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Sneak-a-Peek: A preview of our Fall courses, courses, and trips
Now that the Renesan Spring Semester for 2012 is nearly over, the Curriculum Committee is busy completing our Renesan Fall Semester 2012 schedule.
Here's a Sneak Peek
at the courses, lectures, and trips and we hope you'll find many interesting offerings. An important change to the Fall schedule is for the times of Thursday lectures. They will now begin at 1PM and end at 3PM (instead of 2-4PM in the past). And courses that used to start at 3PM will this Fall begin at 3:15PM and end at 5:15PM. You'll receive many reminders of these time changes in the coming months.
Courses beginning in September
- Unpacking Shakespeare, with Karl Kregor—5 sessions
- Thucydides, with Martha Yates—5 sessions
- We Came on Different Boats, But We are in the Same one Now, with Lois Rudnick. A course on immigration—2 sessions
- Voices in Opera, with Tim Willson—3 sessions
- Hot Spots, with Bill Stewart—5 sessions
- Memoir Writing—Part one, with Pat Shapiro—5 sessions and continuing with a Spring 2013 sessions
- Sensational Gentlemen of Song, with Bev and Gano Evans—4 sessions
- Why Nations go to War, with Paul Jones—5 sessions
- Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, with Robert Glick—5 sessions
- 2012 Elections, with Neil Heighberger—4 sessions—one every other week
- Let's Talk Politics!, with Jill Meyer—Thursday lunch sessions every week
- Improv, with Joe Mayer—6 sessions
- The New Yorker, with Paul Jones —5 sessions
- The New Yorker, with Trish Steindler—5 sessions
- Literary Conversations: Louise Erdrich and Scott Momaday, with Lib O'Brien—4 sessions
- Gallery Tours, with Susy Moesch—3 sessions
- Doubt Everything—Avoiding Investment Misconduct and Scams, with Louis Straney—3 sessions
- Musical Evenings with Joe Illick—2 sessions
- Survey of Greek Art and Architecture, with Duane Roller—3 sessions
Courses beginning in October
- Chinese Philosophy: Lao Tzu and Daoism, with Joann Birdwhistell—5 sessions
- US Politics in Film: From Frank Capra to Warren Beatty, with Patricia Hopkins Lattin—4 sessions
- International Affairs and Presidential Politics, with Dag Ryen—4 sessions
- Frankl, Tolstoy, Franny and Zooey in Wonderland, with George Stanciu—5 sessions
- [To be announced]
- The Civil War—The Roots of American Sectionalism, with Jason Shapiro—4 sessions
- Jane Austen in Her Own Words: Emma, with Joyce Spray—4 sessions
- Jane Austen in Her Own Words: Emma, with Joyce Spray—4 sessions
- The Constitution and the Social Order, with Jim Fitzpatrick—4 sessions
Courses beginning in November
- A Layman's History of the Santa Fe Area from the U.S. Invasion to the Present, with Allan Wheeler—2 sessions
- Changing Ideas in Portraiture, with Carolyn Kastner—1 session
Lectures:
- Sep 13
- Nuclear Promise—Nuclear Peril
- given by Siegfried Hecker
- Sep 20
- Barbarians at the Gate—Stravinsky, Diaghilev & the Ballets Rousses
- given by Tom McGuire
- Sep 27
- Current Events
- given by Craig Barnes
- Oct 4
- Composing: Beneath the Film
- given by Roy Rogosin
- Oct 11
- Documentary Photography
- given by Toba Tucker
- Oct 18
- Fracking: Is Its Bad Reputation Justified?
- given by Jim Fassett
- Oct 25
- The Earth's Magnetic Field
- given by Kate Zeigler
- Nov 1
- The Wonder of Water
- given by Larry Rasmussen
- Nov 8
- Weekends with O'Keeffe
- given by Carol Merrill
- Nov 15
- Where Have All the Values Gone
- given by Tom Franks
- Plus: Wednesday afternoons, dates to be announced
- Our Renesan Special Lecture Series:
Energy Futures
- 6 Lectures by Rajan Gupta
Trips:
- Overnight, Sep 21-22
- El Morro National Monument
- Oct 26
- All Around the Roundhouse Art Collection
We're planning to add more trips in the next few weeks.
Snow closures/delays
Renesan courses and lectures will be canceled whenever St. John's United Methodist church decides not to open due to snow or ice conditions. Similarly, if the church decides to close early due to inclement weather, any Renesan courses in progress or scheduled for later in the day will be canceled. If the church announces a two-hour delay before opening, Renesan's 10AM courses will start at 10:30 and end at 12:30; afternoon courses will start as scheduled.
If possible, make-up sessions will be scheduled for canceled courses and lectures. No fee adjustment will be made for canceled courses or lectures that can't be rescheduled.
How To Determine When St. John's united Methodist Church Closes or Delays Opening:
- Call Renesan's phone number: 982.9274 after 8:30AM to hear a recorded announcement.
- If you can't reach the Renesan recorded message, tune in to Albuquerque KOAT News 7 (ABC) to see if St. John's United Methodist Church is listed as closed or on a two-hour delay.
Call for Volunteers!
Renesan is a volunteer organization. The courses, lectures, and trips offered each semester come about only through the efforts of our many volunteers. Please consider further participation in Renesan by becoming a volunteer! Volunteers are needed for course room setup and take down, collecting fees at each lecture, operating audio-visual equipment, general office help, database input and maintenance, and to help produce our catalog. To volunteer, you may call the Renesan office at 982.9274 or return the Volunteer Form available in the Forms section of this website.
