The Learning Curve is pleased to welcome you to another semester full of intriguing ideas, interesting classmates and instructors who delight in sharing their knowledge with others. Through music, visual art, literature, history and more we will continue to explore the human experience. As we learn together, the stories of those who came before us inspire and inform the stories yet to come.
Easy on-line registration is now available. Take a look at the classes below and click on the instructor photo or class title to see the full course description and complete your registration. The process is quick, easy and secure.
Registration is worry-free. If your plans change, simply let us know before the class start date and we’ll process your refund promptly. Let us know after a class begins and we’ll issue a refund for the remaining sessions.
Join us in 2023 to increase your understanding of a favorite subject or discover something new. Sample the delectable dishes at Vivace Restaurant during our Food for Thought lunch lecture series, take your seat at the LOFT Cinema, visit the UA Center for Creative Photography and enjoy the convenience of classes offered at the Hampton Inn.
The Learning Curve Library offers access to recorded sessions of classes taught in previous semesters that can be viewed at your convenience.
If you have questions about any of the programs or need assistance with registration, please call 520-777-5817 or send your question to info@thelearningcurvetucson.com. We’ll be glad to help
The Learning Curve Team
Now in our 21st year of connecting those who love to teach with those who love to learn…
Join us in 2023
Making it Real: Writing a New Way into the World
Expand your narrative writing style, write across genres, explore rich sensory language and see your own stories in a new light in this 6 week writing workshop.
Tuesdays, Feb 7 – Mar 14
10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Instructor: Molly McKasson
The Creative Intersection of Art and Theatre
Explore the influence of the fine arts on the theater and vice versa in the 16th – 19th centuries and consider the cultural context and the exchange of ideas that shaped both disciplines.
Wednesdays, Mar 8 – 29
1:30 – 3:30 pm
Instructor: Kevin Justus
Discovering The American Soundtrack Through the Lens of Jazz
Through a mix of live performance and recorded samples, take a journey through time as we experience music, gain different levels of understanding, and realize the “power of now” in Jazz Music.
Thursdays, Mar 9 - 30
1:30 – 3:30 pm
Instructor: Khris Dodge
Bookmarks: Literary Lectures
Move beyond the well-known works of great American authors to discover often overlooked treasures in this new series of monthly lectures by literature professor William Fry.
– Register for each session individually –
Walt Whitman
Discover and discuss these often-overlooked treasures in a series of lectures that will expand your understanding of and appreciation for the giants of American literature.
Friday Apr 7
10:00 am – noon
Instructor: William A. Fry
Food For Thought: a lunch lecture series
Nourish your intellect while you enjoy the delicious northern Italian dishes offered by Vivace Restaurant in this series featuring presenters from a variety of disciplines.
Food for Thought – The Forgotten Botanist
Take a visual journey with Sara Plummer Lemmon, the 1880s botanist and artist for whom Mount Lemmon is named, as she moved west in 1870, taught herself botany, and, after marrying John Gill Lemmon, discovered and illustrated many Arizona plant species.
Monday, April 3
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Instructor: Wynne Brown