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- NEW! NEW! Battleships: From the Merrimack to the Missouri
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Dates: 2/4/2025 - 2/25/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 4
Building: Online – Zoom
Room: Zoom Link - Emailed Day Prior
Instructor(s): Buck Beasom
Fee: $0.00
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- NEW! NEW! Dementia 101: Raising Awareness, Reducing Risks
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Dates: 2/26/2025 - 3/19/2025
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 3
Building: Online – Zoom
Room: Zoom Link - Emailed Day Before
Instructor(s): George Worthington
Fee: $0.00
Are you comfortable interacting with people experiencing changes in their thinking and memory? Are you aware of services and programs to support a good quality of life? Did you know there are lifestyle changes you can make that can help reduce your risks of developing dementia? In this course taught by Virginia’s Dementia Services Director, you will become a Dementia Friend and learn about dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, learn about the major types of dementia, discover resources and services available in the community and how to access them, and hear the latest research around brain health and dementia risk reduction.
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REGISTRATION FOR THIS COURSE IS CLOSED. The class is full and has a lengthy wait list.
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- NEW! NEW! The Very Model of a Modern Comic Opera: The Pirates of Penzance
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Dates: 2/28/2025 - 2/28/2025
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: F
Sessions: 1
Building: Online – Zoom
Room: Zoom Link - Emailed Day Before
Instructor(s): Ken Krantz
Fee: $0.00
On New Year’s Eve, 1879, Gilbert and Sullivan premiered the follow up to their first great hit, HMS Pinafore, in New York, the only one of their shows to open outside London. This class will examine the background, plot, and music of this classic work, as well as its enduring impact in modern times.
Note: students are encouraged to see Sinfonicron Light Opera’s production in January 2025 at Phi Beta Kappa Hall. Information and tickets are available at Sinfonicron.org
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- NEW! NEW! The American Scholar: Emerson & the Liberal Arts Promise
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Dates: 3/17/2025 - 3/17/2025
Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Days: M
Sessions: 1
Building: Online – Zoom
Room: Zoom Link - Emailed Day Before
Instructor(s): Christopher Chaves
Fee: $0.00
This seminar will explore the relevance of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1837 American Scholar essay to contemporary higher education. It recommended a new curricular model for educating the new American college student of his time that included engagement with nature, books, informed action, and the development of the human traits he characterized as “man thinking.”
The course is based on the instructor’s recently published article in the peer-reviewed Journal of Transcendentalist Philosophy. We will explore how some liberal arts curricula can represent a Transcendentalist response to the decaying effects of neo-liberal economic interests, anti-intellectual impulses, and the neglect of the perennial idea of learning for its own sake.
Participants are encouraged to bring an open mind, critically engage, and contribute to the dialogue on whether or not Emerson’s liberal education model is or is not relevant to today’s higher education systems.
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THIS CLASS IS AT CAPACITY. If you would like to be added to the wait list, click the 'Add to Wait List' button below.
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- NEW! Baseball’s Announcers: The Voices of Summer
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Dates: 3/18/2025 - 3/18/2025
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 1
Building: Online – Zoom
Room: Zoom Link - Emailed Day Before
Instructor(s): Paul Boren
Fee: $0.00
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- NEW! NEW! American Spiritualities
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Dates: 3/24/2025 - 4/14/2025
Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Days: M
Sessions: 4
Building: Online – Zoom
Room: Zoom Link - Emailed Day Before
Instructor(s): Edward Ingebretsen
Fee: $0.00
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- NEW! NEW! Ranking the U.S. 2025 - Top 10 Review
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Dates: 3/25/2025 - 3/25/2025
Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 1
Building: Online – Zoom
Room: Zoom Link - Emailed Day Before
Instructor(s): Douglas Stowell
Fee: $0.00
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- The British Invasion (1963-73): A Fan’s History
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Dates: 3/25/2025 - 4/8/2025
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 3
Building: Online – Zoom
Room: Zoom Link - Emailed Day Before
Instructor(s): Ronald Beales
Fee: $0.00
Do you remember the music of the 60s? In particular, the music of the “British Invasion” that enthralled American youth and changed, in so many ways, the means by which we listened – and made it possible for music to change the world.
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- NEW! NEW! Hanna-Barbera - From Modern Stone-Age to Meddling Kids
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Dates: 3/26/2025 - 4/30/2025
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 6
Building: Online – Zoom
Room: Zoom Link - Emailed Day Before
Instructor(s): Gregory Ehrbar
Fee: $0.00
A comprehensive history of Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera, and their artists, who gave us Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons, Jonny Quest, Smurfs, Huckleberry Hound, The Banana Splits, Wacky Races, and hundreds more.
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- St. Paul and the First Christians
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Dates: 3/27/2025 - 4/17/2025
Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Days: Th
Sessions: 4
Building: Online – Zoom
Room: Zoom Link - Emailed Day Before
Instructor(s): Jack Dalby
Fee: $0.00
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- Keys to Preventing Dementia: Help and Hope as We Age
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Dates: 3/28/2025 - 4/11/2025
Times: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Days: F
Sessions: 3
Building: Online – Zoom
Room: Zoom Link - Emailed Day Prior
Instructor(s): Patricia Quinlisk
Fee: $0.00
The risk of developing dementia can be reduced; in fact, it’s estimated that about 40% of all cases of dementia/Alzheimer’s disease can be prevented. In these two classes, you will learn the details about what YOU can do to lower your risk, even if you think you might be carrying the dementia gene! It’s not easy to make lifestyle changes, but now is the time to start– and these changes will help you to be healthier overall. Not only your brain will be healthier, so will your heart and lungs, and body!) Join us for a life changing class and the latest information about this disease.
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- NEW! NEW! Making the US: Anti-Federalists and Washington’s Warnings Pt 2
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Dates: 3/28/2025 - 5/2/2025
Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Days: F
Sessions: 6
Building: Online – Zoom
Room: Zoom Link - Emailed Day Before
Instructor(s): Rebecca Staton-Reinstein
Fee: $0.00
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- Mastering Your iPhone/iPad Camera & Photo Apps
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Dates: 4/16/2025 - 4/30/2025
Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Days: W
Sessions: 3
Building: Online – Zoom
Room: Zoom Link - Emailed Day Before
Instructor(s): Rick Chase
Fee: $0.00
This course will help you master the camera and photo applications on your iPhone and/or iPad. You will learn the camera’s functions and capabilities, still photography, plus cover the video capabilities.
The Photos application will be explored, including navigation in the app, photo editing (crop, trim, rotation, etc.), smart adjustments, enhancing less-than-perfect shots, and filters. You will learn how to organize your photo and video media; make and use albums; navigate and find media in your collection. We will also explore the creation and sharing of albums, how to create slideshows with music; and using iCloud.
Suggested reading: iPhone and/or iPad User Guides by Apple (free).
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THIS CLASS IS AT CAPACITY. If you would like to be added to the wait list, click the 'Add to Wait List' button below.
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- Understanding Today’s Economic Trends and Issues - In Person
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Dates: 4/28/2025 - 5/12/2025
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 3
Building: Campus Center
Room: Room 159
Instructor(s): Daniel Gaske
Fee: $0.00
This is an in-person class. An online class is also available. Please choose either the in-person or online.
This course examines present-day economic trends, issues, institutions, and markets in the U.S. and globally. We’ll select from topics such as the state of U.S. economy and government debt, China’s growing role in international economy, economic sanctions, economics of climate change, impacts of immigration into U.S., global poverty and the World Bank, etc.
Exact topics are chosen closer to course dates based on key issues at that time.
In-Person Class
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- Understanding Today’s Economic Trends and Issues - Zoom
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Dates: 4/30/2025 - 5/14/2025
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 3
Building: Online – Zoom
Room: Zoom Link - Emailed Day Prior
Instructor(s): Daniel Gaske
Fee: $0.00
This is an in-person class. An online class is also available. Please choose either the in-person or online.
This course examines present-day economic trends, issues, institutions, and markets in the U.S. and globally. We’ll select from topics such as the state of U.S. economy and government debt, China’s growing role in international economy, economic sanctions, economics of climate change, impacts of immigration into U.S., global poverty and the World Bank, etc.
Exact topics are chosen closer to course dates based on key issues at that time.
Online class via Zoom
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