THE
LEARNING CURVE Winter/Spring/Summer 2010 CALENDAR OF CLASSES
Here is our listing of classes by dates. Please select the class title for complete information.
January
Tucson’s Literary Presence (Tucson)
Wednesdays, 1/13 – 3/3 9:30-11:30am
Instructor: Bill Fry
Cost: $155 (8 sessions)
Tucson’s Literary Presence (Oro Valley)
Fridays, 1/15 – 3/5 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Bill Fry
Cost: $155 (8 sessions)
A New Light on Biblical Women
Tuesdays, 1/19 – 2/9 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Instructor: Beth Alpert Nakhai
Cost: $89 (4 sessions)
Mixed Media Studio
Tuesdays, 1/19 – 3/16
Session A: 9:00 a.m. – noon
Session B: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Instructor: Cynthia Miller
Cost: $185 (9 sessions)
Nature Drawing
Wednesdays, 1/27 – 2/17 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Instructor: Katie Iverson
Cost: $95 (4 sessions)
Tucson Treasures Tour:
Friday, 1/29 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun
Cost: $20
February
Travel Photography in a Digital World
Wednesdays, 2/3 – 2/10 9:00 – a.m. – noon
Instructor: Robert Renfrow
Cost: $69 (2 sessions)
Adventures in Portrait Drawing
Thursdays, 2/4 – 3/11 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Instructor: Catherine Nash
Cost: $135 (6 sessions)
Tucson Treasures Tour
Friday, 2/5 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Arizona State Museum
Cost: $20
Food for Thought: George Washington and Religious Freedom
Monday, 2/8
11:30 a.m.– 1:30 p.m.
Instructor: Carol Garrard
Cost: $38 (includes lunch)
Portraits of 20th Century Choreographers: George Balanchine
Wednesday, 2/10 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Instructor: Melissa Lowe
Cost: $20
The Victorians
Thursdays, 2/11 – 3/04 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Instructor: Richard Cosgrove
Cost: $89 (4 sessions)
Science Fridays: DNA, The Strand That Connects Us All
Friday, 2/12 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Matt Kaplan
Cost: $26
Diagnosing Literary Legends
Monday, 2/15 – 3/01 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Instructor: Judith Rodman
Cost: $69 (3 sessions)
Going (Ba)Rogue
Monday, 2/15 10:00am – noon
Instructor: Bob Bernhardt
Cost $26
Fundamentals of Buddhist Thought
Mondays, 2/15 – 3/22 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Colby Kavanagh
Cost: $135 (6 sessions)
Moments of Being: Writing Memoir
Tuesdays, 2/16 – 3/23 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Rita Magdaleno
Cost: $135 (6 sessions)
Ports of Call/Musical and Culinary Adventure
Tuesday, 2/16 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Instructors: Bob Bernhardt/Janos Wilder
Cost: $49 (includes sampler plate)
Photography: In the Studio and On Location
Wednesdays, 2/17 – 3/17 9:00 a.m. – noon
Instructor: Robert Renfrow
Cost: $115 (5 sessions)
Hooray for Hollywood
Wednesdays, 2/17 – 3/3 11:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Instructor: Richard Hanson
Cost: $135 (6 sessions)
Shakespeare’s Women
Mondays, 2/22 – 3/30 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Marion Doane
Cost: $135 (6 sessions)
Introduction to Digital Photography: Camera Fundamentals
Mondays, 2/22 – 3/1 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Instructor: John Nemerovski
Cost: $69 (2 sessions)
Painting the American Indian and the West: Part 2
Tuesdays 2/23 – 3/30 10:00 a.m. - noon
Instructor: Penny David
Cost: $135 (6 sessions)
Johannes Brahms the Modernist
Tuesdays, 2/23 – 3/23 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Instructor: Harry Clark
Cost: $115 (5 sessions
Six Stories in Search of an Audience
Tuesdays, 2/23 – 3/30 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Instructor: Kathryn Cowan
Cost: $135 (6 sessions)
Landscape and Nature Poetry
Friday, 2/26 – 4/02 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Instructor: Barbara Gates
Cost: $115 (5 sessions)
Modern American Artists in the Phillips Collection
Fridays, 2/26 – 3/12 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Barbara Churchill
Cost: $69 (3 sessions)
Nonfiction Workshop
Saturdays, 2/27, 3/6, 3/20, 2/27 & 3/6
9:00 a.m. – noon
3/20 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Instructor: Gregory McNamee
Cost: $125 (3 sessions)
March
Portraits of 20th Century Choreographers: Donald McKayle
Wednesday, 3/3 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Instructor: Douglas Nielsen
Cost: $20
Mary Austin
Thursdays, 3/4 – 3/11 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Judy Nolte Temple
Cost: $49 (2 sessions)
Wine Chocolate and Warhol at TMA
Monday, 3/8 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Instructors: Julie Sasse/Ryan Granruth
Cost: $45
Watercolor
Wednesdays, 3/10 – 4/14 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Instructor: Katie Iverson
Cost: $145 (6 sessions)
Native American Weaving
Thursdays, 3/11 – 3/25 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Terry DeWald
Cost: $49 (2 sessions)
Tucson Collects: Part 2
Thursdays, 3/11 – 4/1 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Instructor: Mike Dominguez
Cost: $95 (4 sessions)
Food for Thought: Scotland the Brilliant
Monday, 3/15 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Instructor: Paul Fisher
Cost: $38 (includes lunch)
Famous Literary Feuds (Tucson)
Wednesdays, 3/17 – 4/14 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Bill Fry
Cost: $120 (5 sessions)
Ulysses by James Joyce
Thursdays, 3/18 – 4/8 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Robert McCue
Cost: $89 (4 sessions)
Field Sketching Around Tucson
Thursdays, 3/18 – 4/8 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Instructor: Catherine Nash
Cost: $95 (4 sessions)
Famous Literary Feuds (Oro Valley)
Fridays, 3/19 -4/16 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Bill Fry, Ph.D.
Cost: $120 (5 sessions)
Mixed Media Painting Workshop
Saturday, 3/20 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Instructor: Cynthia Miller
Cost: $69
Spanish Flavors and Tineo’s Palette at TMA
Monday, 3/22 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Instructors: Mike Dominguez/Doug Levy
Cost: $45
Introduction to Digital Photography: Computers and Software
Mondays, 3/22 – 3/29 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Instructor: John Nemerovski
Cost: $69 (2 sessions)
Science Fridays:
New Discoveries in the Archeology of the First Americans
Friday, 3/26 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Vance Holliday
Cost: $26
Wine and Western Vistas at TMA
Monday, 3/29 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Instructors: Robert Knight/Jean Cooper
Cost: $45
Journal to the Self
Tuesdays, 3/30 – 4/20 10:00 a.m. – noon
Instructor: Barbara Stahura
Cost: $125 (4 sessions)
Descriptive Astronomy
Wednesdays, 3/31 – 5/12 1:30-3:30pm
Instructor: Helmut Abt
Cost: $135 (6 sessions)
April
A Taste of Tuscany and Provence
Thursdays, 4/1 – 4/8 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Instructors: Linda and Larry Grossman
Cost: $79 (2 sessions including lunch)
Science Fridays:
The Neuroscience of Attention, Emotion and Meditation
Friday, 4/2 9:30 –11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Alfred Kaszniak
Cost: $26
Time Management for Writers
Saturday, 4/3 9:00 – noon
Instructor: Gregory McNamee
Cost: $39
Introduction to Digital Photography:
Beyond the Elements for Digital Images
Mondays, 4/5 – 4/12 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Instructor: John Nemerovski
Cost: $69 (2 sessions)
Food for Thought: D.H. Lawrence
Monday, 4/5 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Instructor: Penny David
Cost: $38 (includes lunch)
Travel Photography
Thursday, 4/15 – 4/22 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Instructor: Robert Renfrow
Cost: $69 (2 sessions)
Science Fridays: Valley Fever, Arizona's Disease
Friday, 4/16 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: John N. Galgiani
Cost: $26
Mixed Media Painting Workshop
Saturday, 4/17 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Instructor: Cynthia Miller
Cost: $69
Holy and Unholy Women in Byzantium
Mondays, 4/17 and 4/19 10:00am – noon
Instructor: Margaret Savage
Cost: $49 (2 sessions)
Spring-Loaded Short Fiction
Wednesday, 4/28 – 5/19 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Kathryn Cowan
Cost: $95 (4 sessions)
Digital Photography Basics
Monday, 4/26 – 5/10 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Instructor: John Nemerovski
Cost: $99 (3 sessions)
May
The Playful, Sacred Spirituality of India
Tuesday, 5/8 – 5/25 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Marcia Campoy
Cost: $95 (4 sessions)
Mixed Media Painting Workshop
Saturday, 5/8 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Instructor: Cynthia Miller
Cost: $69
Farmer's Market Cooking
Saturday, 5/22 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Instructor: Albert Hall
Cost: $39
July
Between the Lines: The Secret Lives of Literary Giants
Tucson Session
Wed 7/21 – 8/04 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Cost: $95 (4 sessions/includes reading packet)
Oro Valley Session
Fri 7/23 – 8/06 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: William Fry
Cost: $95 (4 sessions/includes reading packet)
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