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Academic Connections Online Registration Each course, except “The Master Viewer,” will meet for four 90-minute classes over four weeks in the Tempe Connections meeting room next to the Connections Café on the Main Floor of the Tempe Public Library. Relationships Across the Lifespan Explore several basic issues for individuals and families as we grow and change. How do generational differences in experiences affect values, habits, and ways of communication? How do personality differences explain why people approach ordinary life in such ways? What happens as we age that affects our sexual expression? Finally, how can grandparents enhance their relationships with grandchildren, whether teens or toddlers, long-distance or just around the block? Special Relativity: Case Closed In spite of its weird, counterintuitive ramifications, Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity has been experimentally substantiated beyond reasonable doubt and, in conjunction with quantum physics, at a level more accurate and precise than any other scientific theory. In this course, learn to understand Special Relativity, its experimental foundations, its technological applications and how to cope with its strange implications. No mathematical skills or physics background are necessary. A Spanish Classic: Life is a Dream* (La vida es sueño) Examine a monarch’s struggle with personal fears of leaving his kingdom to his progeny and the consequences suffered from his actions in one of the great plays of Spain’s classical theater. Religion in the Modern World Investigate some of the significant factors and forces that have impacted upon religion in the modern world – how secular dynamics have effected religious beliefs and practices, while also keeping in mind how religions have impinged upon the everyday lives of modern and post-modern men and women. Investigate movements such as: Fundamentalisms, the Mega-Church movement, Church-State issues, New Age and Asian spiritualities, the Social Gospel, and “Spiritual, but not religious” sensibilities. Net Mania: Exploring New Websites Innovative new sites appear on the Internet daily. Expand your Internet savvy in the areas of multimedia, social networking, and other genres of interest to the class. Each session will introduce several new sites. Students will be given time to explore the sites in class before joining in a discussion on usefulness or privacy or other issues pertaining to the sites. Post Impressionism Examine the lives and art of artists who were influenced by the Impressionists, including Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Rousseau, as well as the Pointillists, such as Seurat, and the Les Nabis, such as Bonnard. The Master Viewer THIS CLASS IS FULL-PLEASE SELECT ANOTHER CLASS Master filmmakers have created art in cinema for 115 years. But art not only needs creators, it needs viewers. Investigate the ideas that make watching a movie more than entertainment, covering the film spectrum from cinematography to scriptwriting to editing and beyond using lectures, discussion, film clips, guest speakers, homework and fun. Become a master viewer. |
