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Our Exciting Spring 2008 Course Schedule:
Courses arranged in order from Monday morning to Thursday afternoon for each session
SPRING REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED!
12 New Courses 23 Continuing Courses New Members Welcome!
Your opportunity to be involved, make friends, gain new insights.
Register online! Courses fill quickly!
Click here for an archive of course schedules from previous sessions.
S001 REMEMBERING OUR PAST: THE “CRUCIAL DECADE” 1945-1955
History Ends where memory begins. Through common reading, beginning with Eric Goldman’s “The Crucial Decade—and After,” and shared experiences (our own and /or our parents’), we will recall together the decade following V-J Day. Topics to be considered for inclusion (subject to class consensus) include the Cold War, Korea, and McCarthyism, the Rosenberg and Hiss trials, the GI Bill, Levittown, the elections of 1948 and 1952, the beginnings of the civil rights movement, the baby boom, TV, and consumerism, the religious revival, ad liberalism and conservatism. Our ultimate objective will be to seek to reconcile memory with history in the context of this important period of our past.
Course Leader Alfred H. Jones holds a Ph.D. in American History from Yale University, and taught 20th century U.S. history at the University of Minnesota, Iowa Sate University, and the City of University of New York before retiring to Sarasota. Equally important, he remembers many of the events and personalities of the “Crucial Decade,” and thus can engage the class in recalling the period.
Date Mondays Mar. 10th-Apr. 28th 9:30 – 11:00 AM Top
S002 DRAWING I Course now full
This course will explore the basic drawing techniques such as: Perspective (one-point and 2-point); composition; and light and shading. Emphasis will be placed on a variety of media, including pencil, charcoal, and pastels. Subjects will range from still life to basic figure drawing. All skill levels are welcome. Materials needed include: 1 drawing Pad of “Newsprint” (rough surface) 18” x 24”. 2 Drawing pencils: One soft (3B) one medium (HB) or #2 pencils with soft lead. 2 kneaded erasers (small). Box of Charcoal sticks or 2 charcoal pencils. Box of pastels (introductory set or small beginners set). Two stubs “optional” (2 #3 or 1 #3 and 1 #8).
Course Leader Jonathan Palmer was an instructor for the Milford Board of Education-Milford,Ct in their Adult Education Program. He taught Drawing I, II, Oil Painting, and Art Appreciation. Jonathan studied with Harold Seroy, Art Director, Warner Brothers Studios, Harold Harrignton, Designer and Builder of Stage Sets, New York City.
Date Mondays Mar. 10th-Apr. 28th 9:30 – 11:00 AM Top
In the course of this program students will share their writing if they choose to do so and will edit selected works based on feedback. They will discuss the process of writing and explore shades of meaning, theme, character, plot, setting, mood and tone. Inexperienced writers will discover the joys of writing; experienced writers will sharpen their skills.
Course leader Evelyn Lerman is the author of Teen Moms: The Pain and the Promise and Safer Sex: The New Morality. She was a teacher, Vice Principal, and the Director of Personnel for Brookline Public Schools in MA until her retirement in 1992. In Waterville, ME where she summers, she teaches a writing course to Seniors at the Muskie Center. She has a B.S. in Journalism from Simmons College and a B.A. and a C.A.S. in Education and Language Development from Harvard University.
Date Mondays Mar. 10th-Apr. 28th 9:30 – 11:00 AM Top
S004 MEDICAL BREAK-THROUGHS AND BREAKDOWNS: MANAGING SURVIVAL IN A COMPLEX AND FRAGILE MEDICAL CULTURE
Travel the medical maze with Mrs. B., newly arrived in Sarasota, as she struggles to gain medical access in order to address the ever increasing number of psychosocial and physical health care issues. We learn how to deal with problems of widow-hood, aging, and newly uncovered ailments as she faces communication failures, gains insight into the culture of health care providers, learns about the bills of rights for patients and physicians, understands issues of medical ethics and legal obligations (including HIPPA regulations, informed consent and advanced directives, and the various aspects of private and public insurance. As we travel with Mrs. B. and her family, we study aging in terms of nutrition and obesity, vascular disease, diabetes, cancer care and preventative medicine, degenerative physical and mental disorders and drug interactions. We learn how to deal with accident prevention and household hazards, emergency care, the often complicated issues of both routine and intensive inpatient care as well as ambulatory hospital, rehabilitation and hospice services. As we struggle alongside Mrs. B., we look back at those events in the history of medicine that have brought us to the present, helped us stay current, and pointed us in the direction of tomorrow. Finally, we examine and compare those issues, which we have taken for granted: food, drink, memory, physical fitness and access to care, with the nature of health care throughout the civilized world.
Course Leader Samuel Gross, an Emeritus Professor of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, finished his career as a bone marrow transplant physician and cancer center director. He has authored or co-authored over 200 articles and 11 books on various aspects of cancer, hematology and health care issues. After discharge from the US Marine Air Corps at the end of WWII, he attended Bowdoin College (A.B.), Amherst College (M.A. and the University of Rochester (M.D.). He has held professorships at Case Western Reserve University, University of Florida, Duke and the University of North Carolina. Date Mondays Mar. 10th-Apr. 28th 11:30 – 1:00 PM Top
The Sarasota Opera is presenting 6 works this season: Rigoletto, La Rondine, I due Foscari, and Cosi fan tutte. In this course, we will study each opera and its composer, discuss the libretto, hear and see video and audio excerpts by a variety of singers in each opera.
Course Leader June LeBell is an award winning announcer of thirty years with WQXR in New York City. She has been a lecturer with the Met Museum, NYC Opera, NY Philharmonic Orchestra, Marilyn Horne Foundation, Naples Philharmonic. She has also acted as an author, music critic and commentator for the NY Times and Opera News.
Date Mondays Mar. 17th-Apr. 21st 11:30 – 1:00 PM Top
S006 BASEBALL IN THE GRAND BALLPARK OF LITERATURE Course Cancelled
To many of us, baseball is life. It has intensity, humor, skill, drama, and even boredom wrapped up in a tidy package of rules, boundaries, beginnings and endings. It has a history filled with glorious moments as well as some fairly nasty episodes – just like life as we all know it. There are some wonderful writers who have taken their love of baseball to the printed page. What better place than in the heart of spring training territory, with the spring home of the Pittsburgh Pirates within spitting distance (a team who has provided some of us with more than our share of ups and downs) to examine some of the best of this wealth of literature? We will take a critical look at a representative sampling of some of the good stuff in fiction and non-fiction. We may not be able to get to all of the big hitters in this genre, (e.g. Will, Angell, Kahn, Malamud Harris, Hall, etc) but we will give it our best shot.
Course Leader JoAnn Spiegel is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she teaches for the Academy of Lifelong Learning at Carnegie Mellon University when she is not here in the Sarasota area. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, her Master of Arts degree in Education from Virginia Commonwealth University, and her Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Pittsburgh. Her career in education spanned all areas to include: classroom teacher, building Principal, central office administrator, and college instructor. Her focus of interest these days is in the psychology and literature of adult development.
Date Mondays Mar. 10th-Apr. 28th 11:30 – 1:00 PM Top
S007 DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES ON THE EVENTS OF JEWISH PEOPLES FROM 2ND CENTURY B.C.E. TO MID 1900’S This course is now full Day 1-The Cochin Jews of India: The ultimate fate of Baghdadi (Iraqi) Jews, who were deeply loyal to, and ardent participants in, the affairs of their adopted, caste oriented country. Day 2-The Last Marranos: The story of Portuguese Jews, derisively referred to as “pig eaters”, forced to convert to Christianity in the late 1490’s, and “rediscovered” by a group of French anthropologists in 1980. Day 3-Nicholas Winton: The events of a non-Jewish, British stockbroker who almost single-handedly , initiated a mass transport of hundreds of Czech Jewish children to various parts of the British isles. Day 4-Shanghai, the port of last resort: the account of Jews who fled communist Russia, and years later, Nazi Europe, to live in the only city that accepted them. Day 5-The Jewish Brigade. The journey of Palestinian Jews who fought with the British forces in Italy in WWII, brought sustenance to the survivors of the death camps of Europe, and then became the backbone of the Israeli Defense Force that fought for Israel’s survival. Day 6-Expulsion and Memory: recounts the discovery of the “crypto Jews”, who came to the new world shortly after Columbus last voyage. Day 7 & 8-They Came for Good, Parts I and II. The history of Jewish immigration to the United States during the periods from 1650 to 1820 and 1820 to 1880; the differences, assimilation, societal restrictions and their determination.
Course leader Dr. Samuel Gross is a graduate of Bowdoin College (BA), Amherst College (MA) and the University of Rochester (MD) who, during his time in, and following his retirement from academic medicine pursued his interest in documentary films with emphasis on those aspects of society with which he has had personal interaction. Before moving to Sarasota-Bradenton area, he held documentary film seminars in both Durham and Chapel Hill N.C. and in 2007, he ran a 16 week educational series at USF sponsored by the Congregation of Humanistic Judaism.
Date Mondays Mar. 10th-Apr. 28th 1:30 – 3:00 PM Top
Managing your money requires good financial planning. This course will strive to make complicated issues user-friendly. A six-step process is used to show how managing the different areas of your finances involve each other: Cash Flow: income versus expenses; net worth, your assets and liabilities; Insurance: how to determine if and what you need, such as life, health, long-term care, auto, etc.; Tax Planning: understanding if you have a tax problem and what you can do to minimize your taxes; Investments: how to construct a portfolio based on your needs and risk tolerance, financial and market risks; Retirement: how does your financial life change, what do you need, how do you manage your finances differently when you retire; Estate Planning: making it easier for your heirs to manage your estate, use of wills and living trusts. Additionally, special areas of interest are addressed, such as funding education for children or grandchildren, purchasing or renting property, permanent residency, etc. All areas need to be addressed but only those of special interest to the group are stressed. This will be a lecture with some discussion.
Course Leader Barbara Levy is a Certified Financial Planner, conferred in 1987 by the College for Financial Planning in Denver, Colorado; a financial consultant in New York City for 28 years; and instructor of financial planning in the Adult Education Division of Marymount Manhattan College from 1984-2001.
Date Mondays Mar. 10th-Apr. 14th 1:30 – 3:00 PM Top
S009 THINK, WRITE & SPEAK WITH IMPACT
Expressing our well thought-out opinions and influencing others with our ideas are common desires. Increasingly we face the frustrations of ambiguous community programs, distorted civic directions and the almost overwhelming burdens of healthcare system paperwork and interpretation. Even our interpersonal and organizational relationships benefit by our communicating with greater impact. This course details easy to use strategies and tactics of obtaining that impact. The philosophy is simple. How we present our ideas affects their reception, not their accuracy. All course materials, including the manual, are included.
Course Leader Kermit “Kit” Graves graduated from what is now the College of Performing and Communications Arts at Wayne State University, in 1953. During his career as a communications consultant he authored and produced more than forty-five different seminars and workshops on personal communications. These included Secrets of the Platform Pro, The Chemistry of Executive Presence, and Strategies in Meeting Participation. He also earned two national letter writing awards. His seminar groups have spanned Fortune 500 industrials, national financial clientele, professional organizations, local toastmasters groups, and community associations. He is a Sarasota resident.
Date Mondays Mar. 10th-Apr. 28th 1:30 – 3:00 PM Top
Method: Shared inquiry discussion allows everyone to read and enjoy great works of literature. Its effectiveness comes from the egalitarian approach it takes: discussion is based on the text at hand and only that text. Materials: The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, Second Series. We will be reading Vol. 2 and 3. The text is available through the Campus Book Store. Assignments: Class participants will be required to read selections prior to the class meeting. Please read Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations prior to the first class meeting. Authors included this term are Shakespeare, Kierkegaard, Herodotus, Locke, Swift, Thoreau plus one additional reading of our choice.
Course leader Charles Sprandel has a B.A. in History and Political Science from Albion College and an M.S. in Japanese Studies and Comparative Education, University of Michigan. He taught English at Meisei University in Tokyo, Japan. Additionally he taught history and Philosophy of Education at the University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Sprandel taught at Maumee Valley at Country Day School – on the elementary levels as well as Advanced Placement U.S. History at the high school. He was the head of the elementary school and later, head of the high school at Maumee Valley. His many experiences include the post of Adjunct Professor of U.S. History at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.
Date Tuesdays Mar. 11th-Apr. 29th 9:30 – 11:00 AM Top
S011 INTERMEDIATE COMPUTERS Course Now Full
If you are comfortable using a computer and you want to advance your skills in using Microsoft Word Processing Program this course is for you. Students will learn skills and short cut techniques in formatting a document and a page, editing a document, importing and editing graphics, creating a table and practical uses for a table. Students will develop the ability to improve their Internet skills learning how to create hyperlinks, move between documents, and make attachments such as letters, photos or pictures. This course allows for hands on participation using Windows – based PC in the USF computer lab. It is best to have a Window based PCs although MAC users can benefit from the course. Each student should have access to an Internet Provider so they can apply what they learn in the course. Students have the option to purchase class notes in a three ring binder to reinforce the materials covered in class.
Course Leaders Sally Valenti, has a BS in Education, with graduate studies at the University of California. She taught Family and Consumer Sciences in California and Piscataway, New Jersey for a total of 29 years. Additionally, Sally held the position of Technology coordinator at a school in New Jersey. She is a recipient of the New Jersey Governor’s Teacher Recognition Award.
Date Tuesdays Mar. 11th-Apr. 29th 9:30 – 11:00 AM Top
S012 INTRODUCTION TO FLORIDA BIRDS
Classes 1 and 2 will cover the selection of binoculars and field guides; behavior around birds; resources such as magazines, bird clubs, internet and a slide show of Florida birds, including characteristics, migration patterns, and nesting behavior. Class 3, everyone will attend their first field trip on the grounds of USF to practice use of binoculars and to have a telescope while looking at birds on the bay and shoreline. Class 4 brings us back to the classroom. Class 5 is when we will be attending our first field trip. Our 6th Class (which is a Saturday) will also be a field trip.
Course leader Jeanne Dubi has devoted much of her time to birding and to conservation of habitat in Sarasota County for the past 9 years. In January 1997 she began a survey of the birds of the Celery Fields, a 300-acre storm water retention site east of I-75. By the end of the year, she had tallied 132 species. With that information she approached the Sarasota Audubon Society with a proposal to protect the Fields from intense public use, and the bird count now stands at 198 species. The Fields are a site on the Great Florida Birding Trail. Before moving to Florida in 1997, Dubi lived and worked in New York City. Her last position in New York was as VP/General Manager of Harper’s Magazine. Dubi received her MBA from Iona College in New Rochelle in 1986. She is the current president of the Sarasota Audubon Society.
Date Tuesdays Mar. 11th-Apr. 15th 9:30 – 11:00 AM Top
If you have ever been curious about your family history, this is the course for you! With both the beginner and the experienced researcher in mind, we will discuss how to begin your search, how to use primary and secondary records, and how to continue researching after the course has ended. Proper and consistent documentation of sources will be stressed. Records in the United States and Europe will be examined. Computer programs and computer research will be evaluated. Publishing your family history will also be covered. The associated topics of surnames and heraldry will be briefly looked at as they relate to genealogy.
Course Leader Sue Holt has an Associate Degree in Library Science from Gateway Technical Institute in Kenosha, Wisconsin and a Bachelor’s degree from Carthage College, in Kenosha. She was employed in the reference department of the library at Carthage College. Genealogy has been her passion for over forty years. She has researched in many of the U.S. states and several foreign countries, taught classes on the community college level for 30 years, and written articles on various phases of genealogical research.
Date Tuesdays Mar. 11th-Apr. 29th 11:30 – 1:00 PM Top
S014 JOY OF SCIENCE: COSMOLOGY MADE SIMPLE This course is now full.
For the first time in human history, we know what the universe is made of. A series of remarkable observations at the close of the 20th century enabled cosmologists to discover a complete inventory of the universe: 5% ordinary matter, 25% dark matter, 70% dark energy. In this course, we will learn why we think that dark matter and dark energy must exist. Modern theory holds out the intriguing possibility that the part of the universe we see is highly atypical. Clearly, the challenges raised by dark matter and dark energy are pointing physicists and astronomers to new areas of study to reveal clues needed to understand all of the dark side of the universe. The emphasis in this course will be on concepts rather than mathematics and the only prerequisite is curiosity. The weekly presentation draws upon video segments by distinguished university scholars, followed by discussion and Q & A.
Course leader Bill Keeffe holds a B.S. in physics from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a M.S. in physics from Penn State University. As a senior scientist in government and industry, Bill pursued his research interests in lasers, non-linear optics and high-intensity arcs. His professional affiliations include The American Physical Society, Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society and U.S. Representative to the Commission Internationale l’Eclairage. His avocation is the history of science.
Date Tuesdays Mar. 11th-Apr. 29th 11:30 – 1:00 PM Top
S015 THE MAGELLAN STRAIT AND CAPE HORN STORIES Course Now Full
This is an introductory course on travels and exploits of explorers and traders beginning in the 15th century and leading to discovery of the Magellan Strait and Cape Horn. We will look to circumnavigations; main Portuguese and Spanish explorers in the XVI and XVII centuries; the sad story of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa and Puerto del Hambre; Drake, Cavendish and Davis (all explorers, circumnavigators, pirates and heroes in their own right}; the Dutch explorers and the discovery of Cape Horn; British, French and American explorers in the XIX century (the ‘scientific’ sailors); The H.M.S. Beagle, Captain Fitzroy and the Darwin Story; the Clipper era; the gold rush of 1842 and the trade explosion through Cape Horn; the whalers and sealer economics and adventures; the German “P” shipping line and the nitrate trade; Valparaiso and other ports of the Pacific; the Panama Canal and the end of an era; Cape Horn and Magellan Strait today. The course will be accompanied by photos and, where possible, videos, to illustrate the presentations.
Jose Antonio Garnham, a US citizen, was born in Chile on the seaside in the town of Valparaiso, and lived until early adulthood in his mother country. He has always been fascinated by the sea and has had a lifelong avocation to study maritime history including that of the Magellan Strait and Cape Horn region. Over the years, he has traveled there on several occasions, researched traditional maritime issues, documented stories and experiences of maritime peoples, and assembled an extensive collection of books and photos on the region. Since 2000, he has been researching and documenting the fast-disappearing classical wooden working sailboat of the region, the ‘Lancha Chilota,’ named for the ‘Chiloe’ archipelago and the people who used the boat as their ‘pick-up truck’ for travel and commerce through the late 20th century, a boat now being replaced by fiberglass and steel motor boats. Mr. Garnham has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and several other graduate certificates, but continues to pursue his personal interest in the maritime history of southern Chile.
Date Tuesdays Mar. 11th-Apr. 29th 11:30 – 1:00 PM Top
S016 WESTERN LITERARY TRADITION, PART V: ST. AUGUSTINE THE CONFESSIONS
Augustine is among the world's most influential Christian writers. It is impossible to understand the West today without taking into account his thought on original sin, grace, predestination, the Trinity, and much more. From a literary point of view The Confessions is one of the world's great autobiographies. It has influenced autobiographies and works of fiction from Dante's Commedia through Abelard, Pascal, Rousseau's Confessions, Wordsworth's The Prelude, Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and beyond. It is one of the most important works in the 'Jerusalem' strand of the Western Literary Tradition.
Course Leader Paul Johnston received a B.A. from Columbia, and an M.S. in Reading from Southern Connecticut State University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University. He has taught at Schuyler Academy, the Harrisburg Academy, Middlesex Community College, and Montclair State University. He is a member of the T.S. Eliot Society, the Sarasota James Joyce Society, and the Sarasota Classics Reading Group.
Date Tuesdays Mar. 11th-Apr. 29th 1:30 – 3:00 PM Top
Developed by the Foreign Policy Association in 1954, the Great Decisions discussion program is the oldest and largest grass-roots world affairs educational program of its kind. The program is designed to encourage debate and discussion of the important global issues of our time. Discussion groups are an important first step in gaining an understanding of the direct and indirect impact that international affairs have on your life. Through the process of reading, discussing and expressing your own informed views on important international issues, you will discover the linkages between “global” and “local” concerns. The program provides materials that help people reach informed opinions on the issues and participate in a simulation of the foreign policy process. Great Decisions discussion groups meet all over the United States. Members of the class are required to lead one of the topics in the Great Decisions course. There is a $15 charge for the Great Decisions 2007 Briefing Book (available at the Campus Book Store). Prior to the first class, please read Topic 1.
Course Leader Axel Lohrisch, originally from Germany, grew up in Scotland. He started a marketing and general management career at Procter & Gamble in Canada and worked in Spain, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Chile, Switzerland and the Far East, ending up as Managing Director, Health Care Worldwide. After retiring from Procter & Gamble, he became a management consultant, developing global business strategies from senior management at several major multi-national corporations. Axel has a First Class Honors B.S. degree in Chemistry from St. Andrew University in Scotland. He is the past president of Junior Achievement of Puerto Rico and Member of the Board of Trustees of the American Music Scholarship Association.
Date Tuesdays Mar. 11th-Apr. 29th 1:30 – 3:00 PM Top
S018 GREAT JAZZ IN SMALL PACKAGES: THE CLASSIC SMALL GROUPS From Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five, through Benny Goodman Quartet, to the Modern Jazz Quartet and such groups as Weather Report, small groups have served as important milestones in the development of jazz. We will explore this great “chamber music” of jazz and the reasons why such groups became far more than the sum of their parts. Classes will make extensive use of archival videos, artists’ web sites, recorded music and occasional guest jazz musicians. This class is geared to the non-musician as well as the experienced jazz fan. A list of suggested readings is available. Course Leader Henry Ettman is a Ph.D. social psychologist (University of Nevada) and has done extensive research in the sociology and psychology of jazz and has taught sociology and psychology at several universities (currently at USF/Sarasota-Manatee). He also has almost 50 years of experience as a professional jazz musician, and has spent over 15 years as an arts administrator.
Date Tuesdays Mar. 11th-Apr. 29th 1:30 – 3:00 PM Top
S019 EIGHT GREAT TOPICS IN HUMAN BIOLOGY A fascinating and entertaining look at eight varied topics in the field of human biology, designed for anyone interested in the natural sciences. Each week we will explore human biology from a different perspective, ranging from the molecular to the global level. Sample topics include: The Chemistry of Food, Digestion, Breathing and Cellular Respiration, The Genetic Code (DNA), Human Evolution, and Ecology.
Course leader Joseph Kerata taught Advanced Biology in northeast Ohio for 30 years. He earned degrees at Ohio State University and Cleveland State University and is a Princeton University Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Bioethics. He has traveled and studied in Kenya, Peru, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands. He is the recipients of numerous teaching awards, including The Ohio Teacher of the Year in 1993. In addition, Joe is also an accomplished actor, having appeared in over 50 stage productions.
Date Wednesdays Mar. 12th-Apr. 30th 9:30 – 11:00 AM Top
S020 WHAT ARE OUR ULTIMATE BELIEFS?
What’s worth living for? We don’t often ask that question out loud or discuss it with our family and friends. Using a round-table discussion format, we’ll seek to articulate our personal beliefs through sharing and spiritual practices. We’ll do class exercises in meditation ritual, contemplation, nature and self reflection. There will be several guest speakers and we will examine religious writings.
Class leader Wolfe Zucker is a MSW and has recently earned a graduate certification in aging. He has just returned from two years at the Findhorn Foundation, an international spiritual community.
Date Wednesdays Mar. 12th-Apr. 30th 9:30 – 11:00 AM Top
S021 PERFECT HEALTH BODY, MIND & NUTRITION
Every illness or cause of distress affects the three pillars of health: the body, the mind and nutrition. Any imbalance within the three pillars of health cuts into the quality of your life creating symptoms like headaches, obesity, mood swings, turbulent relationships, poor memory and low energy. If you treat only one or two elements of the body-mind-nutrition triad, even though the symptom may disappear, the problem will still exist. Sooner or later, it will reappear, often times with greater consequences than before. When you pull a weed from the garden you must take time to dig out the roots. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: Body -Muscle testing to identify problems. -Releasing muscle pain and stiffness. -Breathing your stress away. Nutrition -Which diet and supplements are right for you? -What are your problem foods? Eating for energy Mind/Emotions -How to reduce mental/emotional stress. -Overcoming anxiety. -The One Minute Meditation
Course leader Frank Kinslow has guided thousands of people through their persistent health issues. Over more than 35 years, he has developed an effective, holistic approach to personal health that embraces a system of nutritional, psychological, physical counseling. He has been a guest on numerous TV and radio programs and lectured extensively. Frank is author of the influential book, Beyond Happiness: How to Discover Your Deepest Desire. He was a teacher for the deaf and left an active practice as a chiropractic physician to found the Kinslow Counseling Services Corporation, a Not-for-Profit corporation in Sarasota, Florida.
Date Wednesdays Mar. 12th-Apr. 30th 9:30 – 11:00 AM Top
The class will cover the history of the French Revolution from the last days of the Ancien Regime through Thermidore in 1794. The class will analyze the summoning of Estates Generals, the creation of the National Assembly, the drafting of the constitution through the Jacobin Terror and the reign of Robespierre.
Course Leader David K. Carlson, B.S. in History, Loyola University; U. S. Military service 1964-1966 (served in Korea). Since his university graduation he has had an abiding interest in history, particularly that dealing with the two great totalitarian movements of the early twentieth century. During the course of the past 40 years he has read much of what has been published in English on both these subjects as well as every major biography of Hitler and Stalin available in the U.S.
Date Wednesdays Mar. 12th-Apr. 30th 11:30 – 1:00 PM Top
Are you longing to try out and possibly improve your rusty French? If you've been thinking about traveling to France but shrink at the thought of stuttering through your fractured French, let's practice first with some reading and conversation classes. We read Jean de Florette in the fall semester and we'll continue in the spring with the sequel, Manon des Sources. It's a wonderful study of Provence, human foibles, and the French mentality. We'll study a bit of grammar and vocabulary along the way and review those verbs which cause us so many headaches. We'll finish with a viewing of Claude Berri's 1988 movie and compare it to the book. Slides and pictures of Provence will be shown in our weekly Show and Tell, and to celebrate our new-found fluency, we'll share a French culinary experience along the way. Class taught in French, with a sprinkling of English for those who would like to attend without the necessary language skills; an advanced beginner's level is desirable to fully enjoy and participate in class.
Course Leader Valerie Sutter holds a Master’s degree from the Faculte’ des Lettres de Lyon. She also holds a Master's degree from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. A former French teacher, she lived for five years in France where she taught at one of France’s grandes ecoles, and for twelve years in Brazil where she taught at the American School of Rio de Janeiro. She also taught in large public schools and prestigious boarding schools in New England before retiring from teaching and founding the French Traveler. Fluent in French and in Portuguese with a modest grasp of Spanish, Valerie spends many months of the year in France imbibing French culture and organizing trips to France for teachers and other Francophiles.
Date Wednesdays Mar. 12th-Apr. 30th 11:30 – 1:00 PM & |
