The Annual Quest Membership is valid for the current academic year, September through June (Quest does not run in the summer). The Annual Membership is only available for purchase during fall 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.

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.

View the fall colors, animals, area, and lakes of one of the world's most unique regions, located in northern Wisconsin.

With photos, videos of the leaves turning this week, and live commentary. We start with an overview of the area and history. Then take a look at the wildlife, including 30 second videos of beavers, otters, and black bears. We end with video of the colorful fall leaves taken the week of the program.

View the fall colors, animals, area, and lakes of one of the world's most unique regions, located in northern Wisconsin.

With photos, videos of the leaves turning this week, and live commentary. We start with an overview of the area and history. Then take a look at the wildlife, including 30 second videos of beavers, otters, and black bears. We end with video of the colorful fall leaves taken the week of the program.

With the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infecting many, you may be seeking to boost your immune system. Your instructor, a registered dietitian, will share ways that you can strengthen your body's defenses. We'll discuss the importance of nutrition for a healthy immune system, the value or otherwise of various therapies to treat COVID-19, how to preserve wellness into senior years, and the value of alternative therapies. Keep your immune system fit and ready by living a healthy lifestyle.

Class Outline:

1. Nutrition and the immune system.
2. Facts and fallacies about treatment and prevention of COVID-19
3. The use of complementary therapies to achieve wellness and an optimally functioning immune system. Making sense of current health fads.
4. Preventing major chronic diseases (heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes) which make us more vulnerable to COVID. How to get phytochemical protection.
5. How to slow the aging of your mind and body and live longer. A case study of the Blue Zones.
6. A survey of which vitamins and herbal supplements that are protective and promote good health.

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

Locally-focused gardens are gardens that strive to give to the community (humans, wildlife, and larger landscape). They have everything in terms of appearance and functionality. Site-specific; filled with flowers, pollinators, and artistry; they are places of delight. But what are these community-based principles and practices? How do we create these gardens? See many examples of these gardens and accompanying sustainable/ecological principles in an inspirational slideshow and discussion.

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

A drip irrigation system can save you time and money. It also saves water, minimizes weed growth, generates productive plants, and is the easiest, most efficient way to water gardens. This basic class will make the subject of drip irrigation approachable, easy, and practical, enabling you to select and install an efficient system for each part of your garden and set it up so that it is easy to maintain. Gone are the days of lugging around watering cans and dragging hoses!

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

A non-technical exploration of the radical idea of the atom; possibly one of the most mind-bending and radical ideas humanity has ever entertained. At every stage in the development of our thought on the possibility of the "very smallest thing" seeming paradoxes have cropped up -- for at least 2,000 years. Even now, the popular image of a miniature solar system is quite wrong and impossible. Yet the further we press against these apparent imponderables, the greater our mastery of nature.

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

Every culture has a signature dumpling in its cuisine, a dough surrounding a filling that's steamed, boiled, fried, or baked. From Spanish empanadas, Japanese gyoza, Polish pierogi, to Chinese xiao long bao (soup dumplings), it's clear that the world loves dumplings. In this hands-on cooking class, we'll make several styles of international dumplings over two nights and create a dumpling party for the final class. You'll take home recipes for dough, fillings, and sauces. Sign up soon – who knows when you'll get empanada chance!

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.

We will meet weekly to discuss our reading of Homer's Odyssey before considering a recent novelist's reimagination of one character from that ancient Greek epic, a sorceress named Circe, who initially obstructs Homer's homeward-bound hero by turning his shipmates into pigs. Drawing upon legends about Circe embodied in the myths of the ancient Greeks, author Madeline Miller supplies the sorceress with a backstory. In so doing, she creates a feminist epic that, like Homer's, explores the hard realities of being mortal. When faced with courage and tenacity, these hard realities endow humans with a nobility to which even the immortal gods cannot aspire.

In previous years, Quest Reads! participants met at least once with inmates reading the same text at Washington State Penitentiary. This year there will not be a combined class meeting due to the pandemic.

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

Arma virumque cano. I sing of arms and the man. Probably the best known bit of Latin poetry, and a stirring opening to a stirring epic. The Aeneid is the foundation text of Rome, and has inspired countless other works of poetry, art, and music. Read about the fall of Troy, Dido and Aeneas, the legendary origins of Italy, the double-edged sword of colonization, and why Matthew's doomed fiance in Downton Abbey was named Lavinia. We will read a highly accessible translation by Fagles at the pace of about a book a week. The instructor will provide historical and literary background, you will provide insightful discussion, and we will jointly gain a greater appreciation of a work that has been enjoyed for centuries.

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

All stories start with a sentence. This class is about writing stories by focusing on the elements found in the elegance of good sentences. All writers of either fiction or non-fiction work will appreciate the opportunity to share their writings, receive thoughtful critiques from fellow classmates, and improve their writing skills.

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