LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE

Course Schedule | Fall 2021

The Lifelong Learning Institute is committed to creating intellectually stimulating educational opportunities for Montgomery County residents age 50 and over. Adults of any age may register for these class: Students 60+ pay fee only.

Workforce Development and Continuing Education montgomerycollege.edu/wdce | 240-567-5188 Message from the Program Director Virtual Face-to-Face in Real-Time! Dear Lifelong Learning Institute Students, Many LLI Fall Classes are being taught online with Zoom Welcome to the Fall Semester! With the gradual reopening of Montgomery College, we are offering Due to COVID-19, many LLI fall classes will be taught most of our courses online; however, some courses online using Zoom. Zoom allows students to hear and in art, baking, and physical education will meet on see the instructor as they present their class. campus with safety protocols in place. It’s Easy to Zoom! Three (3) days before your class starts, your instructor will send you a link. If you do not Over 45 classes on the schedule are new and receive your link, please: designed to prepare you for trips, develop new • Check your spam/junk folder. skills, and expand your mind and curiosity. A few of • Check to make sure your email is current. the new courses are: “Iconic Travel Spots of South • Contact all three of us, the day before your class America,” “Using DNA to Reveal the Hidden Stories begins. of Human Diversity, History, and Migrations,” and many others. [email protected]; [email protected] We have widened our course offerings in the You will need a working microphone built into your areas of US/World history and politics to include: device or headphones with a microphone. Or you can “Civil War: Military History,” “January 6: Roots and use the free phone conference feature. Visit: https:// Consequences,” “History of Modern Iraq,” and a zoom.us/download and download the Zoom application course to mark the 20th Anniversary of 9/11. These courses encourage questions, expression of diverse onto your computer. We recommend that you do this in opinions, and class discussion. advance to make sure all your computer components are working. Additionally, this semester, cooking and baking Note: Montgomery College is slowly transitioning to enthusiasts can attend courses online and in the face-to-face classes. Select LLI classes (mainly hands- MC Marriott Hospitality Kitchen. Professional chefs on) are being held on campus. Please check the location will instruct and help increase your skills in “The description for each class (Look for * On Campus notation) Great British Baking Show: Novice Edition,” “Bread and also on your receipt. Baking 101,” and “Cooking Like a Chef.” Many other exciting courses in Art, Brain Fitness, Personal Finance, Literature and Writing, Horticulture, Registration Process During COVID-19 Wellness and more are being offered. In-Person Registration We are looking forward to seeing you IN PERSON. Three For those who will join us in the classroom, please of our registration areas open for in-person registration check the latest coronavirus updates on https:// www.montgomerycollege.edu/coronavirus/. starting August 2! We will continue to monitor COVID- Beginning July 1, wearing masks is not required, 19 restrictions. Please visit us online for up-to-date it is up to students if they want to wear them in hours and information. the classroom. There will be cleaning supplies and Web, mail, and fax registrations are still an option. disinfectants in the classroom. See page 30 for all registration information. Stay safe and healthy! Keep on growing!

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2 | Workforce Development and Continuing Education Archaeology and World Cultures Global Issues Through History, Literature, and Philosophy Co-L A Taste of History: The World in Spices Explore a number of topics related to global issues Examine how spices changed the world through trade, through historical, literary, linguistic, and philosophical exploration, and colonization, but most of all through taste. lenses. Recognize your responsibilities to society-locally, Explore the history of the Spice Route and the discovery of nationally, and globally. Examine current issues of global spices around the world. Discuss the symbolic and societal importance. Note: You will be joining credit students in meaning of spices in their regions of origin. Learn about the this co-listed credit class. TWA social, political, economic, and ecological realities of spice Course: LLI890 37.5 Hours production and consumption from perspectives of different $396 + $136.20 fee = $532.20; NMR add $871.20 stakeholders. Discuss patterns of local spice production and consumption in the modern world. TWA Online: Distance Learning CRN#: 25145 Course: LLI558 8 Hours 8/30-12/19 Online 24/7 $59 + $79 fee = $138; NMR add $120 Use Credit GHUM101 CRN22745 for textbook information. Online: Structured Remote Instructor: Patricia Ruppert CRN#: 24855 4 Sessions M Online: Structured Remote 9/20-10/11 6:30-8:30 p.m. CRN#: 24874 27 Sessions T R Instructor: Naomi Daremblum 9/14-12/16 12:30-2 p.m. No class 11/25 A Taste of History: Wine—A Fascinating Use Credit GHUM101 CRN22485 for textbook information. Journey NEW Instructor: Joan Naake Learn the history of wine during antiquity. Analyze how CRN#: 25144 27 Sessions T R wine came to symbolize, reinforce, and occasionally 9/14-12/16 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. challenge cultural values, social norms, and political No class 11/25 realities. Discuss the relationships between wine Use Credit GHUM101 CRN22508 for textbook information. production and the development of the global economic Instructor: Deborah Taylor system. Consider patterns of local wine production and consumption in the modern world. TWA Introduction to Archaeology Co-L Course: LLI736 10 Hours This course is an introduction to the discipline of $65 + $89 fee = $154; NMR add $120 archaeology. Learn how this discipline emerged slowly Online: Structured Remote from explorations of ancient cultures to the science CRN#: 25089 5 Sessions R that it is today with accurate dating, archaeological 9/30-10/28 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. data excavated with precision, theories that guide Instructor: Naomi Daremblum interpretation, and ethical concerns. The course also includes a survey of global prehistoric archaeological cultures. Note: You will be joining credit students in this Iconic Travel Spots of South America NEW co-listed credit class. TWA Explore South America’s most iconic spots: from its sophisticated cities to its soaring mountain slopes, arid Course: LLI802 37.5 Hours deserts, and lush jungles. Learn the history and cultural $396 + $136.20 fee = $532.20; NMR add $871.20 importance of its ancient civilizations while taking virtual Online: Structured Remote walks that take us from its colonial past to its vibrant modern CRN#: 24873 31 Sessions T R present. Discuss the historical context of Machu Picchu and 8/31-12/16 9:30-10:45 a.m. the Inca Trail. Examine the colonial past of South American No class 11/25 cities and their architecture. Learn about the ecology of the Instructor: Barbara Wolff Amazon and its relevance to the Iguazu waterfall. TWA This is a z-course: all textbook materials are available Course: LLI756 8 Hours at no cost for this section. Regular internet access is $59 + $79 fee = $138; NMR add $120 required for access to materials. For more information, see https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/academics/ Online: Structured Remote mc-open/. CRN#: 25140 4 Sessions T 10/12-11/2 6:30-8:30 p.m. Instructor: Naomi Daremblum www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce | 3 Urbanism in the Ancient Americas Art Did you know that most theories concerning archaic urbanism were developed by Western scholars drawing almost exclusively on Old World examples? Explore urban Drawing with Pencils, Charcoal, or Pastels traditions in the ancient Americas using archaeological This course will help you develop fundamental drawing and historic sources. Examine how cities in the Americas skills. Learn basic techniques such as blocking in the coincide with or differ from traditional concepts of the composition with pencil, shading with charcoal, and city through exploration of Cahokia, Tikal, Teotihuacan, using pastels to create vibrant color. Begin by drawing a Tenochtitlan, Caral, Huari/Tiahuanaco, Chan Chan, still life and move onto landscape and portrait drawings Cuzco, and more. Discuss the interdependence of from photographs. Examine these subjects using a cities and their surroundings. Learn about the internal variety of media (pencil, color pencils, charcoal, pastel, diversity of cities and the development of urbanism in the ink, and watercolor). This class is designed for students Americas. TWA of any skill level. Supply list is available on the LLI website. TWA Course: LLI565 10 Hours $65 + $89 fee = $154; NMR add $120 Course: LLI698 12 Hours $95 + $92 fee = $187; NMR add $120 Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 25123 5 Sessions W Online: Structured Remote 9/22-10/20 1:30-3:30 p.m. CRN#: 24869 6 Sessions T Instructor: Barbara Wolff 11/2-12/7 6:30-8:30 p.m. Instructor: Tatiana Martin World Cultures Co-L Rockville Campus Room 009SB * On Campus This course is an examination of one culture area in a CRN#: 24868 6 Sessions M particular geographic region from an anthropological 9/20-10/25 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. perspective. Drawing from the theories and methods of Instructor: Tatiana Martin anthropology, explore the prehistory, colonialism, cultural systems, modernization, and globalization of the region. How to Paint Like an Impressionist Examine current conditions through interesting case This course will introduce you to the Impressionist studies. Focus of this section is on the Middle East and movement and explain how it came about. Discuss North Africa. Note: You will be joining credit students in the historical context, style, and inspiration for the this co-listed credit class. TWA movement. Explore techniques such as pointillism, Course: LLI803 37.5 Hours impasto, use of palette-knife, layering, and Impressionist $396 + $136.20 fee = $532.20; NMR add $871.20 use of color. Apply these methods with individual instruction to create your own Impressionist painting Online: Structured Remote with watercolor or acrylic. Supply list is available on the CRN#: 25143 28 Sessions M W LLI website. TWA 9/13-12/15 12-1:30 p.m. Use Credit ANTH256 CRN22341 for textbook Course: LLI652 12 Hours information. $95 + $92 fee = $187; NMR add $120 Instructor: Bethany Kibler Rockville Campus Room 009SB * On Campus CRN#: 24865 6 Sessions W 10/6-11/10 6:30-8:30 p.m. Instructor: Tatiana Martin Structured Remote (SR) vs Distance Learning (DL) Structured Remote (SR) classes will meet at Classes marked with this code CoL are co-listed. They are offered so that students may register either for a designated meeting date and time with the credit or continuing education (noncredit) status. See possibility of transitions to in-person classroom more details on page 29. teaching. Distance Learning (DL) classes are at your leisure during the semester and will not TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ transition to in-person classes. Pay Fee Only. NMR=Non-Maryland Resident

4 | Workforce Development and Continuing Education The Art of Sketching Photography Whether you are an avid sketcher or new to the art, sketching allows you to record events such as a trip to a foreign land, a tour of a local garden, or a special Amazing Photos With Your DSLR Camera occasion such as a birth or anniversary. Examine Explore the settings found on a modern digital camera. different types of sketches, such as, drawings, or quick Discuss the different exposure, metering, autofocus, and paintings. Explore adding short captions, notes, parts white balance modes of a digital camera. Practice the of conversations, and observations to create a journal. basic methods of saving and storing your digital images. Utilize sketches to plan an organic garden, create a This course is for beginners in digital photography or preliminary drawing for a painting or portrait, or provide those who acquired a camera with manual controls. TWA an outlet for discovering solutions to a variety of Course: LLI470 10 Hours problems. Learn how to improve your observational skills $65 + $89 fee = $154; NMR add $120 while sketching with pen, pencil, or watercolor. Bring supplies to the first class. Supply list is available on the Online: Structured Remote LLI website. TWA CRN#: 24851 4 Sessions M 9/20-10/11 6:30-9 p.m. Course: LLI970 12 Hours Instructor: Michael Koren $95 + $92 fee = $187; NMR add $120 Online: Structured Remote Amazing Photos with Your Phones and CRN#: 25147 6 Sessions T Tablets 11/2-12/7 6:30-8:30 p.m. Start with the basics of learning how to use a mobile Instructor: Evan Goldman phone camera; review the settings for optimal image capture; and explore pro tips and techniques of exposure, Watercolor Techniques I composition, and focus to produce the best results. Explore the beauty and magic of watercolor painting Assess a select group of apps for image capture, through a structured series of exciting classes that focus processing, and display. Practice ways of transferring on basic watercolor techniques. Learn techniques of images from your mobile device to a computer. This various washes, ‘wet-on-wet,’ and dry brush on wet and class is designed for users of iOS and Android mobile dry paper by watching the instructor demonstrate before devices. Some apps demonstrated may need to be performing the technique yourself. Basic drawing will be purchased. Purchase of these apps are approximately reviewed as needed. Practice the techniques by painting $20. TWA from a still life or photo. Creation of an individual style is Course: LLI471 8 Hours encouraged. Bring supplies to the first class. Supply list $59 + $79 fee = $138; NMR add $120 is available on the LLI website. TWA Online: Structured Remote Course: LLI609 12 Hours CRN#: 24852 4 Sessions M $95 + $92 fee = $187; NMR add $120 10/18-11/8 6:30-8:30 p.m. Rockville Campus Room 009SB * On Campus Instructor: Michael Koren CRN#: 24861 6 Sessions W 9/22-10/27 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Tatiana Martin ¶ Become a Star—Showcase Your Work ¶ Sketching, painting, drawing, photography, cooking, garden design, short literary sample, and Art Supply List! more. Show others what you have accomplished in a Lifelong Learning Institute class. Email us Material lists for LLI Art classes photos of your finished project(s) along with a are available at short description (plus your written permission to www.montgomerycollege.edu/lifelonglearning/ publish the project(s)) and become a LLI star. Please email both of us at [email protected] TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ Pay Fee Only. [email protected] NMR=Non-Maryland Resident

www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce | 5 Art History Celebrating 100 Years of The Phillips Collection: A Virtual Tour NEW The Phillips Collection in Washington DC turns 100. Art Deco: Architecture and Design for the Explore highlights of the collection through a curated Future NEW virtual tour. Analyze artistic movements represented Have you wondered where the style of buildings in the Phillips Collection. Examine the history and commonly known as “Art Deco” came from? Examine purpose of works within the collection. Discuss the most how Art Deco emerged as a style of architecture in the significant objects of art in terms of their author, genre, 1920s and 1930s-taking cues from a 1925 Paris show style, history, and meaning. TWA entitled Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Course: LLI679 6 Hours Industriels. Discuss what characteristics are prevalent in $45 + $72 fee = $117; NMR add $120 the style. Learn about the major architects and artists of this movement. Analyze how Art Deco lent its forward- Online: Structured Remote looking or streamline style to furniture, decorative arts, CRN#: 25132 3 Sessions W apparel, and jewelry. TWA 10/6-10/20 6:30-8:30 p.m. Instructor: TBA Course: LLI691 6 Hours $45 + $72 fee = $117; NMR add $120 Chicago: The Birthplace of Modern Online: Structured Remote Architecture CRN#: 25133 3 Sessions R Chicago is often deemed the city that gave rise to 9/23-10/7 1:30-3:30 p.m. contemporary American architecture. Such well-known Instructor: Ruth Manchester architects as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel Burnham, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe practiced in the Belle Époque: The Age of French Art, city and surrounds. Why? Might the origins stem from the Literature, and Music great Chicago fire of 1871? Or, the Columbian Exposition Are you interested in learning about the La Belle Époque of 1893? Or, the fact that Chicago was the undisputed period? Discuss the rise of artistic modernism in France’s rail terminus in the U.S.? Examine the history of Chicago Third Republic and Paris’ importance in art, music, and why it produced so many inventive and ingenious and literature. Examine the works of key literary artists thinkers in the world of architecture. Explore Chicago including Èmile Zola and Guy de Maupassant. Critique architecture, from the first skyscraper to the Frank Lloyd the operas of Georges Bizet, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Wright dwellings that put Chicago on the map, as a Jules Massenet, and the plays of Victorien Sardou and world-renowned center of architecture. Discuss prize- Edmond Rostand. Analyze the relationship between winning works of the 21st century. TWA modernity and the artists of the period. TWA Course: LLI535 8 Hours Course: LLI632 8 Hours $59 + $79 fee = $138; NMR add $120 $59 + $79 fee = $138; NMR add $120 Online: Structured Remote Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 24854 4 Sessions T CRN#: 24864 4 Sessions M 10/19-11/9 6:30-8:30 p.m. 11/8-11/29 6:30-8:30 p.m. Instructor: Ruth Manchester Instructor: Naomi Daremblum Degenerate Art: The History of Nazi Censorship of Art and Music NEW On July 18, 1937 the Nazis opened the “Great German Art Exhibit” in Munich’s Haus der Kunst. The following ROOM NUMBERS day a counterpoint exhibition opened nearby, called Room numbers will be printed on your registration “Degenerate Art” to educate the public on the “Art receipt for classes held on our campuses. Please be of Decay.” Explore how art and art censorship fit sure to keep the receipt for your records. ideologically into Nazism. Examine the different policies crafted by the Nazi regime to target artists deemed degenerate. Compare and contrast the goal of the TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ Degenerate Art exhibit and the goals of the Degenerate Pay Fee Only. Music exhibit. Discuss the consequences of the NMR=Non-Maryland Resident

6 | Workforce Development and Continuing Education degenerate art exhibits in Germany & Europe’s art world. “Folk Art:” What it is and What it Isn’t NEW TWA Your grandmother’s quilt. An ancestor’s portrait in the Course: LLI738 10 Hours attic. The weather vane atop a barn. All of these items, and $65 + $89 fee = $154; NMR add $120 more, have been lumped together as “folk art.” What really defines folk art-sometimes referred to as naïve, primitive, Online: Structured Remote or outsider art? Did trained or untrained artists create these CRN#: 25090 5 Sessions T items? Examine some of these works—paintings, decorated 11/2-11/30 1:30-3:30 p.m. utilitarian objects, sculpture, quilts (and other needle Instructor: Naomi Daremblum arts) that might fit the definition of “folk art.” Learn about major collectors in the field. Discuss if there is such an art Earth, Hell, Heaven, and Hieronymus Bosch category or is art whatever the creator calls “art?” TWA Are you familiar with the art of Hieronymus Bosch, who Course: LLI673 8 Hours is considered one of, if not the most, visionary artists of $59 + $79 fee = $138; NMR add $120 his time? Learn about Bosch’s, whose real name was Hieronimus van Aken, startling, hallucinogenic visions of Online: Structured Remote late-medieval culture. Compare and contrast Bosch’s art CRN#: 25130 4 Sessions M with the major stylistic elements of Northern European 9/20-10/11 1:30-3:30 p.m. paintings. Explore the enigmatic, surrealist quality of his Instructor: Ruth Manchester symbolic language that intrigues viewers and is still the subject of many speculative interpretations. Analyze How to Decipher Paintings his most famous paintings, such as The Garden of Survey of Western Art from Rococo to Realism Earthly Delights, Ship of Fools, and The Haywain Triptych. Examine the most significant developments in painting Discuss how on the five-hundred-year anniversary of his created in Western Europe during the 18th and the first half death in 2016, exciting new discoveries about his works of the 19th century, including the movements of Rococo, emerged. TWA Neoclassicism, Romanticism, & Realism. Employ visual Course: LLI546 6 Hours analysis-seeing the stylistic elements of color, line, and the $45 + $72 fee = $117; NMR add $120 composition, the iconography, and the context-connecting the art style to the history and the culture of the time. Putting your Online: Structured Remote deciphering skills to work, learn how to understand the most CRN#: 25122 3 Sessions R important works by painters such as Boucher, Fragonard, 11/4-11/18 6:30-8:30 p.m. Gainsborough, Chardin, David, and Courbet. TWA Instructor: Irina Stotland Course: LLI171 10 Hours Eating Art: Food in Western Art Traditions $65 + $89 fee = $154; NMR add $120 from the Renaissance- Present Day NEW Online: Structured Remote Discover unexpected intersections of food and art. CRN#: 24846 5 Sessions T Explore ways that food has been represented throughout 9/21-10/19 1:30-3:30 p.m. the ages in Western artistic traditions. Examine works of Instructor: Irina Stotland art and discuss related historical contexts. Investigate the sacred, profane, and romantic symbolism in still-life Vocabulary of Art NEW food portraits, the socio-political messages in depictions How do you approach a work of art? You have to of agriculture and food harvests, and the myriad understand its vocabulary. Learn how to describe and meanings of food when used as the base material for analyze a work of art based on its look, place, and time of sculptural works and decorative displays. TWA origin. Explore what formal elements are and how artists Course: LLI726 10 Hours use them to construct a painting. Discuss how to gain $65 + $89 fee = $154; NMR add $120 insight into the reason for creating the work of art and its possible meaning. TWA Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 24870 5 Sessions W Course: LLI681 6 Hours 10/13-11/10 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $45 + $72 fee = $117; NMR add $120 Instructor: Rissa Miller Online: Structured Remote TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ CRN#: 24867 3 Sessions T Pay Fee Only. 11/2-11/16 1:30-3:30 p.m. NMR=Non-Maryland Resident Instructor: Irina Stotland

www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce | 7 Brain Fitness Institute Memory Academy: Train Your Brain to Retain! Have you experienced ‘senior moments?’ Struggled to remember where you placed your car keys, or Enhancing Positivity through Meditation NEW experienced that ‘tip of the tongue’ feeling when trying Are you aware that our brains have a built-in negativity to recall someone’s name? Discuss what memory is bias? A survival mechanism finely honed over millions and how it works. Learn new techniques on how to: of years spent scanning the environment for threats and remember what you did in the past; put names to faces; remembering the bad stuff that happened. Explore the and remember lists, errands, or other things you need way meditation can help you cultivate a positivity bias. to do. Examine your individual learning style and the Focus on and install experiences that increase wellbeing. technique that works best for your style in order to Enhance inner strengths such as calm, creativity, improve your memory. Practice applying learned memory compassion, confidence, and connection. No prior techniques to real life situations. This program originated meditation experience required. TWA with the UCLA Center on Aging and is taught by a Holy Course: LLI675 6 Hours Cross Hospital memory specialist. TWA $45 + $72 fee = $117; NMR add $120 Course: LLI396 10 Hours Online: Structured Remote $65 + $89 fee = $154; NMR add $120 CRN#: 25292 4 Sessions W Online: Structured Remote 11/10-12/1 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. CRN#: 24849 5 Sessions F Instructor: Carol Moore 10/22-11/19 1-3 p.m. Instructor: Holy Cross Hospital Meditation to Quiet the Busy Mind NEW Is your mind always busy with thoughts? Learn how Positive Psychology in Practice to quiet the ruminating mind through attention to the What is Positive Psychology? How can it benefit different present moment and the unconditional awareness of areas of your life – work/school, retirement, and the the body. Explore various meditation techniques that quality of your daily life? Learn to apply the principles build the skill of gently attending to whatever arises while of Positive Psychology with activities and exploration cultivating patience and receptivity. TWA exercises that foster your ability to thrive and fulfill your Course: LLI678 12 Hours potential. Discover your personal strengths and what $65 + $92 fee = $157; NMR add $120 gives you a sense of meaning and fulfillment. Learn to nurture yourself and your professional/personal Online: Structured Remote relationships. Cultivate your inner self to boost resilience, CRN#: 24866 8 Sessions T optimism, gratefulness, forgiveness, and the joy of 9/14-11/2 1-2:30 p.m. experiencing life. This class will include presentations by Instructor: Phil Bender guest speakers and will provide a variety of interactive activities, video clips, and readings. TWA Course: LLI586 6 Hours $35 + $72 fee = $107; NMR add $120 Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 24856 4 Sessions R Consider making a donation to the 10/28-11/18 7-8:30 p.m. Instructor: Natasha Sacks emergency funds for MC students. Visit montgomerycollege.edu/onlinegiving and click on “student emergency assistance” Find Us on Facebook! in the dropdown menu. Learn about free events, new course offerings, registration information, special announcements, and more. http://bit.ly/MCLLIfacebook TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ Pay Fee Only. NMR=Non-Maryland Resident

8 | Workforce Development and Continuing Education Stress Management & Resiliency Through How to Be Organized and Efficient at Work Mind-Body Techniques and Home Would you like to learn how to manage stress better How do you value your time? Learn about scheduling and and become more resilient? Explore a variety of mind- task organization tools as well as software applications body principles and self-care interventions. Discuss how to help you manage your projects, big or small, avoid nutrition, sleep, meditation, and physical activities such as scope creep, and remember your schedule. Practice yoga affect stress. Learn coping skills, distress tolerance, vision shaping activities to help you organize your and ways to enhance physical and emotional health. TWA priorities and apply changes, inclusive of family and professional goals. Outline a project plan, prepare and Course: LLI501 4 Hours monitor a weekly schedule, and keep track of details and $35 + $49 fee = $84; NMR add $50 important data. TWA Online: Structured Remote Course: LLI032 6 Hours CRN#: 24926 3 Sessions M $35 + $69 fee = $104; NMR add $120 10/4-10/18 2-3:30 p.m. Class on 10/18 is from 2-3 p.m. Online: Structured Remote Instructor: Monica Byrd CRN#: 24843 3 Sessions T 11/2-11/16 6:30-8:30 p.m. Careers and Employment for 50+ Instructor: Marcy Jackson

Career Exploration Boot Camp Innovation and Creativity: Move Your Ideas to Action, With IMPACT© NEW What are you good at? What are your natural and work- related strengths? Discover and match them with career Do you have ideas in your head and heart that you want areas in which you would be most successful. Choose to turn into a business or non-profit and you’re struggling to apply your skills to your career or volunteering and to get moving on them? Creativity and innovation do other life opportunities. Engage in a series of insightful not happen by accident; you must be intentional to individual and group exercises and conduct research into achieve the results you seek. Learn a process and receive career areas of interest to you. Draft your career plan resources that will help you get out of your head and into while being supported through your career exploration action to start a business, promote a cause, or chart the stage by your classmates and career coach. TWA career you want to pursue. Course: CRP013 12 Hours Course: LLI727 2 Hours $45 + $59 fee = $104; NMR add $120 $10 + $15 fee = $25; NMR add $30 Online: Structured Remote Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 25291 4 Sessions M CRN#: 24871 1 Session R 9/20-10/11 6:30-9:30 p.m. 10/14 6:30-8:30 p.m. Instructor: Mary Pat Brennan Instructor: Sylvia Henderson

Employment Search Boot Camp Learn traditional and innovative job search techniques to help you land the job you want. This class provides a comprehensive approach to employment search, including resume writing, LinkedIn, and the latest self-marketing and Virtual Face-to-Face in Real-Time! networking techniques. Explore how to distinguish yourself from others competing for the same jobs and try new job Many LLI Fall Classes are being taught search strategies. Learn how to use career and job search online with Zoom resources such as Career Coach, and networking and See page 2 for details. employment resources such as social media. TWA Course: CRP014 10 Hours $0 + $25 fee = $25; NMR add $0 Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 25150 4 Sessions M TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ 10/18-11/8 6:30-9 p.m. Pay Fee Only. Instructor: Nicole Cyrus NMR=Non-Maryland Resident www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce | 9 Computers and Technology History and Current Events

Cybersecurity for Beginners (For People with a U.S. History and Politics Non-Technical Background) NEW Develop a basic understanding of Cybersecurity to African American History in America: 1865 to protect yourself from Online Frauds and prevent Identity Co-L Theft. Examine how hackers can steal your personal the Present information. Analyze types and motives of cyber-attacks. This course surveys the history of African Americans in Learn the best practices that are important to protect America 1865 to the present. Examine the Washington- your information while using the Internet. Explore the -Du Bois debate; African American contributions to history of Cybersecurity. Learn key terminology and basic the world wars; and the Harlem Renaissance. Discuss system concepts. TWA the struggle for equality; and strategies for continued economic, political, and social progress. Note: You will be Course: LLI759 4 Hours joining credit students in this co-listed credit class. TWA $35 + $49 fee = $84; NMR add $50 Course: LLI760 37.5 Hours Online: Structured Remote 396 + 136.20 = 532.20; NMR add $871.20 CRN#: 25294 2 Sessions W 11/3-11/10 6:30-8:30 p.m. Online: Structured Remote Instructor: Jasmeet Kaur CRN#: 25349 14 Sessions T R 8/31-10/18 12:30-3:15 p.m. Using Instagram and YouTube Like a Pro Use credit HIST 236 CRN 24049 for textbook information. Instructor: Sylvea Hollis There’s no better time than now to get started with Instagram and YouTube. Find and follow Instagram The Civil War: A Military History NEW accounts. Learn how to share photos and videos to create stories with special effects. Explore how to Did you know that many of the major battles of the browse your feed and interact with posts. Discuss how Civil War were fought in the DC Metro area? Learn why to go live to connect with your friends at the moment or the Union won the war. Analyze the military strategies message your friends in private. Examine the Explore tab and campaigns. Discuss the major battles and their and IGTV. Create a YouTube Channel. TWA outcomes. Examine military leaders who made the outcome of the war a victory for the North. TWA Course: LLI482 4 Hours $20 + $49 fee = $69; NMR add $50 Course: LLI730 10 Hours $65 + $89 fee = $154; NMR add $120 Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 25080 2 Sessions R Online: Structured Remote 10/21-10/28 6:30-8:30 p.m. CRN#: 25087 5 Sessions W Instructor: Vicki McGill 11/3-12/8 2-4 p.m. No class 11/24 Instructor: Eric Gartman

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10 | Workforce Development and Continuing Education Bringing the United States Constitution to Life An Insight Into Politics and Current Events In the late 18th century, the United States of America, NEW CONTENT: Discuss current events of late summer less than 15 years old, replaced its Articles of and fall of 2021 with a particular emphasis on political Confederation with a new Constitution. This course will issues. Debate if Biden’s agenda will forward through examine the provisions of the Constitution as well as compromise with the Republicans or by modification its 27 amendments. Special emphasis will be placed on or termination of the filibuster. Assess if the Supreme the application of the Constitution and the amendments Court will follow a conservative agenda or be more to current issues. We will discuss the meaning of a moderate. Determine if Marylanders will accept the nation having a constitution and the guiding principles police reforms adopted by the state legislature over of other nations such as England's Magna Carta and the veto of Governor. Analyze the situation in Russia the Articles of Confederation. The process by which the with an opposition candidate in prison, China’s growing Constitution and the first ten amendments (the Bill of economic influence, and nuclear negotiation with Iran. Rights) were adopted will be explored. You will analyze The course accommodates all political views and aims to the various constitutional provisions which provided for treat all students with respect. TWA three branches of government, the means of amending Course: LLI511 12 Hours the document, and the various amendments that have $69 + $92 fee = $161; NMR add $120 been enacted and/or proposed. In addition, the current status of case law dealing with issues such as freedom Online: Structured Remote of speech, freedom of religion, the right to bear arms, the CRN#: 25081 6 Sessions W right to counsel, the bar against unreasonable search 9/22-12/1 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and seizure, and the bar against self-incrimination will be This class meets 9/22, 10/6, 10/20, 11/3, 11/17, 12/1. discussed. Students 60+ pay fee only. TWA Instructor: Joel Cockrelll Course: LLI993 12 Hours $65 + $92 fee = $157; NMR add $120 The Rise of the Business Titans Explore the innovators and risk-takers that have shaped Online: Structured Remote U.S. economy and society. Learn about the “Robber CRN#: 25097 6 Sessions R Barons,” businessmen in the Gilded Age. Examine 10/7-11/11 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. the men who built the bull market during the Roaring Instructor: Joel Cockrell Twenties. Discuss the innovators who helped save the world from fascism on the ashes of the Great Depression; and “Big Business” at the apex of American dominance. Evaluate the sources of these innovators’ success, the circumstances that made their success MC Email Access—Claim Your Account possible, and the profound impact of the business elite Claim your MyMC account. Go to MyMC and click on on our lives. This course is taught by a former U.S. "Claim Your Account." Enter your MC Student ID along Department of the Treasury historian. TWA with your M# (nine characters including the M). Once Course: LLI636 6 Hours you are logged into MyMC, set up your Montgomery $45 + $72 fee = $117; NMR add $120 College email account by clicking on the email icon. Online: Structured Remote This is the way MC will communicate with you. CRN#: 25084 3 Sessions T 11/16-11/30 6:30-8:30 p.m. Instructor: Jesse Stiller GREAT NEWS! As Covid–19 conditions continue to improve, we will continue to transition some classes back to campus! Look for more IN PERSON, ON CAMPUS

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www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce | 11 9/11—20th Anniversary: Fresh Perspectives NEW World History September 11, 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Learn about recent findings about who the 9/11 hijackers World History: A Comparative Survey from the were, who was behind them, and what they were trying Ancient World to A.D.1500 Co-L to achieve. Discuss the rise of Islamic extremism in Explore contemporary life in terms of the accumulated the late 20th and 21st centuries. Analyze the working cultural experiences of the world, and learn to appreciate relationships of the FBI, CIA, and other intelligence the growing interdependence of modern nations. agencies and how those relationships hindered and Discuss the emergence and flowering of ancient Near helped the battle against international terrorism. Examine Eastern and Mediterranean civilizations; the Christian the mixed record of federal, state, and city responses to Middle Ages and Renaissance in Europe; China and the 9/11. Consider the impact of 9/11 in New York City and development of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism; its people, and untangle the controversies surrounding Hinduism and Indian empires; Islam and its conquests the rebuilding of the World Trade Center. TWA and the rise of the Ottoman Empire; civilizations of the Americas; and African developments. Note: You will be Course: LLI750 6 Hours joining credit students in this co-listed credit class. TWA $45 + $72 fee = $117; NMR add $120 Course: LLI610 37.5 Hours Online: Structured Remote $396 + $136.20 fee = $532.20; NMR add $871.20 CRN#: 25094 3 Sessions T 9/14-9/28 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Online: Structured Remote Instructor: Jesse Stiller CRN#: 24862 31 Sessions T R 8/31-12/16 9:30-10:45 a.m. January 6: Roots and Consequences NEW No class 11/25 Use HIST116 CRN22135 for textbook information. Explore the historical roots of the January 6th, U.S. Capitol Building insurrection. Discuss the forces that lead Instructor: Christopher DeLorenzo to political violence in our history. Describe the unique characteristics of these types of movements. Compare Empress: Ruling Women from Antiquity to the relationship between these movements and social, Modern Times NEW cultural, and economic challenges of today and previous Explore the complex and contradictory figure of the eras. Identify the continuities and differences between ruling woman from antiquity to modern times. Examine those events and the January 6th insurrection. Analyze the varied roles that queens played within their societies, the consequences of the insurrection. TWA and their relationship to broader social and cultural Course: LLI741 4.5 Hours institutions such as the Christian Church. Discuss the $45 + $69 fee = $114; NMR add $120 ways in which queens were celebrated, criticized, and imagined by writers and artists of their time. TWA Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 25139 3 Sessions R Course: LLI739 10 Hours 11/4-11/18 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. $65 + $89 fee = $154; NMR add $120 Instructor: Naomi Daremblum Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 25136 5 Sessions F 10/8-11/5 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Naomi Daremblum Update Your Email and Contact Information It is important that your email address in Please register early! Montgomery College's system is current in order Class cancellations are processed at least a week to receive classroom links and materials. Please contact customer service at 240-567-5188 to before the start date due to low enrollments. update your email address and/or other contact information. Classes marked with this code CoL are co-listed. They are offered so that students may register either for TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ Pay Fee Only. credit or continuing education (noncredit) status. See more details on page 29. NMR=Non-Maryland Resident

12 | Workforce Development and Continuing Education European History: Fall of Rome to the 17th Germany: From Holy Roman Empire to Power Century Co-L At The Heart of Europe NEW Trace the accumulated experience of Western civilization Analyze the often-cataclysmic history of modern and its worldwide relationships. Inquire into the Germany. Examine the Holy Roman Empire and its role foundations of Western civilization and its odyssey to the shaping German history, the influence of Napoleon, the 17th century. Discuss areas such as the background and failed revolutions of 1848, the unification of Germany the legacy of the ancient world, the distinctive medieval under the influence of Bismarck, and the outbreak of the world view, the creation of new social and religious ideals First World War. Discuss the legacy of the First World during the Renaissance and Reformation, relationships War in Germany, the rise of Nazism, the Second World between cultural and political institutions, the growth of War, and the Holocaust. Explore the postwar division of absolutism and constitutionalism, and changes in artistic Germany, its role in the Cold War, and the subsequent and literary creativity. Note: You will be joining credit re-unification of Germany. TWA students in this co-listed credit class. TWA Course: LLI740 12 Hours Course: LLI596 37.5 Hours $69 + $92 fee = $161; NMR add $120 $396 + $136.20 fee = $532.20; NMR add $871.20 Online: Structured Remote Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 25091 6 Sessions T CRN#: 24858 14 Sessions M W 9/21-10/26 1:30-3:30 p.m. 8/30-10/18 11:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m. Instructor: Naomi Daremblum No class 9/6 Use Credit HIST147 CRN22103 for textbook information. Iran in the Middle East Instructor: Kurt Borkman How the Islamic State Widens Its Reach Through CRN#: 24857 31 Sessions T R Alliances Explore the Islamic Republic of Iran’s 8/31-12/16 9:30-10:45 a.m. complicated political system and its ability to widen its No class 11/25 power projection in the region and beyond relying on the Use Credit HIST147 CRN22099 for textbook information. support of groups that are part of a Tehran-led alliance Instructor: Kurt Borkman across the region. Examine the context for the rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Identify key Iranian regional European History: 17th Century to the Present allies and analyze the geopolitical and historical basis Co-L for these alliances. Discuss some of the key regional challenges and goals for Iran. TWA Trace the accumulated experience of Western civilization and its worldwide relationships. Explore the changes in Course: LLI635 8 Hours thought, social, economic, and political structures from $59 + $79 fee = $138; NMR add $120 the Copernican revolution and the Enlightenment through Online: Structured Remote the American and French revolutions, the traumas of CRN#: 25125 4 Sessions R economic depressions, world wars, and the upheavals of 11/4-12/2 6:30-8:30 p.m. the contemporary world. Examine the tensions between No class 11/25 individual liberty and traditional powers of state and Instructor: Naomi Daremblum society, the rise of ideologies, pressures of industrialism and national identity, the role of women in society, the rise of masses, and the disenchantment with traditional History of Modern Iraq liberalism and totalitarian alternatives. Note: You will be Explore the early religious, political, and social forces joining credit students in this co-listed credit class. TWA that shaped Iraq’s history. Learn about the dramatic changes in Iraq following the end of four hundred years Course: LLI469 37.5 Hours of Ottoman rule and the imposition of a fully invented $396 + $136.20 fee = $532.20; NMR add $871.20 monarchy by the British following World War I. Examine Online: Structured Remote the central importance of the ouster of the monarchy and CRN#: 24850 15 Sessions M W its replacement by a military dictatorship with political and 10/27-12/15 11:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m. economic control concentrated in the hands of the ruling Use credit HIST148 CRN22100 for textbook information. Ba’ath Party (and within it-Sadam Hussein). Discuss the Instructor: Kurt Borkman stability of the Hussein regime, its corrupt and tyrannical rule, his confrontations with Iran and Saudi Arabia, the invasion of Kuwait, the treatment of the Kurds, and finally the invasion in 2003. Analyze the post-invasion period www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce | 13 comparing Iraqi democracy with neighboring regimes Western Political Thought Co-L during the Arab Spring and the fight against ISIS. Special Western political thought from Plato to Foucault focus will be paid to the impact of Western political and Critically examine the contributions of political theorists cultural influence and the linkage between the Arab-Israeli both ancient and modern, especially major ideas that conflict and the domestic political arena in Iraq. TWA have shaped modern democratic societies. Explore Course: LLI568 12 Hours challenges posed by Marxist, feminist, and postmodern $69 + $92 fee = $161; NMR add $120 theorists and focus on values and concepts that underlie political discourse: power, legitimacy, change, freedom, Online: Structured Remote equality, and justice. Note: You will be joining credit CRN#: 25124 6 Sessions R students in this co-listed credit class. TWA 9/23-10/28 2-4 p.m. Instructor: Naomi Daremblum Course: LLI728 37.5 Hours $396 + $136.20 fee = $532.20; NMR add $871.20 International Relations Co-L Online: Structured Remote Critical analysis of international problems. A survey of the CRN#: 24872 27 Sessions T R concepts and problems of sovereignty and nationalism as 9/14-12/16 11 a.m.-12:25 p.m. well as the successes and failures of international institutions No class 11/25 and organizations. Special attention given to the role of Use Credit POLI221 CRN24041 for textbook information. the United Nations in today’s world and to contemporary Instructor: Aram Hessami situations that affect world politics. Note: You will be joining credit students in this co-listed credit class. TWA Human and Natural Science Course: LLI599 37.5 Hours $396 + $136.20 fee = $532.20; NMR add $871.20 Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam in the United Online: Structured Remote States NEW CRN#: 24859 31 Sessions T R Do you want to understand the religions of Hinduism, 8/31-12/16 12:30-1:45 p.m. Buddhism, and Islam better than you do now? Learn No class 11/25 some of the basic practices, teachings, and worldviews Use Credit POLI203 CRN22097 for textbook information. of these major world religions as they are practiced Instructor: William Primosch today. Identify the ways in which each religion is reaching deep within itself to keep to its roots, but at the same Political Ideologies Co-L time, is reaching outward to grow new forms in the Survey and analyze leading ideologies of the modern world context of the United States. Discuss how this dynamic such as anarchism, nationalism, fascism and national impacts American life and changes within American socialism, classical liberalism and conservatism, Fabian society. TWA socialism, Marxism-Leninism, and liberal democracy. Course: LLI683 10 Hours Explore current extremist ideologies of both left and right. $65 + $89 fee = $154; NMR add $120 Examine the nature and function of ideologies in political movements and in governance. Note: You will be joining Online: Structured Remote credit students in this co-listed credit course. TWA CRN#: 24948 5 Sessions M 9/20-10/18 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Course: LLI468 37.5 Hours Instructor: Alex Galen $396 + $136.20 fee = $532.20; NMR add $871.20 Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 25298 31 Sessions M W Help Us Spread the Word About 8/30-12/15 10-11:15 a.m. Lifelong Learning! No class 9/6 Would you be willing to help spread the word Use Credit POLI206 CRN22098 for textbook information. Instructor: Kurt Borkman about Lifelong Learning Institute by placing a link on your Facebook page or an ad in your CRN#: 25121 31 Sessions T R 8/31-12/16 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. neighborhood/community newsletter? If yes, No class 11/25 please contact: Use Credit POLI206 CRN23610 for textbook information. [email protected] Instructor: Kurt Borkman

14 | Workforce Development and Continuing Education Anti-Racism and Its Critics NEW Ethics on the Fly NEW Explore the writings of anti-racist thinkers such as To kneel, or not to kneel at an NFL game? To laugh or not Ibram Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, laugh when someone makes an “off-color” or culturally along with critical responses from John McWhorter, insensitive joke? To mask, or not mask, when in public? Kelefa Sanneh and others. Discuss the meaning of Explore Western ethical theories, ranging from standard Kendi’s terms, “racist” and “anti-racist.” Analyze statistics Continental thought (Utilitarianism, Deontology) to more regarding racial inequality in the justice system/policing/ complex and modern systems. Examine Ayn Rand’s employment/housing/voting rights. Develop techniques Egoism, John Rawls’ Original Position, and the Feminist to engage with those in conversations regarding racism. revision of the canon. Learn about Eastern Ethical Reflect on complicity with systems of oppression and Models, Lao Tzu, Confucius, and Buddhism. Discuss white supremacy. Readings will be provided. TWA contemporary practice of daily ethics in situations, which fall between legal and ethical. Explore the evolving notion Course: LLI753 6 Hours of personhood and the widening of the moral compass. $45 + $72 fee = $117; NMR add $120 TWA Online: Structured Remote Course: LLI754 8 Hours CRN#: 24989 3 Sessions T $59 + $79 fee = $138; NMR add $120 10/12-10/26 6:30-8:30 p.m. Instructor: Matt Colburn Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 25095 4 Sessions W COVID and Societal Transformation NEW 9/22-10/13 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Explore the history of pandemics and how they affected Instructor: Ed Ingebretsen the world. Discuss the changes the COVID-19 pandemic has had on lives, politics, and culture. Assess which Using DNA to Reveal the Hidden Stories of changes may prove permanent. Examine what other Human Diversity, History, and Migration NEW changes may be seen in the future. TWA Learn what DNA is, how is it inherited, and what is its Course: LLI737 4 Hours function. Examine how different parts of the DNA tell $45 + $69 fee = $114; NMR add $120 different stories. Learn what is a mutation, and how they advance and influence evolution. Analyze DNA results Online: Structured Remote from an ancestry, paternal, or medical genetic test. CRN#: 25293 2 Sessions M Discuss how DNA informs us about ancestry, geographic 10/25-11/1 1:30-3:30 p.m. origin, race, and identity. TWA Instructor: Naomi Daremblum Course: LLI684 8 Hours $59 + $79 fee = $138; NMR add $120 Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 25085 4 Sessions W Virtual Face-to-Face in Real-Time! 10/20-11/10 6:30-8:30 p.m. Instructor: Miguel G. Vilar Many LLI Fall Classes are being taught online with Zoom C&O Canal: History and Nature NEW See page 2 for details. Take a virtual stroll along the C&O Canal! Learn about its 200-year history—first as a commercial waterway and now as a destination for recreation and nature enthusiasts. Analyze some of its engineering feats. Would you like to teach for the Explore a few of its special spots. Identify several “champion trees.” Hear the Canal celebrated in song. This Lifelong Learning Institute? class is taught in partnership with Montgomery History. Please contact Natasha Sacks Course: LLI747 2.5 Hours $15 + $15 fee = $30; NMR add $30 for details. Online: Structured Remote 240-567-1828 CRN#: 25093 1 Session M [email protected] 9/20 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Ralph Buglass

www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce | 15 Colorado Plateau (The) Decorative Trees and Shrubs The Colorado Plateau is one of the most unique places Do you know which trees and shrubs are successful in on earth. In this course, you will explore its geological Mid-Atlantic garden spaces? Learn how to select woody wonders and examine the unique features of each site in ornamentals and plan a Mid-Atlantic region garden. non-technical terms. You will discuss the interrelations of Discuss deer resistant shrubs and the challenges of these sites: from the effects of water erosion in sculpting bamboo and other invasive plants in the landscape. the Grand Canyon, to the wind carved Arches of Utah, the Analyze which trees and shrubs to avoid. Explore general vivid colors of Bryce, and the awe-inspiring peaks of Zion. maintenance techniques. TWA You will examine not only the visual aspects of these Course: LLI078 4 Hours features, but also their structure and evolution. TWA $35 + $55 fee = $90; NMR add $50 Course: LLI522 8 Hours Online: Structured Remote $59 + $79 fee = $138; NMR add $120 CRN#: 25290 2 Sessions W Online: Structured Remote 9/1-9/8 6:30-8:30 p.m. CRN#: 24853 4 Sessions M Instructor: Janet Johnson 9/13-10/4 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Harry Cawood Floral Arrangements for Home and Office Learn how to purchase, process, and care for How to Plan and Travel to Other Planets NEW fresh flowers purchased from the supermarket, Ever wanted to explore how missions to other planets are farmers market, and florist. Discuss the basic tools formed? What goes into planning for a rover to land on and containers available to create beautiful floral Mars? Learn How we map the surface of the Moon and arrangements. Demonstration of four to six floral designs what scientific instruments would be good to send into using supermarket purchases with simple tools and space. Explore behind the scenes as to how planetary techniques. missions are formulated and executed, while learning Course: LLI028 4 Hours some awesome planetary explorations – past, present, $35 + $55 fee = $90; NMR add $50 and future – along the way! TWA Rockville Campus—MK Bldg. Room 123MK * On Campus Course: LLI746 6 Hours CRN#: 24842 2 Sessions M $45 + $72 fee = $117; NMR add $120 11/15-11/22 6:30-8:30 p.m. Online: Structured Remote Instructor: Janet Johnson CRN#: 24981 3 Sessions W 10/27-11/10 2:30-4:30 p.m. Garden Design Instructor: Caitlin Ahrens Do you ever wish you could have a beautiful home garden? Garden enthusiasts and homeowners will Landscape and Horticulture examine the basics of garden design. Discuss current garden trends, and how to integrate the architecture of your home/buildings into the landscape for a cohesive Easy Care Houseplants overall design. Learn about using plants and materials Bring beauty and nature into your home. Learn how to that are suitable for the Mid-Atlantic region to create a choose the right houseplant for your home and space. garden design suitable for your own home. TWA Discuss pot size, watering schedules, and types of light. Course: LLI370 8 Hours Determine when to divide, how to take cuttings, and how $59 + $89 fee = $148; NMR add $120 to reproduce plants in your home. Analyze nutrition levels and when to fertilize. Identify common pests and learn Online: Structured Remote how to control them. TWA CRN#: 24848 4 Sessions W 9/22-10/13 6:30-8:30 p.m. Course: LLI618 4 Hours Instructor: Janet Johnson $35 + $55 fee = $90; NMR add $50 Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 24863 2 Sessions W 11/3-11/10 6:30-8:30 p.m. TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ Instructor: Janet Johnson Pay Fee Only. NMR=Non-Maryland Resident

16 | Workforce Development and Continuing Education Orchids: How to Grow and Bloom Online: Structured Remote Discover how to be successful with orchid selection in CRN#: 24917 6 Sessions M the home environment. Learn how to purchase, care, 9/13-10/18 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. transplant, and water your orchids. Discuss how to Instructor: Pam McFarland rebloom your orchid, when to fertilize, and when to root prune. Creative Writing: An Introduction Co-L Have you ever thought about practicing creative writing? Course: LLI022 3 Hours Explore the forms and techniques of short story writing, $15 + $15 fee = $30; NMR add $30 in particular: point of view, plot, characterization, setting, Rockville Campus—MK Bldg. Room 103MK * On Campus and atmosphere in standard and experimental modes. CRN#: 24841 1 Session T Establish a personal style and expression. Discuss 9/14 6:30-9:30 p.m. fiction of proven merit and student writing. Designed for Instructor: Janet Johnson students who have fully mastered basic writing skills and who are literate writers but who have written little or no Perennials For Your Garden fiction previously. One college-level literature course or Do you want to know how to plant and maintain a extensive previous outside reading of fiction is desirable. perennial garden in this growing zone? Learn how Note: You will be joining credit students in this co-listed to select plants, where to purchase perennials, and credit class. TWA plan a blooming perennial garden. Explore vines and Course: LLI466 37.5 Hours climbers-where to use them and how to maintain them. $396 + $136.20 fee = $532.20; NMR add $871.20 Discuss deer resistant plants, repeat blooming options, and support/structure in a perennial garden. Identify Rockville Campus Room 111HU. * On Campus which garden items to avoid, what species make viable CRN#: 24919 27 Sessions T R substitutions, and compatible annuals. Determine how 9/14-12/16 12-1:30 p.m. often to divide and how to maintain perennial plants. No class 11/25 Examine shade and sun loving plants. TWA Use Credit ENGL264 CRN22385 for textbook information. Instructor: John Wang Course: LLI079 4 Hours $35 + $55 fee = $90; NMR add $50 Film and Literature Co-L Online: Structured Remote This course is a comparative study of films and CRN#: 24844 2 Sessions W literature with special attention given to the practical 10/20-10/27 6:30-8:30 p.m. and theoretical problems of adapting literature to film Instructor: Janet Johnson and the basic differences between the two. Explore how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, Literature and Writing and language are translated from literary texts to film, and considers the limitations of film adaptation. Read, analyze, and respond critically to texts in class American Short Stories discussions, examinations, and essays. Note: You will be New Content! Explore the “best of the best” in American joining credit students in this co-listed credit class. TWA short literary fiction, chosen by author Curtis Sittenfeld, Course: LLI984 37.5 Hours as well as by some of the Pushcart winners for 2021, $396 + $136.20 fee = $532.20; NMR add $871.20 including Mary Gaitskill, T.C. Boyle and Elizabeth McCracken, Anthony Doerr, and Luis Alberto Urrea. Online: Structured Remote Engage in lively discussion over theme, style, and CRN#: 24875 15 Sessions M elements of craft used in the execution of these stories. 8/30-12/13 2-4:40 p.m. Required Text: Best American Short Stories, 2020, edited No class 9/6 by Curtis Sittenfeld. Optional additional text: Pushcart Use Credit ENGL235 CRN20375 for textbook information. Prize XLV: 2021 Best of the Small Presses, edited by Bill Instructor: Denise Folwell Henderson. Students unable to purchase the Pushcart book will be able to obtain PDFs from the instructor, through Blackboard or email. TWA Classes marked with this code CoL are co-listed. They are offered so that students may register either for Course: LLI130 12 Hours credit or continuing education (noncredit) status. See $69 + $92 fee = $161; NMR add $120 more details on page 29.

www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce | 17 Literary Café Moods of Poetry NEW NEW CONTENT! Join a group of insightful readers in a Love and hate, joy and sorrow, acceptance and relaxed setting for engaging discussions about different aspiration, anger and praise: poetry throughout the ages literary genres and pieces of literature. Together we will reflects the full range of human emotions. Explore one focus on examples of memoir, the novel, poetry, the short of these opposing moods through poetry in its various story, and drama. Some will be familiar, old favorites and manifestations, alternating weeks between a positive others may be new. Readings include: Jesmyn Ward’s, attitude and a negative one. Identify nuances and Men We Reaped (2013), Albert Camus’s, The Stranger ambiguity. Discuss how literature is affected in both (1942), Geoffrey Chaucer’s, The Miller’s Tale, student- form and content by the time of its writing. Assess the selected poetry, Philip Roth’s, Tale of the Plague by J. M. continuity of literary impulses across four centuries. Coetzee from Coetzee's collection, Late Essays 2006- With a few exceptions, the poetry readings will be taken 2017, Italo Calvino’s, The Distance of the Moon (1965), from The Norton Anthology of Poetry. The readings can Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s, In the Bamboo Grove (1922), all be downloaded from various websites. Reading list is and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Reading list is available available on the LLI website for additional information. on the LLI website for additional information. TWA TWA Course: LLI070 12 Hours Course: LLI743 12 Hours $69 + $92 fee = $161; NMR add $120 $69 + $92 fee = $161; NMR add $120 Online: Structured Remote Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 25078 6 Sessions R CRN#: 24952 6 Sessions T 10/21-12/16 2-4 p.m. 9/28-11/2 1:30-3:30 p.m. Class Meets on 10/21, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 12/2, 12/16. Instructor: Bob Shoenberg Instructor: Adele Seeff Shakespeare’s Major Tragedies NEW Modern Jewish Literature and Film NEW Do you ever ask, why do we still read Shakespeare? Discuss how the Jewish experience in modernity and Explore the ways in which Shakespeare’s plays the conflicts and challenges it has engendered has been continue to have contemporary relevance. Develop the subject of a significant body of literature and film. an understanding of Shakespeare’s ideas and analyze Explore representative works of fiction and film from the themes that run through his plays. Discuss the plays with late 19th century to the present. Analyze themes, genres, a feeling for Shakespeare’s poetry. Readings include: styles, and influences in Jewish literature and film. Learn Shakespeare’s “big 5:” Hamlet (read first two acts before about the most iconic writers/works of Jewish literature first class), Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, and Antony and and film. Reading list is available on the LLI website for Cleopatra. TWA additional information. TWA Course: LLI687 12 Hours Course: LLI745 10 Hours $69 + $92 fee = $161; NMR add $120 $65 + $89 fee = $154; NMR add $120 Online: Structured Remote Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 24950 6 Sessions T CRN#: 24973 5 Sessions M 11/9-12/14 1:30-3:30 p.m. 9/20-10/18 1:30-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Bob Shoenberg Instructor: Naomi Daremblum

Would you like to teach for the ROOM NUMBERS Lifelong Learning Institute? Room numbers will be printed on your registration receipt for classes held on our campuses. Please be Please contact Natasha Sacks sure to keep the receipt for your records. for details. 240-567-1828 TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ [email protected] Pay Fee Only. NMR=Non-Maryland Resident

18 | Workforce Development and Continuing Education Survey of African American Literature I Co-L The Lives and Literature of F. Scott Fitzgerald NEW and Ernest Hemingway NEW Explore trends, patterns, and historical incidents that Explore both the literary achievements and the have influenced recurrent themes in African American complicated real-world friendship of these two literature. Examine these themes through African modernist masters – F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest American literature from its earliest beginnings to the Hemingway. Examine Fitzgerald’s portrayal of, and Harlem Renaissance. Discuss vernacular tradition, profound exploration into, The American Dream. Learn spirituals, folk tales, slave and emancipation narratives, about Fitzgerald’s deep familial roots in Rockville, MD poetry, speeches, fiction, non-fiction and drama of this and his passionate yet troubled relationship with his time period. Note: You will be joining credit students in muse/wife Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. Analyze the way that this co-listed class. TWA Hemingway’s spare yet innovative prose style changed the way people thought about writing and helped define Course: LLI180 37.5 Hours the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s. Discuss Hemingway’s $396 + $136.20 fee = $532.20; NMR add $871.20 extraordinarily rich and event filled life. Reading list is Online: Structured Remote available on the LLI website for additional information. CRN#: 24918 14 Sessions T R TWA 8/31-10/14 1-3:45 p.m. Course: LLI744 12 Hours Use Credit ENGL226 CRN23447 for textbook information. $69 + $92 fee = $161; NMR add $120 Instructor: Greg Malveaux Online: Structured Remote The Golden Age of Russian Literature: Short CRN#: 24963 6 Sessions F Stories from Pushkin to Chekhov NEW 10/22-12/3 1-3 p.m. No class 11/26 Explore the “golden age” of the Russian short story in Instructor: Robert Jacobs the socio-political and historical context in which they were written. Using noted contemporary author George Saunders’ primer, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, read and The Short Story Co-L discuss short stories by significant Russian authors and A study of the short story in world literature with gain a better understanding of their contribution to the emphasis on the literary form. Examine the basic literary cannon. Analyze common themes and elements elements of fiction as they appear in short stories. of crafts used by Russian authors, including Alexander Discuss content, structure, and literature techniques Pushkin, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor used. Analyze short stories from a variety of critical Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Nicholas Gogol. Required perspectives. Note: You will be joining credit students in texts: A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders this co-listed credit class. TWA (2021), The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Course: LLI239 37.5 Hours translated with an introduction by David Magarshauck, $396 + $136.20 fee = $532.20; NMR add $871.20 and a few stories provided by instructor. Reading list is available on the LLI website for additional information. Online: Structured Remote TWA CRN#: 24847 15 Sessions M W 10/27-12/15 1-3:45 p.m. Course: LLI686 12 Hours Use Credit ENGL233 CRN20335 for textbook information. $69 + $92 fee = $161; NMR add $120 Instructor: David Lemmond Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 24949 6 Sessions M 11/1-12/6 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Pam McFarland

Classes marked with this code CoL are co-listed. They are offered so that students may register either for TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ Pay Fee Only. credit or continuing education (noncredit) status. See more details on page 29. NMR=Non-Maryland Resident

www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce | 19 Yoknapatawpha County: The Fictional World The Kennedy Center—A 50th Anniversary of William Faulkner NEW Celebration NEW “The past is never dead,” wrote Faulkner, “It’s not even The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is past.” Yoknapatawpha County was the grand fictional one of the preeminent venues for music and theater in setting that allowed Faulkner to explore the way in which the United States. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, the past continually endures and, in fact, shapes our lives and following renovations and additional performance in the present moment. Investigate the way Faulkner uses spaces, the Kennedy Center is poised for an even greater a highly experimental modernist prose style to establish impact and influence on the arts in our community and a profound understanding of the vital connections the country. This one-time session will include clips of between time and memory and the impact they have videos of interviews with key Kennedy Center personnel. on the development of both personal and national Course: LLI758 2 Hours consciousness. Reading list is available on the LLI website $15 + $20 fee = $35; NMR add $30 for additional information. TWA Online: Structured Remote Course: LLI674 12 Hours CRN#: 25142 1 Session R $69 + $92 fee = $161; NMR add $120 9/23 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Online: Structured Remote Instructor: Jesse Parker CRN#: 24933 6 Sessions F 9/10-10/15 1-3 p.m. Personal Enrichment Instructor: Robert Jacobs

Music A.S.K. in a Nutshell New Content! Are you intellectually curious? If so, then A.S.K. (Adults Seeking Knowledge) is for you! The American Composers NEW A.S.K. offers an array of weekly programs and lectures, Examine the emergent style of American music as it including invited experts who present lectures covering a departed from European models. Discuss the iconic wide range of topics. Past topics have included current Aaron Copland, Ulysses Kay, and Charles Griffes. Analyze events, science, history, world travels, mediation for the music of these celebrated composers. Discuss style seniors, opera, alternative medicine, and fitness and periods and genre classifications. Define elements of health. TWA selected works and the key or unique characteristics that Course: LLI841 7.5 Hours set the work apart. Explore their significant works and the $30 + $62 fee = $92; NMR add $50 influence they have had on music history. TWA Online: Structured Remote Course: LLI757 8 Hours CRN#: 24991 6 Sessions W $45 + $79 fee = $124; NMR add $120 9/29-11/3 1-2:15 p.m. Online: Structured Remote Instructor: Jeff Miller CRN#: 25141 4 Sessions R 10/7-10/28 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Bridge for Beginners Instructor: Jesse Parker Bridge is by far the greatest card game of all. It provides immense challenges and enjoyment for the rest of your life. This course is intended for newcomers to the game MC Email Access—Claim Your Account and players who haven't played in years. The 6-week Claim your MyMC account. Go to MyMC and click on course will cover the fundamentals of modern bidding, "Claim Your Account." Enter your MC Student ID along play of the hand, some defensive principles, and more. with your M# (nine characters including the M). Once Course: LLI942 12 Hours you are logged into MyMC, set up your Montgomery $69 + $92 fee = $161; NMR add $120 College email account by clicking on the email icon. This is the way MC will communicate with you. Rockville Campus—MK Bldg. Room 103MK * On Campus CRN#: 24993 6 Sessions W 9/22-10/27 6:30-8:30 p.m. TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ Instructor: David Dong Pay Fee Only. NMR=Non-Maryland Resident

20 | Workforce Development and Continuing Education Bridge: Intermediate Course: LLI742 12 Hours The game of bridge is as challenging as $69 + $92 fee = $161; NMR add $120 it is enjoyable. This course is appropriate for all players Online: Structured Remote with a solid grasp of bridge basics who wish to improve CRN#: 25092 6 Sessions T their games. 9/28-11/2 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Lessons will focus on modern bidding system 2/1 Instructor: Joel Cockrell game force, sound competitive judgment, in-depth hand evaluation, and card play strategies for declarers and Hiking and Camping: An Introduction NEW defenders. Prerequisite: Bridge for Beginners or equivalent Discuss how to plan a safe hike and camping trip. experience. Explore different cooking stoves and how to plan meals Course: LLI958 12 Hours for short and long trips. Analyze the pros and cons of $37 + $82 fee = $119; NMR add $120 food types and cooking equipment. Learn how to set- up a tent or hammock at a campsite. Identify the key Rockville Campus—MK Bldg. Room 103MK * On Campus essentials to bring on a hike/camping trip. Discuss basic CRN#: 24994 6 Sessions M first aid, campsite and fire safety, and basic weather 11/1-12/6 6:30-8:30 p.m. indicators. Instructor: David Dong Course: LLI755 2 Hours Genealogy: Researching Your Family History $15 + $15 fee = $30; NMR add $30 Do you wonder how prior generations lived and how Online: Structured Remote they accomplished what they did given the absence CRN#: 24990 1 Session M of conveniences and technology? Explore the process 10/18 6:30-8:30 p.m. of researching your family, discovering stories, and Instructor: Eli Rutstein identifying new cousins. Learn how to find those who share family backgrounds and research interests. Culinary Arts and History Examine how the U.S. immigration process functioned and the key resources for research. Analyze how DNA testing can be used as a tool to assist in discovering Bread Baking 101 one’s roots. Discuss local institutions and free websites What is better than the smell of fresh bread coming that aid in researching family history. The instructor will out the oven? Fill your house with the enticing smell of share his personal experiences and approaches used to fresh baked bread while you fill your mouths with the discover his roots, and extend his family tree. TWA unbeatable taste of real homemade bread. Learn how Course: LLI908 8 Hours to make a variety of breads while learning the basic $59 + $75 fee = $134; NMR add $120 principles of bread making. Some breads might include: Focaccia and Pizza, Tuscan Wheat Sourdough, Challah, Online: Structured Remote and wholesome quick breads and muffins. The class is CRN#: 24992 4 Sessions R presented by a professional chef/baker. You will be able 10/14-11/11 6:30-8:30 p.m. to observe and ask questions. TWA No class 10/21 Instructor: Jeff Miller Course: LLI593 6 Hours $59 + $89 fee = $148; NMR add $120 The History of Baseball: 1960 to the Present Online: Structured Remote NEW CRN#: 24929 4 Sessions W Do you want to relive the captivating and turbulent years of 9/22-10/13 7-8:30 p.m. baseball from 1960-present? Discuss the expansion of the Instructor: TBA teams in Major League Baseball, the impact of the player draft of high school and college players, and the amazing New York Mets of 1969. Learn about labor negotiations and the reserve clause. Examine the scandals involving betting, performance enhancing drugs, and sign stealing. Analyze baseball coverage by cable television and other networks. Explore the return of the Washington Nationals and ultimate TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ victory of the 2019 World Series. TWA Pay Fee Only. NMR=Non-Maryland Resident

www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce | 21 Cook Like a Chef The Great British Baking Show: Novice Edition Do you enjoy cooking at home? Learn basic skills and Are you a fan of The Great British Baking Show? Learn tips and tricks to help take your food to another level. how to create some of the delicious recipes from Restaurant food is not always a healthier or better the series -- Merry Berry’s Scones with Cream and option, and when you know the principles behind how Lemon Curd; Paul Hollywood’s Almond Shortbread to cook and present a dish you will be able to impress Biscuits; and view the demonstration and taste of your family and friends better than any restaurant would! Merry Berry’s Mincemeat Streusel Tray Bake. Explore Take your cooking skills to a next level. In this class you baking terms, ingredients, equipment, and tools. Employ will cover the following topics: Planning a Meal, Sourcing safe food handling practices using contemporary Ingredients, Balancing Flavors, Presentation, Knife Skills; guidelines. Understand how to read a recipe in metric Salads and Dressings; Soup Making; Cooking Perfect measurements. This is a hands-on class. The class will Pasta Every time; Getting a Sear, and Sweet Endings— take place at MC Marriott Hospitality Kitchen. Online Desserts. This class is presented by a professional chef. module with recipes and videos will be provided. You will be able interact, ask questions, and cook along. Course: LLI761 2.5 Hours TWA $25 + $30 fee = $55; NMR add $50 Course: LLI594 6 Hours Rockville Campus Marriott Hospitality Kitchen * On Campus $59 + $89 fee = $148; NMR add $120 CRN#: 25356 1 Session T Online: Structured Remote 11/2 6-8:30 p.m. CRN#: 24932 4 Sessions W Instructor: Patricia DeGeorge 10/20-11/10 7-8:30 p.m. Instructor: TBA Thanksgiving: A History Through Food NEW Explore the political, social, economic, and cultural International Holiday Cookies traditions that have made Thanksgiving the truly Learn to bake cookies from around the world to American holiday that it is. Learn how Thanksgiving incorporate into your cookie exchange this year. Explore has transformed itself over time from the celebration the flavors of Germany (Pfeffernuse), England (St. of Harvest Home, as it was called in 1621 by the Catherine’s Cookies), Switzerland (Zimtsterne), and settlers at Plymouth Plantation, and been influenced by the classic American Chocolate Chip Cookie. Explore such prominent figures in American history as George baking terms, ingredients, equipment, and tools. Employ Washington, women’s magazine editor Sarah Josepha safe food handling practices using contemporary Hale, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Learn that not only guidelines. Understand how to read a recipe in metric have the reasons we celebrate Thanksgiving changed measurements. This is a hands-on class. Tuition includes over time, but so has the food. Video cooking tutorials the cost of ingredients. explaining how to make select historic Thanksgiving foods are also included. Course: LLI762 2.5 Hours $25 + $30 fee = $55; NMR add $50 Course: LLI749 2 Hours $15 + $15 fee = $30; NMR add $30 Rockville Campus Marriott Hospitality Kitchen * On Campus CRN#: 25350 1 Session W Online: Structured Remote 12/1 1-3:30 p.m. CRN#: 24984 1 Session F Instructor: Patricia DeGeorge 11/12 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Joyce White

¶ Become a Star—Showcase Your Work ¶ Sketching, painting, drawing, photography, cooking, garden design, short literary sample, and more. Show others what you have accomplished in a Lifelong Learning Institute class. Email us photos of your finished project(s) along with a short description (plus your written permission to publish the project(s) and become a LLI star. Please email both of us at [email protected] or [email protected].

22 | Workforce Development and Continuing Education Personal Finance In-Depth Investment Skills: How to Become a Savvy Investor This course will deliver a comprehensive examination of Health Care Insurance for Retirement the investment tools required to take charge of your own This course will address the major components of retiree investment portfolio, regardless of its size. Learn the pros health care: Medicare, Medicare Advantage Plans, and and cons of investing in stocks, bonds, exchange-traded Long-Term Care. Health care costs typically rise at twice funds, REITs, convertibles, and mutual funds, and how to the inflation rate, so the course will also address ways use asset allocation and diversification to reduce risk and to fund this expense through tax-advantaged plans. increase return. Discuss tax-deferred investments (401k, Determine the cost of supplemental coverage, evaluate IRA) versus taxable investments, hedge funds, efficient your ability to pay for health care not covered by federal market theory, indexing versus active management, or state programs, and be able to project your health care minimizing taxes, market timing, and duration. Focus is expenses. The target audience for this course are those on practical techniques that you can use immediately to who are newly retired and those who plan to retire within improve investment return. TWA 2 years. TWA Course: PRF144 27 Hours Course: PRF139 6 Hours $99 + $149 fee = $248; NMR add $140 $30 + $69 fee = $99; NMR add $50 Online: Structured Remote Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 24884 12 Sessions R CRN#: 24883 3 Sessions M 9/16-12/9 7-9:15 p.m. 10/4-10/18 6:30-8:30 p.m. No class 11/25 Instructor: Mark Gottlieb Instructor: Gary Cahn

Increase Cash, Decrease Debt, & Protect Your Investing in the Thrift Savings Plan When Financial Future Working and Retired Learn to control your personal finances with spending, Are you a Federal Government employee or retired saving, paying loans and expenses, and earning money. from federal service? Do you understand the ins and Understand when and how much you should be saving outs of the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)? Learn about the for specific goals. Topics include: banking, savings, credit differences in TSP investment funds, tax considerations, loans/credit reports and insurance; protecting against the Roth TSP option, short-term and long-term financial scams and identify theft; setting financial considerations, and withdrawal options. Discuss required goals; developing budgets; and creating a financial plan. minimum distributions and the Life Annuity option. This Discuss how to track your money and expenses. course is only relevant to TSP participants or Federal Course: PRF161 3 Hours employees considering participation. $20 + $20 fee = $40; NMR add $30 Course: PRF155 3 Hours Online: Structured Remote $20 + $20 fee = $40; NMR add $30 CRN#: 24886 1 Session S Online: Structured Remote 10/9 10 a.m.-1 p.m. CRN#: 24885 1 Session W Instructor: Maria Antokas 11/17 6:30-9:30 p.m. Instructor: Jamie Ingoe

Become a Lifelong Learning Ambassador! Stay active and engaged by becoming a volunteer—LLI Ambassador. As an ambassador you will help with community outreach by finding online, and in the community, distribution points for LLI marketing materials: catalogs, brochures, and online ads. Your responsibilities may also include interacting with community members via phone and marketing the LLI program with our team at community events (when face-to-face events resume). If you would like to become a LLI Ambassador, please contact Natasha Sacks at [email protected]

www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce | 23 Making Smart Investment Decisions Mutual Funds Making smart investment decisions can make a big Content: Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds difference in your retirement years. With some basic (ETFs) Learn how to read a mutual fund prospectus and understanding of investment products and risk and shareholder reports, and discuss how to compare mutual return, you can take steps to grow your retirement funds. Examine exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and nest egg. Discuss investment products, risk and return, understand how they differ from mutual funds. Discuss volatility, and how fees can impact your portfolio. Learn how to research and compare mutual funds using free the questions to ask before you invest, the red flags of resources and the importance of understanding your fraud, and how to use the free resources on Investor.gov, investment objectives and risk tolerance. Learn about the SEC’s online portal for individual investors. free resources on Investor.gov, the SEC’s online portal, and tips to avoid fraud. Course: PRF173 2.5 Hours $15 + $20 fee = $35; NMR add $30 Course: PRF175 2 Hours $15 + $20 fee = $35; NMR add $30 Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 25161 1 Session W Online: Structured Remote 9/22 6:30-9 p.m. CRN#: 25288 1 Session R Instructor: Alan Sorcher 10/14 6:30-8:30 p.m. CRN#: 24916 1 Session M Instructor: Andrea Magovern 11/8 6:30-9 p.m. Instructor: Alan Sorcher Probate in Maryland: An Overview for Executors-To-Be Maximizing Social Security Benefits An overview of the probate process in Maryland, and Social Security is a cornerstone of retirement income more specifically in Montgomery County, including: a for most Americans. Yet the nuances of how/when to review of determining whether a probate is necessary; receive benefits are often overlooked and can lead to how to open a probate estate; how the estate is missed opportunities. This course will address individual administered; and how the estate is closed. Explore and couple’s benefits, special situations for widows and the documents used by the Register of Wills; learn ex-spouses, reductions due to federal pensions, and how to determine if an asset is a ‘probate asset’ or a taxation of benefits. The target audience for this course ‘non-probate’ asset; and how to deal with claims and are those who are newly retired and who plan to retire debts against the estate. Discuss the costs of probate, within the next few years. including the fees owed to the personal representative (executor) and attorneys. TWA Course: PRF159 3 Hours $20 + $20 fee = $40; NMR add $30 Course: PRF150 4 Hours $40 + $59 fee = $99; NMR add $50 Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 24905 1 Session T Online: Structured Remote 11/9 6:30-9:30 p.m. CRN#: 24904 2 Sessions W Instructor: Neal Seagle 12/1-12/8 6:30-8:30 p.m. Instructor: Lindsey Sarowitz Money Matters for Millennials How to save and invest for things you need: home, education, retirement, and financial goals? Explore ways to pay off your loans or debts. Discuss how to save, generate revenue streams, and invest. Create a budget plan to help you achieve the financial future you want. Discuss the best way to keep track of your money. ROOM NUMBERS Course: PRF028 3 Hours Room numbers will be printed on your registration $15 + $10 fee = $25; NMR add $30 receipt for classes held on our campuses. Please be Online: Structured Remote sure to keep the receipt for your records. CRN#: 24891 1 Session W 10/27 6:30-9:30 p.m. TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ Instructor: Jamie Ingoe Pay Fee Only. NMR=Non-Maryland Resident

24 | Workforce Development and Continuing Education Rejuvenate Your Retirement Retirement Planning Today How long will your retirement income last? This Learn about the many ways to save for retirement as well course provides a fresh look at important financial as the advantages and disadvantages of each. Discover topics relevant to adults entering, or already enjoying, how to save money on taxes, manage investment risks, retirement. Making your money last throughout and protect your assets from potential long-term health retirement has never been more challenging. People care expenses. Fee includes a course workbook and are living longer and fewer retirees have traditional study aids. TWA pensions, while interest rates are at all-time lows. Learn Course: PRF119 6 Hours about important financial topics such as reducing taxes, $25 + $57 fee = $82; NMR add $50 assessing investment risk, exploring retirement income sources and investment options, planning for health care Online: Structured Remote needs, and preparing your estate. TWA CRN#: 24892 2 Sessions T 9/14-9/21 6:30-9:30 p.m. Course: PRF165 4 Hours Instructor: Jamie Ingoe/Russell Rifkin $25 + $57 fee = $82; NMR add $50 CRN#: 24898 2 Sessions T Online: Structured Remote 9/21-9/28 6:30-9:30 p.m. CRN#: 24912 2 Sessions T Instructor: Allison McCarty 9/14-9/21 1-3 p.m. Instructor: Allison McCarty CRN#: 24893 2 Sessions W 9/22-9/29 6:30-9:30 p.m. CRN#: 24913 2 Sessions W Instructor: Jamie Ingoe/Russell Rifkin 9/22-9/29 1-3 p.m. Instructor: Allison McCarty CRN#: 24899 2 Sessions R 9/23-9/30 6:30-9:30 p.m. CRN#: 24910 2 Sessions R Instructor: Allison McCarty 9/23-9/30 1-3 p.m. Instructor: Jamie Ingoe/Don Chomas CRN#: 24900 2 Sessions W 10/6-10/13 6:30-9:30 p.m. CRN#: 24914 2 Sessions W Instructor: Allison McCarty 10/6-10/13 1-3 p.m. Instructor: Allison McCarty CRN#: 24901 2 Sessions T 10/12-10/19 6:30-9:30 p.m. CRN#: 24915 2 Sessions T Instructor: Allison McCarty 10/12-10/19 1-3 p.m. Instructor: Allison McCarty CRN#: 24894 2 Sessions W 10/13-10/20 6:30-9:30 p.m. CRN#: 24911 2 Sessions W Instructor: Jamie Ingoe/Russell Rifkin 10/20-10/27 1-3 p.m. Instructor: Jamie Ingoe/Don Chomas CRN#: 24895 2 Sessions T 10/19-10/26 6:30-9:30 p.m. Instructor: Jamie Ingoe/Russell Rifkin Retirement Distribution Strategies Retirement Plans have many complicated rules. Rules Rockville Campus * On Campus regarding how you can access your money, how CRN#: 24896 2 Sessions R much you can contribute, and different tax rates for 10/28-11/4 6:30-9:30 p.m. withdrawals. Learn 13 retirement strategies including Instructor: Jamie Ingoe/Russell Rifkin the rules surrounding IRAs, 401ks, TSPs, Roths, etc. CRN#: 24897 2 Sessions T Discuss the optimal Social Security claiming strategies 11/2-11/9 6:30-9:30 p.m. for married and single participants that will maximize Instructor: Jamie Ingoe/Russell Rifkin retirement income. TWA Course: PRF174 6 Hours $60 + $69 fee = $129; NMR add $120 Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 25289 2 Sessions W 10/13-10/20 6:30-9:30 p.m. Instructor: Neal Seagle TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ Pay Fee Only. NMR=Non-Maryland Resident

www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce | 25 Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, and ETFs Wealth Creation Today Explained This class is aimed at adults ages 35-50 who are Whether you manage your own investments or someone interested in building their financial wealth while meeting manages them for you, it is important to understand individual and/or family financial priorities. Learn to the different types of investments. In this course, an invest, manage debt, and explore tax advantaged experienced investment advisor and Certified Financial investment options. Reduce barriers to wealth Planner explains advantages and disadvantages of accumulation, develop smart money management different investments, risks, ways to own investments, strategies, and explore paths to risk management. Start asset allocation, tax considerations, historical on your wealth creation with this class. TWA performance, and more. For instance, are Exchange Course: PRF164 6 Hours Traded Funds (ETFs) better than mutual funds? TWA $25 + $49 fee = $74; NMR add $50 Course: PRF138 5 Hours Online: Structured Remote $50 + $65 fee = $115; NMR add $120 CRN#: 24908 2 Sessions R Online: Structured Remote 11/4-11/11 6:30-9:30 p.m. CRN#: 24902 2 Sessions M Instructor: Allison McCarty 10/25-11/1 6:30-9 p.m. CRN#: 24909 2 Sessions T Instructor: Jamie Ingoe 11/9-11/16 6:30-9:30 p.m. Instructor: Allison McCarty Stocks: An In-Depth Look This course will provide students with tools to Wills and Estates understand and evaluate stocks and review multiple Take a deep dive into personal estate planning. Learn strategies for using stocks in a personal portfolio. Topics about the real differences between wills and revocable include: understanding U.S. and global economic cycles, trusts; why everyone always needs a power of attorney how to evaluate a company's financial health, and how to and health care directives; and what it really means to use stocks for personal finances. Instructor cannot make go through Maryland probate (and how to avoid that stock recommendations. TWA if appropriate). Topics include the use (and misuse) of Course: PRF147 8 Hours revocable living trusts, the pros, cons and dangers of $50 + $75 fee = $125; NMR add $120 joint ownership, the right way to make and receive gifts (and why there is a very wrong way), and the impact of Online: Structured Remote the Federal estate tax and Maryland’s two separate death CRN#: 24903 4 Sessions M taxes on your estate. TWA 11/8-11/29 6:30-8:30 p.m. Instructor: TBA Course: PRF160 6 Hours $60 + $75 fee = $135; NMR add $120 Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 24906 2 Sessions R 9/23-9/30 6:30-9:30 p.m. Instructor: Lindsey Sarowitz CRN#: 24907 2 Sessions W 10/20-10/27 6:30-9:30 p.m. Instructor: Lindsey Sarowitz

Would you like to teach for the Virtual Face-to-Face in Real-Time! Many LLI Fall Classes are being taught Lifelong Learning Institute? online with Zoom Please contact Natasha Sacks See page 2 for details. for details. 240-567-1828 TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ Pay Fee Only. [email protected] NMR=Non-Maryland Resident

26 | Workforce Development and Continuing Education Wellness Gentle Yoga for Mood and Strength Learn postures that strengthen muscles to support joints while creating stronger bones. Explore postures Building Bones and Muscle Strength to balance strength with flexibility and create more Learn ways in which to strengthen your bones and energy. Practice breathing techniques to calm the muscles and keep them healthy. Explore proper posture nervous system and decrease anxiety. Bring awareness and exercising techniques to help avoid injuries. Practice to alignment in the spine and body to achieve improved balance exercises, using low hand and leg weights, and balance. Understand the interconnectedness of the resistance training to increase muscle strength and bone body’s systems to treat the body as a whole. TWA density. TWA Course: LLI723 6 Hours Course: LLI641 5 Hours $34 + $65 fee = $99; NMR add $50 $30 + $65 fee = $95; NMR add $50 Online: Structured Remote Rockville Campus Room 119PE * On Campus CRN#: 25134 5 Sessions F CRN#: 25126 5 Sessions M 9/17-10/15 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. 9/27-10/25 10-11 a.m. Class on 10/15 meets 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Instructor: Christine Harrison Instructor: Shannon Phelan CRN#: 25127 5 Sessions M CRN#: 25135 5 Sessions F 11/1-11/29 10-11 a.m. 10/22-11/19 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Instructor: Christine Harrison Class on 11/19 meets 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Instructor: Shannon Phelan Dancing for Cardio and Balance Do you want to get your whole body moving while having Improving Balance, Posture, and Core Strength fun? Experience the joy of movement and feel your spirits NEW lift as you dance to joyful and uplifting music selections Have you noticed that your ability to balance is not as from around the world. Increase your heart rate while good as it used to be? Examine the two factors that learning simple and fun choreography that incorporates can cause decreased ability to balance: poor posture movements from the dance arts, martial arts, and healing and decreased muscle strength. Learn exercises that arts. This low-impact class is appropriate for adults of all improve core and lower body muscle strength, posture, ages, levels, and abilities. TWA and balance. Discuss tips for maintaining good posture Course: LLI650 5 Hours throughout your daily activities. This class will include $34 + $65 fee = $99; NMR add $50 standing, sitting, and exercises on the floor. Please bring a yoga mat. TWA Online: Structured Remote CRN#: 25128 6 Sessions W Course: LLI676 7.5 Hours 10/6-11/10 10-10:50 a.m. $50 + $75 fee = $125; NMR add $120 Instructor: Marcia Davis Rockville Campus Room 119PE * On Campus CRN#: 25131 9 Sessions R 10/7-12/9 1-1:50 p.m. No class 11/25 Instructor: Christine Harrison

ROOM NUMBERS Room numbers will be printed on your registration receipt for classes held on our campuses. Please be sure to keep the receipt for your records. Wellness Supply List! Material lists for LLI Wellness classes are available at TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ Pay Fee Only. www.montgomerycollege.edu/lifelonglearning/ NMR=Non-Maryland Resident

www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce | 27 LaBlast® Ballroom Dance Fitness Do you want to work out and have fun at the same time? Dance your way to a healthier mind and body with Virtual Face-to-Face in Real-Time! LaBlast® Dance Fitness. Practice skills of ballroom dance Many LLI Fall Classes are being taught with the calorie blasting properties of interval fitness. online with Zoom Experience carefully curated music playlists from all eras and genres to help you stay engaged and entertained Due to COVID-19, many LLI fall classes will be taught while learning the Tango, Rumba, Jive and more! The online using Zoom. Zoom allows students to hear and multi-level learning approach makes LaBlast® Fitness see the instructor as they present their class. perfect for everyone, from the absolute beginner to the It’s Easy to Zoom! Three (3) days before your class advanced dancer. No partner is required and adults of all starts, your instructor will send you a link. If you do not ages can participate. TWA receive your link, please: Course: LLI659 4.2 Hours • Check your spam/junk folder. $34 + $59 fee = $93; NMR add $50 • Check to make sure your email is current. • Contact both of us, the day before your class begins. Online: Structured Remote [email protected]; CRN#: 25129 5 Sessions T 10/5-11/2 6:30-7:20 p.m. [email protected] Instructor: Gizelle Merced You will need a working microphone built into your device or headphones with a microphone. Or you can Pilates for a Strong Body and Mind use the free phone conference feature. Visit: https:// Are you are looking to strengthen your abdomen and zoom.us/download and download the Zoom application pelvis as well as maintain good posture? Learn a series onto your computer. We recommend that you do this in of exercises derived from Joseph Pilates to help improve advance to make sure all your computer components are posture and core strength. Practice precise Pilate moves working. and specific breathing techniques. Explore how Pilates Note: Montgomery College is slowly transitioning to improves concentration and focus. TWA face-to-face classes. Select LLI classes (mainly hands- Course: LLI462 10 Hours on) are being held on campus. Please check the location $65 + $79 fee = $144; NMR add $120 description for each class (Look for * On Campus notation) Online: Structured Remote and also on your receipt. CRN#: 25119 10 Sessions M W 9/13-10/13 1-2 p.m. Instructor: Marcia Davis CRN#: 25120 10 Sessions M W 10/18-11/17 1-2 p.m. Instructor: Marcia Davis

ROOM NUMBERS Room numbers will be printed on your registration receipt for classes held on our campuses. Please be sure to keep the receipt for your records. Wellness Supply List! Material lists for LLI Wellness classes are available at TWA=Tuition Waiver Applies; Maryland Resident Age 60+ www.montgomerycollege.edu/lifelonglearning/ Pay Fee Only. NMR=Non-Maryland Resident

28 | Workforce Development and Continuing Education Services for Students Parking Regulations Textbooks and Materials with Disabilities Each person associated with the College who Textbooks/course materials: Purchase textbooks parks a vehicle on any Campus of the College and/or course materials at the Campus where Montgomery College complies with the or any property owned, leased, maintained, your class will be held. For classes held at the provisions of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation or operated by the College must register the Gaithersburg Business Training Center, Distance Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities vehicle regardless of its ownership. Students, Education and Learning Technologies (DELT), Act (ADA) of 1990 and the Americans with faculty, staff and visitors must abide by college and off-Campus MCPS locations, please use the Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) of traffic regulations. The College reserves the right Rockville Campus MC Books & More; for classes 2009. The college provides accommodations, to issue a citation or tow, at the owner’s risk at Westfield South use the Takoma Park/Silver access to facilities, programs, activities, and and expense, any unregistered vehicle parked in Spring Campus MC Books & More. You do not services for qualified students with documented violation. need to go to a Campus store to make your disabilities. Accommodations are determined on Instructions for Parking Permits: purchase. You may purchase your textbooks/ a case-by-case analysis based on information Students parking a vehicle on any Campus of course materials online to have your purchases provided by a qualified professional. the College (Rockville, Germantown and Takoma mailed to you. To order online or to find out If you need support services due to a disability, Park/Silver Spring) while attending a program more details about purchases, buybacks, returns, please contact Natalie Martinez, WDCE Disability will receive a temporary (15 day) parking permit contact information, ebooks, rentals, and more, Support Services Counselor, to schedule an with their class confirmation materials. If you visit the College’s MC Books & More website at appointment, phone 240-567-4118, e-mail register via the web, your printed confirmation www.montgomerycollege.edu/bookstore or call [email protected], Fax: or registration history will serve as a parking the main number 240-567-5302. MC Books & 240-567-5163 at least two weeks prior to the permit until you can print out the WDCE Student More and the Cafritz Art Store & More are the start of the classes to ensure timely services. Temporary Parking Permit. The parking permit Official Montgomery College Bookstores. If necessary and appropriate, students may is free to students but you must register your For information specific to WDCE, please visit register for courses or activities prior to or while vehicle. our reference page at http://www.bkstr.com/ going through the support services process but All Students registered for WDCE classes montgomerycollegestore/home/ are expected to comply with required deadlines spanning greater than 15 days from start to end A USB flash drive/memory stick (at least 512 to ensure that appropriate accommodations can date MUST obtain a parking permit following MB) is required for ITI classes unless otherwise be secured. steps 1 to 4 below. specified. Please bring to first class. Any student who may need assistance in 1. In order to obtain the permit, students the event of an emergency evacuation must need to log into MyMC the day after they identify to Disability Support Services; guidelines register for the class. Inclement Weather for emergency evacuations are at: www. 2. Click on the “Order MY Parking Permit/ montgomerycollege.edu/dss/evacprocedures.htm. Inclement weather conditions: go to Pay Parking fines” link on the “MyMC Quick www.montgomerycollege.edu or call Under provisions of the Americans with Links” tab. 240-567-5000. If the College is closed, there Disabilities Act, this material is available in 3. Put in the start date and the end date of are no classes. For classes meeting in a alternative formats by contacting the Disability your class(es). Montgomery County Public Schools facility, go Support Services Office at 240-567-4118. 4. Print the permit. to www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org. If MCPS is A Sorenson Video Relay Service with a large closed, or evening activities are cancelled, there Monitor is available in the Rockville, Takoma Be sure to click the print link on the confirmation are no classes. Students attending classes at Park/Silver Spring and Germantown Campus page as the permit will not be mailed. local hospitals, will have class unless notified by libraries. Information about vehicle registration and their instructor. parking, and how to pay or appeal a citation is available at www.montgomerycollege.edu/ Co-Listed Classes parking. The Montgomery College Motor Scholarship Opportunities Vehicle Regulations are available at www. Classes marked with this code CoL are montgomerycollege.edu/verified. For detailed information regarding scholarship co-listed. They are offered so that students opportunities and how to apply, visit https:// may register either for credit or continuing www.montgomerycollege.edu/ workforce- education (noncredit) status. Co-listing gives development-continuing-education/wdce- students an option to choose the best path for scholarships/index.html their educational needs. Each section includes both credit and noncredit students. For students seeking credit classes, please consult the Room Numbers credit course schedule. The expectations for Room numbers will be printed on your attendance, participation, and effort are the registration receipt for classes held on our same for all students. Instructors will announce Campuses. Please be sure to keep the receipt for policies concerning class activities. your records. Room numbers can also be found If you have registered as a noncredit student in online. a co-listed course and you wish to change from noncredit to credit status, you will have one day after the class has begun to do so. After that, you are committed to your path as a noncredit Montgomery College is an academic institution student for the remainder of the course. If the that is committed to equal opportunity and course has a required assessment level to be fostering diversity among its student body, a credit student, you must first complete the faculty and staff. Inquiries regarding Montgomery assessment testing and meet the appropriate College's nondiscrimination compliance policies assessment level before you can change to and procedures may be directed to Dr. Brenda credit status. Please check the day on your Williams, Director of Employee & Labor Relations, calendar for the actual start date of your class. Workforce Diversity and Inclusion, 240-567-5367.

www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce | 29 Registration Options Residential Policy Tuition Waiver

Regardless of which registration option you The following are general guidelines taken Only noncredit courses designated “tuition select, registrants will be enrolled in the order from the College policy on residency for tuition waiver applies” in each publication will be that registration and payments are received (to purposes. A complete copy of the policy is available for tuition waiver. This statement avoid disappointment, register early); payment is available in the Montgomery College Catalog. appears in each applicable course description. required at the time of registration. All students A. Students attending Montgomery College Only tuition is waived; required fees must must register prior to attending the first class. will pay tuition according to their residency be paid by the student. Documents must be classification. received at time of registration. To qualify for in-state tuition, a student Senior Tuition Waiver (TWA): Maryland Payments must be a U.S. Citizen, Permanent Resident residents 60 years or older by the start date of Payment MUST be made IN FULL at the time or have a qualifying Visa status. the class may have tuition waived. of registration to avoid being deleted from the B. To qualify, for tuition purposes, as a Disability Tuition Waiver: Please go to course. Complete information is required to resident of the state of Maryland, legal montgomerycollege.edu/wdce/register/ process all registrations and payments. domicile must have been maintained for a disabilitywaiver.html for information. Further instructions for WEB, FAX, or period of not less than three months prior National Guard Tuition Waiver: If you are MAIL-IN payments can be found at: www. to the first regularly scheduled class for the currently a member of the Maryland National montgomerycollege.edu/wdce/registerops.html. semester; unless you are a member of the guard and are enlisted for at least a 24-month Registration will not be processed without Military covered under HB935. period, you are eligible for a 50 percent tuition appropriate payment. C. The domicile of a person registering waiver. You must submit proof of such from the in a noncredit course at Montgomery adjutant general’s office. Option 1: In-Person Registration College shall be considered as a person’s VA-Approved Course: Courses indicated permanent place of abode, where physical We look forward to seeing you with this VAA code are approved for VA presence and possessions are maintained, IN PERSON. Three of our registration educational benefits under Title 38, U.S.C., and where he/she intends to remain areas open for in-person registration Section 3676. (Post 9/11 GI Bill). For more indefinitely. starting August 2! We will continue to information, visit www.montgomerycollege.edu/ monitor COVID-19 restrictions. Please wdce/registerops.html. visit us online for up-to-date hours and Refund Policy information. Refunds are paid at 100% for classes canceled, A completed form with payment may dropped online, or in person (using a Drop be submitted in person at any of these Form), prior to the start date of the class. Montgomery College Campus registration areas: Refunds are also paid at 100% if class is dropped prior to the Refund Date printed on Germantown Campus your registration confirmation. DO NOT drop Humanities and Social Sciences Building classes online on or after the day the class Room 241 and/or 243 begins; you will not receive a refund. APPE 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. (M–F) students must call 240-567-7262 for refund/ Rockville Campus withdrawal instructions. Refunds for open 220 Campus Center enrollment classes will go to the registered 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. (M–F) student of record. For the Drop Form and more 8:30 a.m.–12 p.m. (S) information, visit www.montgomerycollege.edu/ Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus wdce/register/refundpolicy.html. 230 CF, Customer Service 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. (M–F) Transfer Policy ***Cash payments can only be made at the Cashier’s Offices at the Germantown, Rockville, To transfer from one CRN to another CRN of or Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campuses. the same course, a letter must be received in the Admissions, Records, and Registration Option 2: Online (Web) Registration Office, Montgomery College, 51 Mannakee A. Go to montgomerycollege.edu/wdce Street, Rockville, MD 20850 before the beginning GREAT NEWS! B. Click on “How to Register” in the left date of both CRNs of the course. If you have navigation bar. enrolled in a co-listed course you will have only As Covid–19 conditions one day after the class has begun to transfer. continue to improve, we will C. Click on “Register by Web.” After that, you are committed to your path for D. Follow the appropriate directions the remainder of the course. If the course has a continue to transition some depending on if you are a new or required assessment level to be a credit student, classes back to campus! returning student. you must first complete the assessment testing and meet the appropriate assessment level Please check our website often Option 3: Mail Registration before you can change to credit status. Send completed form with payment for total due for up-to-date course locations to Montgomery College, WDCE, 51 Mannakee St., Rockville, MD 20850. and for additional courses added to our fall schedule. Option 4: Fax Registration Fax completed form with payment information www.montgomerycollege.edu/ to WDCE at 240-683-6945. wdce

30 | Workforce Development and Continuing Education REGISTRATION FORM Workforce Development and Continuing Education Please Print Clearly All information is required. Incomplete forms will be returned to the student unprocessed. For registration assistance call 240-567-5188. FAX completed registration form with credit card information to 240-683-6945. Mail completed registration form with payment to WDCE Registration, 51 Mannakee Street, CC 220, Rockville, MD 20850.

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If you have ever taken a credit class at MC and the last class (credit or non-credit) you took at MC was more than 4 years ago, you must also Have you attended MC before? □Yes □No complete and submit a Student Reactivation form found at: http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/studentforms. How did you hear about us? □Received brochure in mail □Website □Social media □Advertisement □On campus □Other______MILITARY: If the military is paying STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES for your course(s), you must submit If you need support services due to a disability, call Workforce Development & Continuing Education at 240-567-4118 at the last 4 digits of your SSN. least three weeks before class begins.

ETHNICITY: Choose one. (Disclosure not mandatory by Montgomery College, but is required by the U.S. Department of Education.) □Not Hispanic or Latino □ Hispanic or Latino RACE: Choose all that apply, you may choose more than one. (Disclosure not mandatory by Montgomery College, but is required by the U.S. Department of Education.) □American Indian or Alaskan Native □ Asian □Black or African American □Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander □ White

□U.S. Citizen □Permanent Resident (Circle one: Green Card / Working Card) □Other Immigration Status ______(Used for tuition-setting purposes only.) CHECK ALL THAT APPLY: □I have been a Maryland resident [as defined in the Montgomery College Catalog] for at least three months. □I am 60 years of age or older. (Applicable to designated tuition waiver courses for Maryland residents only.) □I am a Maryland National Guard member enlisted for at least a 24 month period and submitting proof of such from the adjutant general’s office. CRN # Course # Course Title Start Date Tuition Course Fee Non-Md. Fee Course Total

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I certify that the information on this registration is correct and complete. I am aware of and will adhere to College policies as published in the Student Handbook. I understand that non-attendance and/or failure to file all registration changes in writing with the Admissions and Records Office does not relieve me of responsibility for tuition and fee charges incurred. I agree to abide by the policies and procedures of the College, including without limitation, the Student Code of Conduct and any payment liabilities. I hold the College harmless for any errors I have made that may affect a request for a subsequent refund or academic appeal.

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NOTE: Month / Year Credit card information will be detached and disposed of Name on Card promptly and properly after payment is approved. Card holder signature required ______Date______6/13/2020 Montgomery College is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Title IX institution. Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Workforce Development and Continuing Education Suburban, MD 51 Mannakee Street Permit No. 97 Rockville, MD 20850–1195

Lifelong Learning Institute Fall 2021 Course Schedule

Index Message from the Program Director...... 2 Archaeology and World Cultures...... 3 Art...... 4 We are continuing to support our Photography...... 5 50+ Learners with Online classes Art History...... 6 Brain Fitness Institute...... 8 during COVID-19. Careers and Employment for 50+...... 9 Computers and Technology...... 10 The Lifelong Learning Institute is committed History and Current Events...... 10 to creating intellectually stimulating U.S History and Politics...... 10 educational opportunities for Montgomery World History...... 12 County residents age 50 and over. Adults Human and Natural Science...... 14 of any age may register for these classes. Landscape and Horticulture...... 16 Literature and Writing...... 17 Maryland residents age 60+ pay fee only. Music...... 20 For more information, please visit: www. Personal Enrichment...... 20 montgomerycollege.edu/lifelonglearning. Culinary Arts and History...... 21 Personal Finance...... 23 Wellness...... 27