Anderson University

Fall 2008 Lifelong Learning courses

Feel Better, Look Younger

If you have ever wished that someone could help you turn back the clock and get a new lease on life, then this may be the workshop for you.   Working together with an experienced professional, you will learn to: 

• Examine over 100 health behaviors that will enable you to assess your own scientific biological age.
• Design a personal longevity program that can have a reversing effect on your aging trajectory.
• Be able to suggest health behaviors that can promote younger living at any age.
• Design activities that encourage imagination, art, music, nature, relaxation and the discussion of controversial topics.
• Encourage others to live a healthy life-style.

Tuesdays, 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. 
Six-week workshop:  Sept 18, Sept. 25, Oct. 2, Oct. 9, Oct 16, and Oct. 23
Location:  AnMed Health Campus conference room 
Registration: $20.   Workshop limited to 24 participants.  
Note: LLI will donate a portion of registration fees to the AnMed Foundation.

Text: The RealAge Makeover by Michael F. Roizen, M.D., Harper Collins 2005. Text will be available at the AU Bookstore (231-2020).   Amazon.com price is approx. $12.    

Dr. BOB CORNESKY holds degrees in Medical Microbiology and Public Health Microbiology and has had a distinguished career as a college professor and administrator..  His company has provided workshops to over 500 institutions of higher education on how to apply Quality Improvement Principles for Active Collaborative Learning in the classroom.  Dr. Cornesky's passion is sharing the concepts of Healthy Habits and Longevity.  

Nine Women who Changed America

Karenna Gore Schiff's nationally bestselling narrative, Lighting the Way, tells the fascinating stories of nine influential women, who each in her own way, tackled inequity and advocated change throughout the turbulent twentieth century.  Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who was born a slave and fought against lynching; Mother Jones, an Irish immigrant who organized coal miners and campaigned against child labor; Alice Hamilton, who pushed for regulation of industrial toxins; Dolores Huerta, who organized farm workers; Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, an activist for reproductive rights; and Gretchen Buchenholz, one of the nation's leading child advocates.  "Schiff delivers an intimate and accessible account of these women who deserve not only to be honored but to have their example serve as beacons." (From the editors of Barnes & Noble.com)

Wednesdays, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Six week course:  Oct. 10, Oct. 17, Oct. 24, Oct. 31, Nov,7 and Nov. 14. 
Registration: $20    Registration will be limited. 

Returning discussion leader GAYLE MERRITT is a graduate of AC, Furman, and Clemson and lives in Taylor, SC.   Gayle taught English at Anderson College for several years before beginning a career in insurance.   We are fortunate that Gayle has now returned to her first loves: literature and teaching.
Lighting the Way by Karenna Gore Schiff (Miramax) will be available in the AU Bookstore (231-2020).  Amazon.com price approx. $12.

Tarzan of the Apes:  A Multimedia Journey

During the first half of the twentieth century, Tarzan swung through almost every boy's imagination.   Even today, Tarzan is still alive and living in Africa as well as in comic books and comic strips. 

Edgar Rice Burroughs, a pencil sharpener salesman, published his second pulp fiction novel in 1912 - Tarzan of the Apes.  The book followed in 1914.  Followed by twenty-five Tarzan adventure books in several languages. 

Tarzan quickly caught on worldwide.   From the first novel, 40 movies, hundreds of comic books, comic strips in most newspapers, radio shows, television serials, and an upcoming Broadway musical followed.   Merchandise proliferated: toys, gasoline, games, underwear, costumes, ice cream, running shoes, etc., etc. etc.  All of this is a lot considering the book came within a hair's breadth of not being published. 

In this four-session course, we will watch clips from some Tarzan movies, including the original (1918), and explore all the other aspects of Tarzan.  Students will be encouraged to use the Internet for additional research, but this is not mandatory or necessary. 
Class meets Thursdays, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Four-week course:  Sept. 20, 27, Oct. 4, and 11
Location:   Anderson Place Activities Room
Registration:  $15

Dr. JIM CHISMAN is a productivity consultant and retired professor of industrial engineering at Clemson University.  He is an avid collector of antique art, furniture, and electro-mechanical devices.  He and his wife, Jeanne, enjoy performing in Senior Follies and foreign travel.

A thank you . . . with dulcimer music

As a big THANK YOU for your support and encouragement for the past 13 years, LLI offers a special "kick off" event, free to LLI students and friends on campus at Anderson University.

BOB THOMASON, master dulcimer builder and professional player from Sautee, Georgia, will give a concert and talk about the unique sounds and the history of Appalachian dulcimer music.   Mr. Thomason is a former AC student and a graduate of Clemson University who has successfully worked with numerous Elderhostel programs in SC, NC, and GA.

Date:
Location: Anderson University 
Registration:  There is no fee for this program.   We ask that you bring a friend and call or email ahead to let us know you will be attending. 

FOLLOW UP WORKSHOP:  Mr. Thomason will schedule a one-day dulcimer-building workshop on campus in early October.  Participants will assemble and finish an all wood Appalachian dulcimer from materials provided.  No woodworking experience is required.  To find out more about the workshop, contact the LLI office or pick up materials at the concert!

Writing Your Life Story
       Please join a small group workshop comprised of people who have the time, interest and pizzazz to begin writing their own and their family's story.  You may even want to invite your spouse, or a son or daughter to join you!  This process and experience is "good for what ails all of us" - indeed it's a real gift to yourself and your family to begin the process of writing your story. 

       What's involved?  Our group will gather five afternoons to talk about our hopes and dreams for our completed essays.  How and why do you want to set down your story?  What tools and resources do you need to get started - or to finish your project?  We will hear about the tools used by other class members and discover the software and Internet resources that are available to help.   

        Are your children asking you to record important dates, facts, and events for safekeeping?   This could be the time and place to begin.

Mondays, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Five week course:  Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1, 8, 15. 
Registration: $15,   $25 for two in one family

This will be the 15th course DICK COCKRELL has taught for LLI friends.   Dick is a retired Episcopalian pastor and teacher with a strong yearning for the arts and social justice. 

The Creativity of Stephen Sondheim
"Art isn't easy – but it can be glorious!"

We've all heard and enjoyed Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, George and Ira Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and many other gifted composers or lyricists.  Now, come and meet Stephen Sondheim!   We will enjoy an anthology of his lyrics and music that first touched Americans in "West Side Story" in 1957. 

Broadway and American musical and stage drama has gone through a poignant transformation in the past 80 years.  Stephen Sondheim is one of the giants who moved the transformation.  American history, the institutions of marriage and family, divorce and other sensitive issues have been set to words and music in Sondheim's rich panoply of musical shows and reviews these past 50+ years. 

Come, and be introduced or reintroduced to: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; West Side Story; Company; Follies; A Little Night Music; Assassins; Pacific Overtures; Into the Woods and Sunday in the Park with George.

As a special treat, Rosalind Silverstein will again delight students with several Sondheim songs.

Thursday afternoons, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Five-week course:  Oct. 18, 25, Nov. 1, 8 and 15. 
Registration $20

Course leader DICK COCKRELL has previously led discussions of musical giants such as Oscar Hammerstein II, Leonard Bernstein, and the Gershwin brothers, as well as a discussion of Porgy and Bess.   In all, Dick has offered more than 15 outstanding programs for LLI friends.  
 

To register for any Lifelong Learning class,  please call 864-231-2058 or email: cboles@andersonuniversity.edu