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OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE
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Do you think spreadsheets are for accountants? Spreadsheets can be used by everyone! We will de-mystify Excel spreadsheets and show how they can be used to plan and organize activities, keep track of expenses, and do simple analyses. The course will start with the basics, including an introduction to the Excel Window and options in the ribbons, creating spreadsheets, and saving workbooks. Students will learn techniques for entering and formatting numerical and alphabetic data, navigating using shortcut commands, editing and moving data within spreadsheets and workbooks, and manipulating page layouts. Other topics include using basic arithmetic operations, analyzing data with simple functions such as SUM and AVERAGE, and the use of simple IF statements. This is a course for beginners, and students are not expected to have experience using Excel for PCs. This is a hands-on course. Students must bring their PC laptop computers to class to work on in-class exercises.
NOTE: Students must have Excel for PCs (version 2013 or later) loaded on their PC laptop computers and know how to download, save, and open files from emails. The instructor will email files to students with exercises to use during class and to practice techniques at home. Before each class, students must download the files from emails and save them on their laptops to use in class.
Here is your chance to improve your beginning Russian in a highly interactive, informal class that will cater to the needs of its participants. We will use a minimum of English, and repeat and contextualize Russian so that you can understand! Understanding what is being said and responding in Russian are the key goals. Grammar will be discussed only when needed, as our focus will be on speaking Russian. We will use the free online textbook, “Mezhdu Nami” as a reference, and read Chukovsky's witty long poem, Telefon, as well as present short poems and songs to experience in class. A new Russian student occasionally appears, but this will be a small class. It will certainly be low-pressure, supportive, and fun.
NOTE: We don’t expect students with fluent Russian. Experience shows that some students struggle with pronunciation, some with the Cyrillic alphabet, and some with both. Please come to the first class to see how it suits you.
This course will look at many aspects of the symphony, including the instruments in the ensemble and how they have changed over time, the musical forms of individual movements and how they developed, how the work known as a “symphony” developed historically, and who some of the important composers were. This lecture class will include a PowerPoint presentation plus listening to musical examples on YouTube. No previous musical experience is necessary.
NOTE: There is no class on Monday, November 11, in observance of Veterans Day.
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