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- 13 Colonies: How They Got Their Shapes and Sizes – Online
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Item Number: W25HIST308
Dates: 1/8/2025 - 2/19/2025
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 7
Maximum Enrollment: 299
Building: Online
Room: (Zoom)
Instructor: Michael Reynolds
Did the colony of Virginia ever cover about half of America? (Yes) Did Massachusetts cover most of the rest? (Sort of) And Carolina? Was it just one single colony at first and not split into a North and South? (That’s right.) The book, “How the States Got Their Shapes,” by Mark Stein, examines these questions for all 50 states. This course takes a look at the first 13. It will serve as a prequel to the “Battles of the American Revolution” course taught for nine years for OLLI at SOU. How every colony got its shape and size has surprising stories, including the wars, economics, and politics of the period. We’ll learn all about them. The course will utilize PowerPoint slides of graphics and photographs prepared mostly by the instructor. The Mark Stein book is recommended but not required; other sources of information will also be included.
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- Absolute Beginners Pickleball – In-Person
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Item Number: W25REC102A
Dates: 1/13/2025 - 1/17/2025
Times: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Days: Daily
Sessions: 5
Maximum Enrollment: 20
Building: Lithia Park Pickleball Courts
Room: Winburn Way, Ashland
Instructor: Cori Frank
This course is designed for the person who wants to learn the basics of pickleball. Join in the fun as Cori Frank and a team of experienced pickleball players teach you the fastest growing sport in America. The class meets for 1½ hours a day for five consecutive days. Beginning players will learn how to choose a paddle, proper paddle position when playing, scoring, serving, return of serve, third-shot drops, dinking, drills, and calling “out balls.” There is an emphasis on safety and sportsmanship. Ashland Oregon Pickleball Club will provide the paddles, pickleballs, and instructors. Information on courts throughout the Rogue Valley will be provided as well as communication tools. You will need court shoes, a hat or visor, and a hydrating drink. Sunglasses or protective eyewear are recommended.
NOTE: People with mobility issues should not take this course. A waiver must be signed prior to the first class. If we have inclement weather, class will be canceled.
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- Advanced Beginners Pickleball – In-Person
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Item Number: W25REC304A
Dates: 3/10/2025 - 3/14/2025
Times: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Days: Daily
Sessions: 5
Maximum Enrollment: 20
Building: Lithia Park Pickleball Courts
Room: Winburn Way, Ashland
Instructor: Cori Frank
This course is designed for students who have taken the Absolute Beginners Pickleball class or who have a rudimentary knowledge of the game. It will be taught by seasoned instructors who are experienced players and have taught before. Expect to build on the basic game to include advanced strategy in play. We will meet for 1½ hours at Lithia Park courts for five consecutive days. There will be an emphasis on sportsmanship and safety. This skills-building course will focus on different types of serves, lobs, third-shot drops or drop shots, drives, partner communication, stacking, and different types of scoring. We will introduce Nasty Nelson, Bert, and Erne. The last day will be a FUN Round-Robin whereby players will rotate play with all players. The instructors will be from Ashland Oregon Pickleball Club.
NOTE: If you have mobility issues, this course may not be for you. A waiver must be signed prior to the first class. Students are expected to have their own paddle, know the basic game, have court shoes, and a hat or visor. Safety glasses are recommended. Bring a hydrating drink and snack. If inclement weather occurs, class will be canceled.
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- Calculus from a Middle School Perspective – In-Person
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Item Number: W25STEM310A
Dates: 1/8/2025 - 1/29/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 4
Maximum Enrollment: 34
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room A
Instructor: Irv Lubliner
Morris Kline, author of “Mathematics for the Nonmathematician,” wrote: “Calculus provides the framework for studying change and the limits of processes,” making it the key to many scientific breakthroughs. Despite its importance, calculus often feels intimidating and mysterious due to its departure from more familiar areas of math. This course aims to demystify calculus, making its concepts and applications clear and accessible to all. Consider this: We calculate average speed by dividing distance by time — covering 80 miles in two hours gives 40 mph. But what does it mean to travel exactly 62 mph at 3 p.m., with no time elapsing at that instant? This course will explore such questions and more. While a basic understanding of first-year algebra can be helpful, no prior knowledge is required. Let’s have fun doing math together!
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- Conservation Burial: Going out Green – Online
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Item Number: W25LIFE113
Dates: 2/5/2025 - 2/19/2025
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 3
Maximum Enrollment: 299
Building: Online
Room: (Zoom)
Instructor: Mary Ann Perry
Let’s face it! We are all going to “go” one of these days, and conservation burial is the greenest way. Learn about the science and practice of this form of natural burial, as well as other alternative disposition methods like water cremation and human composting. We will discuss the conservation burial movement and its connection with land conservation and restoration. You will have the opportunity to complete your green burial planning guide.
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- English Country Dance – In-Person
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Item Number: W25MOV105A
Dates: 1/8/2025 - 3/12/2025
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 10
Maximum Enrollment: 40
Building: DanceSpace
Room: 280 E Hersey Street, #10, Ashland
Instructor: Brooke Friendly
From lyrical to lively, silly to sublime, English country dance dates from the 1600s. Discover dances of Jane Austen’s time as well as newly composed dances. Learn about the cultural aspects and history of this joyful living tradition as you enjoy moving to beautiful music. This is an "on-your-feet" and social class. No partner necessary.
NOTE: Please bring clean-soled, non-marking shoes and a water bottle. A waiver must be signed prior to the first class.
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- Enjoy German! – In-Person
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Item Number: W25LANG100A
Dates: 1/8/2025 - 3/12/2025
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 10
Maximum Enrollment: 16
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room B
Instructor: Udo Gorsch-Nies
This is a previously taught course with new content. This course aims at broadening a student’s vocabulary and understanding of the day-to-day German spoken today. The etymology of certain words will be discussed, and the rules of grammar will be explained on request. This term, we will read the author’s memoirs referring to the events in 1991 and later.
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- Exotic Travel – Online
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Item Number: W25LANG104
Dates: 2/12/2025 - 3/12/2025
Times: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 4
Maximum Enrollment: 299
Building: Online
Room: (Zoom)
Instructor: Tony Davis
In this course, speakers will explore what it’s like to work abroad in faraway places. We’ll start with teaching in China, working in the government of the Federated States of Micronesia, consulting in Uganda, and volunteer medical work elsewhere in Africa. The presenters will bring some perspectives that differ a bit from the tourist experience visiting these countries. Each presentation will be about 90 minutes, via Zoom, and there will be opportunities for questions and discussion.
NOTE: There is no class session on Wednesday, February 19.
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- Exploring Nearby Winter Trails on X-Country Skis – In-Person
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Item Number: W25REC303A
Dates: 1/15/2025 - 2/19/2025
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 10
Building: Field Trip
Room: Field Trip
Instructor: Moondance Forest
Explore nearby winter trails with Moondance Forest, an avid cross-country skier. The group will meet at a Sno-Park close to Ashland each week. The first class will be at the Campbell Center. We’ll assess everyone’s understanding, check all gear, and get logistics for meeting on the mountain. This is not a beginner course, and students must be familiar with the activity and be aware of their physical abilities. Students must have their own gear or secure rentals. Slowing down will be encouraged, along with enjoying the scenery, breathing, releasing ambition, and always reducing effort. We’ll practice getting up and down from the ground, discuss the “buddy system,” and learn from each participant. Cross-country skiing is a wonderful way to feel your entire being while breathing the crisp mountain air and viewing Mount McLaughlin in the distance. If snow or weather conditions are unfavorable, we’ll hike the ski trail or reschedule.
NOTE: A seasonal Sno-Park pass for a car is $25 for November to April. A waiver must be signed at the first class for continued participation. The first session of this course on Wednesday, January 15, will be at the Campbell Center in Room B.
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- Journey Between Your Heart and Soul — Enhanced – Online
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Item Number: W25PERS303
Dates: 2/12/2025 - 3/12/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 5
Maximum Enrollment: 12
Building: Online
Room: (Zoom)
Instructor: Ronnie Kaufman (he/him/his)
The purpose of this course is to be a personal incubator revealing discoveries of authentic self-awareness and unbiased truths preparing one to enter a new dimension of life. The course road map includes balancing your consciousness with the emotional side of life, understanding and engaging with your spiritual essence, gaining awareness of the key guidelines to living life with integrity, and identifying the facets of the psyche and how they work together. The course offers facilitated discussions focusing on a collection of short video clips by three world-renowned personal exploration authors as well as Ronnie Kaufman’s metaphysical concepts of appreciating the journey between your heart and soul. After viewing each video, open class discussions with the participants will ensue as they share, with no right or wrong answers, possible meanings of each one.
NOTE: All course content, including video clips, is online at JourneyBetween.org so participants can review any class material whenever they choose. Active class participation is encouraged, as it enhances outcomes for all participants. This class offers new information and an enhanced approach to presenting the class material compared to previous OLLI classes. Two separate sections of this course are offered, both on Wednesdays. One is at the Higher Education Center in Medford; the other is online.
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- Journey Between Your Heart and Soul — Enhanced – In-Person
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The purpose of this course is to be a personal incubator revealing discoveries of authentic self-awareness and unbiased truths preparing one to enter a new dimension of life. The course road map includes balancing your consciousness with the emotional side of life, understanding and engaging with your spiritual essence, gaining awareness of the key guidelines to living life with integrity, and identifying the facets of the psyche and how they work together. The course offers facilitated discussions focusing on a collection of short video clips by three world-renowned personal exploration authors as well as Ronnie Kaufman’s metaphysical concepts of appreciating the journey between your heart and soul. After viewing each video, open class discussions with the participants will ensue as they share, with no right or wrong answers, possible meanings of each one.
NOTE: All course content, including video clips, is online at JourneyBetween.org so participants can review any class material whenever they choose. Active class participation is encouraged, as it enhances outcomes for all participants. This class offers new information and an enhanced approach to presenting the class material compared to previous OLLI classes. Two separate sections of this course are offered, both on Wednesdays. One is at the Higher Education Center in Medford; the other is online.
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- “Julius Caesar”: Can We Make Rome Great Again? – In-Person
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Item Number: W25LIT303A
Dates: 1/22/2025 - 2/19/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 5
Maximum Enrollment: 52
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room E
Instructor: Susan Stitham
Shakespeare’s characters, conflicts, and themes are as relevant to America today as they were to 17th-century England. Far from the boring slog so many of us recall from 10th grade, this play brilliantly poses deep moral questions of contemporary import — about leadership, power, idealism, pragmatism, egotism, and honor. It crackles with brilliant rhetoric used to shape public opinion in a bitterly divided country. The author examines the fine lines between facts and assumptions, duty and ambition, and confidence and arrogance. The personal tragedies of the main characters mirror the dilemma of their society in the moment of transformation from the remnants of a republic to an oligarchy. At the end of the play, we are left to decide whether the end justifies the means, whether political violence can ever make Rome — or anywhere else — great again. Through lecture and discussion, the class will examine these questions in a study of the text and a variety of productions.
NOTE: No previous knowledge of Shakespeare is required, but students should have access to a copy of the play. Two separate sections of this course are offered: one is held at the Campbell Center on Wednesdays; the other is held online on Thursdays.
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- Make Multimedia eBooks: Your Words and Pictures – In-Person
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Item Number: W25ARTS324A
Dates: 1/8/2025 - 2/12/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 17
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room C
Instructor: Meri Walker
Are you an avid mobile photographer with a story to tell? All those pictures languishing in your iPhone deserve more than a one-time share on social media. Why not curate some of them, wrap them in a simple story, and turn them into a visually rich eBook you can publish and distribute through the Apple Bookstore, to the people who matter most to you: your family, friends, and colleagues … and maybe a wider audience? If you have an Apple iPhone, an iPad Pro, and/or Mac laptop and are ready to learn some simple chops, this class will equip you to use simple IOS creation tools to turn an album of your photos, and some short text (and even some sound and/or video clips, if you like) into a beautiful eBook portfolio you can publish and distribute through the Apple Bookstore. The instructor will guide class participants through the ins and outs of using two Apple-based apps that make it easier than you might think to collect your photos and words into beautiful page layouts.
NOTE: Participants need a late-model iPhone (11, 12, 13, 14, 15) and either an iPad Pro (3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th generation) or an up-to-date Mac laptop to make good use of this course. Earlier models of iPhone, iPad, or iPad Air will NOT work for this course. The only cost will be buying the app, PhotoSync - Transfer Photos, from the Apple App Store. It can be bought once and then loaded on both an iPhone and iPad and then, with the proof of purchase, you can download it for your Mac computer.
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- Old Time Radio – In-Person
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Old Time Radio will sample some of the greatest radio shows from the Golden Age of Radio, including “The Lone Ranger,” “The Six Shooter,” “Fibber McGee and Molly,” “Jack Benny,” “Our Miss Brooks,” “Dragnet,” “Philip Marlowe,” “Richard Diamond,” “Sam Spade,” and the suspenseful “The Hitchhiker” and “Sorry, Wrong Number.” Genres include detective, adventure, comedy, horror and westerns. Before each show the instructor will give a brief summary of the history of the show and its writers and actors. After listening to each episode, there will be some time for students to offer their opinions.
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- Paracord Braiding – In-Person
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Item Number: W25REC307A-1
Dates: 1/8/2025 - 1/22/2025
Times: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 3
Maximum Enrollment: 16
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room C
Instructor: Peggy Foster
Let your personality show with a custom hand-braided dog collar or dog leash or craft a survival bracelet that allows you to wear your emergency rope. Paracord is used in parachutes but has evolved into a variety of colors that can be braided with various techniques that we’ll explore in this course. Students must provide their own cord and buckets for their project, and registered students will be sent a supply list prior to the first class. The cost will depend on the project you choose to make.
NOTE: There are two in-person sections of this course being offered, both on Wednesdays. The first starts the first week of the term; the second starts the last week of January.
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- Paracord Braiding – In-Person
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Item Number: W25REC307A-2
Dates: 1/29/2025 - 2/12/2025
Times: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 3
Maximum Enrollment: 16
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room C
Instructor: Peggy Foster
Let your personality show with a custom hand-braided dog collar or dog leash or craft a survival bracelet that allows you to wear your emergency rope. Paracord is used in parachutes but has evolved into a variety of colors that can be braided with various techniques that we’ll explore in this course. Students must provide their own cord and buckets for their project, and registered students will be sent a supply list prior to the first class. The cost will depend on the project you choose to make.
NOTE: There are two in-person sections of this course being offered, both on Wednesdays. The first starts the first week of the term; the second starts the last week of January.
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- Pickleball Round Robin FUNdamentals – In-Person
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Item Number: W25REC305A
Dates: 1/29/2025 - 2/26/2025
Times: 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 2
Maximum Enrollment: 19
Building: Lithia Park Pickleball Courts
Room: Winburn Way, Ashland
Instructor: Cori Frank
This fun and active class is designed for pickleball players who understand and play the game. There will be two classes of three hours each at Lithia Park’s four upper courts. The round-robin is a structured form of pickleball play organized by skill level. Players will learn format, partnering, stacking (when and how to), what hand signals mean and when to use them, types of scoring, and byes. Different types of rally scoring will be introduced versus traditional scoring, along with when you may utilize each and why. We will cover the different types of pickleballs and details of timing used in round-robin events. Players will experience the application of the information learned as they participate in the round-robin and connect with their fellow players. We will play a minimum of six games and take a break between games at each class meeting.
NOTE: If you have mobility issues, this class may not be for you. There is a $3 charge for pickleballs payable to the instructor on the first day of class. All participants must sign a waiver on the first day of class. Plan to wear court shoes and a hat or visor and bring a hydrating drink. Protective eyewear is recommended. Class will be canceled if there is inclement weather.
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- Practical AI Applications – Online
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Item Number: W25STEM309
Dates: 1/15/2025 - 2/12/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 5
Maximum Enrollment: 42
Building: Online
Room: (Zoom)
Instructor: James Jarrard
Practical AI Applications presents how artificial intelligence is integrated into day-to-day applications, such as word processing, email, and presentation slide preparation. The course will demonstrate methods of using several current consumer level artificial intelligence programs to intermediate computer users. The primary focus will be on no-cost products from Alphabet/Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic/Claude.AI. Seminar attendees should have a working knowledge of computer operations, including word processing, graphics manipulation, email use, and presentation slide creation and modification.
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- Rubens' Art of Persuasion – In-Person
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Peter Paul Rubens, in his vibrant oil paintings, defended his faith, his profession, his business — and quite a few paying clients. This course will consider how his majestic altarpieces tied Catholic dogma to deeply felt human experience; how the Greek and Roman subjects of his history paintings put him forward as a gentleman rather than a craftsman; and how he designed for widely distributed prints, both to establish his value as an art consultant and dealer, and to defend copyright. His work, imagining various crowned heads at their most noble and worthy, not only supported their politics but earned him princely commissions. Each class lecture will be heavily illustrated, with time for questions and discussion. The course will touch on Rubens' Marie de Medici cycle, but not in the detail of my previous OLLI course on that subject.
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- Sanskrit Chanting for the Love of It – In-Person
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Item Number: W25PERS304A
Dates: 2/5/2025 - 3/12/2025
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 21
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room A
Instructor: Peggy Leviton
Research shows amazing benefits — physical, mental, and spiritual — of chanting in Sanskrit. Emphasis on Sanskrit pronunciation and phonetics enhances our experience. Even as Westerners, we can realize the many benefits of chanting in this rich traditional Vedic language from Bangalore, India. A brief overview of the Vedas will be followed by learning Sanskrit phonetics using IAST (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration). Familiar English/Roman characters are used to help us produce sounds unfamiliar to Westerners. Each week we will review phonetics, then delve in further as we learn and chant simple mantras together. Slide presentations and handouts will be provided. This is an experiential course. Chanting is not singing and does not require any musicality. Sanskrit chanting is for everyone! No prior knowledge is required, only willingness to learn and be open to this beautiful practice.
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- Seven Simple Practices for Living in Wonder – In-Person
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Item Number: W25PERS307A
Dates: 1/8/2025 - 2/19/2025
Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Days: W
Sessions: 7
Maximum Enrollment: 13
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room A
Instructor: Beata Chapman
Interested in cultivating a mind full of wonder? In this class, you will learn and use seven rich, beloved practices adapted from Zen Buddhism (but not limited to its practice) for being alive in the moments of your ordinary day and drawing on mundane moments to cultivate wonder-mind. Through sharing experiences, dialogue, and applying the practices in your everyday life, you will end the course fully prepared to build upon your class experiences — you may find yourself living in wonder! No prior knowledge or experience is needed for this course. All are welcome!
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- Social Singing – In-Person
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Item Number: W25ARTS318A
Dates: 2/5/2025 - 3/12/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 34
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room A
Instructor: Brooke Friendly
Singing together is one of the more joyful things in life. Come sing in an informal and interactive session, no matter your experience or skill. We’ll sing traditional songs with fine choruses and refrains — sea songs, work songs, drinking songs, love songs, shanties, silly songs, and easy rounds from the U.S., Canada, and England. Chorus tunes will be taught by ear, and all singing will be done acapella. Most chorus words will be provided.
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- Ten Classic Comedy Films, Part 4 – In-Person
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Item Number: W25ARTS218A
Dates: 1/8/2025 - 3/12/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 10
Maximum Enrollment: 53
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room D
Instructor: Roy Sutton
This course will show 10 classic comedy films, starting with a silent film, “The Gold Rush,” with Charlie Chaplin (1925), and concluding with “A Fish Called Wanda,” with John Cleese and Jamie Lee Curtis (1988). The other eight are “Dinner at Eight,” “The Awful Truth,” “Buck Privates,” “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” “No Time for Sergeants,” “The Graduate,” “Blazing Saddles,” and “Breaking Away.” A handout for each film will be made available the week before the showing of the film, except for the first film, for which the handout will be made available on the first day. The instructor will mention anything special to be noticed about each film just before it is shown, and students may offer comments or questions at that time. A guided discussion will follow after the end of the film. Students need bring nothing more than a desire to see these special comedy films that are true classics and still enjoyable no matter how many times one views them.
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- The Breath in Stress, Trauma, and Immunity – Online (Hybrid)
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Item Number: W25PERS310
Dates: 1/22/2025 - 2/26/2025
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 42
Building: Online
Room: (Zoom)
Instructor: Shawn Flot
This innovative six-week course bridges ancient wisdom with cutting-edge science, offering practical tools for enhanced well-being and life-changing skills. Learn how breathing unlocks your capacities for self-regulation, healing, and resilience. Explore calming and energizing practices, understanding their impact on your body-mind. Delve into breath’s crucial role in trauma, stress, and immune function. Discover the often-overlooked importance of nasal breathing for health. Through practice and evidence-based instruction, develop a personalized toolkit of breathing methods for various life situations, including stress relief, better sleep, improved focus, and enhanced physical performance. Join the journey to harness your breath’s potential. Emerge with a deeper understanding of your body-mind connection and practical strategies for lifelong health and resilience. No prior experience is necessary — just bring an open mind and willingness to explore.
NOTE: This is a practical course exploring the different dimensions of your breath and respiratory functions and is not a substitute for medical care of your conditions. You are responsible for your own participation, and a signed liability waiver is required.
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- The Breath in Stress, Trauma, and Immunity – In-Person (Hybrid)
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Item Number: W25PERS310A
Dates: 1/22/2025 - 2/26/2025
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 47
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room D
Instructor: Shawn Flot
This innovative six-week course bridges ancient wisdom with cutting-edge science, offering practical tools for enhanced well-being and life-changing skills. Learn how breathing unlocks your capacities for self-regulation, healing, and resilience. Explore calming and energizing practices, understanding their impact on your body-mind. Delve into breath’s crucial role in trauma, stress, and immune function. Discover the often-overlooked importance of nasal breathing for health. Through practice and evidence-based instruction, develop a personalized toolkit of breathing methods for various life situations, including stress relief, better sleep, improved focus, and enhanced physical performance. Join the journey to harness your breath’s potential. Emerge with a deeper understanding of your body-mind connection and practical strategies for lifelong health and resilience. No prior experience is necessary — just bring an open mind and willingness to explore.
NOTE: This is a practical course exploring the different dimensions of your breath and respiratory functions and is not a substitute for medical care of your conditions. You are responsible for your own participation, and a signed liability waiver is required.
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- The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Survivor – In-Person
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Item Number: W25LIT135A
Dates: 1/8/2025 - 1/29/2025
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 4
Maximum Enrollment: 34
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room A
Instructor: Irv Lubliner
Felicia Bornstein Lubliner, a survivor of ghettos and concentration camps (Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen) in Nazi-occupied Poland, wrote and spoke publicly afterward about her Holocaust experiences. Her son, the course instructor, invites you to delve into her written stories and oral presentations, published as “Only Hope: A Survivor’s Stories of the Holocaust.” Each story will be read aloud, either by the instructor or by students who have the book. Participants will be invited to share their reactions, questions, and insights. We will discuss the historical context and lessons to be learned about that period, the universal human responses that the narratives evoke, and the relevance of the subject matter to challenges we face in modern times.
NOTE: Purchase of “Only Hope” is optional. It is available as a paperback book for $15.99, as a Kindle download for $5.99, and as an audiobook for $6.95.
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- “The Phantom of the Opera” by Gaston LeRoux – Online
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Item Number: W25LIT309
Dates: 1/8/2025 - 2/12/2025
Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 299
Building: Online
Room: (Zoom)
Instructor: Morgan Silbaugh, Jerry Campbell
“The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest running show on Broadway, celebrated its 10,000th performance in February 2012. With total estimated worldwide gross receipts of over $6 billion and total Broadway gross of over $1 billion, it was the most financially successful entertainment event until 2014. By 2019, it had been seen by over 140 million people in 183 cities across 41 countries. What is it about this story that has inspired such creative effort, captured the imagination of millions, and made it a staple of modern culture? What does it say about us that we find LeRoux’s story so compelling? Students will consider this while reading Gaston LeRoux’s 1910 work, “The Phantom of the Opera.” The course will cover four or five chapters a week for six weeks and include information about the author, the Paris Opera House and stage, screen, and literary adaptations. Discussion will center on character analysis, literary style, and a viewing of the 1925 silent film adaptation starring Lon Chaney.
NOTE: The book can be purchased or downloaded for free from several internet sources. The 1925 silent film starring Lon Chaney is available on multiple streaming platforms. Links will be provided to class participants.
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- Tracing and Honoring the Journey of Your Life – Online
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Item Number: W25PERS312
Dates: 1/8/2025 - 2/12/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 12
Building: Online
Room: (Zoom)
Instructor: Kani Comstock
Each of our lives is an amazing journey with various destinations, expected and unexpected opportunities, challenges and transitions that have presented us with choices until we have reached where we are now in our life. Often we are too busy and involved to really reflect on what we have done, the choices we have made, and to remember what we experienced in those moments as we moved forward. There can be magic in taking the time to revisit the trajectory of our life with all its twists and turns, and to fully claim what we have created as our life’s journey. This course is an opportunity to retrace our life’s path, recognize the many large and small choices that sculpted our experience of who we are and what we can be. Each class will address a particular period of life. It can be surprising and rewarding to expand the perspective on who we are.
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- Understanding Medicare: The ABCs (and D) – In-Person
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Item Number: W25LIFE306A
Dates: 1/8/2025 - 1/15/2025
Times: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 2
Maximum Enrollment: 34
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room A
Instructor: Becky Foster
This course will inform students about the basics of Medicare as well as more specific and current topics in Medicare that are locally relevant. Through lecture and interactive discussion, a highly trained Medicare counselor will provide valuable information to ensure that attendees and their loved ones are getting the most out of their Medicare coverage. Topics include Medicare Parts A and B, Medicare Advantage vs. Medigap, the prescription drug plan (Part D), annual reevaluation of plans, tips for finding a provider, coverage limitations or exclusions, and local resources for assistance. The course will help prepare soon-to-be eligible or current beneficiaries for the next Medicare open enrollment period running from October 15 to December 7, 2025.
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- Wines of the World – In-Person
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Item Number: W25LANG159A
Dates: 1/29/2025 - 3/5/2025
Times: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 22
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room A
Instructor: Dan Dawson
This term’s course will introduce six new wine regions, not covered in previous “Wines of the World” offerings. Lectures using PowerPoint and multimedia will cover the geography, climate, soils, history, varietals, labeling, and regulatory structure of each region. We will taste four quality wines from that region and discuss our perceptions. No special background knowledge is required but a passion for wine is recommended.
NOTE: A class fee will be charged to cover the cost of the premium wines we taste. The fee will be based on the cost of the wines but will not exceed $120 per student. Students are required to pay the full fee, even if they expect to miss some classes. A signed liability waiver is required.
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