CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS Lifetime Learning Center A Resource for Learning, Teaching, Friendship Winter Quarter 2015 January 5 - February 26 3841 NE 123rd Street Seattle, WA 98125 Roger Neale (206) 949-8882 Director Edla Deppman Office Manager Website: www.lifetimelearningseattle.org E-mail: [email protected] CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS Lifetime Learning Center Open to the Public Bring a Friend вЂњSharpen your mind and make new friendsвЂќ Winter 2015 Event Calendar Mon. January 5 9:00 am Classes Begin Thursday Feb. 26 3:00 pm Classes End Friday 12:00-1:00 Feb. 27 REGISTRATION Lifetime Learning Center, a nonprofit, educational institution, offers classes and social events for older adults. Our courses provide the joy of learning and challenging the mind without the problem of exams or grades. Classes meet weekly. Fees: To enroll, students pay a $15 registration fee each quarter plus a course fee of $30 per class. Some classes require additional lab, book or materials fees. Enrollment: Classes fill on a first-come, first-served basis. Registrations are valid only when accompanied by payment. No class confirmations are sent. Students are notified by phone if a class is filled. Three Ways To Enroll: 1. Complete the registration form at the back of this brochure, or print a copy of the registration form from our website, enclose fees, and mail to: Lifetime Learning Center 3841 NE 123rd Street Seattle, WA 98125 2. Call (206) 949-8882 to be sure we are in, drop by and register in person. 3. Register online and pay using bank cards or Paypal. Scholarships: Inquire at LLC office for scholarship applications. Scholarships are granted on the basis of need and are limited to classes not already filled with enrolled students. Volunteer Lunch FACULTY Michele Abbott, Drawing Instructor Bruce Bigley, Ph.D., Literature Jeanne Bryan, B.A., Music Education Theodore Deacon, DMA, Music Cecile Disenhouse, Watercolorist Vel Gerth, B.A., Writing Instructor Cameron Justam, Rosen Method Instr. Joan Karkeck, MS Elhri Larson, Poetry Facilitator Jim Leonard, MA, Teaching Marianne LoGerfo, MA, Teaching Michael Kelly, MD Barbara Miller, Music Instructor Jim Mohundro, Film Aficionado Lynn Pulliam, Interior Design Ann Ross, Tai Chi Instructor Stacy Schulze, Yarn Artist Michael Shurgot, Ph.D., Literature Bobbie Simone, Ph.D., Literature LeeAnn Starovasnik, S.A., Feldenkrais Ted Szatrowski, Bridge Instructor Bill Taylor, MA, Political Science Many thanks to these talented people who donate their time and expertise. They make Lifetime Learning Center a fantastic experience for our students! CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS COURSE CATEGORIES Category History, Politics, Sociology/ Anthropology; Science Course Day History of Japan Monday 9:30 The Civil War Tuesday 9:30 Gods and Heroes of the North Tuesday 11:00 Medical Ethics Tuesday 1:00 Birds Thursday 11:00 Current Events Wednesday 10:45 Comic Films Thursday 1:00 The Immigrant Experience Wednesday 1:00 ShakespeareвЂ™s Twelfth Night Monday 11:00 Raymond Carver Tuesday 9:30 Write Your Life Story Tuesday 10:45 DanteвЂ™s Purgatorio Wednesday 11:00 Creative Writing Workshop Thursday 11:00 Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Thursday 11:00 Women For Poetry in Daily Living Thursday 1:30 American Short Stories Thursday 1:00 Operas of Richard Strauss Monday 1:00 Crochet Monday 1:00 Knitting Monday, 1:00 Quilt Making Basics Tuesday 12:30 Options for Senior Living Wednesday 9:30 Drawing Wednesday 1:00 Piano Keyboarding Thursday 11:00 Watercolor Basics Thursday 1:00 Home Decorating Rosen Movement Saturday Monday 11:00 Balance in Action Tuesday 11:00 Tai Chi Thursday 9:30, 1:00 Beginning Bridge Wednesday 9:00 Intermediate Bridge Wednesday 10:45 Film Literature, Writing Music, Art, Crafts, Life Skills Fitness Bridge CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS MONDAY A History of Modern Japan Bill Taylor January 5-February 23 9:30-10:45 Before I provide a description of the course, I want to mention some features that are unusual for LLC. Please be sure to read these carefully, especially number 3. 1. This will be a nine-week class. The ninth week will involve reading newspaper articles related to the conflicts in East Asia that have resulted from the rise of China and JapanвЂ™s troubled relations with it and South Korea. 2. There is a course packet that will be about 250 pages longвЂ”about 30 typed pages of reading for each class. The cost of the packet will be around $20, but it might be more. actions. But JapanвЂ™s history is a complex one that we should be aware of as we consider the question as to whether, or to what extent, we should rely on Japan as an ally in the region. This course is designed to provide you with the basics of that history. ShakespeareвЂ™s Twelfth Night; or What You Will Michael Shurgot 11:00-12:15 ShakespeareвЂ™s last romantic comedy takes us on a fanciful journey to Illyria where we meet a a witty and festive court fool, a pseudo-Falstaffian drunken sot, love-sick fools, a sexually frustrated countess, a Puritanical steward, and one hell of a determined twin sister. вЂњWhat is love?/ вЂ�Tis not hereafter. / Journeys end in loversвЂ™ meeting, / Every wise manвЂ™s son doth know.вЂќ Or do they? Join us. Copy fee: $2:00. 3. Online and paper registration will end on December 29. No registrations will be allowed after that time, even if they were mailed before then. Your best bet is to regRichard Strauss in Opera & Song 1:00-2:30 ister early. Theodore Deacon and Barbara Miller 4. If this class fills in the 9:30 time slot with a week or two left before registration closes, IвЂ™ll open a second section at 11:00, which you can register for online. Those who wish will be able to switch from the 9:30 to the 11:00 section. Hailed in his youth as WagnerвЂ™s true successor, StraussвЂ™s early operas were condemned as decadent, obscene, and dangerously experimental. The later operas were deemed too traditional and intellectual. Throughout his career Richard Strauss has been both honored and reviled. His extensive body of operatic works is one of the Course Description: last great flowerings of German Romanticism. This class will explore the operas of Richard The economic and military rise of China has Strauss focusing on their literary origins and caused all manner of questions and concerns dramatic structure. Special attention will be givabout the future of East Asia, as well as what role en to his opera Ariadne auf Naxos, to be perthe US might play in maintaining that balance. formed at Seattle Opera this season. A class both One potential counterweight to China is Japan. opera novice and aficionado will enjoy. However, Japan has a very troubled history with its Asian neighbors. It also has an alliance with the US that could draw us into a conflict with China we might wish to avoid. Past history does not determine a nationвЂ™s future LLC CLASS SCHEDULE WINTER QUARTER 2015 CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS MONDAY Rosen Movement Cameron Justam January 5-February 23 11:00-12:00 Rosen Movement was created by Marion Rosen, a physical therapist, to foster, support, and maintain flexibility during the aging years. This goal is aided by music, which provides fun and inspiration to move all the joints with ease in an hour. Come move with usвЂ”be more open to the day and to life! Taught by Cameron Justam, a certified Rosen Method body practitioner. Crochet Stacy Schulze 1:00-3:00 For beginners or refreshers. All you need is a hook and some yarn, and you can learn the skills to make clothes, household items and decorations. For learning and practice, bring some yarn and at least one hook of the right size for the yarn. You are invited to bring any patterns or crochet books that interest you. Knitting Group Facilitated The Lifetime Learning Center would like to thank and acknowledge Mildred Horstman for a generous donation that paid for the printing of LLCвЂ™s class schedules for the 2013-2014 academic year. Volunteer Recognition Lunch Friday, February 27 Noon-1:00 As a way to let our volunteers know how much we appreciate what they do for LLC, weвЂ™re inviting everyone to a thank-you-volunteersвЂ™ event. WeвЂ™ve invited Northwest poet Holly Hughes to join us and read from her work. Bring a brown-bag lunch, listen to the work of an accomplished poet, and say thankyou to our volunteers (there are a lot of you out there!) 1:00-3:00 For those who enjoy the traditional aspect of knitting. Instruction is available for those who want a refresher or are newer knitters. All levels welcome. LLC CLASS SCHEDULE WINTER QUARTER 2015 CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS TUESDAY January 6-February 24 Raymond CarverвЂ™s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Michael Shurgot 9:30-10:45 WagnerвЂ™s magnificent cycle of operas. A course book will be available the first day of class. Write Your Life Story Raymond Carver is a master of the minimalist style in contemporary American Literature and a master story teller. The collection established him as the supreme short story of his generation. Frank Kermode said of CarverвЂ™s fiction that вЂњit is so spare in manner that it takes a time before one realizes how completely a whole culture and a whole world condition is presented by even the most seemingly slight sketch. This second volume of stories is clearly the work of a full-grown master.вЂќ 10:45-12:45 Write your memories in a variety of formsвЂ” prose, poetry, or plays, in vignettes or a longer narrative. Participants read in class and listen to each other, offering encouragement and suggestions. Facilitators: Nancy Jordan, Margaret Carson, Anita Bhat. Balance in Action LeeAnn Starovasnik 11:00-12:00 The American Civil WarвЂ”Beyond the Battles Pete Mazza 9:30-10:30 What if you could improve your sense of balance in walking, standing, and climbing stairs? What if you could right yourself more easily once you sense Instructor Pete Mazza brings a forty-year fascinayou are off-balance? We offer an introduction to tion with the Civil War to this lively and colorful methods drawn from Bones for Life в„ў, Awareness narrative. HeвЂ™ll describe the ante-bellum period, Through Movement в„ў, and the Feldenkrais Meththen show the effects the military and political deci- od в„ў. Students will be guided through a series of sions had on the economic and social fabric of the gentle movements designed to increase their ability Union and Confederacy. What began as a war to balance in daily activity. Wear warm, comfortaabout legal issues over preservation of the Union ble clothing and bring a thick blanket or matt vs. statesвЂ™ rights evolved into a struggle over the Quilt Making Basics 12:30-2:00 abolition of slavery and the question of human rights. The course will also explore the personali- Group Facilitated ties of military and political leaders, their war deci- Quilters can share the creative skill of crafting sions, and their legacy for the 20th Century. beautiful quilts. Class members select their own Gods and Heroes of the North Marianne LoGerfo 11:00-12:30 projects. This is a support group sharing quilting and views of life. As vibrant and magical as their Greek countereparts, the old Norse gods and heroes pursue lives of high adventure, low comedy, and enduring significance. WeвЂ™ll read their stories, view their depiction in art, explore their expression in religion and folklore, and think about their meaning for their time and ours. To cap it all, weвЂ™ll enjoy an enthralling presentation by Theodore Deacon on the transformation of the original legends into Richard LLC CLASS SCHEDULE WINTER QUARTER 2015 CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS TUESDAYвЂ”WEDNESDAY January 7-February 25 Tuesday Medical Ethics: A Case Oriented Approach Michael Kelly, MD 1:00-2:15 The course will give a general introduction to modern bioethics, review definitions and discuss ethical principles. We will discuss two methods to help resolve medical ethical dilemmas. We will start most of the classes with a few real life cases and discuss how they could be evaluated. Active class participation is vital. The course outline is only an approximation depending on length of discussions. During the course we will cover: end of life issues advanced directives вЂњcode statusвЂќ cultural and religious perspectives physician assisted suicide Terri Schiavo case Goals: To learn how to evaluate medical ethical dilemmas and come to a resolution. To understand advanced directives, their limitations and how they may affect you and your loved ones. Have the opportunity to complete your POLST form. IV Living Will, Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, POLST form, code status and end of life ethics. 2 or 3 cases for discussion. V Cultural Considerations вЂ“ Somali, Asian, native American. Case discussions. VI Ethics of solid organ transplantation. 2 cases for discussion. VII Jehovah Witness Ethical Dilemmas. 3 cases for discussion. VIII Physician Assisted Suicide. Case discussion. Wednesday Beginning Bridge 9:00-10:30 Ted Szatrowski This class is for individuals who may or may not have played bridge before but would like to learn. We will start by learning point count, basic bidding, and learning some basic bridge conventions. Students learn the game by playing. We play bridge for funвЂ”and down-play the competitive aspects. You will make new friends, improve your memory, and have a wonderful time. Intermediate Bridge 10:45-12:15 Ted Szatrowski This class is for bridge players who have some bridge knowledge. Course Outline Current Events 10:45-12:15 I Greetings, introduction to topic. Jim Leonard, Facilitator Discuss ethical principles. A wide-ranging discussion group, touching on such II The Jonson 4 box method of analyzing an diverse topics as headlines from the world ethical case. at large, national topics such as the capabilities and Present a few cases to work on. accomplishments of our intellectually challenged III KellyвЂ™s Rules of Thumb for ethical decision leaders in Washington DC, Olympia, and Seattle. making. We also touch on topics suggested by group mem2or 3 cases for discussion. bers. LLC CLASS SCHEDULE WINTER QUARTER 2015 CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS WEDNESDAY Options for Senior Living Joan Karkeck January 7-February 25 9:30-10:30 Joan will facilitate a discussion exploring the options for living in our senior years. We have inherited a potential thirty more years added to our lifespan than was expected when we were born. The number of options are increasing faster than most of us can comprehend, yet many of us feel the need for immediate planning and decisionmaking. Some of these decisions may be irreversible. Let us use some of the resources available in our community for informing our process and supporting one another in getting started. WeвЂ™ll use a process called вЂњPicturing Life.вЂќ Dante: The Divine Comedy: Part Two, Purgatorio Bobbie Simone 11:00-12:30 Virgil and Dante emerge from Hell and climb the mountain to meet Beatrice. This is a continuation of the fall class in which we read and discussed the Inferno, but others are welcome. Translation by John Ciardi, New American Library. Drawing FUNdamentals with Michele Abbott Michele Abbott 1:00-3:00 All levels are welcome. Class will cover the use of various drawing materials and paper surfaces. Instructor will demonstrate techniques for using expressive line, value, and composition. Have fun drawing from life or photographs. Learn how to draw in preparation for a watercolor. Or just play with ink washes. Draw loose and fast or slow and careful. Just like your handwriting. Swedes: The New Land. (1972) Farmers in Minnesota, mid 19th Century, with Max Van Sydow and Luv Ulmann. Russian Jews: Hester Street. (1975) Husbands come first to NYCвЂ™s lower east side to prepare for wives and children, late 1890s. Italians: Good Morning, Babylon. (1987) Stonemasons end up in Hollywood designing sets for D. W. Griffiths: pre-WWI. Guatamalans: El Norte. (1983) After the army destroys their village, teenaged brother and sister brave difficulties and danger to reach the U.S. and hope for a better life. Japanese: American Pastime. (2007) During WWII, Japanese-Americans were uprooted from their homes in the western states and placed in internment camps. A story about how they managed. Vietnamese: The Beautiful Country. (2004) Teenaged Binh flees from Saigon to America to look for his G.I. father. From Senegal and Syria: The Visitor. (2007) A college professor finds his apartment in New York occupied by two illegal immigrants. Chinese: A Great Wall. A computer engineer, feeling discriminated at his job, takes his American-born wife and son to visit his sister in China. Films are mostly in English, with subtitles for a few scenes. Optional discussion follows the films. The Lifetime Learning Center admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all rights, privileges, programs made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic Films: The Immigrant Experience: Seeking a origin in the administration of its educational, admissions, and scholarship policies. New Community Bobbie Simone 1:00-3:00 LLC CLASS SCHEDULE WINTER QUARTER 2015 CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS THURSDAY Tai Chi 1 Ann Ross January 8-February 26 9:30-10:30 erations in a small village in Columbia, featuring wonderful story telling using Magic Realism, a technique that intersperses magical or supernatural events within the texture of ordinary reality. Book available in the office. Tai Chi is a slow moving meditation to improve health, balance, and spirit. From the gentle practice of the postures, you will learn about your physical and spiritual center. This class is geared How Birds Live to continuing students. Connie Sidles Tai Chi 2 1:00-2:00 This session is geared toward beginners. Piano Keyboarding Jeanne Bryan 11:00-12:15 For students with basic knowledge of names and locations of those ivories and some note-reading. By term end, students can play familiar tunes. Piano book $16. New students must contact instructor before joining the class. Creative Writing Vel Gerth 11:00-12:45 11:00-12:00 Join author and expert on avian life Connie Sidles for an expanded version of the fascinating look at the lives of birds she presented at LLCвЂ™s 2013 summer session. Eight sessions will cover: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. How birds become birds. How birds use feathers and flight. How birds find love. How birds raise the kids. How birds find food. What birds do at night. How birds migrate. How we can help. PCC Scrip Card Do you shop for groceries at PCC? If so, you should be using a scrip card linked to LLC. It costs you nothing. PCC keeps track of your purchases, and gives back to the Learning Center 5% of what you spend. So far LLC has received $7,000! If enough of us take advantage, we anticOne Hundred Years of Solitude 11:00-12:30 ipate receiving $2,000 a year from PCC. We thank PCC for supporting non-profit organizaBruce Bigley tions like ours, and we urge you to talk to us about acquiring your own scrip card. Described by novelist William Kennedy as вЂњthe first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis If you have lost your scrip card, itвЂ™s easy to rethat should be required reading for the entire hu- place. See us in the office. The PCC Scrip Card is one of the easiest, most man race,вЂќ this novel is MarquezвЂ™ masterwork painless and effective ways we have to bring in and one of the most important texts of Latin American and of World Literature in the last cen- funds! Please ask Jeanne Eisenberg, Roger or tury. It is a family chronicle covering seven gen- Edla to explain how you can participate. We write spontaneously through prompts/ outlines, from lines of poetry or prose. No corrections of work, only praise for a word or line. We learn by doing to create a piece. We encourage each other to write in our unique voices. LLC CLASS SCHEDULE WINTER QUARTER 2015 CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS THURSDAY January 8-February 26 had neither time nor energy to write all those plays, delegating that work to Tom Stoppard. (123 min.) Women for Poetry in Daily Living 1:30-3:00 In Wag the Dog (1977), spin doctor Robert De Nero A peaceful oasis for sharing poetry from internaand producer Dustin Hoffman stage a phony war to tional writers and our own hands/hearts if we feel divert attention from a PresidentвЂ™s peccadillos. It so inclined. A safe place for women to express and canвЂ™t happen here. (97 min.) let their voices be heard with love of language, in- 2000s: sight, humor, and observation. Rupert Everett and Colin Firth are the quintessential British upper class as mistaken identity drives Oscar wild in 2002вЂ™s The Importance of Being EarWatercolor Basics 1:00-3:00 nest. (97 min.) Cecile Disenhouse The Coen Brothers are at it again. One Woody Guthrie odyssey is rolled into three as George No experience necessary. Beginning instruction Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson ask includes description of supplies, composition, use the musical question вЂњO Brother, Where Art of color, washes, wet into wet, and the use of ink with watercolor. Artists of any level are welcome to Thou?вЂќ (2000). (106 min.). participate in the studio. The instructor demonContemporary American Short Stories strates mainly landscapes, cityscapes and the odd 1:00-2:15 animal. Students can visit: www.jettes.org to see Jim Leonard instructorвЂ™s work. Each week weвЂ™ll discuss two modern short stories, some from the contemporary realistic tradition, othFilm: Faces of Comedy 1:00-3:00 ers more experimental. Our reading list includes Jim Mohundro stories by Russell Banks, Amy Bloom, Sandra Cisneros, Junot Diaz, Richard Ford, Edward P. Jones, 1970s: Jhumpa Lahiri, Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Tan, Alice Barbra Streisand, Ryan OвЂ™Neal and Medeline Kahn Walker, and others. The book for this class is The bring 1930sвЂ™screwball comedy back to life in 1972 Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, with WhatвЂ™s Up, Doc? (94 min.) The Revised and Updated 2nd Ed. 2007 (available Diane KeatonвЂ™s Annie Hall popularizes the dandy new or used on-line) look, and does battle with an angst-ridden (what else?) comic and a lobster in Woody AllenвЂ™s Oscarwinning 1977 film. (93 min.) Saturday 1980s: Various sexes are victoriously mixed, matched, and mixed up, by and with Robert Preston and Julie An- Hands-On Home Decorating Lynn Pulliam drews, in Victor, Victoria (1982). (132 min.) In Raising Arizona, Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter Join this fun, hands-on decorating class. We meet are an Ozzie and Harriet for the 80вЂ™s in this 1987 in studentвЂ™s homes to discuss and do furniture, acfilm by Joel and Ethan Coen. (94 min.) cessory arranging and color. Saturdays, or other 1990s: Forsooth, many scholars agree that Joseph Fiennes, days if desired. Contact Instructor Lynn Pulliam (254-370-8719) for schedule. as Shakespeare in Love (1998), distracted by Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush and Judi Dench, LLC CLASS SCHEDULE WINTER QUARTER 2015 LLC REGISTRATION FORM Winter Quarter 2015 Jan. 5вЂ“ Feb. 26 Name_______________________________ New Student O Yes O No Address_________________________City_____Zip_____ Phone__________ Would you like to receive schedules via email instead of by mail? O Yes O No E-mail__________________ New? How did you learn about us?__________ Monday O O O O O O Fee History of Japan _________ $30________ Twelfth Night ____________$30 _______ Rosen __________________ $30________ Richard Strauss __________ $30________ Crochet ________________ $30________ Knitting ______ ________ $30 _______ Wednesday O O O O O O O Bridge 1 ________________ $30________ Bridge 2 ________________ $30________ Current Events __________ $30________ Senior Living ____________ $30 ________ Dante _________ ________ $30________ Films _________________ $30________ Drawing _________________$30 _______ Thursday Tuesday O O O O O O O O Fee Fee Fee Carver __________________ $30_______ Civil War _______________$30 _______ North Gods _____________ $30________ Balance ________________ $30________ Life Story _______________ $30________ Quilting ________________ $30________ Medical Ethics ___________ $30________ Saturday Decorating ______ $25________ O O O O O O O O O O Writing _________________$30________ Tai Chi 1________________ $30________ 100 Years of Solitude _____ $30________ Birds ___________________$30 ________ Watercolor __ ___________ $30_______ Keyboard _______________ $30________ Poems __________________ $30________ Tai Chi 2 ________________$30 _______ Short Stories _____________$30 _______ Films: Comedy ____________$30 _______ Class Fee TotalвЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦....$___________ Quarterly Registration FeeвЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦.$15________ Donation (We appreciate your generosity)вЂ¦..$___________ Total FeesвЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦вЂ¦.$___________ Mail to: Lifetime Learning Center 3841 NE 123rd Street Seattle, WA 98125 You may also register and pay online at: www.lifetimelearningseattle.org. (If you pay online and want a refund, please see us rather than seeking a refund from your bank or Paypal.) CLASSES FOR LIFELONG STUDENTS Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Seattle, WA Permit # 1140 Lifetime Learning Center 3841 NE 123rd Street Seattle, WA 98125 L L C C L A S S S C H E D U L E W I N T E R 2 01 5 Q UA RT E R