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SPRING 2018 RENAISSANCE INSTITUTE Life long learning for adults age 50+ EXPLORE. DREAM. DISCOVER. Trying something new can take you to places you’ve never investigated. Pursue your painting or photography passion. Join a writing workshop. View a film and share impressions. eeping the minds, bodies, and spirits of adults age 50+ flexible since 1989, Kthe Renaissance Institute is a lifelong learning community housed on the main campus of Notre Dame of Maryland University. Renaissance Institute offers two semesters of noncredit courses, designed and led by the members themselves. As a member, you may take as many classes as you wish from our varied catalog of offerings and, when ready, share your acquired knowledge by teaching courses on subjects you are passionate about. Course topics have included literature, public affairs, philosophy, history, music, art, languages, tai chi, film, science, computers, yoga, acting, and more. We also offer member-sponsored activities and travel opportunities. Past trips have included Costa Rica, the Canadian Maritimes, the Grand Tetons, and the Southwest U.S. MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS • Take as many courses as you like each registered semester • Audit one Notre Dame of Maryland University course per year • Access the Notre Dame library, computer lab, and dining hall • Receive a Notre Dame ID card that can be used for student discounts • Gain access to an Amazon Prime Student account through your Notre Dame student email account. See Amazon.com for details • Enjoy free on-campus parking COST: $400 annually, or $215 per semester DATES AND TIMES: 13-week semesters each Spring and Fall; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. MORE INFORMATION: 410-532-5351 | ndm.edu/renaissance TUESDAY CLASSES FEBRUARY 6 – MAY 1 1.) EARLY MORNING EXERCISE David Moss, Professor at the Harvard School February 6 – May 1 13 weeks of Business, to examine commonly held myths, half-truths and actual political conflicts 8:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. about America’s past. The purpose will be to Instructor: Bob Greenfield revitalize our conversations on governance and democracy. Class participation is This course is a gentle, seated exercise class. important. Presentation: Pre-recorded tapes will be used; Jane McConnell is a retired Healthcare sessions last about 20 minutes. Items such as Administrator and Executive Director of risk batons, neckties and light weights are also used. management companies within healthcare Bob Greenfield has degrees from the Universities systems and a community activist in New York of Rochester (B.A.) and Michigan (A.M.L.S.). Bob City and Baltimore. She has an RN from St. is a former bicycle enthusiast and racer of large Vincent’s Hospital, BS from Columbia University, yachts and has long been a supporter of physical MS and MPA from New York University and JD fitness. Bob works out regularly at Roland Park from Fordham University. In the past Jane has Place Center. taught “How and Why We Should Change the Constitution” and “Constitutional Myths.” 2.) IMPROV WORKSHOP Books used: 1.) Professor Mark Stoler’s Great Course DVD’s Course Guide on The Skeptics’ February 6 – March 20 7 weeks Guide to American History and 2.) Democracy, 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. A Cast Study by David A. Moss, the Belknap Press & Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Instructor: Betty Loafmann Massachusetts, 2017 This workshop is for anyone who likes to hear “yes” from the other attendees. No special 4.) IN THE BEGINNING: A CROSS skills required. Feeling free to be more CULTURAL EXAMINATION OF spontaneous, participants enjoy building on each other’s contributions. CREATION MYTHS February 6 – March 20 7 weeks Betty Loafmann has taught a variety of courses including previous sessions of Improv. 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Prior to coming to RI she was a management Instructor: John Russell consultant and so has learned the importance of multiple suggestions. This course will be an examination of creation myths from many different cultures in order to better understand both common themes and 3.) SKEPTICS’ GUIDE TO unique views of creation. AMERICAN HISTORY Raised an Episcopalian and now located February 6 – March 20 7 weeks somewhere between Agnostic and Buddhist on 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. the religious spectrum, John Russell has a deep interest in how cultures answer the questions Instructor: Jane McConnell of, “Where did we come from?” “Where are we Students will use The Skeptics’ Guide of going?” and “What’s for lunch?” American History DVDs from The Great Courses by Professor Mark Stoler, Ph.D. CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED and the book Democracy: A Case Study by TUESDAY CLASSES FEBRUARY 6 – MAY 1 5.) SING ME A STORY–1950’S 7.) BOTANY 101 OR WHY BOTANY BALLADS MIGHT MATTER TO ME February 6 – March 20 7 weeks February 6 – March 20 7 weeks 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Instructor: Donna Bertling Instructor: Betty Evans This is a repeat of the course offered in Fall Are you a gardener or a cook? Do you enjoy 2017. From crooners to torch singers to doo hanging out in display gardens? Do you wop and teen idols, find out how the singers, make yogurt or beer? Do you like fruits and songwriters and the songs themselves got vegetables? How about fresh air? Do you like their start. working with wood? All these things, plus many more, are closely related to botany. Presentation: Lecture/Music/Discussion. Come join us and learn some plant basics and Donna Bertling holds a B.A. in English, Loyola how they affect our daily lives. University of Maryland. She is a retired Creative Presentation: Lecture and discussion Services Director at WJZ. Betty Evans has been hanging out in kitchens and gardens for a really long time. She has 6.) HISTORY AND ART TREASURES dabbled in woodworking and enjoys eating. She OF THE MEDITERRANEAN ISLAND has completed the Master Gardener training OF MALTA and has been studying one aspect or another of botany informally for most of her life. February 6 – March 20 7 weeks 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. 8.) EXPLORING THE RAINBOW Instructor: Joseph Paul Cassar March 27 – May 1 6 weeks The course is designed to help participants 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. understand and appreciate the art and history of one of the Mediterranean’s most Instructor: Mikell Worley important islands. Geographically situated in Colors are associated with gender, life - the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Malta passage ceremonies, seasons, holidays, has been of interest to different nations moods, diseases and health. Colors can starting with the Phoenicians. We will study increase, or reduce your energy level, blood the paintings Caravaggio produced as the pressure and appetite. They can inspire official painter of the Knights of St. John and passion and loyalty. Ask any sports fan! Each examine present day history and art. Valletta, multi-media lecture will feature a rainbow Malta, will be The European Capital of color, its characteristics, and impact on Culture in 2018. history, culture, fashion, art, music, literature, Presentation: PowerPoint lecture and discussion. folklore and more. Joseph Paul Cassar, Ph.D., is an art historian, Mikell Worley has explored the impact of color art critic, artist, curator, educator and the as an artist, through work with adjudicated author of several art books specializing in youth, women in prison, and training sessions for the modern period. He has taught art and art schools, health care providers and state agencies history at various institutions around the world. as Director of PA Department of Health State He regularly lectures at the Smithsonian and Health Improvement Plan. several area colleges and universities. TUESDAY CLASSES FEBRUARY 6 – MAY 1 9.) PROTEST ART 11.) OPERA REVISITED March 27 – May 1 6 weeks March 27 – May 1 6 weeks 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Instructor: Ann Wiker Instructor: Bob Greenfield Created in response to the bombing of Along with class discussion, there will be Guernica, a Basque Country village in presentation of operas, excellent past northern Spain, by German and Italian productions. warplanes during the Spanish Civil War, Picasso’s Guernica was his first politically Bob Greenfield, a librarian by profession, enjoys opera. charged painting. Dada was an art movement born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. The Guerilla 12.) YOGA FOR POST-PRIME BODIES Girls are an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and February 6 – May 1 13 weeks racism within the art world. Object Orange 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. is an artistic project in Detroit, Michigan, Instructor: Betty Lewis which seeks to draw attention to dilapidated buildings by painting them orange. These are This course is a gentle yoga class appropriate all examples of using visual art as a means of for all levels. We will use chairs, walls, belts, protest. This course will explore how artists blocks and blankets to help you access poses. throughout history have used visual imagery The course includes yoga postures, breath to raise attention for political and cultural work and meditation. For your own safety issues. and comfort, please bring a yoga mat, two blocks, one belt and a blanket. Ann Wiker is the Director of Art Exposure, Inc. She has taught art studio, history and Betty Lewis has been teaching in the Baltimore appreciation courses to students of all ages Metropolitan area since 1997. She is a Certified through the Hopkins and Towson State’s lyengar Yoga teacher and a Yoga Alliance OSHER programs, York College, Roland Park Registered Yoga Teacher.