Fall 2021 Class Schedule and Calendar Fall Classes: Sept

Fall 2021 Class Schedule and Calendar Fall Classes: Sept. 20 – Dec. 10, 2021 Registration Begins on Sept. 1, 2021*

Quality and Affordable classes for Lifelong Learners The Creative Retirement Institute (CRI) of Edmonds College is a member‐driven, self‐ supporting organization whose mission is to provide affordable, quality lifelong educational opportunities for adults in a supportive environment.

www.edmonds.edu/cri * See pages 2 and 10 for registration information 1 Fall 2021 www.edmonds.edu/cri Creative Retirement Institute (CRI) Fall 2021 Calendar All classes are conducted ONLINE using Zoom (Zoom links are sent out two business days prior to start of each class) * Indicates concurrent classes

Item Dates Day Course Instructor Price Page 28150 9/21‐10/12 4 Tues 10 am‐12 pm Miles Ahead: The Jazz Legacy of Miles Davis Jensen, Brent $56 6 28149 9/21‐9/28 2 Tues 1‐3 pm Scriabin and Stravinsky: The Russian Connection Miner, Erica $28 7 28152 9/22‐10/6 3 Wed 1‐3 pm What Big Data Tells Us About Ourselves Silver, Howie $42 9 28156 9/30 1 Thurs 1‐3 pm Mt. Olympus to the Salish Sea: A Natural History of the Behymer, Chelsea $14 7 Olympic Peninsula 28139 10/1‐10/22 4 Fri 1‐2:30 pm Early Medieval History ‐ Shards of Light Part 1 Busch, Kristi $42 4 28157 10/4‐10/25 4 Mon 10 am‐12 pm The History of a Science: GEOLOGY Charnley, Donn $56 6 28159 10/4‐10/18 3 Mon 1‐3 pm Exploring Windows 10 Boston, Brian $42 5 28138 10/6‐10/27 4 Wed 10 am‐12 pm Water Quality and Aquatic Life in the Puget Sound Solomon, Fran $56 8 Region 28142 10/7‐10/28 4 Thurs 10 am‐12 pm The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Stahl, Robert $56 8 Many Cultures 28143 10/7‐10/28 4 Thurs 1‐3 pm The Iliad of Homer I Taylor, Sean $56 6 28154* 10/8‐10/29 4 Fri 10 am‐12 pm Fall Is For Gardening, Too! Resnick, Jerelyn $56 5 28141* 10/15‐11/5 4 Fri 10 am‐12 pm Fact and Fiction Gallery, Jill $14 5 28135 10/19‐10/26 2 Tues 10 am‐12 pm Four Helpful Google Apps Schwarz, Kate $28 5 28144 10/19‐11/9 4 Tues 1‐3 pm Shakespeare’s King Henry V Taylor, Sean $56 8 28148 10/20‐11/10 4 Wed 1‐3 pm 21st Century Music You Will Love Robison, David $56 3 28151 10/25‐11/15 4 Mon 1‐3 pm Weather and Climate Khandro, Linda $56 9 28140 10/29‐11/19 4 Fri 1‐2:30 pm Early Medieval History ‐ Shards of Light Part 2 Busch, Kristi $42 4 28162 11/1‐11/8 2 Mon 10 am‐12 pm From Tsar and Sultan to… Presidents for Life? Russia Fenner, David $28 6 and Turkey from Empire to Today 28136 11/2‐11/16 3 Tues 10 am‐12 pm The American Revolution: A Contemporary Re‐ Kerr, Laurence $42 3 evaluation 28158 11/3‐11/24 4 Wed 10 am‐12 pm Ready to Travel? Come Along to Yoknapatawpha Enstad, Ginny $56 7 County! 28146 11/4‐12/9 4 Thurs 10 am‐12 pm Architecture and Design in 16th‐18th Century Italy, Schrader, Eleanor $56 3 France, Spain, and England 28161 11/15‐12/6 4 Mon 10‐11:30 am Sociology Through Films: Questing Berg, Ellen $42 8 28147 11/15‐12/6 4 Mon 4‐6 pm Women Architects and Designers Who Defined 20th Schrader, Eleanor $56 9 Century Design 28155 11/16‐12/7 4 Tues 3:30 pm‐5:30 pm Modern Dance History Winchester, Rachel $56 7 28163 11/17‐12/8 4 Wed 1‐3 pm Cui Bono? Winners & Losers in the Global Political Gassler, Scott $56 3 Economy 28137 11/18‐12/9 3 Thurs 1‐3 pm Dumb Money: How the 1% is Widening the Income Montalvo, Maria $42 4 Inequality Gap 28153 11/29‐12/6 2 Mon 1‐3 pm The Drug and Vaccine Development Process – Before, Weeks, Reitha $28 4 During, and After Covid‐19 28145 11/30‐12/7 2 Tues 10 am‐12 pm Great Museums of Amsterdam Albiani, Rebecca $34 6 28160 12/1‐12/8 2 Wed 10 am‐12 pm Defanging Social Engineering Phishing Attacks Boston, Brian $28 3

All CRI Fall 2021 classes are online. Please go to our CRI home page at www.edmonds.edu/cri and click on Zoom Resources for more information regarding Zoom. Zoom class invitations will be emailed from the CRI office 2 business days prior to class start. Please check your Spam folder if you do not see the invitation in your email Inbox. Call the office at 425‐640‐1830 or send an email to [email protected] and leave a message with your name and email or phone number if you don’t locate the email one day prior to your class.

2 Fall 2021 www.edmonds.edu/cri 21st Century Music You Will Love National Defense University in Cui Bono? Winners & Losers in David Robison Washington DC where he was Associate the Global Political Economy 28148 10/20/21‐11/10/21 Professor of National Security Strategy. Scott Gassler Wednesdays 1:00pm‐3:00pm Earlier postings included service as 28163 11/17/21‐12/8/21 Online $56 Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs Wednesdays 1:00pm‐3:00pm in Mexico, Charge and Deputy Chief of Online $56 Many people tend to listen to the music of Mission in Georgia, and Consul General in their youth, but there’s plenty of fun and Chile, as well as assignments in The global political and economic system interesting current popular music. Using Guadalajara, Singapore, Guatemala, and has changed several times since the 19th current and past hit songs as examples, Washington. century. Many things have gotten better, we’ll hear how pop music has changed but major problems remain. Economists of from the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s to the different perspectives have made th present day. Lyrical content, production Architecture and Design in 16 - predictions and, in some cases, designed th techniques, and artist gender and 18 Century Italy, France, Spain, policies often with mixed results. Political diversity will be explored. If you like pop and England leaders have modified those policies to music, you’ll almost certainly find some Eleanor Schrader favor one group or another, sometimes new music to enjoy, and you may find 28146 11/4/21‐12/9/21 deliberately and sometimes not. This class yourself on your feet and dancing when Thursdays 10:00am‐12:00pm will explore the history of the you Zoom in on these presentations! Online $56 international political economy and look 4 sessions. at its implications for the future. The architectural legacy of the great rulers 4 sessions. David Robison is a Biomedical Engineer of Europe, fueled by trade and new‐found with emphasis on neurological function. sources of wealth, gave rise to sumptuous Scott Gassler earned his MA in economics commissions to artists and architects, at UW and his PhD in economics at the

University of Colorado. He has taught The American Revolution: emphasizing the importance of patronage economics and politics at a number of A Contemporary Re-evaluation in the arts. Through lecture and slide illustration, we explore the splendid art, institutions, including the Brussels School Laurence Kerr magnificent architecture, and luxurious of International Studies, and under 28136 11/2/21‐11/16/21 decorative arts that graced the lives of the contract with a master’s program for the Tuesdays 10:00am‐12:00pm inhabitants of these eras. The lives of North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scott Online $42 these wealthy patrons of the arts are is now retired and living in Everett. discussed within the social and political The American Revolution has traditionally surroundings of the period. been presented as a straightforward Defanging Social Engineering 4 sessions. No class 11/11 and 11/25. struggle of good against evil, brave and Phishing Attacks honorable American patriots against Eleanor Schrader is an award‐winning Brian Boston British bullies and their German educator, lecturer, and author. She 28160 12/1/21‐12/8/21 mercenaries. This is a central American lectures worldwide on the history of Wednesdays 10:00am‐12:00pm myth. Behind that myth is a politically architecture, interiors, and decorative arts Online $28 complex, morally uncertain, and and leads art and architecture tours shockingly violent story. The lectures will throughout the world. She has been It’s used every day to promote products examine the political, economic, military, named a Distinguished Instructor of and services…and to con you into sharing and cultural forces at work in the rise of design history at UCLA Extension. She is your personal identity, cash, and control “we the people” in the light of current also Professor Emeritus of Art and of your computer. Known as Social scholarship as well as older sources. Architectural History at Santa Monica Engineering, the goal is to influence you to Clearly, the Revolution cannot be covered College. She has done graduate work in do something you would not sensibly do. comprehensively in the time available to fine and decorative arts at Sotheby's Scammers use SE to play on your us. Our program’s goals are to help Institute in London and New York and has expectations, emotions, and good nature participants order key events, served as Design Review Commissioner to give up information, cash, or vulnerable personalities and issues, integrating new for the City of Beverly Hills. She is co‐ contacts. Join us to understand the basis information, and to suggest avenues for author of "Master Architects of Southern of SE, and forms it takes to increase your individual study. California, 1920‐1940: Wallace Neff". awareness and reduce your vulnerability. 3 sessions. 2 sessions.

Laurence Kerr retired from the US Senior Offering CRI classes since 2011, Brian

Foreign Service in 2004. His last State Boston believes that technology can work

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3 Fall 2021 www.edmonds.edu/cri enable connections with your family and Program Coordinator for Shoreline Early Medieval History - Shards friends. After decades of computer Community College’s biotech summer of Light Part 1 support and training of support engineers, camps for high school students. She is on Kristi Busch Brian’s favorite students are end users. the board and an active member of the 28139 10/01/21‐10/22/21 Through Boston LegacyWorks, he Seattle Chapter of Association for Fridays 1:00pm‐2:30pm educates and works with individuals and Women in Science (AWIS). Online $42 small businesses, advising on tech purchases, usage, maintenance, and This swift survey course will examine the security. Dumb Money: changes in the Western World from the How the 1% is Widening the fall of Rome through the constriction of Income Inequality Gap the Dark Ages to the beginnings of the The Drug and Vaccine Maria Montalvo Medieval era proper. During these 500 Development Process – Before, 28137 11/18/21‐12/9/21 years we will see the resurrection of During, and After Covid-19 Thursdays 1:00pm‐3:00pm culture and the reestablishment of Reitha Weeks Online $42 thinking, all based on faith. Interwoven 28153 11/29/21‐12/6/21 with the reawakening of Europe we will Mondays 1:00pm‐3:00pm The American Dream is becoming just explore the beginnings and flowering of Online $28 that, a dream. Young people today are far Islam in the Middle East and the rich less likely to do better financially than intermingling of the Jewish, Christian, and The Covid 19 pandemic brought drug, their parents. Economic upward mobility Islamic cultures in medieval Spain. We will diagnostics, and vaccine development to is difficult to attain and, as data shows, also delve into the regional stories of the the attention of the public, but the path of does not materialize for most Americans. Middle Ages including “The Song of development was not always clear. What But is this a result of their unwillingness to Roland”, “Beowulf”, and others. is the normal process of development for work hard or our poor education system diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines and how or is there something else at play? Modern Please Note: This course is given in 2 did the pandemic and new technologies banking and finance has been designed by sections: Part 1 (lectures 1, 2, 3, and 4) change the process? Join me for a review the have’s and is structured to keep them And Part 2 (lectures 5, 6, 7, and 8). Please of the science, regulations, and business that way. The standard reasons given for take both Parts for the full experience, but decisions that enabled short development economic inequality in the neoliberal it is not necessary to enroll in Part 2 to times and multiple products for diagnosis, model of modern capitalism has created a take Part 1. 4 sessions. treatment and prevention of Covid‐19. system that is increasingly difficult to Kristi holds a Masters degree in Museum Get a better understanding of FDA’s navigate without access from the inside. Studies from George Washington regulatory role and the preparations to The 1% (most wealthy in America) have University. She has been a storyteller in prevent future pandemics. contained knowledge of and access to the both performance and therapeutic 2 sessions. financial systems that benefits them and settings. However, her main focus has perpetuates the boundaries that they Dr. Reitha Weeks has experience in the been teaching for the past 30 years. She themselves are setting. If every day biotech industry and in science education has taught courses in history, civics, Americans do not recognize the programming, curricula development, and philosophy, and mythology to 16‐86 year increasing unlikelihood of their own community outreach. She received her BS olds and nothing compares to making success, they will continue to be pawns in from Oregon State University and PhD in history come alive. someone else’s path to wealth. Genetics from the University of 3 sessions. No class 11/25. Washington in 1987. She worked for 13 Early Medieval History - Shards years in the biotech industry in Seattle Maria Montalvo holds a Master’s in of Light Part 2 (four companies) moving from bench Political Science and Economics and this is Kristi Busch scientist to company director which her fifth course with CRI. She is a 28140 10/29/21‐11/19/21 meant involvement in business and columnist for the Edmonds Beacon, and Fridays 1:00pm‐2:30pm regulatory decisions as well as discovery works as Executive Director in the non‐ Online $42 science. She was Program Manager for profit education sector. Science Outreach at Northwest This swift survey course will examine the Association for Biomedical Research changes in the Western World from the (NWABR) for nine years. She was fall of Rome through the constriction of responsible for curriculum development the Dark Ages to the beginnings of the and workshops for teachers, educational Medieval era proper. During these 500 conferences for researchers, and a variety years we will see the resurrection of of science outreach programs and culture and the reestablishment of collaborations. Since 2014, she has been

4 Fall 2021 www.edmonds.edu/cri thinking, all based on faith. Interwoven friends. After decades of computer amount of sun and shade your plants with the reawakening of Europe we will support and training of support engineers, need? Is it time to try other plants? Now explore the beginnings and flowering of Brian’s favorite students are end users. is a great time to order seed and bulb Islam in the Middle East and the rich Through Boston LegacyWorks, he catalogs that will entice you with their intermingling of the Jewish, Christian, and educates and works with individuals and bright pictures and helpful descriptions. Islamic cultures in medieval Spain. We will small businesses, advising on tech What will you choose to grow next year? also delve into the regional stories of the purchases, usage, maintenance, and How about some plants that are native to Middle Ages including “The Song of security. our area and that can thrive better than Roland”, “Beowulf”, and others. Please plants imported from other parts of the Note: This course is given in 2 sections: country? NW natives love our climate. Part 1 (lectures 1, 2, 3, and 4) And Part 2 Fact and Fiction 4 sessions. (lectures 5, 6, 7, and 8). Jill Gallery 28141 10/15/21‐11/5/21 Jerelyn Resnick is a nursing instructor Please take both Parts for the full Fridays 10:00am‐12:00pm who recently retired from UW Bothell but experience, but it is not necessary to Online $14 who is still doing some teaching. She is enroll in Part 1 to take Part 2. also a Snohomish County Master 4 sessions. This class is concurrent with Fall is for Gardener, which has kept her quite busy. Before Covid got in the way, she worked Kristi holds a Masters degree in Museum Gardening, Too! For 3 sessions. in the Master Gardener demonstration Studies from George Washington We are not your average book discussion gardens and participated in our answer University. She has been a storyteller in group! Participants make their own clinics. She also taught about various both performance and therapeutic reading choices and come prepared to gardening topics and coordinated and settings. However, her main focus has present brief reviews and share their helped evaluate the recent series of been teaching for the past 30 years. She appraisals. You may select a past or classes on advanced plant pathology. She has taught courses in history, civics, current author in any genre. Learn from is on the planning team for the 2021 philosophy, and mythology to 16‐86 year each other through informal discussion. Master Gardener Advanced Education olds and nothing compares to making This is a low fee class, but requires Conference. She has been gardening for history come alive. registration. 18 years and continues to be excited to 4 sessions. see what can help grow. She is especially Exploring Windows 10 Jill Gallery is an avid reader and has been excited about the possibilities of helping Brian Boston part of this class for years. gardens have better success by growing 28159 10/4/21‐10/18/21 native plants rather than plants that need

Mondays 1:00pm‐3:00pm too much time and resources because Fall Is For Gardening, Too! Online $42 they really belong in another geographic Jerelyn Resnick area. Released six years ago, the Windows 10 28154 10/8/21‐10/29/21 operating system has been through at Fridays 10:00am‐12:00pm Four Helpful Google Apps least eleven “feature updates” in addition Online $56 Kate Schwarz to monthly “cumulative updates.” This class is concurrent with Fact and 28135 10/19/21‐10/26/21 Likewise, this popular course continues to Fiction for 3 sessions. Tuesdays 10:00am‐12:00pm update and focus on what is useful to you, Online $28 especially considering the expected It’s fall, and while the heady days of release of Windows 11. Fortunately, summer may be over, it’s not time to In this introductory class, we’ll get you Microsoft’s newest OS is built on ignore your garden. Fall is a great time to started with 4 timesaving Google Apps Windows 10, allowing us to continue our help your garden get ready to rest and that will simplify your life and make you exploration through comparisons of these also get ready for the next growing more productive: Google Drive and Docs: two versions. Use your Windows 10 season. We’ll discuss how to “put your A very brief overview of document laptop, tablet, or 2‐in‐1 computer as part garden to bed” and how to help protect it creation and sharing “in the cloud” to of class and explore useful ways through from pests that would love to nestle in familiarize you with how cloud‐based touch, keyboard, mouse, or voice to and stay for the winter. We’ll explore apps work. Google Calendar: Introduce improve your computing experience. ways to promote the health of the basics of using Google Calendar to 3 sessions. overwintering perennials and shrubs and organize your events and reminders. discuss which kinds of plants are best Offering CRI classes since 2011, Brian Google Keep: Capture and organize planted in the fall. The cool season of fall Boston believes that technology can work what’s important and get more done with is also a great time to review what grew for you, support your interests, and online notes you create and share. Google well and what didn’t. Do you have the enable connections with your family and Photos: How Google fits in your digital

5 Fall 2021 www.edmonds.edu/cri photos organization plan. This online class 1979‐82 David and his wife Elisabeth earned a MS in Geology from the UW in will use recorded and live demonstration Mitchell served as Peace Corps 1960. He taught 10 years in Seattle as well as written material. 2 sessions. Volunteers in Oman. They speak Public Schools and 32 years at Shoreline colloquial Gulf Arabic. CC. In 1970 he was elected to the Kate Schwarz worked in the Edmonds Washington State Legislature, where he College Technology Resource Center served for 14 years. He has presented helping faculty with 4 e‐learning, Great Museums of Amsterdam courses in Geologic topics for CRI since instructional technologies and course Rebecca Albiani 2003. His interests include: politics, design. She worked for many years at the 28145 11/30/21‐12/7/21 community service, skiing, hiking, sailing, University of California as a computer Tuesdays 10:00am‐12:00pm traveling, and Northwest Native Culture. resource manager. Since moving to the Online $34 Northwest, she has worked as an independent educational technology In this course we will travel to the The Iliad of Homer I consultant for nonprofits. Netherlands, to Amsterdam, city of canals Sean Taylor and bicycles. First we head to the 28143 10/7/21‐10/28/21

From Tsar and Sultan to… Rijksmuseum, the world's greatest Thursdays 1:00pm‐3:00pm Online $56 Presidents for Life? Russia and repository of Dutch Golden Age art. The Turkey from Empire to Today 17th‐century Dutch Republic produced Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer, and the This will be the first of two courses in David Fenner Rijksmuseum's Gallery of Honor which we will undertake a reading of the 28162 11/1/21‐11/8/21 showcases The Milkmaid, The Merry Toper, ancient Greek epic of the Trojan War. In Mondays 10:00am‐12:00pm and The Night Watch, along with works by addition to appreciating the poem on its Online $28 their less famous but highly worthy artistic merits, we will also consider what it tells us of an ancient culture so deeply Since the days of the Russian tsars and contemporaries. An easy stroll from there influential on our own, in concepts of Ottoman sultans, Russia and Turkey have brings us to the Van Gogh Museum, heroism, patriarchy, and what may be ebbed and flowed into each other’s where we will encounter the world's termed “shame culture.” Our reading text territory, consciousness, and policy largest collection of works by Vincent van will be the instructor’s own translation, decisions. We will start in the waning days Gogh. Most were originally owned by his which will be made available to students of each empire and trace their mutual brother Theo, and they include in pdf format, well in advance. Students histories from the beginning of the 20th masterpieces from every stage of van are asked to read through Book Four for Century. We will continue right up to Gogh's brief but prolific career, from The the first meeting (and those who wish to today’s headlines and strive to improve Potato Eaters to The Wheatfield with skip the notorious Catalogue of the Ships, our understanding of these two major and Crows. 2 sessions. Book 2, lines 494–759, are welcome to do unique players on the world stage. Rebecca Albiani has a BA in art history and so). 4 sessions. 2 sessions. MA in Renaissance art history. She is a Sean Taylor holds a PhD in English from David Fenner is an affiliate faculty popular lecturer at the Frye Art Museum. UW and has taught as a professor at member at the University of Portland State University and Hamilton Washington’s Middle East Center. He The History of a Science: College. His main areas of expertise are regularly teaches courses on the Middle GEOLOGY Old and Middle English literature. East and currently leads study tours to the Donn Charnley UAE, Qatar and Oman. He is also the lead 28157 10/4/21‐10/25/21 presenter for the federally‐funded Mondays 10:00am‐12:00pm Miles Ahead: The Jazz Legacy of Bridging Cultures program, a series of Online $56 Miles Davis professional development workshops for Brent Jensen K‐12 teachers and first responders in Science: a branch of knowledge dealing 28150 9/21/21‐10/12/21 communities with large immigrant with a body of facts or truths Tuesdays 10:00am‐12:00pm populations. In 2008 David founded the systematically arranged to show the Online $56 World Learning Center in Muscat, Oman. operation of general laws. The story of Prior to that he was the assistant vice man’s attempt to understand his Earth is a Miles Davis is perhaps the most influential provost for international education at the fascinating journey. We shall explore this musician in the history of jazz. In the UW (2000 ‐ 2007). His career included story and how the real truths about the course of a long career that began in 1945 establishing exchange programs with Earth slowly emerged to become the and continued (with a brief, mysterious universities around the world, including in science of Geology of today. 4 sessions. hiatus from 1975‐81) until his death in Egypt, Morocco, Israel, Oman, 1991, Miles was a central figure in the Donn is an Emeritus Professor of Geology Uzbekistan, Turkey, and Pakistan. From development of cool jazz, hard bop, and at Shoreline Community College. He

6 Fall 2021 www.edmonds.edu/cri fusion. This course will examine the students throughout the Pacific to survey the landscape on their mountain innovations and controversy the Northwest during the last decade, bikes. trumpeter contributed to jazz. The including students at the University of Ready to Travel? Come Along instructor, Brent Jensen, will present Oregon, the University of Idaho, and to Faulker’s Yoknapatawpha video & audio examples, live musical Pacific Lutheran University. Her research County! demonstrations and resources has been selected and presented through Ginny Enstad (bibliography, websites) to the class as we the American College Dance Association 28158 11/3/21‐11/24/31 explore the life and times of the legendary and the National Dance Education Wednesdays 10:00am‐12:00pm and enigmatic Miles Dewey Davis. Organization. Rachel's choreography has Online $56 4 sessions. been recognized and presented through the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Our guide will be William Faulkner who Brent Jensen served as the Director of the San Diego & Tijuana, Mexico will lead us through his Mississippi county Jazz Studies & Woodwinds at the College International Fringe Festival, Movement and introduce us to a wide cast of of Southern Idaho for 18 years. He Research and Williamsburg Arts Nexus in characters including a prim spinster with a developed the curriculum for the Survey New York City, Seattle’s 12 Min Max at big secret. We will get to know the Snopes of Jazz (MUSI 108) course at the college Base Experimental Arts, and Bellingham family of ambitious, ruthless, deceitful, and wrote the textbook (Survey of Jazz Repertory Dance Theatre. and hilarious people as we are immersed Handbook, pub. Kendall‐Hunt) which is in the Southern Gothic Literary Tradition. still in use at CSI and other colleges in the We will read and discuss two of Faulkner’s United States. Brent is a professional jazz Mt. Olympus to the Salish Sea: A short stories: A Rose For Emily and Barn saxophonist who has performed & Natural History of the Olympic Burning. Please read these prior to the first recorded with a wide range of jazz artists Peninsula class session. The following 3 sessions will including Gene Harris, Joe LaBarbera, Bill Chelsea Behymer look at the Snopes Trilogy: The Hamlet, Anschell, John Clayton, Wycliffe Gordon, 28156 9/30/21 The Town, and The Mansion. If you haven’t Warren Vache, and many others. In 2002, Thursday 1:00pm‐3:00pm read Faulkner for a while, here’s your his recording, “The Sound of a Dry Online $14 chance to get reacquainted. If Faulkner is Martini: Remembering Paul Desmond” new to you, you’re in for a treat. (Origin), charted at the #1 position on jazz Surrounded by ocean on three sides and 4 sessions. radio stations across the country and was transected by a vast network of rivers, the featured on JazzWeek’s Top 100 and Olympic Peninsula’s landscape is Ginny Enstad has a Master’s degree in NPR’s JazzWorks’ Top 25 lists. Brent's characterized by isolation and dynamic English and is retired from teaching for recordings are available on iTunes, ecosystems. We will explore the complex the Edmonds School District. Amazon, Spotify, and other online music geologic forces that formed some of the streaming platforms. youngest mountains on Earth, survey the Scriabin and Stravinsky: natural history that continues to shape The Russian Connection the landscape, and discover the intricate Modern Dance History Erica Miner ecological connections among its unique Rachel Winchester 28149 9/21/21‐9/28/21 temperate rainforest and underwater 28155 11/16/21‐12/07/21 Tuesdays 1:00pm‐3:00pm communities. Tuesdays 3:30pm‐5:30pm Online $28 1 session. Online $56 A former marine biologist with a As compatriots and composers, Scriabin We will learn about the contributing background in environmental education, and Stravinsky are inextricably linked. The social, political, and artistic phenomena as Chelsea is a Naturalist and informal influence of the elder Scriabin’s highly well as the influential choreographers science education researcher currently innovative symbolist, mystical, and surrounding the birth of Modern Dance in working on her Ph.D. at Oregon State dissonant “Poem of Ecstasy” on the Europe and America. This course will University. Chelsea is passionate about younger Stravinsky is astonishingly include reading text, viewing videos of science communication and fostering portrayed in Stravinsky’s explosive choreography and documentary footage, understanding of our connections to revolutionary work, “The Rite of as well as analyzing and discussing this natural systems, from a vast mountain Spring.” Between them they created an exciting and rich dance form. wilderness to a microscopic ocean world early modern musical revolution. 4 sessions. of wonder. When she's not exploring or 2 sessions. playing in the salty sea, she's be‐bopping Rachel Winchester is a university dance Formerly a violinist with Metropolitan around the Pacific Northwest in a camper educator and a freelance choreographer. Opera Orchestra for 21 years, Erica Miner with her favorite white‐water kayaking She has had the privilege to teach dance is now an award‐winning author, photographer, pit‐stopping along the way history and technique to hundreds of screenwriter, arts writer, and lecturer. She

7 Fall 2021 www.edmonds.edu/cri received her Mus. B, cum laude from desiring, seeking, fixating on, striving for. classes on poets Rumi, Rilke, Emily Boston University and studied at New Our focus will not be on the epic quests of Dickinson, and Mary Oliver as well as on England Conservatory of Music and heroes, but on the quests of ordinary Joseph Campbell’s ‘Power of Myth’, Tanglewood Music Center. Erica has people in their ordinary lives. Quests for Thomas Moore’s ‘Care of the Soul’, and presented lectures, seminars, and authenticity, direction, safety, a voice in John O’Donohue’s ‘Celtic Wisdom’. workshops on both coasts and on major matters, a prize in competition…all that cruise lines and recently made her pre‐ and more. Each week we will stream a film concert lecture debut with the Seattle at home, then in class we will discuss what Water Quality and Aquatic Life Symphony. She is an author and active it does to enlarge our understanding of in the Puget Sound Region contributor to major arts websites and questing. The array of films will include Fran Solomon magazines. shorts, documentaries, and dramas, all of 28138 10/6/21‐10/27/21 which are available on Amazon or Kanopy Wednesdays 10:00am‐12:00pm (a library based service). Online $56 Shakespeare’s King Henry V 4 sessions. Sean Taylor When the weather is good, the waters of 28144 10/19/21‐11/9/21 Ellen Z. Berg is a sociologist who has Puget Sound sparkle in the sunshine and Tuesdays 1:00pm‐3:00pm taught undergraduates and retirees since look clean, almost pristine. However, Online $56 1986. She likes to use films to explore beneath the surface, the water and sociological ideas because they allow us sediments are polluted with contaminants In this course we will undertake a reading all to enter the same social setting, with from stormwater, agricultural runoff, and of the culminating play of Shakespeare’s the same characters, and then – coming industrial discharges as well as toxic second tetrology of history plays, written from our own backgrounds – we can each chemicals not removed from treated to establish Henry V as a national hero. share our insights about that world. Class sewage. Climate change in our region also Attention will be paid to the uses of the discussion will be more wide ranging as impairs water quality. Impaired water play in support of the British imperial everyone contributes their observations. quality harms the health and survival of project, from Elizabeth’s time to our own. Expect this class to be lively!! salmon, other fish, shellfish, and our Students are asked to read through Act 2 beloved but endangered Puget Sound for the first class meeting. Any edition of resident orca whales. This course will The Soul Is Here For Its Own the play will do, though it is recommended include lectures, stories, videos, and Joy: Sacred Poems from Many to find one with annotations, and with line discussions about the relationship Cultures numbers (the instructor prefers Signet between water quality and aquatic life in Robert Stahl Classic paperbacks, widely available). Puget Sound, actions underway to 28142 10/7/21‐10/28/21 4 sessions. improve water quality and protect these Thursdays 10:00am‐12:00pm valuable natural resources, and what each Sean Taylor holds a PhD in English from Online $56 of us can do in our daily lives to contribute UW and has taught as a professor at to a healthier Puget Sound. Portland State University and Hamilton This poetry course will focus on and 4 sessions. College. His main areas of expertise are emphasize the role of the ‘divine’ in Old and Middle English literature. poems from around the world. We’ll Dr. Fran Solomon is passionate about examine how poetry is ideally suited for bringing her expertise and experience to

expressing ‘spiritual’ concerns. And in so the classroom! She is an environmental Sociology Through Films: doing, reveal the ‘beauty’ of a life biology professor at Western Washington Questing dedicated to ‘burnishing’ the soul. Some University, Huxley College of the Ellen Berg of the poets to be considered are: Emily Environment on the Peninsulas, and she 28161 11/15/21‐12/6/21 Dickinson, Rumi, Rilke, Wm Blake, teaches continuing education courses for Mondays 10:00am‐11:30am Goethe, Hafez, Kabir, Li Po, Mary Oliver, environmental and health care Online $42 Wm Stafford, Yeats, and Wallace Stevens. professionals and diverse general public Textbook is The Soul Is Here For Its Own audiences. Dr. Solomon earned a The QUEST is a major motif in films – epic Joy: Sacred Poems from Many bachelor’s degree in biology from the films whose heroes fill the big screen. Cultures edited by Robert Bly. Instructor University of Rochester, and a Master’s Their names ‐ Ulysses, Arthur, and Robert Stahl has taught previous degree in environmental health and Ph.D. Galahad, even Quixote – fire our CRI poetry classes on Rumi, Emily in fisheries from the University of imaginations: they risk all to seek and find Dickinson, Rilke, Mary Oliver, and Haiku. Washington. She has 25 years of something of great value, and are 4 sessions. professional experience in state and local transformed in the process. In this environmental agencies, focusing on lecture/discussion course we will examine Robert Stahl with a background in history, biological impacts of water pollution, the phenomenon of questing: imagining, philosophy, and art history has taught CRI preventing and controlling pollution, and

8 Fall 2021 www.edmonds.edu/cri protecting salmon habitat. Her additional “Big Data” may have Orwellian Eleanor Schrader is an award‐winning teaching experience includes teaching connotations of Big Brother, but we’ll look educator, lecturer, and author. She elders through the Shoreline Summer at the more benign and interesting social lectures worldwide on the history of College, the University of Washington aspects of what Big Data can tell us about architecture, interiors, and decorative arts Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and the ourselves. People may lie to friends, and leads art and architecture tours Edmonds Creative Retirement Institute. It lovers, doctors, and even themselves. But throughout the world. She has been is fun and rewarding for Dr. Solomon to their internet searches, likes, views, named a Distinguished Instructor of teach people in her age group who are swipes, and clicks reveal the truth. How design history at UCLA Extension. She is eager to do new learning and apply it to many Americans are actually racist? Do also Professor Emeritus of Art and their lives. parents treat sons differently from Architectural History at Santa Monica daughters? What do pregnant women College. She has done graduate work in really think about? Do people bathe more fine and decorative arts at Sotheby's Weather and Climate in Vermont or New Jersey? How has our Institute in London and New York and has Linda Khandro language changed? Also, we’ll look at served as Design Review Commissioner 28151 10/25/21‐11/15/21 many, diverse infographics, which are for the City of Beverly Hills. She is co‐ Mondays 1:00pm‐3:00pm fascinating new visual ways of displaying author of "Master Architects of Southern Online $56 who we actually are. California, 1920‐1940: Wallace Neff". 3 sessions. This course is an introduction to the sciences of meteorology and climatology. Howie Silver has a B.S. in Physics and M.S. Earth’s climate system involves the in Information Engineering from University of Illinois at Chicago, and M.S. interactions of solar energy with water and with land, and the variabilities in these and Ph.D. in Mathematics from University interactions that are created by the of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign. He was a seasons. Here we explore weather and professor of Mathematics and Computer climate by starting with the global picture, Science at Chicago State University for 35 then focus on some of the details of our years and has taught six different CRI local picture, perched as we are on the courses over the past four years. western edge of a continent with a massive ocean to our west and 2 Women Architects and significant mountain ranges nearby. We Designers Who Defined 20th will discuss weather vs climate; global Century Design distribution of solar energy; atmospheric Eleanor Schrader composition, ozone, heat, greenhouse 28147 11/15/21‐12/6/21 effect, pressure & winds; formation & Mondays 4:00pm‐6:00pm effects of the Polar Jet Stream, tropical Online $56 storms (hurricanes); the climate crisis; and weather & climate of the Puget Sound Often overlooked in traditional design and region. architecture courses, the women 4 sessions. designers of the 20th century have had a Linda Khandro, MAT, is a geologist, with profound influence upon the way we over 25 years teaching college earth and perceive, experience, and enjoy our built space sciences in the Seattle area: environments, interiors, and decorative objects. This class explores and richly astronomy, astrobiology, environmental illustrates the work and influence of such science, geology, meteorology, and designers and architects as Elsie de Wolfe, oceanography. Eileen Gray, Lilly Reich, Charlotte

Perriand, Dorothy Draper, Ray Eames, What Big Data Tells Us About Zaha Hadid, and others. Their lives and Ourselves the beauty of their enduring designs are Howie Silver documented within the context of the social and political issues they faced, as 28152 9/22/21‐10/6/21 Wednesdays 1:00pm‐3:00pm they left their unmistakable imprints upon Online $42 20th century design. 4 sessions.

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Registration: What You Need to Know

 Registration begins online at 6:00 am on September 1 at www.edmonds.edu/cri  All Fall 2021 classes will be online using Zoom.  Registration Fee is quarterly and is required to register for classes.

There are two easy ways to register:

1. Online

Go to www.edmonds.edu/cri. Click on Register and login with your existing Campus CE account or, if you are new to CRI, set up a new account. Then click on View Fall Classes. That will show you all the classes for Fall. Purchase of the Registration Fee will open the “Add to Cart” buttons for all classes. Please call the CRI office at 425‐640‐1830 or email us at [email protected] for questions regarding online registration.

2. By Phone

Call 425‐640‐1830 and leave a message, including your return phone number. We will call you back and take your registration information over the phone.

Withdrawals and Refunds

Classes offered by the Creative Retirement Institute are self‐supported and receive no state funding. Requests for refunds of course fees will be accommodated if notice of withdrawal is given at least two business days prior to class start unless otherwise indicated. There will be a $10 class drop fee for each class refunded. Edmonds College’s policy is that only registered students may attend classes. This means that you may not transfer your registration to another individual.

Is Cost a Factor?

Is there a class you’d like to take but don’t feel you can squeeze the cost out of your budget? Through generous donations, a fund has been established to help increase the opportunity to experience the CRI classes. Funds will be awarded as money is available. The names of applicants will be strictly confidential.

Please contact Ulyana Pyzo at 425‐640‐1830 or email [email protected] for more information.

CRI Contact Information

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No Office Hours available during this time. Please call and leave a message or email.

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