake’s work and Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake, by Leo Damrosch.
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(PBAF017)
Instructor: Rabbi Joel Schwartzman
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Day of the Week: Th
Times: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Dates: 4/20/2023 - 5/11/2023
Number of classes in this course: 4
Fee: $44.00
Course Location: Meadows Presbyterian - Choir Room
Location Address: 2200 Angus Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
Limit: 35
*This course must have a minimum of 15 waitlisted to proceed as scheduled.
Course Description:
This four-session course will briefly touch on regional issues including: 1) water, natural resources, religion, historical origins, regional alliances, weaponry and the Suez Canal; 2) a bit of family background and a survey of the timeline of Israel's military conflicts; and in the sessions 3) and 4) examine Israel's strategic principles, relations with its neighbors, neighborhood relations in general, threats to and opportunities for peaceful coexistence, and military hardware. This course does not address, except tangentially, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. *The Instructor will share relevant information via email before each class.
*Place yourself on the waitlist. Once the minimum of 15 is reached the course will proceed as scheduled. OLLI at UVA will contact you.
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(ARTS047)
Instructor: Horace Scruggs
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Day of the Week: Tu
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Dates: 4/18/2023 - 5/23/2023
Number of classes in this course: 6
Fee: $66.00
Course Location: Homewood Suites - Albemarle Room
Location Address: 2036 India Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
Limit: 35
Course Description:
Listening effectively to jazz can be greatly enhanced by understanding the creative forces that formed "America's Classical Music." This course will explore the people, places, and cultures that combined to create one of the most sophisticated styles of music. From Ragtime to Rock, from New Orleans to New York, class participants will gain a broad knowledge of Jazz through informative and entertaining lectures, video and audio examples, and live music demonstrations.
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(HUMN065)
Instructor: Gordon Stewart
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Day of the Week: W
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Dates: 4/12/2023 - 5/17/2023
Number of classes in this course: 6
Fee: $66.00
Course Location: OLLI at UVA at Studio IX -
Location Address: 969 2nd Street SE Charlottesville, VA 22902
Limit: 15
Course Description:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the “Universalgenie” of German history, arts and culture is well known for his many diverse and accomplished endeavors and especially for his poetry and magnum opus, Faust. Goethe explored the natural world, was active in public administration and the arts, and made significant contributions to every literary genre. In this course we will proceed chronologically, acquainting ourselves with his long, rich and creative life. In our six classes we will read and discuss bilingual versions of several well-known poems that grew out of his many love relationships, travels, experiences in nature, and reflections about life. The course is taught in English with bilingual texts. Knowledge of some German is welcome and helps in the appreciation of his poems but is neither expected nor necessary. The format of the class is informal, with brief lectures about Goethe and introductions to the texts followed by discussion.
*Recommended reading: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Selected Poetry, Translated and with an Introduction by David Luke, in Penguin Classics. Available from Amazon in paperback and Kindle. The paperback edition (new, $20; used from $13) is preferred for its side-by-side German/English texts, much easier to access than in the Kindle version ($10).
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- Instructor: Gaye Wilson
- Day of the week: W, Times: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM.
- Dates: 5/17/2023 - 5/24/2023
- Sessions: 2
- You will not be charged the $22.00 course fee unless you are admitted to the opportunity.
- Limit (we do monitor enrollment and when possible may add seats): 35
- Course Description:
John Trumbull's iconic painting, The Declaration of Independence, July 4th 1776 was a long time in the making. The final version that hangs in the rotunda of the US Capitol today signifies an interesting collaboration between the artist and his contemporary, Thomas Jefferson. This course will focus on this painting supported by examples of other pertinent works from Trumbull's studio. The art is discussed within the context of the political events of the time and offers a different approach to understanding the ambitions for the new Republic along with the personal aspirations of both Trumbull and Jefferson.
*Recommended reading will be shared with those who enroll.
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- Instructor: Dan Sherman
- Day of the week: Th, Times: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM.
- Dates: 3/23/2023 - 3/23/2023
- Sessions: 1
- You will not be charged the $11.00 course fee unless you are admitted to the opportunity.
- Limit (we do monitor enrollment and when possible may add seats): 35
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Judy Garland was an icon of the screen, best known for the Wizard of Oz, which was filmed when she was only 16. Despite many successes at MGM studios, her career there ended when she was dismissed 12 years later. Loved by her fans, Judy Garland immediately went on to a hugely successful career outside of the movies as a concert performer. This course will fill in the background of Garland’s life and career with little-known facts and show many clips that present the emotional depth she projected until her death at age 47 in 1969.
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(HIST105)
Instructor: Dorothy Canter
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Day of the Week: W
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Dates: 4/12/2023 - 4/12/2023
Number of classes in this course: 1
Fee: $11.00
Course Location: Homewood Suites - Albemarle Room
Location Address: 2036 India Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
Limit: 35
Course Description:
Julius Rosenwald, the son of German Jewish immigrants, helped make Sears, Roebuck and Co. the retailing powerhouse of the early twentieth century, and then used his great wealth to become an inspiring and innovative philanthropist. He helped build nearly 5,000 Rosenwald Schools that educated one-third of the African Americans in the South during the Jim Crow era. Learn about the life and legacy of the most important philanthropist you never heard of, his partnership with Booker T. Washington, the innovative model of philanthropy he pioneered, and the Campaign to create a National Park to honor Julius Rosenwald and the Rosenwald Schools (www.rosenwaldpark.org).
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(PBAF042)
Instructor: Scott Fulton
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Day of the Week: W
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Dates: 4/12/2023 - 5/17/2023
Number of classes in this course: 6
Fee: $66.00
Course Location: Homewood Suites - Albemarle Room
Location Address: 2036 India Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
Limit: 35
Course Description:
If you could add 10 years of doing more of the things you love, what would they be? This course looks at updating our understanding of how everyday choices can add up to big health span returns starting today! We'll also look at simple ways to measure and track our health along the way.
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(HIST104)
Instructor: Dan Sherman
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Day of the Week: F
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Dates: 3/24/2023 - 3/24/2023
Number of classes in this course: 1
Fee: $11.00
Course Location: Homewood Suites - Albemarle Room
Location Address: 2036 India Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
Limit: 35
Course Description:
Legendary inventor Nikola Tesla is known to many as an eccentric character in the history of science, but in reality, he made profoundly important contributions to technology fought with Thomas Edison in the early years of the electrical power industry, and his range of inventions, including radio transmitters, including the development of key industries and the scientists and financiers behind them.
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- Instructor: Marc J. Selverstone, Robert Toplin
- Day of the week: W, Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM.
- Dates: 4/26/2023 - 5/10/2023
- Sessions: 3
- Location: The Center
- You will not be charged the $33.00 course fee unless you are admitted to the class.
- Limit: will not be increased for this course: 30
- Course Description:
This course will examine key developments in the Vietnam War story in the years 1963,1964,1965 and 1968. From the Kennedy assassination in 1963 to the 1968 election of Richard Nixon, these four years are packed with major historical touchpoints in American history.
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- Instructor: Marion Votaw
- Day of the week: Tu, Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM.
- Dates: 4/18/2023 - 5/23/2023
- Sessions: 6
- You will not be charged the $66.00 course fee unless you are admitted to the opportunity.
- Limit (we do monitor enrollment and when possible may add seats): 10
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream. But *can* we see the content of the character at all, or only the color of the skin? This course will take a more focused look at bigotry than a general Social Psychology course. We will start with an overview of how social perception and cognition happen in general, then concentrate on how the "Us or Them" component influences how we see others, and what we read into their behaviors. We will address highly controversial issues, such as police shootings, anti-Semitism, sexism, ageism, politicization of science, and other prejudices and discriminations. We will conclude with how to [try to] work against such divisions.
Note: Recommended materials: colored pencils, paper or laptop for taking notes.
Suggested Reading: King, Martin L. I Have a Dream. Speech presented at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., August 1968. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/mlk01.asp.
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(LIFE017)
Instructor: Scott Elliff
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Day of the Week: F
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Dates: 4/7/2023 - 4/21/2023
4/21 DuCard Vineyard tour
Number of classes in this course: 3
Fee: $22.00
Course Location: Homewood Suites - Albemarle Room
Location Address: 2036 India Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
Limit: 35
Course Description:
The local wine industry has become an important feature of Charlottesville's landscape. This course will provide an overview, designed to help casual wine drinkers and enthusiasts get a better appreciation of the industry and a background on how it all comes together. Topics will include: 1) history and background of the industry, current status and future challenges; 2) key decisions and steps involved in starting and operating a vineyard, the science and art of making wine—methods, equipment, and decisions involved; 3) an on-site visit to DuCard Vineyards in Madison County, where we will walk through the vineyard and the winery to see it all first-hand and enjoy a tasting.
Note: Wine tasting at DuCard will involve a separate $20 fee; transportation is on your own.
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- Instructor: Heyward Macdonald
- Day of the week: M, Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM.
- Dates: 4/17/2023 - 5/15/2023
- Sessions: 5
- You will not be charged the $55.00 course fee unless you are admitted to the opportunity.
- Limit (we do monitor enrollment and when possible may add seats): 30
- Course Description:
This course will review the historical, political, and cultural causes of the War, and will follow the following topics leading to the ravages of the war on all sides.
· Culture and Crisis of an Ancient People and the French Colonial tear in the fabric of their culture
· WWII, the Cold War, & the Politics of Fear in the U.S.
· The Land proves difficult: Topography, Climate, Economy, & Ethnic distribution of Indo-China
· Politics and Warfare in VietNam and at Home
· The Aftermath of the War, Lesions and Lessons
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- Instructor: John Burt
- Day of the week: M, Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM.
- Dates: 5/1/2023 - 5/22/2023
- Sessions: 4
- You will not be charged the $44.00 course fee unless you are admitted to the opportunity.
- Limit (we do monitor enrollment and when possible may add seats): 10
- Course Description:
In this course we will visit the most awe-inspiring places in the world conjoined with a discussion of the health benefits of awe experiences. Each student will create a pictorial awe journal to which they can return at regular intervals to replay their awe selections. Current research suggests that awe can take us outside the self, unplug the ego, and connect us with positive emotions. Among our visits, we will spend one day on Mars with an aerospace-engineer-guide. We will also explore awe returns from the James Webb Space Telescope.
*Recommended reading: In Awe, John O'Leary; The Awe Factor, Allen Klein; Awestruck, Jonah Paquette.
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- Instructor: Stephen Kennamer
- Day of the week: Th, Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM.
- Dates: 4/20/2023 - 5/25/2023
- Sessions: 6
- You will not be charged the $66.00 course fee unless you are admitted to the opportunity.
- Limit (we do monitor enrollment and when possible may add seats): 25
- Course Description:
J. Krishnamurti, once installed as the leader of a worldwide spiritual organization, dissolved his ties with it in 1929 at the age of 34, saying that "truth is a pathless land." For the rest of his long life, he taught freelance in the United States, Europe, and India. The course will be strongly interactive, using transcripts of his talks as spurs to investigating the nature of meditation and the meaning of a spiritually rich life. We will take up his questions as he did - via dialogue and open-ended conversation.
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(HIST110)
Instructor: Frank Settle
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Day of the Week: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Dates: 4/26/2023 - 5/10/2023
Number of classes in this course: 3
Fee: $33.00
Course Location: The Center - Classroom
Location Address: 540 Belvedere Blvd Charlottesville, VA 22901
Limit: 25
Course Description:
Using Google maps, participants will explore General Marshall’s life and character. The course will integrate precise locations with significant events in his life. Participants will travel with him from his birthplace in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, through his military and diplomatic careers, to Oslo, Norway, where he received the Nobel Peace Prize. Information presented at each location will provide insights into his personality as well as his outstanding leadership throughout the 20th century.
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(ARTS095)
Instructor: Richard Wilson
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Day of the Week: Tu
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Dates: 3/28/2023 - 5/9/2023
Number of classes in this course: 7
Fee: $77.00
Course Location: Unity of Charlottesville - Sanctuary
Location Address: 2825 Hydraulic Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
Limit: 80
Course Description:
The concepts of wilderness and rusticity are major components of American identity and culture, and therefore of art and design. The location of American values in the wilderness and the attempt to express them visually, physically, and intellectually is an American trait that lies in opposition to other methods of defining American character, as for example through history and/or the approbation of European motifs. This course will look at landscape painting, the development and design of the national parks, and the architecture of cabins, resorts and hotels. Included will be the work of Downing, Church, Olmsted, Richardson and others.
*Recommended reading Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind (Fourth Edition, Yale University Press, 2001). Carr, Ethan: Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture & the National Park Service (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). more reading will be shared with those enrolled in this course.
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(HIST061)
Instructor: Edward Dillingham
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Day of the Week: Th
Times: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Dates: 4/13/2023 - 5/18/2023
Number of classes in this course: 6
Fee: $66.00
Course Location: Tuckahoe Clubhouse -
Location Address: 37 Stone Orchard Drive Nellysford, VA 22958
Limit: 35
Course Description:
"I wanted wings 'til I got the *!@#$ things. Now I don't want them anymore!" was often the refrain from the men who flew, fought, and died during the European air campaign of WWII. Using videos, slides and first-hand accounts, this course will look at the men and women, aircraft and missions that crushed the Third Reich.
*Recommended reading will be provided upon request to those enrolled in this course.
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(SCIT042)
Instructor: Charles Hamilton
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Day of the Week: M
Times: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Dates: 4/10/2023 - 5/15/2023
Number of classes in this course: 6
Fee: $66.00
Course Location: Homewood Suites - Albemarle Room
Location Address: 2036 India Road Charlottesville, VA 22901
Limit: 35
Course Description:
We are constantly receiving breathtaking reports of an astronomical discovery, a new image downloaded from a space telescope, or other scientific wonder. This course is intended to review recent discoveries of, and developments in, astronomy and to assess their importance. We will place these ongoing discoveries into an emerging view of our universe. We’ll look at a selected number of current discovery missions, including but certainly not limited to, the James Webb Space Telescope. This course will not involve a live observing session - many of the matters to be discussed are not visible to any but the most sophisticated and inaccessible instruments. Many, such as gravitational waves, are not visible at all.
*Recommended reading will be shared with those enrolled in this course.
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