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Spring Semester 2010
Session 1 • February 8-March 12
Screwball Comedies
Mondays, Feb. 8, 15, 22 and March 1, 8
2:30-5:00 p.m., Beaman Library
Cost: $50
Instructor: Dr. Matt Hearn, professor and chair of English
One of the film genres invented during Hollywood’s “Golden Age” is the screwball comedy –
a comedy usually involving a romantic couple mixed in with a dose of slapstick.
The genre’s heyday was 1934-1945, a time when U.S. audiences dealt with
economic depression and global war by going to the movies more than ever before.
Classic examples include:
- It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert,
- Bringing Up Baby, starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn,
- The Lady Eve, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, and
- His Girl Friday, starring Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant.
This class will discuss several classic screwball comedies, exploring the genre’s characteristics, historical development and its fate in contemporary culture.
The Letters – Famous and Otherwise
Tuesdays, Feb. 9, 16, 23 and March 2, 9
3:00-4:30 p.m., Ezell Center
Cost: $50
Instructor: Steve Prewitt, associate provost
This class will look at one of the great lost forms of writing – the letter. Using The Oxford Book of Letters, participants will look at various letters written from the 16th through the 20th centuries and from an assortment of correspondents, such as John and Abigail Adams. The letters come from a variety of perspectives – social, political, economic and personal.
The Apache: The Last Resistance
Wednesdays, Feb. 10, 17, 24 and March 3, 10
3:00-4:30 p.m., Ezell Center
Cost: $50
Instructor: Neal Allison, instructor of history
The Apache warriors of the American Southwest were some of the finest fighters in U.S. history. When Geronimo surrendered to the U.S. military in September 1886, it marked the last armed resistance of Native Americans in the Indian Wars of the nineteenth century. The course will detail the culture, approaches to warfare and influential leaders that produced such extraordinary individuals.
Island in the Sun: Sicily, the Crossroad of Culture
Thursdays, Feb. 11, 18, 25 and March 4, 11
3:00-4:30 p.m., Ezell Center
Cost: $50
Instructor: Dr. David Lawrence, professor of history.
This course will proceed chronologically to explore the various civilizations involved in Sicilian history. The instructor will provide a brief history of Sicilian rulers, their impact on Sicily, and a summary of Sicily’s overall importance to civilization. Examples of the impacted civilizations include: the Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, French, Spanish and modern Italians.
Computer I
Fridays, Feb. 12, 19, 26 and March 5, 12
2:30-4:00 p.m., Ezell Center
Cost: $50
Instructor: Al Austelle, associate professor of computer science and director for the Center of Instructional Technology.
This is a comfortable, easy-going approach to computers for individuals interested in learning about, thinking of buying or having trouble using a computer. Topics will include e-mail, the Internet, Microsoft Word, digital cameras, scanners, and more.
To register for any of these classes in session one click here.
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Spring Break March 15 - 19, 2010.
No classes will meet.
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Session 2 • March 22-April 23
Mark Twain and His Works
Mondays, March 22, 29 and April 5, 12, 19
3:00-4:00 p.m., Ezell Center
Cost: $50
Instructor: Dennis Loyd,retired professor of English.
This class will explore the life of Mark Twain, America's most famous humorist, the types of works he wrote, what influenced their production and why we still laugh at and puzzle over the man once called “the Lincoln of our literature.”
Hitler and Nazism: The Man and the Movement
Tuesdays, March 23, 30 and April 6, 13, 20
3:00-4:30 p.m., Ezell Center
Cost: $50
Instructors: Dr. Jerry Gaw, professor of history and two visiting speakers who survived the Holocaust or whose family members survived.
The class will first focus on the influences in Adolf Hitler’s early life, his rise to power in the 1920s and his domestic and foreign policies in the 1930s that led to the Second World War and the Holocaust. The visiting speakers, Felicia Anchor, Tennessee’s Holocaust Commissioner, and Dietlinde Spears, native of Silesia, East Germany, will conclude the class with personal testimony of their lives and the lives of their families during this period.
The Daring Raids of General John Hunt Morgan
Wednesdays, March 24, 31 and April 7, 14, 21
3:00-4:30 p.m., Ezell Center
Cost: $50
Instructor: John Bridges, historian, writer.
Even though Morgan’s Cavalry Raiders successfully harassed the Union Army and disrupted their supply lines for three long years, some dismiss General Morgan as a romantic figure who had limited impact on the outcome of the war. However, Morgan’s Raiders did win the adoration of the Southern people by continually eluding and outmaneuvering superior Federal forces.
The Quest for Spiritual Maturity
Thursdays, March 25 and April 1, 8, 15, 22
3:00-4:30 p.m., Ezell Center
Cost: $50.
Instructor: Dr. Tom Seals,assistant professor of Bible and Ministry.
We live in a world that inherently involves pressures that diminish important facets of our true selves and our spiritual growth. Such pressures often overpower and defeat us spiritually, resulting in lives far less effective spiritually than we desire. This class will explore the quest for spiritual growth, moving from the time when we initially became a Christian through the succeeding stages of growth.
Digital Scrapbooking
Fridays, March 26 and April 2, 9, 16, 23
3:00-4:30 p.m., Ezell Center
Cost: $50.
Instructor: Becky Tallon, Computer Science.
Scrapbooking has gone digital, and this class will teach how to create a page in just a couple of hours. Results can be printed, posted on a website or put on CD and mailed to friends. The class will begin with inexpensive or free designs and move on to creating original designs.
To register for any of these classes in session two click here.
