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  • CA Historical Landmarks: Insights & Impacts (Online-Zoom) 
  • Instructor: Janice Kelley
    Dates: 4/8/2025 - 4/29/2025
    Days: Tu
    Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Sessions: 4
    Fee: $32.00
    Location: Online via Zoom 
    Recording: *This class is being recorded.
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    Recordings will expire after 30 days.
    Seats Available: 280 | Max Enroll: 299
    SKU: SprCHIST561
    California State Parks designated more than 1,000 sites as Historical Landmarks. About 100 of these are located within the Sierra Nevada Region, often remembered as the center of the California Gold Rush. This course reveals how a select number of sites shaped our laws, transportation, technology and recreation. Discover people and places that inspired the history of our state and its future.
     
    *Class Dates: 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, & 4/29.
 

  • Meet Nevada! (Online-Zoom)  
  • Instructor: Stephenie Slahor
    Dates: 4/24/2025 - 5/8/2025
    Days: Th
    Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
    Sessions: 3
    Fee: $20.00
    Location: Online via Zoom 
    Recording: *This class is being recorded.
    *
    Recordings will expire after 30 days.
    Seats Available: 281 | Max Enroll: 299
    SKU: SprCHIST581

    The State of Nevada has a geology and an ancient and modern history that give it a unique status as one of America’s most interesting States.

     
    *Class Dates: 4/24, 5/1, & 5/8.
 

  • Early Japanese Farming (Rocklin)
  • Instructor: Ellen Sander
    Dates: 4/8/2025 - 4/29/2025
    Days: Tu
    Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    Sessions: 2
    Fee: $20.00
    Location: Rocklin Campus
    Building-Room: W-201
    Seats Available: 8 | Max Enroll: 32
    SKU: SprCHIST571

    This engaging lecture series explores the impactful history of late 19th and early 20th century Japanese farmers on the U.S. West Coast, complemented by a field trip to the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony historic farm located in Lotus (Coloma).

    *Class Dates: 4/8 & 4/15.
    *Final class meets on Tuesday, 4/29
 

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