Tai Chi & Qigong (Chi Kung) III Fee: $149 In this Level 3 class the instructor will teach various concepts and principles from Qigong (Chi Kung) and Tai Chi Chuan in order to enhance and deepen the students’ experience and practice of the movements and routines that were learned previously along with any new forms introduced in class. Instructor Mark Przybysz is a certified full instructor in Master Mantak Chia’s Universal Healing Tao system. Prerequisite: Tai Chi and Qigong (Chi Kung) I and Tai Chi and Qigong (Chi Kung) II, or equivalent knowledge. No class 10/22, 11/26. PED E48, OC/SK, 12 Wed., 9/10-12/10, 1:15-2:15 p.m. CRN: 60036 Brain Fitness Workshop Fee: $115 A course designed to teach 55+ adults how to exercise their brains to slow down the progress of aging-related cognitive decline. This game-based learning approach will provide different activities to promote critical thinking and problem- solving skills. Students are led through fun and engaging activities designed to exercise the brain to maintain and enhance brain health. Marco Chou uses a blended learning environment that integrates technology and digital media with traditional instructor-led classroom activities including word search, math, pattern recognition, trivia and more to improve memory, and boost brain health. HEAE63, OC/DP, 8 Fri., 10/3-11/21, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. CRN: 60039 History and Philosophy New! The 1960’s Fee: $119 A significant era in U.S. history, the 1960s challenged and reshaped America’s sense of self, society, politics, culture, and what constitutes the American dream. Take a journey into the realms of the 1960s, including war, peace, civil rights, women’s liberation, ecological awareness, sexual revolution, counterculture, religion and spirituality. Taught by Luchiano Silverstein . HIS E48, OC/SK, 6 Wed., 9/10-10/15, 1-3 p.m. CRN: 60049 New! Overlapping Empires: Great Britain and the Catholic Church, 1763-1963 Fee: $109 After three centuries of enmity, Great Britain and the Catholic Church initiated a reconciliation in the mid-1700s that supported British rule in Canada and Ireland, resisted revolutionary France, shaped the course of Italian politics, responded to industrial unrest, and endured clashes over religious doctrines and cultural issues. Join Joseph Harrington to analyze the fraught relationship of two leading global entities seeking to preserve their world positions. No class 10/22.
New! The Makings of a Revolution Fee: $109 Sixty years ago, scholar Crane Brinton published The Anatomy of a Revolution, a work that sought to identify patterns and processes shared by the great political revolutions of modern history. In this course Joseph Harrington will draw on Brinton’s and other works to analyze common and distinctive features of six great political and social revolutions: the American, French, Mexican, Russian, Chinese, and Iranian. No class 10/22. HIS E31, 6 Wed., 9/24-11/5, 1-3 p.m. In person at Skokie Campus CRN; 60057 Virtual attendance CRN: 60058 New! Frank Stanford: Bard of the Rural South Fee: $79 This four-week course focuses on the brief life and prolific output of the critically acclaimed (yet not widely known) Arkansas poet Frank Stanford, who died by suicide at age 29. Led by retired instructor Daniel Reid , a longtime fan and collector of Stanford’s works, this course uncovers Stanford’s inimitably haunting and surreal pilgrimage toward death, even as his poems spring with primitive vitality and offer raw insight into the vagaries of the human heart. HUM E17, OC/SK, 4 Mon., 10/6-10/27, 1-3 p.m. CRN: 60059 Language Beginning Conversational French for 50+ Fee: $135 Did you know that learning a new language can off-set cognitive losses as we age? Exercise your mind while learning to speak one of the fastest growing languages in the world. This class will provide students with an introduction to the beauty and mysteries of the French language, and will seek to raise their comfort level by providing a fun format for learning, and tips on how to get beyond the difficulties of a new language. No class 10/22. LFR B04, OC/SK, 8 Wed., 9/24-11/19, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. CRN: 60030
HIS E03, 6 Wed., 9/24-11/5, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. In person at Skokie Campus CRN; 60055 Virtual attendance CRN: 60056
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