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Fall 2018 Semester FALL 2018 SEMESTER Shepherd University Lifelong Learning Program BE CURIOUS · STAY INFORMED · HAVE FUN www.shepherd.edu/lifelonglearning TABLE OF CONTENTS: FALL 2018 ABOUT . 2 BROWN BAG LUNCHEON LECTURES CAMPUS MAP . 3 Presidents, Vice Presidents, and First Ladies: Part II Overview . 11 Headspace . 11 COURSES Home Health Care Benefits . 11 Café Society Discussion Group . 4 British Welfare State and Its Development Overtime . 11 Byrd Film Series . 4 Confused About Medicare? . 11 Introduction to Welding . 4 Redistricting and Gerrymandering . 11 Introduction to Woodworking: Making a Decorative Box . 4 Every Man Dies Alone . 12 A Concise and Unique Look at the American Civil War . 5 Native Bees: Why They Matter and How to Provide Support . 12 Coal Mining Songs . 5 Cat and Cat Behavior . 12 Poetry, Short Stories, and Novel . 5 CASA . 12 Introduction to Laser Cutting and Engraving . 5 Reading the Bible Through Darwin’s Eyes . 5 PRESIDENT’S LECTURE SERIES Middle East Discussion Group . 5 Photobiomodulation Therapy (PBMT) . 13 Truth of Fiction . 6 Iraq and the Politics of Oil: An Insider’s Perspective . .. 13 A Survey of French History . 6 Lyme Disease . 13 Presidents, Vice Presidents, and First Ladies Part III A Wild Solution for Climate Change . 13 From Coolidge to Eisenhower . 6 Frontiers of Knowledge Part I . 6 DAY AND OVERNIGHT EVENTS Frontiers of Knowledge Part II . 6 Book Festival, Washington, D C. 14 A Survey into Symphonic Music . 7 Flight 93 Memorial and How to Read Like A Professor . 7 Mountain Craft Days in Somerset, Pennsylvania . 14 Cutting Edge Technological Innovations: Baseball Game: Nationals vs . Cubs . 14 An Improvement in Quality of Life . 7 Andy Warhol Museum and Is Your Intuition Reliable? . 7 Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . 14 Introduction to Metal Casting . 8 Eisenhower Farm, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania . .. 14 Cowboys, Sex, and American Values: American Visionary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland . 15 On the Trail with Larry McMurtry . 8 Kennedy Center Concert . 15 Decorative Concrete Casting . 8 Retirement Planning Today . 8 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TOURS Being Mortal: What and How Do We Tell the Children . 8 Peru and Machu Picchu . .. 15 Fiction Writers’ Retreat . 8 Best of Australia and New Zealand . 16 Voices from the Misty Mountains: Ron Rash . 9 Malta and Sicily Explorer . 16 Glass Fusing Workshop . 9 Scandinavian Highlights . 16 Introduction to 3D Printing . 9 Iceland Explorer . 16 Shaping a National Park System: A Unique Idea . 9 Pacific Coast Adventure . .. 17 Deutschland, “Hin Und Her” . 9 Spotlight on San Antonio . 17 Four Country Danube and Black Sea River Cruise . 17 INTEREST GROUPS Knitting Group . 10 CALENDAR . 18 Opera Interest Group . .. 10 ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS . 20 Visit Washington, D C. ,. Interest Group . 10 THANK YOU . 20 Theater Interest Group . 10 FALL 2018 DEAR LIFELONG LEARNERS Welcome to the Shepherd University Lifelong Learning Program! We are entering into our eighth year of community offerings. Last semester, we ventured to Williamsburg and Jamestown, Virginia, for an overnight excursion and explored behind the scenes in Williamsburg and alongside an archaeologist. This fall, we have an excellent offering of courses and brown bag lectures scheduled with some new and previously held topics. We are again partnering with the FASTEnER Lab in the Department of Contemporary Art and Theater to offer several art workshops. The FASTEnER Lab contains a wood shop, digital fabrication equipment, metal shop, and casting ranging from plastics, waxes, ceramics, and metal. New topics this semester include a look at the Civil War, writings of Larry McMurtry, a new interpretation of the Bible through the eyes of Charles Darwin, French history, Dr. Sylvia KAREN RICE ‘12 M .B .A . Bailey Shurbutt’s voices of the misty mountains focusing on writer Ron Rash, Director of Continuing Education and a study of symphonic music in chronological order. We welcome back and Lifelong Learning our favorites with Sara Smith and short stories; Roger Bernstein instructing short stories and poetry with a novel at the end; discussion groups on local, national, and global issues; songs of the coal miners; and history of the U.S. presidents from Calvin Coolidge to Dwight Eisenhower. We are hosting a trip to Eisenhower’s farm with a behind the scenes tour by an expert and historian, John Kennedy. And for the writers among us, we are offering a three-night fiction writers’ retreat to Capon Springs and Farms Resort so you can focus on your talent. Tours are planned from the Washington, D.C., Book Festival, Flight 93 Memorial, and Kennedy Center Concert to art museums in Baltimore and Pittsburgh. We are also hosting a baseball game to see the Nationals play the Cubs for the sports enthusiasts. We hope you enjoy seeing your favorite instructors and some new leaders. Be an active participant in the Shepherd University Lifelong Learning Program and become a member! Sign up for classes, lectures, tours, and volunteer to serve as a class assistant. Get involved today! Karen Rice ‘12 M.B.A. Director of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning BE CURIOUS · STAY INFORMED · HAVE FUN FALL 2018 LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAM MISSION assistant in one or more of your classes, please contact Karen Rice at 304-876-5135 or [email protected]. Thank you for The Lifelong Learning Program at Shepherd University is a volunteering! volunteer member-driven program dedicated to offering stimulating academic courses and activities to the community. For information about instructors teaching courses this semester, visit us online at www.shepherd.edu/lifelonglearning MEMBERSHIP INCLEMENT WEATHER POLICY Gold Member: Annual Fee is $325 Lifelong Learning classes will be canceled if the university is All-inclusive membership for one year. Includes all enrollment fees, closed. all lectures, discounts on tours, free parking decal for lots on East Should an extreme weather emergency or power or water failure and West Campus with access to shuttle bus, and invitations to warrant the closing of offices and/or canceling or altering the special events. Spouses and domestic partners are eligible to join schedule of classes and events by the president, then public for an additional $175. notification will be made via Shepherd web, switchboard, Rave text- Silver Member: Annual Fee is $85 messaging system, and area radio and television stations. Includes the brown bag luncheon lectures and discounts on tours. Enrollment fees apply. Announcements of emergency plans will also be available by calling 304-876-5000. One-Time Trial Offer All new participants who have not taken any lifelong learning PARKING courses are eligible to take classes for $99 per course for the first Free Shepherd University parking decals are an exclusive benefit semester without paying the membership fee. This introductory included with gold membership. If you are enrolled in the offer is not available to former students. Shepherd University Lifelong Learning Program but are not a Scholarships Gold Member and wish to park your vehicle on campus, you may The Shepherd University Lifelong Learning Program provides a purchase a decal from the Shepherd University Police Department. limited number of scholarships to participants who would not The purchased decal will permit you to park in specified areas on otherwise be able to attend a course. The scholarship is good for campus while attending class. It is to be affixed on the outside back one course (except FASTEnER Lab courses) and unlimited brown bag window of your vehicle and is valid until August 1, 2019. Those lectures per semester. Inquire about a scholarship by contacting vehicles parked on campus without a decal may receive a parking Karen Rice at 304-876-5135. Classes and lectures are free to ticket. Shepherd University faculty, staff, and students. Park in These Lots A parking decal will allow you to park in the following lots on REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS campus: A-Lot, C-Lot, King Street, F-Lot, G-Lot, H-Lot. The Pan Tran Some of the courses require students to obtain books or materials shuttle bus picks up riders every 30 minutes (on the hour and half- essential to the class. Four Seasons Bookstore is offering our hour) from the H-Lot between Dunlop and Printz halls, G-Lot at the students a 15 percent discount on books. Mention the Shepherd Frank Center adjacent to the Wellness Center, and stops in front of University Lifelong Learning Program to receive the discount. the Erma Ora Byrd Hall and the Student Center on the East Campus. NOTE: Parking is free when the university is on break, between 5 BECOME AN INSTRUCTOR p.m.-8 a.m., or a weekend (there are exceptions such as graduation or football games.). DO YOU MISS TEACHING? Share your passion. Inspire others to learn and explore. Interact and engage with Purchase a Parking Decal peers and community members. The Shepherd University Lifelong To purchase a decal, submit a parking application (one per vehicle), Learning Program is looking for course instructors. The program your vehicle registration, driver’s license, and payment to Shepherd is an academic cooperative that provides mature adults with University Police Department, Moler Hall, 133 Campus Hill Drive opportunities for intellectual development, cultural stimulation, (West Campus), during office hours. The cost is $35 for the year. and social interaction. Program classes are developed and taught To learn more, visit www.shepherd.edu/parking-on-campus or call by volunteers who share their time and knowledge. 304-876-5374. To become an instructor, please contact Karen Rice, director of Parking in Shepherdstown Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning at 304-876-5135 or [email protected]. Shepherdstown has made parking simpler. Download the free Passport Mobile Parking app at https://ppprk.com/park. You will receive parking alerts on your phone and can extend the amount of BECOME A CLASSROOM ASSISTANT time on your meter as needed.
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