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Climate Change: The Science Is In, Now What? - R - Remote
Schedule: Tuesdays, 1/14/2025 - 2/18/2025, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Remote, Zoom
Climate science has now definitively established the causes and impacts of global warming. There are endless technical, political, policy and personal ideas of what to do to respond to this crisis. This course will briefly summarize current climate science, but the instructors will spend most of the course discussing what society should do. What are the highest priorities for us personally and as a city, state, nation, biosphere? Is the Paris Accord target of limiting the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 degrees C possible? What are the impediments to progress? How can they be overcome? Is it already too late???
Registration begins Monday, November 25. You will not be able to add any courses, offerings or events to your cart until that date.
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Eighteenth Century Entrepreneurship in Music and Composers - R - Remote
Instructor: Joel Schnackel Course Tuition: $70.00
Schedule: Tuesdays, 1/21/2025 - 2/25/2025, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Remote, Zoom
**UPDATED SCHEDULE: Tuesdays, January 21 - February 25, 11:00 - 12:30 pm.
Textbook: C. Wolf, Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune
This course looks at the situations that shifted music and composers out of the private aristocratic patronage system into the public sphere. Composers such as W. A. Mozart, Johan Sperger, and Joseph Haydn employed business savvy to adapt to the ever-changing social and political climate. This course will look at primary sources such as Sperger’s manuscript catalog, Über verschückte Musicalien, which reveals that many of his works were dispersed to various members of the aristocracy for financial gain or enticement. We will look at the Mozart letters and the Haydn documents to see how these composers adapted and read Wolf’s book and selections from Dr. Schnackel's research on Johann Sperger.
Registration begins Monday, November 25. You will not be able to add any courses, offerings or events to your cart until that date.
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Great American Trials VIII - R - Remote
Instructor: Larry Mansch Course Tuition: $40.00
Schedule: Saturdays, 1/11/2025 - 1/25/2025, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Remote, Zoom
This course will examine three fascinating cases in American jurisprudence: the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson; the trial of William McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz; and the treason trial of the woman known as Tokyo Rose.
Registration begins Monday, November 25. You will not be able to add any courses, offerings or events to your cart until that date.
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Images of Place and Space in the Fiction of Three Women Writers - R - Remote
Schedule: Thursdays, 1/16/2025 - 2/20/2025, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Remote, Zoom
Join me in exploring the work of Mary Wilkins Freeman, Maria Cristina Mena, and Zora Neale Hurston. Through presentations and class discussions, we will focus on their use of place to depict women’s lives. Each writer employs imagery rooted in a particular region in ways that both perpetuate and resist damaging assumptions about gender roles. Wilkins Freeman sets her stories, often about older women of limited economic means, in rural New England; Maria Cristina Mena explores the intersecting European and Indigenous roots of women in her home country of Mexico; and Zora Neale Hurston creates stories about Black women in both New York City and Florida. We will also consider the shifting critical reception each of these writers has received over the past century.
Registration begins Monday, November 25. You will not be able to add any courses, offerings or events to your cart until that date.
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Memory Loss and Dementia: Addressing the Public Health Crisis - R - Remote
Schedule: Wednesdays, 1/15/2025 - 2/19/2025, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: Remote, Zoom
Is memory loss affecting you or someone you love? Is your family dealing with how to care for a family member with cognitive impairment/dementia? Dementia Friendly Missoula is a volunteer coalition affiliated with Missoula Aging Services and is the local chapter of the National Dementia Friendly America movement. We are community members, healthcare professionals, and organizations that promote an informed, supportive, and inclusive community for people living with dementia and those who care for them. We will review types of dementia, how to recognize the signs of dementia, explore experiences of those with dementia, and provide tips for interacting with individuals with memory loss. Resources for individuals with dementia and their care partners will be shared along with health tips for aging brains.
Registration begins Monday, November 25. You will not be able to add any courses, offerings or events to your cart until that date.
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Out of Many: A People's History of Early America to 1783 - R - Remote
Instructor: Richard Bell Course Tuition: $70.00
Schedule: Saturdays, 1/18/2025 - 2/22/2025, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Remote, Zoom
Out of Many Pt 1: A People’s History of America to 1783
Who made America? This course examines how three peoples—Europeans, Natives, and Africans— encountered each other in North America. The course begins with first contact and then moves through the colonial period, culminating in the American Revolution. Lesson tackle topics including 2 witch-hunting, the origins of slavery, the great awakening, Native America, slave revolts, immigration, inequality, sex and marriage, imperial conflicts, and the war for independence. Together, these lessons provide a great introduction to the latest scholarship on almost every aspect of early American history prior to the end of the American Revolution in 1783. Most importantly, the course places front and center the ordinary people whose lives and struggles made America.
Registration begins Monday, November 25. You will not be able to add any courses, offerings or events to your cart until that date.
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Queen of Mystery Part 2: Class, Guilt, and Innocence in Agatha Christie - R - Remote
Instructor: Beverly Williams Course Tuition: $70.00
Schedule: Tuesdays, 1/14/2025 - 2/18/2025, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: Remote, Zoom
Agatha Christie still reigns as the queen of mystery. She set the pattern for the cozy mystery genre in the golden age of mystery. A close look at her works, however, reveals the darker, more complicated problems of class in portraying guilt and innocence in her characters. This course will delve into four of her works: Five Little Pigs, Murder at the Vicarage, “Three Blind Mice,” and “Witness for the Prosecution.” Examining these texts offers the reader an insight into the way class affects issues of guilt and innocence in Christie’s British society.
Registration begins Monday, November 25. You will not be able to add any courses, offerings or events to your cart until that date.
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Reading the Short Story - R - Remote
Instructor: David Allan Cates Course Tuition: $70.00
Schedule: Fridays, 1/10/2025 - 2/14/2025, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Remote, Zoom
We will read stories by masters and discuss the shape and structure of this relatively new literary form. How does it work? What is its subject, its territory, and its history? How does it relate to other forms of storytelling? What does it tell us about what it means to be a human being? What does it tell us about our culture? How does it give us something we need? A deeper understanding of how these little masterpieces work should help students appreciate their beauty and be moved by their elegance.
Registration begins Monday, November 25. You will not be able to add any courses, offerings or events to your cart until that date.
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Russia Beyond Russians - R - Remote
Instructor: Asya Pereltsvaig Course Tuition: $70.00
Schedule: Mondays, 1/13/2025 - 3/3/2025, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Remote, Zoom
The Russian Federation alone is home to 180 nationalities, many of which have long been at odds with each other. We shall see that many groups have been significantly diminished by the uniformity-seeking policies of the Russian state, first under the Tsars, then under the Soviets, and most recently under President Vladimir Putin. Many groups still carry collective memories of the atrocities that were committed against them in the past, and most of these groups seek to gain recognition, autonomy, or even full independence. To shed light on current events, we will review the history of Russia and its various ethno-linguistic groups and examine elements of contemporary Russian culture such as music, cinema, cuisine, ethnic jokes, and more.
Registration begins Monday, November 25. You will not be able to add any courses, offerings or events to your cart until that date.
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The Aging Eye - R - Remote
Instructor: Brian Sippy Course Tuition: $70.00
Schedule: Fridays, 1/17/2025 - 2/21/2025, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: Remote, Zoom
The human eye is a delicate but resilient organ. As we age, some changes to our bodies are more conspicuous than others. The eye hides its age-related changes very well, but gradual deterioration can ultimately impact visual function, sometimes permanently. Three common age-related conditions of the eye are cataracts, glaucoma, and macular degeneration. Cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertension and diabetes, can also threaten normal blood flow to the eye. Dry eye and excess tearing can also affect aging individuals. In this course offering, each of these maladies will be presented and discussed in detail. Although taught by a surgeon, this MOLLI course does not constitute medical advice nor does it create a doctor-patient relationship with any participants.
Registration begins Monday, November 25. You will not be able to add any courses, offerings or events to your cart until that date.
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Two Great Tragedies by Shakespeare's Contemporaries - R - Remote
Instructor: Linda Woodbridge Course Tuition: $70.00
Schedule: Wednesdays, 1/15/2025 - 2/19/2025, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Remote, Zoom
We’ll read and discuss Thomas Middleton’s The Changeling and John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, among the greatest of Renaissance tragedies. The Changeling presents a complex psychological portrait of a woman who hires a hitman to rid her of an unwanted fiancé; when the assassin arrives to exact payment, the intricacies of her psyche begin to unfold. The Duchess of Malfi is widely considered (along with Shakespeare’s Cleopatra)one of the two greatest female tragic heroes of English Renaissance drama. This play too presents complex psychological portraits–of the duchess and of her murderous twin brother. Shakespeare’s greatness has thrown his rivals into eclipse: Middleton and Webster are sadly neglected. But if you think no other playwright could write blank verse as Shakespeare did–think again.
Registration begins Monday, November 25. You will not be able to add any courses, offerings or events to your cart until that date.
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Waltzing with Bears: The Fate of Grizzly Bears in the Rocky Mountain West - R - Remote
Instructor: Robert Chaney Course Tuition: $70.00
Schedule: Thursdays, 1/16/2025 - 2/20/2025, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Remote, Zoom
From the logo of this university to the creation stories of American Indian tribes, the grizzly bear looms large in Montana culture. Its recovery as a threatened species has had a huge impact on the way Montanans work, play, and think about our state. We will probe how we relate to grizzlies, in both physical and thoughtful ways, as creatures that threaten and thrill us on the landscape as well as in the imagination. Topics include grizzly recovery under the Endangered Species Act, recreation and work in grizzly country, and the ways other cultures and communities deal with grizzlies in their midst. The final class will synthesize topics of greatest interest among the participants as we consider the future of grizzlies in the Rocky Mountain West.
Registration begins Monday, November 25. You will not be able to add any courses, offerings or events to your cart until that date.
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Wildlife Research from Glacier to Yellowstone: Saving Threatened Species - R - Remote
Instructor: Kerry R Foresman Course Tuition: $70.00
Schedule: Tuesdays, 1/14/2025 - 2/18/2025, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Remote, Zoom
Montana is bounded on the northwest by Glacier National Park and on the southwest by Yellowstone National Park, between which can be found a wide diversity of ecosystems defining the state. This course is primarily geared toward individuals either new to the state or planning a vacation to this region and its national parks. I will discuss many species that define these ecosystems and the current wildlife issues that Montana and these national parks face, involving wolves, grizzly bears, and bison. Efforts to protect such species across the larger landscape will be discussed.
Registration begins Monday, November 25. You will not be able to add any courses, offerings or events to your cart until that date.
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Wildlife Tracks & Sign - R - Remote
Instructor: Rob Rich Course Tuition: $70.00
Schedule: Fridays, 1/17/2025 - 2/21/2025, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Remote, Zoom
From footprints and burrows to browse and scat, we’ve been curious about the tracks and signs of wild animals for as long as we’ve been human. Learning to identify, interpret, and appreciate such indirect evidence of animal presence yields countless insights into wildlife behavior, anatomy, and ecology, and no other practice engages Earth’s nuances so well. This online course will draw on diverse species found in northwest Montana, and it will inspire you to ask questions that deepen connections wherever you go outdoors. By the end of this six-week learning journey, you will walk in the world with fresh eyes, keen to respect the stories that our fellow animals leave behind.
Registration begins Monday, November 25. You will not be able to add any courses, offerings or events to your cart until that date.
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Retirement: Your Dynamic Second Act - Remote
Instructor: Kathy Mangan Course Tuition: $85.00
Schedule: Fridays, 1/17/2025 - 2/21/2025, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Remote, Zoom
Do you know how some of us can be done with what we have been doing and not done with having an impact? Some people of a certain age refer to this as “failing at retirement” but it can also happen at a much earlier age. The life transition of retirement can be a huge opportunity to discover and act on bringing to life what we may have been putting off, sometimes for decades. This 6-week journey will help uncover and articulate the second act so many of us are ready for. Expect homework to help move the process along as well as great discussions with fellow travelers.
Registration begins Monday, November 25. You will not be able to add any courses, offerings or events to your cart until that date.
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