Birds, Baboons, Elephants, Geology, and Climate Change—Oh My!

Science courses at RENESANAre you a fan of New Mexico birds and New Mexico landscapes? Do you wonder about the truly groundbreaking developments in science over the last century? And how do we look at environmental issues with a balanced viewpoint informed by quantitative evidence?

This fall RENESAN highlights the exotic and the familiar in its broad cross-section of science courses. Join us to dig into big issues and fascinating details from the world of science:

  • Jay Shelton explores the quantitative side of environmental topics in Quantitative Environmentalism.
  • James Kemper looks at climate change in our backyard in Climate Change Impacts in the Southwest.
  • Creve Maples walks to the edge of science to consider today’s big theories in Science at the Edge: Welcome to the Real Twilight Zone.
  • Janie Chodosh, environmental educator and writer, invites all levels of birders to learn about our feathered friends in Birds of New Mexico. She also shares her research into the elephants of India and the life of Dr. Kushal Konwar Sarma, India’s elephant doctor, in The Elephant Doctor of India and the Elephants of Assam.
  • Emeritus Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology Jane Phillips-Conroy explores her research into the diversity and wonder of baboons in African Baboons: Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful.
  • Geologist Albert Shultz helps us understand how New Mexico landscapes–such as the Santa Fe Foothills, El Malpais, Ghost Ranch, and White Sands–were formed in The Geology of New Mexico Landscapes.
  • Jim Baker invites us to enjoy the enchantment of New Mexico’s night sky as host to a trip Evening Under the Stars.

Come join us!

Bach to West Coast Jazz: RENESAN’s fall MUSIC offerings Cover the Music Spectrum

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Well-know music commentator, critic, and expert Mark Tiarks explores musicals 11 through 20 in Stephen Sondheim’s fabled career, spanning a 34-year period from 1974 to 2008, in Stephen Sondheim’s Last Ten Musicals. The course will feature extensive video and audio excerpts, as well as behind-the-scenes visual imagery.

Singer Rick Beaubien and accompanist Natasha Stojanovska introduce and demonstrate through live performance a sampler of 20th Century American art songs and opera arias in An American Songbook (Annotated).

Thierry van Bastelaer explores the ingenuity, the practicality, the hard work, the deep empathy, and the sheer genius that characterized Johann Sebastian Bach’s music—and that still speak to us today through his art—in Bach’s Supreme Achievement: Turning Human Struggles into Divine Music.

Bruce Johnson explores the evolution of West Coast jazz as a “cool” alternative to bebop in California “Cool”: The People, Sights, and Sounds that Defined West Coast Jazz.

Come expand your musical horizons with RENESAN this fall!

Important Fall Semester Dates:

Fall course catalog and calendar will be posted on Renesan.org by August 12.

Your course brochure should reach your mailbox by August 15.

Registration starts August 15.

Courses start September 6.

Summer Office Hours:
By appointment.

Contact Staff via email at director@renesan.org

Masks are required in our office.

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