Personal Enrichment   

Purchase a quarterly Quest membership to receive a 100%-off discount code that can be applied to one (1) of the following classes:

• The Internet Neighborhood
• MyChart: Online Doctor's Office
• AI: A Friendly Introduction

The discount code will be included in your order confirmation email for the membership – so do not purchase the class you want for free until you receive the code! 

This is a HyFlex class, meaning that each class meeting you may choose to attend either in person or online via Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Required Materials: laptop or mobile device. 

No class held 4/29.

Please note that a prerequisite for this class is the ability to independently rise from and get down on the floor without assistance. 

A $9 fee for use of the Student Recreation Center (SRC) is included in the course fee. All students must sign the SRC Usage Policy Acknowledgement before the start of class in order to attend. You will be asked to sign the policy during the registration process.

Yoga mat recommended. Yoga blocks provided. 

This time, we will explore the work of Sydney Pollock, one of Hollywood’s most versatile directors. During a career of over 40 years, Sydney – a former acting teacher himself – worked with a wide variety of actors on films spanning a multitude of genres and styles. If you’re prepared to engage in an equally wide range of discussions and experiences, then come and enjoy the show!
No class held Friday, April 17. Make-up session scheduled for Thursday, 6/18.

No class held 5/25.

The most celebrated Russian writer of the 19th and early 20th century was not Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, but Ivan Turgenev – polyglot, world-class chess master, and the man who did more than anyone to open up Russia to the West. Admired by Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and Ernest Hemingway, but despised by Tolstoy and mocked by Dostoevsky in The Devils, Turgenev was both adored and envied in his lifetime. Together, we will discover Turgenev’s stunning sensitivity to nature; to injustice; to people from all walks of life; and to the subtlest emotions underlying everyday life – including his eternally relevant novel of generational gap and conflict, Fathers and Children. 

This is a Hyflex class, meaning that each class meeting you may choose to attend either in person or online via Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Required Texts:

• Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Children. New York Review of Books, 2022. ISBN: 9781681376356.
• Turgenev, Ivan. First Love and Other Stories. OUP Oxford, 2008. ISBN: 9780199540402.
• Turgenev, Ivan. Sketches from a Hunter’s Album: The Complete Edition. Penguin Publishing Group, 1990. ISBN: 9780140445220. 

No class held 4/15.

This Spring’s lineup is as follows:

• 4/1: Wild Stories from the History of Bird Migration Research with Rebecca Heisman
• 4/8: What is Freedom? with Anthony Covert
• 4/15: Bioprinting and Tissue Engineering with Ralph Stirling
• 4/22: A Royal City in Ancient Moab? Excavating the Iron Age at Khirbat al-Balu'a Jordan with Monique Roddy
• 4/29: Culture, Community, and Connection: Exploring Our Sister City in Japan with Sonja Gooding
• 5/6: Empowered Patients Get Better Care with Julie Kellogg
• 5/13: Foundation Appaloosas for the Future with Charles Potts
• 5/20: Friends of Children of Walla Walla: The Power of Showing Up with Liz Knapke
• 5/27: Fallout: The Absent Presence and Phenomenological Approaches to Recording in a Nuclear Reactor with Michael Simon
• 6/3: Our Native Pollinators with Heidi Dobson
• 6/10: Release the Natural Power of Stone to Enrich Modern Living with Jorgen Amtoft 

Note: In the event a scheduled session cannot be held, a prorated refund for that session will not be issued. The College will make reasonable efforts to reschedule the session prior to confirming cancellation.

This is a HyFlex class, meaning that each class meeting you may choose to attend either in person or online via Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email. 

Required Materials: straightedge; pencil. 

No class held 5/25.

For writers with some previous writing experience. 

The first ten amendments of the Constitution are collectively known as the Bill of Rights. Probably the best known, and most frequently cited, is the first amendment, which identifies five fundamental rights: religion, speech, press, assembly, and to petition government for redress of grievances. In this lecture & discussion class, we will study the first amendment and discuss many Supreme Court cases dealing with all five first amendment rights. We will discuss why we have a Bill of Rights. We will explore how these rights have been interpreted at different times by different Courts. What is symbolic speech? What is obscenity? May a public school start each school day with a nondenominational prayer? May a person burn an American flag to protest against the government? Must a a local Rotary Club allow women to be members? And, yes, may a person falsely shout fire in a theater? We will discuss all this and more in The Bill of Rights: The First Amendment. 
No class held 4/8.

The first ten amendments of the Constitution are collectively known as the Bill of Rights. Probably the best known, and most frequently cited, is the first amendment, which identifies five fundamental rights: religion, speech, press, assembly, and to petition government for redress of grievances. In this lecture & discussion class, we will study the first amendment and discuss many Supreme Court cases dealing with all five first amendment rights. We will discuss why we have a Bill of Rights. We will explore how these rights have been interpreted at different times by different Courts. What is symbolic speech? What is obscenity? May a public school start each school day with a nondenominational prayer? May a person burn an American flag to protest against the government? Must a a local Rotary Club allow women to be members? And, yes, may a person falsely shout fire in a theater? We will discuss all this and more in The Bill of Rights: The First Amendment. 
No class held 4/8.