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This fall members of the Academy for Learning in Retirement
in Saratoga Springs, New York will be Drawing for Self-Discovery.
In this class they will expand their creativity by learning drawing techniques
that will turn their “doodles” into personal expressions.
Suited to all levels of experience and interest, sessions will include
discussions of contemporary art as well as instruction in sketching.
People and Books was the title of a recent program at the
Adult Learning Institute at Columbia-Green Community
College in Hudson, New York. The group discussed the well-known novel,
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Members of the Explorers Lifelong Learning Institute
at Salem State College in Massachusetts recently studied The Hubble
Space Telescope: Sixteen Years of Elegant Sites, Scenes and Science.
There were treated to a summary of the NASA program as well as a discussion
of the HST system and its useful discoveries.
Members of the Institute for Continuing Learning at
Young Harris College in Georgia recently studied Musical Structure:
Sonata Form. The explored how the sonata form is utilized in some
of the masterpieces of the classical and romantic eras.
Over the summer members of MSU for Seniors at Minnesota
State University, Mankato took two very interesting field trips. The
first took them to Walnut Grove, MN where they enjoyed the Laura Ingalls
Wilder Pageant. The second found members enjoying a Sunday afternoon
at Morgan Creek Winery taking part in a celebration of the Celtic Heritage
of Poetry, Song and Stories.
Members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at
George Mason University in Virginia studied Right Brain, Left Brain,
Whole Brain: How Our Thinking Style Preferences Affect Our Lives.
They analyzed their own preferred thinking style, discussed how various
thinking styles impact and interact with opposing and complementary
styles and played a bit with their own thinking style preferences.
One of the summer courses at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
at Southern Maine University in Portland is entitled Evy Newlyn.
Members will read in modern English the medieval lais (short verse stories)
of Marie de France, who wrote of romance, the supernatural, a noble
werewolf, and Arthurian characters such as Tristan and Iseult, and Lanival
and his fairy mistress from Avalon.
Members of the Rose Institute for Life Long Learning
at the Menorah Park Center in Beachwood, Ohio recently took a course
entitled Oldies But Goodies. The class joined in the stimulating
discussions following the reading of a variety of literary works. Some
of the selections included The Good Earth, by Pearl Buck, My
Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok and The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan, as well as selected poetry by Maya Angelou.
Members of the Senior Academy at the University of
South Florida, Sarasota took a course this past winter entitled Daily
Life In Dictatorships. This course provided insights, anecdotes
and pictures regarding what life was like in Franco’s Spain, Pinochet’s
Chile, the Argentina of the military dictators and Communist Germany;
and what life is like today in Namibia, Cuba, Brazil, Russia and the
former Soviet Republics.
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July 20, 2008
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