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Quest

Spring Quest Registration Opens Tuesday, March 18th at 9:00am!

Adventures in Learning for Ages 50+! Founded Winter 1998, Quest is an educational membership institute for active learners 50+ years of age. It is stress-free learning offered in friendly, sociable settings free of tests, grades, and credits. Activities and classes range from the academic to the artistic and include fitness and travel opportunities as well. Click Here to Learn More

Quest scholarships are available! Click Here to Submit an Application

How to Register for Quest Online:
(1) Create an account or sign in here.
(2) Add a Quest Membership to your Cart and Check Out.
(3) You will then be able to see an "Add to Cart" button for the Quest classes that are open for registration. Add your selected class(es) to your Cart, and Check Out.
(4) You'll receive an email confirmation with your class information after signing up successfully.
**Click Here for Detailed Step-by-Step Quest Registration Instructions**
--Other options: Register by phone at 509-527-4331. Register in person at the WWCC Continuing Education office.

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Spring Quarter Quest Membership
Fee: $19.00

The Quarterly Quest Membership is valid for the current academic quarter and may be renewed each subsequent quarter. Membership includes interesting programs designed especially for Quest members (must have a Quest membership to participate in Quest classes), a quarterly social, use of the WWCC Library, free entrance to WWCC sporting events, and much more.

This membership includes online access to a class that explains what the Quest membership is, what it offers, how to access benefits, and how to register for classes.

This membership is valid for the Spring 2025 quarter, April through mid-June.

Dostoevsky's Short Fiction ⬥
ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. Please call us at 509-527-4331 to see if registration is still available.
Fee: $129.00
Dates: 4/9/2025 - 6/18/2025
Times: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 11
Location: Main Campus
Room: MAIN BLDG (D) Classroom 214
Instructor:
Before the publication of his final great novel, The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky penned a number of short stories and novellas. In this class, we will read and discuss several of these stories, spanning from the earliest works that launched his career to his penultimate publication. Along the way, we'll encounter both the loveliest and the nastiest pieces that Dostoevsky ever wrote.

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:
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004. ISBN: 9780060726461.
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Poor Folk and Other Stories. Penguin Classics, 1989. ISBN: 9780140445053.

Friday Films ⬥
ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. Please call us at 509-527-4331 to see if registration is still available.
Fee: $89.00
Dates: 4/11/2025 - 6/20/2025
Times: 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Days: F
Sessions: 10
Location: Main Campus
Room: MAIN BLDG (D) Classroom 242
Instructor: John Remington

Explore a series of thematically-related films. We'll engage in lively discussions as we analyze the films and our responses to them, while developing a sense of each film's creation, impact, and place in history.

Come ready to experience and discuss films from the 1960s and 1990s! Many of the directors, actors, and other auteurs who had made their mark in the former decade were still active in the film scene by the latter – creating unique visions which were often in conversation with their own and each other’s earlier works. Through their films, we will explore a variety of genres and themes relevant not only to the respective decade that produced them, but also today.
No class held 4/25.

Quest Speaker Series ⬥ NEW!
ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. Please call us at 509-527-4331 to see if registration is still available.
Fee: $59.00
Dates: 4/9/2025 - 6/18/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 11
Location: Main Campus
Room: MAIN BLDG (D) Classroom 243
Instructor:
Discover fresh ideas and inspiring perspectives with the Quest Speaker Series! Each weekly session will feature a dynamic presentation by experts, community leaders, and organizations sharing impactful work and thought-provoking insights.

This Spring’s lineup is as follows:
- 4/9: Chinese Pioneers on the Western Frontier with Dale Hom
- 4/16: Pillow Talk: A Community's Path to Better Sleep with Richard Simon
- 4/23: No Bones About It: Freshwater Mussels and Pacific Lamprey Research and Restoration with Alexa Maine
- 4/30: Using Modern Technologies to Understand and Conserve Blue Mountains Birds with Ben Vernasco
- 5/7: Whitehouse Crawford Lumber Company: Its History and Its Family with Peggy Willcuts
- 5/14: What's Going On in Mill Creek? Salmon Recovery in Our Watershed with Brian Burns
- 5/21: Speak the Speech, I Pray You: A Guide to the Pleasure and Practice of Reading Aloud with Sundry Examples from Shakespeare with Nancy Simon
- 5/28: Do You Still Want This? Decluttering as a Family Communication Project with Michelle Janning
- 6/4: Pioneers with Cameras: Walla Walla's First Photographers with Donna Cummins
- 6/11: Sea Cucumbers: Rotting and Regenerating Zombies of the Sea with Jim Nestler
- 6/18: What's In A Story? with Rebecca Hom

The Constitution: What? Why? ⬥ NEW!
ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. Please call us at 509-527-4331 to see if registration is still available.
Fee: $109.00
Dates: 4/10/2025 - 6/19/2025
Times: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 10
Location: Main Campus
Room: MAIN BLDG (D) Classroom 243
Instructor: Tom Scribner

In American society, we venerate the United States Constitution. Some believe it was divinely inspired. We cite the Constitution for whatever rights we claim. But how many of us have read the Constitution or know what it says? Is the Constitution democratic or anti-democratic? Why give states equal representation in the Senate instead of proportional, and why choose the president through the Electoral College? In this class, we will study the Articles of Confederation, the Constitutional Convention, and the ratification process. We will examine all seven articles of the Constitution and discuss what amendments may be needed. By the end, you will know not only what the Constitution states, but also why it was initially stated that way. What it all means is a different question - but one that we shall heartily debate.

No class held 5/29.

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