Curriculum: classes, lectures, field trips, calendar — Renesan Institute for Lifelong Learning in Santa Fe, NM

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See the calendar for the semester schedule.

You can download and print a copy of the 44-page catalog.

Classes And Lectures By Interest Area

The Arts
- C-1 Joe Illick on Richard Wagner
- C-5 Classical Music
- C-8 What is Art?
- C-10 Film Discussion
- C-11 Film Discussion
- C-17 The Symphony Inside Out
- C-20 Sam Shepard’s Buried Child: Theater Production/Discussion
- C-33 Studio Glass: Touring Santa Fe’s Galleries
- L-2 Love Letters: Special Valentine’s Day Performance
- L-4 Wagner’s Opera Parsifal
- L-5 Picasso’s Early Years
- L-6 Flute and Guitar Recital
- T-1 Visit St. Elias the Prophet Greek Orthodox Church
- T-3 Georgia O’Keeffe Abiquiu/Ghost Ranch Tour
- T-4 Georgia O’Keeffe Abiquiu/Ghost Ranch Tour
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Current Events
- C-0 Lunchtime Current Events
- C-6 The New Yorker
- C-7 The New Yorker
- C-18 The Car Guys
- L-10 The New Mexico Legislative Session
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History, Social Science, and Political Science
- C-2 Greece and Turkey: A Shared World, A World Torn Asunder
- C-4 Thucydides: An Historian for Our Times (Part II)
- C-9 The Sixties in America: A Nostalgia Trip
- C-23 The Vietnam War
- C-24 The Kennedy Assassination a Half-Century Later
- C-27 The Kennedy Assassination a Half-Century Later
- C-30 Religions: Made in America
- C-31 Social Class in our Lives
- C-34 Immigration in Literature and Film
- C-35 The History of Fort Union
- L-1 Ancient and Modern Turkey: The World’s Oldest Temple Site and the Devastated World of the Armenians
- L-3 Scandinavia: Political and Immigration Issues
- L-8 Among the Righteous: The Holocaust and Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
- L-12 Farming in the Prehistoric Arid Southwest
- T-5 The History of Fort Union
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Literature
- C-3 David and Solomon — Their Lives, Loves, and Literature
- C-13 Demystifying Poetry
- C-14 100 Years of Solitude
- C-16 Reading Shakespeare Aloud: The Comedy of Errors
- C-22 The Art of the Essay: From Montaigne’s Essais to The New Yorker
- C-25 William Blake
- C-26 Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
- C-28 Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen in Her Own Words
- C-29 Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen in Her Own Words
- C-32 Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom: American Tragedy or Love Story?
Philosophy
- C-12 Indian Philosophy and the Bhagavad Gita
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Science
- C-19 Quantum Physics for the Layperson
- C-21 Bad Science: Where Research Has Gone Wrong
- L-7 Nuclear Deterrence
- L-9 Global Warming: Where Are We?
- L-11 Cowboy Medicine and the Ethics of Managing Expectations
- T-2 Geology of the Southern Sangre de Cristos
- T-6 Geology of the Southern Sangre de Cristos
Writing
- C-15 Memoir Writing (Part II)
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