Lifelong Learning

CONTINUING AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES Lifelong Learning SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2018 www.brookdalecc.edu/lifelonglearning www.facebook.com/BrookdaleLifelongLearning TABLE OF CONTENTS Academic Lecture Series ............................................................................................... 2 The Arts .................................................................................................................................... 3 Photography ......................................................................................................................... 5 Creativity Never Retires .................................................................................................. 7 • Holocaust • Broadway! • quantum theory • the Beatles Financial.................................................................................................................................12 Wellness & Fitness Center Classes .........................................................................13 Holistic Health ...................................................................................................................16 Humanities ..........................................................................................................................18 Irish Heritage ......................................................................................................................13 Languages ...........................................................................................................................21 Literature/Writing ............................................................................................................22 Music To My Ears ..............................................................................................................23 Special Interest ..................................................................................................................24 • Buddhism • woodworking • E-Bay • self-publishing Recreation ............................................................................................................................25 Student Success ...............................................................................................................26 • SAT prep • developmental disabilities Around Town ......................................................................................................................27 Trips ..........................................................................................................................................28 World War II Studies .......................................................................................................34 Fall Career Moves .............................................................................................................35 Small Business Development Center ..................................................................36 Information..........................................................................................................................38 Registration .........................................................................................................................40 David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created by the Italian artist Michelangelo. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favorite subject in the art of Florence. 1 Dear Brookdale Friends and Neighbors, Most of us never lose that back to school feeling in the fall. If ever there were a season made for campus visits, this is it! Now is the time to fulfill those “I meant to learn” intentions. Lifelong learning offers a wide variety of courses, trips, and programs to satisfy every learning appetite. New, not-to-be-missed events include: • Academic Lecture Literature Series – My Favorite Author, p. 2 • Your Second Act Conference, p. 10 • Come To Campus Seminar, The Relevance of Local Politics, p. 11 • The Irish American Experience, p. 20 • Andre Rieu & His Johann Strauss Orchestra, p. 28 Stop procrastinating! Join us this fall and start something new and exciting. Linda C. Martin Director, Lifelong Learning Continuing and Professional Studies NEW: Watch Your Email! Registration receipts are emailed within 3 days following enrollment. Please continue to check your email. Class and bus trip updates are delivered via email including notices of wait lists, class cancellations, date 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 2 Academic Lecture Series Academic Lecture Series – Favorite Authors A collaboration by the Brookdale Community College English faculty and Lifelong Learning Poetry And Literary Parentage: Toni Morrison: Driven to Truth Stephen Dunn – Sept 27 – Oct 11 Laura McCullough, Professor of English Kathleen Kennedy, Associate Professor The much beloved Pulitzer Prize winning of English poet Stephen Dunn’s work has been Nobel Prize-winning Toni Morrison widely published in The Georgia Poetry creates worlds fraught with tension Review, The New Yorker, and in many sparked by race, sex, social position, journals and magazines, and most and always the needs and demands recently, his 18th collection of poetry, of love. Conveying both brutality and Whereas. He is much loved by those he tenderness with prose that flows into taught and mentored, some of whom poetry and drifts at times into magic have gone on to become publishing realism, Morrison structures her novels to poets. The facilitator of this workshop reflect the sometimes traumatized state was Dunn’s student at 18 and developed of mind of her characters. She makes the a lifelong and ongoing mentorship that strange familiar and the familiar vibrant led to friendship, and she has gone on to with new meaning. In our discussion of publish seven books of poems herself as Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Home and well as editing a book on Dunn’s work, A Mercy, we will follow unforgettable The Room and the World: Essays on Stephen characters driven by love and an Dunn. Dunn’s contribution to American insistence on truth as they find their way letters will be explored, his influences, in worlds that are as inhospitable as they those he has influenced, and a few of his are beautiful. most famous poems will be discussed. Edgar Allan Poe: The An Incendiary Voice: The Interchanging Darkness And Beauty and Power In The Light Of The Human Mind, Poetry of Patricia Smith – Heart, And Condition – Oct 18 Oct 4 Dara Evans, Associate Professor of English Suzanne Parker, Associate Professor Though difficult to pick my favorite of English author, I am ever delighted by the ways Author Patricia Smith’s work has been in which Edgar Allan Poe becomes a called “a testament to the power of new one every time I read or teach words to change lives.” There is no his works. The malleable and mobile contemporary poet writing the dramatic messages beneath his examination of the monologue today who is her equal. interchanging darkness and light of the Her poems are accessible, powerful, human mind, heart, and condition are and give voice to those who are often dependent on the reader, by his design. silenced or overlooked. Wide ranging in Join me in discussing the elements of their craft, using both formal and free gothic literature Poe used to force his verse, her poetry is visceral and deeply audience to understand humanity and, affecting. We will explore her work and therefore, discover themselves in The her evolution from a four-time poetry Raven, The Imp of the Perverse, The Cask of slam champion (a record untouched Amontillado, Never Bet the Devil Your Head, by any other) to her position today as and Ligeia. an award-winning and internationally recognized poet who is influencing the next generations of writers. Academic Lecture Series • The Arts 3 Through the Darkness: The Struggle and Strength of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Sylvia Plath – Nov 1 Kelsi Maki, Assistant Professor of English Relegated to the background and confined by constructs of gender, women have faced some steep obstacles in their creative lives. In this session, we will examine the lives and works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Sylvia Plath, two progressive women who raged against misogyny and mental illness, creating ground-breaking and genre- bending works in the process. Thurs, Sep 27-Nov 1, 11:45 am-1:15 pm (no class Oct 25) Fee and Code: $79, XHUMN 273 THE ARTS Acrylic Painting Intermediate Mosaics Arlene Smelson, instructor Harvey Altman, award-winning artist, Whether you are a beginner or haven’t instructor painted recently, explore the magic of Take your mosaics to the next level in acrylic in a relaxed setting. Construct this hands-on workshop. If you have a painting by learning to develop an taken a beginner’s mosaics class or have interesting composition, to mix colors, to background in mosaics then this class is for build textures, and develop movement and you. Instructor will demonstrate creating a values in a work of art. Learn a variety of project with a specific pattern and design. techniques and how to bring out the artist A 12” x 12” project will be completed to within you. Develop skills and techniques take home. Materials fee $25 payable to that will allow you to express yourself in instructor. 4

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