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Spring 2019 Semester LIFELONG LEARNING AT SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY SPRING 2019 SEMESTER Shepherd University Lifelong Learning Program BE CURIOUS · STAY INFORMED · HAVE FUN www.shepherd.edu/lifelonglearning TABLE OF CONTENTS: SPRING 2019 ABOUT . 2 Decorative Glass Fusing . 10 CAMPUS MAP . 3 Advanced Open Lab . 10 COURSES INTEREST GROUPS Café Society Discussion Group . 4 Guitar Interest Group . 11 Byrd Film Series . 4 Knitting Group . 11 Great Decisions . 4 Opera Interest Group . 11 Operas of Giuseppe Verdi . 4 Theater Interest Group . 11 A Concise and Unique Look at the American Civil War . 4 Visit Washington, D C. ,. Interest Group . 11 Poetry and Short Stories . 5 BROWN BAG LUNCHEON LECTURES Reading the Bible Through Darwin’s Eyes, Part II . 5 Twitter . 12 Big History of Humanity Part I . 5 The Art of Small Piping . 12 Psychology for Today . 5 CampaignZERO: Families for Patient Safety . 12 How to Create a PowerPoint Presentation . 5 The Era of Drones . 12 Forgotten Pasts and Imagined Futures . 5 Confused About Medicare? . 13 The Tempest and Hag-Seed . 6 Residential Segregation . 13 Frontiers of Knowledge Part I . 6 Temples of Angkor . 13 Frontiers of Knowledge Part II . 6 Decluttering Your Home . 13 Song Writing 101 and Beyond . 6 Economic Inequality . 13 From Cimabue to Christo: Introduction to Art History at the WCMFA . 6 PRESIDENT’S LECTURE SERIES The ‘60s: Fault Lines . 6 Understanding Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Crytocurrency . 14 Middle East Discussion Group . 6 The Neural Underpinnings of MemoryFunction in Aging and Disease . 14 Political Ethics . 7 An Evening with Charlie Matthau . 14 Ireland and Brexit . 7 Mortality—Soulful Courage: Exit Laughing . 7 DAY AND OVERNIGHT EXCURSIONS The History of Quebec City from Workhouse in Lorton, Virginia . 15 1608-1759 (The French Period) . 7 Virginia Wineries Tour . 15 Retirement Planning Today . 7 American Civil War Museum and Wielding Power: Take This Course, or Else . 7 White House of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia . 15 CATF in Context: The Six Plays of the 2019 Season . 8 Glenstone Museum Tour . 15 Recent Trends in French Cinema . 8 Great Falls Canal Boat Ride . 15 Fiction Writers’ Retreat . 8 West Virginia Coal Heritage and Mine Wars Tours . 16 An Introduction to Monsoon Asia . 8 Chicago Theater, Art, and Architecture Tour . 16 Nursing and Hospital Care and Design During the Civil War . 8 Tour to Old Québec . 16 The West Virginia Mine Wars . 8 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TOURS FASTENER LAB COURSES Malta and Sicily Explorer . 17 Digital Fabrication with Lasers . 9 Scandinavian Highlights . 17 Introduction to MIG Welding . 9 Iceland Explorer . 17 Build A Nantucket Basket . 9 Spain and Morocco . 17 Lost Wax Metal Casting . 9 Pacific Coast Adventure . 18 3D Printed Self Portrait . 9 Spotlight on San Antonio . 18 Build a Set of Four Nesting Shaker Boxes . 9 Four Country Danube and Black Sea River Cruise . 18 Blacksmithing Basics . 10 Decorative Concrete Garden Sculpture . 10 ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS . 19 Introduction to Paper Making . 10 THANK YOU . 19 Decorative Woodworking Fundamentals . 10 CALENDAR . 20 Front Cover: Lifelong Learning instructor Joe Markowitz makes his first tandem skydive at Skydive Orange in Orange, Virginia. Photo by Jonathan Markowitz, Skydive Orange. SPRING 2019 DEAR LIFELONG LEARNERS Welcome to the Shepherd University Lifelong Learning Program! We are in our eighth year of community offerings. Our fall highlights included a thought-provoking tour of the Flight 93 Memorial as we met with Chief Terry Shaffer, one of the first responders from the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department, and his wife, Kathi, who took the oral history of events after the crash. We also visited the Eisenhower Farm in Gettysburg and received an exclusive behind the scenes tour and historical account of the Eisenhowers’ life and home from docent John Kennedy. We had a record- breaking attendance for the course Reading the Bible through Darwin’s Eyes. We also have reached an all-time high in memberships thanks to your ongoing support. We have an excellent offering of courses scheduled for the spring with some new and previously held topics, several new brown bag lectures, and an exciting lineup for the President’s Lecture Series. New topics this semester include the Operas of Giuseppe Verdi, Big History of Humanity, Recent Trends in French Cinema, Psychology for KAREN RICE ‘12 M B. .A . Today, Introduction to Monsoon Asia, Forgotten Pasts and Imagined Futures, The Director of Continuing Education Tempest and Hag-Seed, Songwriting, The Sixties, Political Ethics, Ireland and Brexit, and Lifelong Learning and Wielding Power. We welcome back our favorites with Roger Bernstein instructing short stories and poetry, discussion groups on local, national, and global issues with Fred Turco and Grant Smith, the Civil War with Bob O’Connor, Reading the Bible through Darwin’s Eyes Part II with Randy Tremba, Frontiers of Knowledge with Doug Kinney, the CATF season with Peggy McKowen, and an overnight writing retreat with Lee Doty. We are partnering with the FASTEnER Lab in the Department of Contemporary Art and Theater to offer several art workshops, plus an open studio option. The FASTEnER Lab contains a wood shop, digital fabrication equipment, metal shop, and casting from plastics, waxes, ceramics, and metal. New this semester, we are hosting a trip to Chicago for theater, art, and architecture in June. Several day tours are planned for art museums, Civil War museums, Virginia wineries tour, and a Great Falls canal boat tour. We hope you enjoy seeing your favorite instructors as well as some new leaders. Be an active participant in the Shepherd University Lifelong Learning Program and become a member! Sign up for classes, lectures, tours, and volunteer to serve as a class assistant. Get involved today! Karen Rice ‘12 M.B.A. Director of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning BE CURIOUS · STAY INFORMED · HAVE FUN SPRING 2019 LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAM MISSION assistant in one or more of your classes, please contact Karen The Lifelong Learning Program at Shepherd University is a Rice at 304-876-5135 or [email protected]. Thank you for volunteer member-driven program dedicated to offering volunteering! stimulating academic courses and activities to the community. For information about instructors teaching courses this semester, visit us online at www.shepherd.edu/lifelonglearning MEMBERSHIP INCLEMENT WEATHER POLICY Gold Member: Annual Fee is $325 All-inclusive membership for one year. Includes all enrollment fees, Lifelong Learning classes will be canceled if the university is all lectures, discounts on tours, free parking decal for lots on East closed. and West Campus with access to shuttle bus, and invitations to Should an extreme weather emergency or power or water failure special events. Spouses and domestic partners are eligible to join warrant the closing of offices and/or canceling or altering the for an additional $175. schedule of classes and events by the president, then public notification will be made via Shepherd web, switchboard, Rave text- Silver Member: Annual Fee is $85 messaging system, and area radio and television stations. Includes the brown bag luncheon lectures and discounts on tours. Enrollment fees apply. Announcements of emergency plans will also be available by calling 304-876-5000. One-Time Trial Offer All new participants who have not taken any lifelong learning PARKING courses are eligible to take classes for $99 per course for the first Free Shepherd University parking decals are an exclusive benefit semester without paying the membership fee. This introductory included with gold membership. If you are enrolled in the offer is not available to former students. Shepherd University Lifelong Learning Program but are not a Gold Member and wish to park your vehicle on campus, you may Scholarships purchase a decal from the Shepherd University Police Department. The Shepherd University Lifelong Learning Program provides a The purchased decal will permit you to park in specified areas on limited number of scholarships to participants who would not campus while attending class. It is to be affixed on the outside back otherwise be able to attend a course. The scholarship is good for window of your vehicle and is valid until August 1, 2019. Those one course (except FASTEnER Lab courses) and unlimited brown bag vehicles parked on campus without a decal may receive a parking lectures per semester. Inquire about a scholarship by contacting ticket. Karen Rice at 304-876-5135. Classes and lectures are free to Shepherd University faculty, staff, and students. Park in These Lots A parking decal will allow you to park in the following lots on REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS campus: A-Lot, C-Lot, King Street, F-Lot, G-Lot, H-Lot. The Pan Tran Some of the courses require students to obtain books or materials shuttle bus picks up riders every 30 minutes (on the hour and half- essential to the class. Four Seasons Bookstore is offering our hour) from the H-Lot between Dunlop and Printz halls, G-Lot at the students a 15 percent discount on books. Mention the Shepherd Frank Center adjacent to the Wellness Center, and stops in front of University Lifelong Learning Program to receive the discount. the Erma Ora Byrd Hall and the Student Center on the East Campus. NOTE: Parking is free when the university is on break, between 5 BECOME AN INSTRUCTOR p.m.-8 a.m., or a weekend (there are exceptions such as graduation or football games.). DO YOU MISS TEACHING? Share your passion. Inspire others to learn and explore. Interact and engage with Purchase a Parking Decal peers and community members. The Shepherd University Lifelong To purchase a decal, submit a parking application (one per vehicle), Learning Program is looking for course instructors. The program your vehicle registration, driver’s license, and payment to Shepherd is an academic cooperative that provides mature adults with University Police Department, Moler Hall, 133 Campus Hill Drive opportunities for intellectual development, cultural stimulation, (West Campus), during office hours.
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