Pressed for time? Bored of your usual fitness routine? Why not try kettlebell training? Kettlebell training has benefits of every mode of exercise – muscular strength, cardiovascular conditioning, flexibility, and balance. However, it's most arguably sought as a tool to elicit strength and power. A kettlebell is a cast-iron (singular and circular) weight with a handle on top (that comes in many different sizes and masses). It can go anywhere with you and takes up little space! A kettlebell is a great tool for learning the proper mechanics for lower body strength and power exercises such as squats and vertical jumps. It's not just for athletes!

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

There has never been a more crucial time to build community and connection. What better way than to gather over Zoom and sing the greatest songs of our childhood – Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, The Great American Songbook, and The Beatles! Let loose and sing along to the music of the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, and even the traditional folk tunes that predate memory. We may not be around a campfire, but we can still sing together! Let instructor Brittany and her guitar bring you back to the folk tunes you grew up singing. Music is magic – let’s make it together!

This class thrives on student participation and song suggestion! Class will begin with a standard list of songs that can be modified and added to, based on the energy and musical taste of the group each day.

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Do you want to learn more about the history of NASA, astronauts, and space flight technology? Then this is the class for you! Discover the origins of NASA, its technological achievements and impact on the United States and the world, and the future of space exploration. You'll also learn how to perform historical research and interpret historical sources. Join us on an intellectual journey through time and space.

Course Topics:

• How to find and research historical resources via electronic databases.
• How to interpret historical sources.
• NASA origins and impact on the United States including the Space Race and current attempts at space exploration.
• An international/world perspective on the future of space travel and colonization.
• The evolution of space flight technology and technology created.
• The history of several key astronauts and their training to become an astronaut.

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Tolstoy, Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence

Tolstoy’s fame today derives from his great novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In the last 30 years of his long life, though, he largely abandoned fiction and concentrated his writing on promoting civil disobedience and nonviolent protest. While fighting a ceaseless battle against state and church censorship in his own country, and even excommunication, he became the most famous Russian in the world. “Tolstoyan communes” sprang up internationally, devoted to following his principles of nonviolent civil disobedience. Gandhi went to live in a Tolstoyan commune as a young man, where he imbibed Tolstoy’s ideals — and the courage to deploy them to bring down the British Empire and change history.

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Explore the connection between mythology and human values. Learn how human values have evolved, and why we are (in spite of the news) such decent creatures. We'll cover what myth is, traditional interpretations of myth and mythic themes, myths and the transmission of values, and the meaning of karma and the cycle of lives. We'll discuss the Oedipus plays, Tiamat (ancient Mesopotamia), and Osiris (Egypt). Living without myth: is it even possible?

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy -- from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans -- has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. How do you tell your roommate her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law take umbrage when you asked to touch her hair -- and how do you make it right? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend?

As a group, we'll read the book So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo with the following goals in mind:

• To raise awareness of equity, diversity, and inclusion issues;
• To engage in meaningful discussions about equity, diversity, and inclusion with members of the community;
• To improve our common knowledge and understanding of equity, diversity, and inclusion topics; and
• To apply that learning to our individual lives.

In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

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

Cultivate your gardening skills for the upcoming growing season! Many types of practical information focused on organic principles will be covered; including vegetable garden design, successful plant care, propagation, easy and efficient irrigation systems, and successive planting. Learn a variety of approaches that will make the process straight forward and easy to understand. Common mistakes, how to correct these mistakes, and practices for success will be illustrated. Whether you use raised boxes or plant in the ground, you’ll take home the knowledge needed to produce a thriving, flavorful vegetable garden.

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Each of us has a story to tell. Whether your story is fiction, creative nonfiction, a memoir, or an essay - the elements of writing are the same. Students will work on different writing elements each week and share their writing by reading it aloud, then critique the work of other class members. All levels of writing experience are welcome.

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

We all want a beautiful garden filled with healthy, vibrant flowers. These colorful and uplifting places move us past the routine landscape and are filled with pleasure, inspiration, and life. This intensive, practical course will present comprehensive information on many interacting concepts and systems - from developing healthy soils, to the irrigation, design, and plant care necessary to create attractive, efficient, ecologically-friendly/locally-appropriate gardens.

A series of colorful slides will illustrate these concepts. A number of print materials and resources will support this class and will be emailed to students.

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

That’s Amore! You will fall in love with an evening of crafting artisan pizzas from scratch. Chef Greg will walk you step-by-step through the process of baking a perfect pizza pie. Master how to make dough from scratch and how to shape a flawless crust. Learn the secrets of sauce making, tips on dressing your pizza for success, and what makes a perfect pizza cheese. Get hands-on experience stretching and topping pies - amazing yourself with your own pizza creations. Create a pizza party at home and enjoy an incomparable pizza feast!

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

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 take Quest classes), a quarterly social, use of the WWCC Library, free entrance to WWCC theater performances & sporting events, and much more.

Once you've been doing genealogy for a while, you might wonder what to do with all of your research — or perhaps you've always wanted to share your family's story but aren't quite sure how to start. Writing the story of your ancestor or a historical character helps ensure that your research gets passed on. Learn how to frame your narratives with background and context so they become as compelling to others as they are to you.

What We'll Cover:

• Planning, gathering, and organizing your materials
• Bringing historical context to the person and place
• Finding ways to present your materials

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Enhance your balance, gain strength, improve physical grace, and promote mindfulness and spiritual awareness with hatha yoga. We'll focus on the foundations of yoga postures (asanas) with movement and flow, as well as emphasize the benefits of hatha yoga to the body and mind. Join us for a lifelong journey!

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Explore the basic and intermediate techniques of drawing using a variety of media. The emphasis will be to develop hand-eye coordination and changing your perception of looking. Developing an art vocabulary and an appreciation and study of major artists will be included. Gain or enhance your skills in contour techniques, positive and negative space, structure and texture, spatial depth, and more.

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Join Jodi & Danielle for this FREE session using Zoom, the online video conferencing program. This is an opportunity to practice using this program. Be ready to interact with us and others in this no-cost, hands-on orientation for Quest members. Learn the basic skills needed to access a Zoom class, what all the buttons mean, how to turn your video and audio on/off, and more. Join us and give online classes a try!

Note: This class will not cover how to host your own Zoom meeting.

Please sign up early! We will email you a document with resources and instructions. You can join from your laptop, desktop computer, smartphone, tablet, or even from a normal phone call. *Note that many features will not be available to you if you join by phone call.*

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Social history, including family history and genealogy, embraces accounts of individuals and families and can include information such as life events, social class, religion, and occupations. Some of the record sets we'll study help to make a framework; while others will delve into the society in which our individual of interest lives and works. Learn where to find the records and how to interpret and analyze them.

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Write compelling personal stories in a memoir format through the study of strong openings, a unique voice, and good structure.

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Raise a piece of pie to Pi (π) Day, the annual celebration of one of math’s most famous constants: the irrational, never-ending number π, pronounced pi (3.14159…). Beautiful in its simplicity, pie is the relationship between crust and filling. Pi (periphery) is the relationship between the perimeter of a circle and the distance across a circle. In this hands-on cooking class we will be making perfect pie dough, custards, fruit fillings, and streusel toppings to bake for this scientific celebration! No cooking experience or advanced mathematical training necessary, just an appetite for pie!

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.

Masterworks of Russian Literature VII

Universally recognized as one of the greatest novels ever written, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina presents a breathtaking exploration of love, spiritual struggle, adultery, loneliness, passion, family life, intimacy, and the quest to find happiness and to make life meaningful.

Enhance your balance, gain strength, improve physical grace, and promote mindfulness and spiritual awareness with hatha yoga. We'll focus on the foundations of yoga postures (asanas) with movement and flow, as well as emphasize the benefits of hatha yoga to the body and mind. Join us for a lifelong journey!

This class will be held online using Zoom. The Zoom Meeting ID and link will be included in your registration confirmation email.