Courses

The Basics of Duplicate Bridge (Course)

            Attendance: 6

            Program Coordinator: Sonni Crawford

This course will have both lessons and time to play with master bridge players available to answer questions.

From Classic to Romantic in the Sister Arts (Course)

            Attendance: 26

            Presenter: Matthew Brennan, ISU Professor of English

This course will observe and discuss some memorable examples that mark the transition from the Age of Reason and Isaac Newton to the Age of Rebels and Nature-Worshippers.

Memoir Writing (Course)

            Attendance: 5

            Presenter: Bob Pabst, ISU Professor Emeritus of Education

This course emphasizes that each person has a story to tell reflecting the special events that occur throughout life’s journey.

Overlooked Gems of the English Language Cinema (Course)

            Attendance: 51

Presenter: Sharon Russell, ISU Professor Emerita of Communication

             Program Coordinator: Louise Clark

This class will look at four films that should have been given more consideration by audiences when they first appeared: The King of Marvin Gardens, Atlantic City, Two for the Road and Days of Heaven.

Favorite Contemporary Poets (Courses)

            Attendance: 13

            Presenter: Sheron Dailey, Professor Emerita of Communications, ISU

     Stan Evans, Associate Professor of English,ISU

This course will discuss six contemporary poets: Andrew Hudgins, Naomi Shihad Nyea, Seamus Heaney, John Updike and Mary Oliver.

Religion & Culture (Course) (in conjunction with ISU undergraduate Honors course)

            Attendance: 13

      Presenter: Darlene Hantzis, Professor of Communication and Women’s Studies, Indiana State University

This class will explore together, as a community, religious texts as well as commentaries about religion (such as, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know and Doesn’t)

Citizenship & Civility (Course) (in conjunction with ISU undergraduate Honors course)

            Attendance: 7

Presenter: Linda Maule, Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies, Indiana State University

Citizenship and Civility will explore the general decline in participatory citizenship, as well as political tolerance, in the United States.

Gender, Race & Nation (Course) (in conjunction with ISU undergraduate Honors course)

            Attendance: 2

      Presenter: Darlene Hantzis, Professor of Communication and Women’s Studies, Indiana State University

This course will provide a feminist and post-colonial interrogation of the controversial words in its title.  Although South Asia will provide the primary reference point, participants may engage the issues surrounding gender, race, and nation in terms of other localities that are currently prominent on the world stage.

Computer Basics (Course)

            Attendance: 10

            Presenter: Todd Riker, ISU Information and Technology Student

This class is for beginners to intermediate users and will focus on what the students want to learn. You, the student, will determine the lesson plan from one session to the next.

(Another One of) Our Favorite Contemporary Poets (Course)

            Attendance: 10

            Presenter: Patrick Harkins, St. Mary of the Woods College Professor Emeritus

Brendan Corcoran, ISU Assistant Professor of English

Anita Coleman, Retired English teacher from Vigo County School Corporation

Join us for three sessions in which we’ll discuss a few more poets you may never

             have heard of -- but should ’uv.

Shape Note Lecture

Presenter: Darrel Swarens, ISU Associate Professor of Elementary Education

Darrel will give a brief overview of the Sacred Harp (Shape Note) in preparation for the Shape Note Sing. In doing this he will show the film “Awake my Soul”, the story of the sacred harp.

Music & Wellness (Course)

            Attendance: 3

Presenter: LaFon Riedel, Class Leader, Conservatory of Music

The hobby of recreational music making, the playing of music for fun and relaxation, is designed exclusively for adults. The Lowery Magic Organ Course will show you the joy and sense of satisfaction that making music can bring to your life. It’s so easy that you will play a complete song after the very first class!

What You Think You Know and What is True About the Omaha and Ponca Indian Tribes (Course)

            Attendance: 8   

Presenter: Paul Brill, Retired from the U.S. Department of Interior

Paul Brill will do a three session course with a general focus on the Omaha and Ponca Indian Tribes of Nebraska, Iowa and Oklahoma. The first session will be a history overview about Indian Tribes from language to law. The second session with focus solely on the Omaha Tribe. The last session will focus solely on the Ponca Tribe. Paul is a fountain of knowledge about the Indian Tribes of North America after working with them for half a century.

A Little About Light (Course)

            Attendance: 9

Presenter: Mike Moloney, Professor of Physics, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

We will discuss ideas and measurements of the speed of light in air and in liquids. People had no idea what light was made of until the 1850s, and if it went faster or slower in water. Colors of light (Newton’s experiments) and wavelengths of light (Thomas Young). prisms and gratings to break light into its colors will be discussed and demonstrated. We will do activities with prisms and grating.

Films on Filmmaking (Course)

            Attendance: 14

Presenter: Sharon Russell, ISU Professor Emerita of Communication

We will look at four films from two different countries that present fictional views of the filmmaking process. They are all important films that examine the relationship between the creation of art and life. From the United States: The Bad and the Beautiful and The Stuntman. From France: Day for Night and Contempt.

Fairy Tales in Literature and Society (Course)

            Attendance: 8

Presenter:  Heidemarie Hetter, Associate Professor of German Studies & Comparative Literature, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Fairy tales and accompanying art weren’t necessarily for children. In olden times, they were a way that political and social opinions could be expressed. Heidemarie Hetter, associate professor of German Studies and Social Sciences, will repeat the four-week course she taught for DILL several years ago.

Bridge (Course)

            Attendance: 4

            Program Coordinator: Sonni Crawford

If you’ve played rubber or party bridge, but felt a bit intimidated to attempt duplicate, now’s your chance to try it. The Bridge Club of Terre Haute is offering OLLI members five basic duplicate bridge lessons during the Spring 2008 Session. Each session will begin with a lesson followed by time to play.

Great Decisions (Course)

            Attendance: 11

Presenters: European Union at 50 (by Dr. Donald Layton, ISU Professor Emeritus), Talking to our Enemies (by Dr. Donald Layton, ISU Professor Emeritus),  Russia (by Dr. Dean Myers, ISU Professor Emeritus), U.S. Defense & Security Policy (by Dr. Dean Myers, ISU Professor Emeritus), U.S.-China Trade Policy (by Dr.Michael Chambers, ISU Professor) and Private Philanthropy (by Dr. Robert Puckett, ISU Professor Emeritus).

This series takes you beyond the headlines by providing a revealing look at six of the most significant and far-reaching challenges facing the world.

Biology (Course)

            Attendance: 10

Presenter: Dr. Bill Brett, ISU Professor Emeritus of Life Science

Cycling and Recycling - With limited supply of resources, the process of cycling and recycling was and is a necessity. Killers of the Past and Present - Let’s examine some of the “killers,” organisms of the past.

Childhood of a Biologist - Do the childhood experiences of an individual offer clues for what her/his adulthood will be like?

Memoir Writing (Course)

            Attendance: 5

Presenter:  Bob Pabst, ISU Professor Emeritus of Education

This course is designed to help you immerse in the language of self. The course emphasizes that each person has a story to tell reflecting the special events that occur throughout life’s journey

Creative Writing: Becoming Your Own Best Critic (One Day Seminar)

            Attendance: 9                          

Presenter: Barbara Asay, Administrative Assistant (Emerita) to the President, ISU                                                                This one-day seminar is designed as a guide to that process. Class members will learn strategies for objectively examining their own work, and will have opportunities to share their own ideas and observations with classmates.

To register for any of these special events, call the Osher Lifelong Learning registration office, 812-237-8707.