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Lifelong Learning CONTINUING AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES Lifelong Learning SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2019 www.brookdalecc.edu/lifelonglearning www.facebook.com/BrookdaleLifelongLearning TABLE OF CONTENTS Academic Lecture Series ............................................................................................... 2 The Arts .................................................................................................................................... 3 Photography ......................................................................................................................... 6 Creatiivity Never Retires ................................................................................................. 7 • religion & politics • science • opera • the masters • history Financial.................................................................................................................................11 Wellness & Fitness ...........................................................................................................12 Holistic Health ...................................................................................................................14 Humanities, History & Culture ................................................................................16 Irish Heritage ......................................................................................................................19 Language ..............................................................................................................................21 Literature ...............................................................................................................................22 Music .......................................................................................................................................24 Recreation ............................................................................................................................26 Special Interest ..................................................................................................................27 Student Success ...............................................................................................................29 • SAT prep • developmental disabilities Around Town ......................................................................................................................30 Trips ..........................................................................................................................................31 World War II Studies ......................................................................................................37 Information..........................................................................................................................38 Registration .........................................................................................................................40 Watch Your Email! Registration receipts are emailed within 3 days following enrollment. Please continue to check your Fith Avenue in email. Class and bus trip updates are delivered via Winter, 1919 email including notices of wait lists, class cancellations, date Childe Hassam changes, classroom updates and more. WHERE’S MY CLASSROOM? 4 WAYS TO FIND IT! • Website: www.brookdalecc.edu/lifelonglearning Scroll down and Click tab on screen lower right “Room Locations, Directions, Maps” • Call our prerecorded message: 732-224-2100 • Call our office (Mon-Fri 8:30 am-4:30 pm) at732-224-2315 • Read the posting on our front door – inside lobby, ATeC building 1 Dear Friends and Neighbors – Many believe fall is the best season on campus. And this year, we agree. You will find enticing programs – invitations toThink – on every single page before you. And many opportunities to meet new friends – Linda C. Martin Director, Lifelong Learning, Continuing and Professional Studies And speaking of friends…… A Message from the Friends of Lifelong Learning Have we met? We are a volunteer group who formed with a mission “to support, promote, enhance and preserve Lifelong Learning at Brookdale”. We act as an advisory group to the Lifelong Learning program. We tackle projects of our own design, as well as those requested by the program director. Our focus, since our start at the end of 2018, is increasing awareness of the program. We help to spread the word by sharing our experiences within our communities and outreach to local publications. We also gather ideas for potential classes and trips of interest to you, our fellow Lifelong Learners, as well as research ways to improve program feedback and aide in vetting new courses. “Friends of Lifelong Learning (FLL)” is the brainchild of Carol Smith who acts as our Chairperson. Before there was a Brookdale, Carol was a speaker for the League of Women Voters, visiting local community groups urging them to vote “Yes” on the public question to create a county college. After retiring from Telcordia Technologies seventeen years ago, she taught mathematics at Brookdale. Then, she discovered the pleasures of being a lifelong learner at Brookdale. “The Lifelong Learning classes have enriched my life, and developed new interests and sources of joy. Many others have told me the same thing. We feel so grateful for this gem of a program and so we want to create a way for us, the students, to demonstrate our appreciation and promote the program. That’s the idea behind Friends of Lifelong Learning. Pictured left to right: Carol Smith, Sheila Mandel, Marilyn Kass, Lee Heumiller, Sharon Moscato. Members not pictured include Mary Louise and Ray Brambilla, Barbara Kendall, Jo Kircher, Mary Kouvel, Stan Mandel, Carrie Saltzbart and Gale Tenen Spak. Have ideas to improve our Lifelong Learning experience? Feel free to share your thoughts. Submit your comments or suggestions to [email protected]. Or chat with us in classrooms or bus trips we share. We are eager to welcome new members. Join us! 2 Academic Lecture Series Academic Lecture Series – Iconic Walls of the World A collaboration by the Brookdale Community College History faculty and Lifelong Learning There are few hotter current topics. Don’t miss Brookdale’s history department’s examination of iconic walls – from history to present day. Each date contains TWO, 30 minute lectures and 15 minutes Q&A. Tues, Sept 24th Tues, Oct 1st The Great Wall of China – Walls of Constantinople – Assistant Professor Daijuan Gao Assistant Professor David Bassano Built and modified over many centuries, The walls of the city of Constantinople China’s Great Wall was a massive project were the last and most successful of on a scale unequal in human history. the great fortifications of the ancient But if its intention was to protect China world, and one of the longest-lived; from invaders then its cost in resources for over 1100 years, they defended the and lives was a failure. More likely, city and the Byzantine Empire from the wall was a symbol that intended to many invaders on both land and sea. impress potential invaders and domestic Impervious to all siege designs, even after constituents with emperor’s power the development of gunpowder, the wall and reach. Today’s walls can be more still exists in fragments to this day. We symbolic than effective, intended to send will examine the design and history of a message that the leaders are protecting the walls of Constantinople, and how the country. they defended not only the city, but the entire Western world, until 1453 AD. The Long Walls of Athens – Professor Jeanne Vloyanetes Vietnam Memorial Walls – The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.) Professor Jess LeVine is one of history’s great confrontations. Walls have been built for centuries to Fought between two vastly different divide peoples. While there have been Greek city-states; Athens and Sparta many monuments to those we lost vied for Hellenic supremacy. A key in wars, the Vietnam Memorial Wall military strategy used by Pericles and the in Washington, D.C for all those lost Athenians was that of long corridor walls during the Vietnam War and the Vietnam connecting the city to its port, Piraeus. Memorial Wall in Holmdel, NJ for those With these walls, the Athenians secured lost from New Jersey, these monument the transit of supplies and fighting forces walls are outstanding, unique walls and and could resist a Spartan siege. The serve the noble purpose of bringing long walls proved to be both helpful and peoples together. Hear how they work disastrous for the Athenians. Find out their special type of magic. how in this overview of the lessons to be gleaned from their story. Academic Lecture Series 3 Tues, Oct 8th The Berlin Wall – Professor George Reklaitis (single presentation on this date) On June 26, 1963 President John F. Kennedy stood before the Berlin Wall, a structure dividing the city of Berlin into free and occupied zones, and declared, “When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe.” Twenty- five years later, the collapse of the Berlin Wall indeed became the symbolic end of oppressive communist regimes throughout Eastern Europe. Now, thirty years removed from the fateful year of 1989, we will examine the factors that contributed to the construction of the Berlin Wall by East German and Soviet leaders, and the pressures that lead to its collapse. More importantly, what is the Berlin Wall’s legacy today, and what can
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