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- ZOOM: The Invention of the First Lady: Martha Washington to Rachel Jackson
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Fee: $125.00
Dates: 4/14/2025 - 5/19/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 6
Building: Online
Room:
Instructor: Joan Griffin
Seats Available: 75
**This class will be taught on Zoom**
America’s First Ladies are not elected, yet over time, they have come to serve significant roles during their time in the White House. In this class we will explore the lives and contributions of the first six First Ladies. How did they live? How did they support and influence their President husbands? Some are famous in their own right, like Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolly Madison, while others are little known shadow characters of history. Using a variety of visuals, lecture, and discussion, we will explore the lives of the first six First Ladies. (First Ladies Washington through Jackson)
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- ZOOM: Modern and Contemporary Architecture, From Private Gems to Public Monuments
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Fee: $125.00
Dates: 4/14/2025 - 5/19/2025
Times: 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 6
Building: Online
Room:
Instructor: Sylvia Laudien-Meo
Seats Available: 69
**This class will be taught on Zoom**
Modern and Contemporary architects have taken on the challenge to design buildings that are not only functional, but also beautiful and exciting to explore, that not only respond to our needs, but even offer new possibilities for us to live, work, learn, explore, etc. This class will focus on 6 pioneering architects: Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Thomas Heatherwick, Santiago Calatrava and Herzog & DeMeuron, that took on the lead as visionaries in their fields, rethinking the potential of innovative materials, pushing new technologies, striving for sustainability, and creating most unique buildings which will stand out as the masterpieces of their era.
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- ZOOM: Art and Identity: Cultural, Social & Personal Narratives in Contemporary Art
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Fee: $125.00
Dates: 4/14/2025 - 5/19/2025
Times: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 6
Building: Online
Room:
Instructor: Diane Levinson
Seats Available: 74
**This class will be taught on Zoom**
Many contemporary artists are using their art to engage with cultural, social and personal narratives. These artists share a common thread in their work: they all explore themes of identity, culture, & social issues, often drawing from their own backgrounds or experiences. Hung Liu, Ai Weiwei, and Anselm Kiefer address the question of personal and collective history and memory. Multimedia artists Pepon Osario, Jeffrey Gibson, and Edgar Heap of Birds utilize found objects and text in their work. Gibson and Heap-of-Birds challenge the absence of Native American practices in visual culture while Pepon Osorio uses different objects in his pieces to portray political and social issues in the Latino community. Doris Salcedo and Kara Walker create site-specific installations that transform spaces into places of reflection and mourning. These artists draw inspiration from the intersection of personal and collective memory that spark wider cultural conversations often addressing aspects of history previously overlooked. This course will explore how contemporary artists responded to their culture and social context offering a new view to the western art historical canon by questioning established norms and narratives, they contribute to a broader reevaluation of cultural heritage and its impact on contemporary society.
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- HYBRID (IN-PERSON): Artificial Intelligence and How We are Witnessing the Beginning of “The Intelligence Age”
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Fee: $125.00
Dates: 4/15/2025 - 5/20/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 6
Building: Downtown Campus; 160 Spear St
Room: 505
Instructor: Bebo White
Seats Available: 30
**This class is a Hybrid. This section of the class will be taught In-Person**
This course will take a broad view of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from its history in myth and media, to its actual implementation and to the social and ethical issues it brings to the present and future. Particular focus is paid to the current discussion surrounding the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and associated chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini and others.
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- HYBRID (ZOOM): Artificial Intelligence and How We are Witnessing the Beginning of “The Intelligence Age”
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Fee: $125.00
Dates: 4/15/2025 - 5/20/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 6
Building: Online
Room:
Instructor: Bebo White
Seats Available: 72
**This class is a Hybrid. This section of the class will be taught on Zoom**
This course will take a broad view of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from its history in myth and media, to its actual implementation and to the social and ethical issues it brings to the present and future. Particular focus is paid to the current discussion surrounding the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and associated chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini and others.
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- HYBRID (IN-PERSON): Puccini Please! The Life, Times, and Music of the World’s Favorite Opera Composer
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Fee: $125.00
Dates: 4/15/2025 - 5/20/2025
Times: 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 6
Building: Downtown Campus; 160 Spear St
Room: 505
Instructor: Clifford "Kip" Cranna
Seats Available: 32
**This class is a Hybrid. This section of the class will be taught In-Person.**
Opera fans love Giacomo Puccini. He never fails to thrill us with his soaring melodies or to move us with his pathos. But let’s a take closer look at Puccini’s world and discover what lies behind the music, as we watch Puccini evolve from a composer in the grand tradition of Italian opera into a ground-breaking exponent of supercharged post-Romantic “verismo.” We’ll search for the real people and true stories behind his operas, and uncover fascinating details about Puccini’s, often tumultuous, career. Video examples (with subtitles) will explore his emotionally stirring music dramas. No previous opera background required.
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- HYBRID (ZOOM): Puccini Please! The Life, Times, and Music of the World’s Favorite Opera Composer
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Fee: $125.00
Dates: 4/15/2025 - 5/20/2025
Times: 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 6
Building: Online
Room:
Instructor: Clifford "Kip" Cranna
Seats Available: 75
**This class is a Hybrid. This section of the class will be taught on Zoom.**
Opera fans love Giacomo Puccini. He never fails to thrill us with his soaring melodies or to move us with his pathos. But let’s a take closer look at Puccini’s world and discover what lies behind the music, as we watch Puccini evolve from a composer in the grand tradition of Italian opera into a ground-breaking exponent of supercharged post-Romantic “verismo.” We’ll search for the real people and true stories behind his operas, and uncover fascinating details about Puccini’s, often tumultuous, career. Video examples (with subtitles) will explore his emotionally stirring music dramas. No previous opera background required.
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- IN-PERSON: Moby-Dick
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Fee: $125.00
Dates: 4/15/2025 - 5/20/2025
Times: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 6
Building: Downtown Campus; 160 Spear St
Room: 505
Instructor: Nicholas Jones
Seats Available: 33
**This class will be held In-Person**
One of the "Great American Novels," Herman Melville's 1851 Moby-Dick is exciting, encylopedic, dramatic, comic (at times), tragic throughout—and undeniably long. This course does not assume that everyone will read the whole book (though perhaps some will), but it will get us all the way through what the narrator ("Call me Ishmael) tells us about the harsh trade of whaling, about the ill-fated voyage of the Pequod, and about its captain's megalomania. Lectures will summarize the book, contextualize it in pre-Civil War America, and delve into passages of Melville's masterful prose. In-class discussions will focus on selections and issues of importance.
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- IN-PERSON: Great Women of the American Songbook
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Fee: $125.00
Dates: 4/23/2025 - 5/28/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 6
Building: Downtown Campus; 160 Spear St
Room: 505
Instructor: Pamela Rose
Seats Available: 32
**This class will be taught In-Person.**
**Note that this class will run April 23 - May 28.**
Celebrating the oft-invisible women who gave us some of our most beloved American songs, instructor Pamela Rose takes the class on an unforgettable journey through the decades.
From early Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, Jazz, Country, Folk, Motown and Rock – women like Dorothy Fields, (Sunny Side of the Street), Mary Lou Williams, Ann Ronnel (Willow Weep for Me), Peggy Lee, Carole King, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Bonnie Raitt, Janis Ian, Brandi Carlyle – this will be a swinging honors course in womankind! With biographical detail, music appreciation, audio and video clips and lots of sing-a-longs.
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- IN-PERSON: Flash Memoir: Discovering Jewels in Drawers of Our Lives
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Fee: $155.00
Dates: 4/17/2025 - 5/22/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 6
Building: Downtown Campus; 160 Spear St
Room: 508
Instructor: Kathleen McClung
Seats Available: 11
**This class will be offered in-person.**
Looking back on turning points, highlights and lowlights of our lives can be invigorating and illuminating, and the process can result in arresting, evocative, publishable pieces. Our class will focus on writing flash memoir, brief true stories under 2,000 words. Each week we’ll examine the story-telling building blocks vital for memoir: vivid characters and settings, careful narrative pacing, lucid language, insightful musing. We’ll read and discuss a variety of brief published memoirs and embark each week on writing new flash pieces of our own. We’ll also discuss publication opportunities and best practices for submitting.
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- ON ZOOM: Ekphrastic Poetry: The Poetry of Image and Art
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Fee: $155.00
Dates: 4/17/2025 - 5/22/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 6
Building: Online
Room:
Instructor: Diane Frank
Seats Available: 13
**This class will be taught on Zoom.**
Ekphrastic Poetry: The Poetry of Image and Art. In this poetry workshop, we will explore poems based on visual art, sculpture, music and dance. Topics include:
* Fifteen Ways to approach ekphrastic poetry
* How to give your reader entrance to the art.
* Writing poems inspired by music
* Writing poems inspired by dance
* Virtuoso Editing Techniques
Poetry is the language of the soul. It’s a powerful technique to access your inner wisdom and express it with power and beauty. Diane Frank provides a safe and supportive environment to create and share poems. She works closely and personally with each writer to help you break through to a deeper level of expression.
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- ZOOM: Six American Short Story Masters
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Fee: $125.00
Dates: 4/17/2025 - 5/22/2025
Times: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 6
Building: Online
Room:
Instructor: Robert Weibezahl
Seats Available: 71
**This class will be taught on Zoom**
We explore the short story form by diving into the work of six of the finest American short story writers of the postwar years. Each week we will focus on the output of a single writer, reading three of his/her stories and exploring the sources and particularities of that storyteller’s distinctive narratives style and thematic concerns. Some of these writers, like Eudora Welty and John Cheever, we have touched on in previous sessions. Others, like Mary McCarthy and John O’Hara, are unjustly neglected by many readers today. Stories will be provided electronically by the instructor and participants should read the assigned stories in advance of each class. There is no prerequisite.
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- IN-PERSON: Humphrey Bogart – The Man and the Legend
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Fee: $125.00
Dates: 4/18/2025 - 5/23/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: F
Sessions: 6
Building: Downtown Campus; 160 Spear St
Room: 505
Instructor: Cary Pepper
Seats Available: 35
**This class will be taught In-Person**
Call him “Bogie,” “the greatest male screen legend” of Hollywood’s Golden Age, or “the number-one movie legend of all time”...Humphrey Bogart continues to enthrall us. His most popular films are legendary; his iconic characters are indelibly etched on our psyches. From Sam Spade, Rick Blaine, and Fred C. Dobbs, to Dixon Steele, Charlie Allnut, and Phillip Queeq (match each name to the right movie, and you can teach the class), his legacy lives on. We’ll discuss Bogart’s life and career as we look at six of his classic films: The Maltese Falcon (1941); Casablanca (1942); The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); In a Lonely Place (1950) The African Queen (1951) and The Caine Mutiny (1954).
Students are strongly encouraged to view each film before the class in which it will be discussed. The instructor will furnish a list of sources for viewing films via TV, cable, streaming, and online.
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- IN-PERSON: Islam in European Perspective: The Making of the Renaissance
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Fee: $125.00
Dates: 4/18/2025 - 5/23/2025
Times: 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Days: F
Sessions: 6
Building: Downtown Campus; 160 Spear St
Room: 505
Instructor: Simon Kenrick
Seats Available: 35
**This class will be taught In-Person**
The Italian Renaissance, that quintessential flowering of European culture, would have been impossible without the prior flowering of Islamic cultures and their links to civilizations of the East. Philosophy, science, math, astronomy, medicine—even the linear perspective that dominated European painting, architecture and townscape for four hundred years—were fed by a culture of intellectual inquiry unconstrained by the kind of religious dogma that crippled comparable explorations in the Christian West. In this far-flung global history, for example, the Arab math behind European perspective traversed the Silk Roads from India via Persia and Turkey, synthesizing the Greek mathematical tradition en route.
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- ZOOM: Understanding Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank
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Fee: $125.00
Dates: 4/25/2025 - 5/30/2025
Times: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Days: F
Sessions: 6
Building: Online
Room:
Instructor: Jason Hensley
Seats Available: 75
**This class will be taught on Zoom.**
One of the challenges to creating an informed opinion is that everything happens in a context. While one can perhaps learn the specific actions that take place in the Middle East, and particularly in Israel and Palestine, without understanding the history of the area, one cannot hope to understand why those actions take place. Further, the actions in Israel and Palestine very much impact life here in the United States. This course will attempt to consider the history of the area and understand the roots of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Though it is an incredibly challenging topic to consider, it is imperative to understanding one of the most divisive issues of our era.
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