Lifelong Learning offers a wide array of learning opportunities and experiences in a stimulating environment of wide-ranging interests. For the most part, members select the class subjects, and all are taught by experienced teachers gifted in the art of communicating in a down-to-earth and colorful style.

The program offers diverse learning opportunities with little homework and no tests. In addition, Lifelong Learning provides a comfortable venue for relationships with persons of similar interest and abilities.

All interested persons are invited to join, and the membership fee includes the following benefits:

• Classes during daytime hours at easily accessible sites

• Activities and day study trips to unique places

• Information about lectures and other special events at Baylor University

Dues paid in the fall semester are for the entire year. For those who didn’t join in the fall, please add the pro-rated winter/spring dues ($30 per individual) to your registration.

The Lifelong Learning program has initiated a scholarship fund to be awarded annually to one or more Baylor students from the central Texas area, and a portion of the membership dues will be deposited into that account. Members are encouraged to make additional donations to the account in memory or honor of someone, and all giving is acknowledged by Baylor University with a gift receipt. Fees for specific class registrations support the operating expenses of the program.

SPECIAL ACTIVITIESPlease Invite friends to attend a coffee or join a bus trip.

Friday, Jan. 20, 10 a.m.

Coffee and programSpeaker: Sandra Killough from Bonnie’s Greenhouse and Janet Schaffer from Carleen Bright Arboretum Carleen Bright Arboretum – Pavilion

1 Pavillion Way, Woodway, TX 76712

Friday, Feb. 17, 10 a.m.

Coffee and program Presentation: The Gildersleeve Project Lee Lockwood Library, 2801 West Waco Dr.

Friday, March 17, 10 a.m.

Coffee and program Speaker and tour of Methodist Children’s Home Methodist Children’s Home, 1111 Herring Ave.

Friday, April 7

Bus trip to Corsicana to visit Navarro College’s Pearce Museum (the Civil War and Western Art collections) and Cook Center Planetarium plus historic downtown

Friday, May 5

Spring luncheon Centex Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, 915 LaSalle Ave.

These activities are subject to change.

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Baylor’s Lifelong Learning is a primarily volunteer-led

membership-based organization that offers courses and

events each fall and spring. Course topics are designed by

the membership and all sessions are offered during daytime

hours. Intellectually curious adults looking for a comfortable

venue for friendship and leadership opportunities are

encouraged to visit baylor.edu/continuingeducation for

more information or to become a member.

(254) 710-6440 • lifelonglearning@baylor.edu

WINTER/SPRING 2017 COURSES AND SPECIAL EVENTS

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2016-17 BOARD MEMBERS

President Bob SigmundVice President Janice RunyonsSecretary Joe FalsoneMember at Large Gail BairdMember at Large Frank LevyMember at Large Mike WoodsonPast President Jan PurdyEx Officio Audrey Johnson

STANDING COMMITTEES

Convener Chair Trudy WoodsonCurriculum Chair Lee FischerHistorian Billie deFreesPublicity/Membership John MareshSpecial Events Linda Hatchel

Lifelong Learning

CONTINUING EDUCATION

□□LL1701 The Great American SongbookThursdays, 1:30-3 pmJan. 12, 19, and 26, Feb. 2Pipkin Center, Austin Avenue Methodist Church, 1300 Austin Ave.

Class limited to 15 students

Local musicians Ken Frazier, Bob Lott and Ken Harris join vocalist Ann Harder for a tour through the Great American Songbook. Each week they will perform a dozen or so selections in the following categories:

“By the Beautiful Waters,” “A Trip Abroad,” “Hooray for Hollywood” and “Lost in the 50s and 60s Tonight.”

□□LL1702 Behind the Scenes at a Television StationWednesdays, 10-11 amJan. 18, 25, Feb. 1 and 8KXXV Studios, 1909 S. New RoadClass limited to 15 students KXXV news anchor Ann Harder will coordinate a behind-the-scenes tour of the local television business, highlighting everything from news to commercial production. You will hear from reporters and producers as well as engineers and management on what it takes to keep a television station on the air. Participants can opt to stay in the studio each week after class for the midday show (11:30-noon).

□□LL1703 Women Writings for Women’s RightsMondays, 10-11:30 amJan. 23 and 30, Feb. 6 and 13Pipkin Center, Austin Avenue Methodist Church, 1300 Austin Ave.

Dr. Lisa Shaver is professor in Baylor’s English department with research interests in women's rhetoric, history of rhetoric, writing across the curriculum, professional writing and literacy studies. Join Dr. Shaver to investigate some of the most fascinating women in the world and examine their strategies in pursuing the right to education, public speech, suffrage, safe homes, employment, healthcare and more.

□□LL1704 Korean Culture and CustomsThursdays, 1:30-3 pmFeb. 2, 9, 16 and 23Mayborn Museum Complex, 1300 S University Parks Dr.Class limited to 20 students

In her course, Dr. Sonia Kim Uber, a lecturer in the Modern Languages and Cultures department, will look at the culture and customs of Korea. Come peak through the window into another world of cuisine, holidays, etiquette, language, religion, geography, climate, politics, economics, and places to visit.

□□LL1705 A Survey of 100+ ComicsTuesdays, 10-11:30 amFebruary 7, 14, 21 and 28Pipkin Center, Austin Avenue Methodist Church, 1300 Austin Ave.

Newspaper comics are a unique American art form and story narrative. Join Dr. Henry Walbesser, a former Baylor professor, as he uncovers and examines some of the best variations of this fantastic art form.

□□LL1706 Some Recent Advancements in Cutting-Edge Science

Tuesdays, 3-4:30 pmFebruary 7, 14, 21 and 28Mayborn Museum Complex, 1300 S University Parks Dr.Join Dr. Gerald Cleaver as he presents exciting discoveries and advancements in cutting edge science: astrophysics and cosmology, anthropology, materials science, electronics and computers and genetics. This Baylor professor is director of the Graduate Program in the Department of Physics and of the Early Universe Cosmology and String Theory division of the Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics and Engineering Research.

□□LL1707 A War Gamer's Perspective of Gettysburg and Waterloo

Thursdays, 1-4 pmFeb. 23, April 20Pipkin Center, Austin Avenue Methodist Church, 1300 Austin Ave.

Class limited to 12 students

The drama of these historic battles will come alive through presentations by Jim Dunnam, Lee Fischer and Joe Walker. Dunnam’s dioramas using miniature war-gaming pieces will illustrate the action around Little Big Top during the Gettysburg campaign and the whole of the Waterloo battle. The class will include a review of the three-day battle of Gettysburg, and Walker will display original artifacts from the Civil War at break.

□□LL1708 The “Scandalous” life of Mary, Queen of ScotsWednesdays, 3:15-4:45pmApril 5, 12, 19, 26Pipkin Center, Austin Avenue Methodist Church, 1300 Austin Ave.

One island, two queens, three religions—what could possibly go wrong? Dr. Ann McGlashan, Baylor professor of German and Russian, delves into the enthralling story of the “scandalous” life of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her relationship with her cousin, Elizabeth I of England, who had Mary beheaded. The course will look into the religious conflicts at the time of the English and Scottish reformations, the realities of power politics, and what it meant to be a queen and a woman in the volatile 16th century.

□□LL1709 From New World to New Millennium: The Settlement and Development of the American Landscape

Monday, 1-3 pmMarch 13, 20 and 27Mayborn Museum Complex, 1300 S University Parks Dr.Dr. Stephen Sloan, Baylor History professor and director of the Institute for Oral History, will lead the class as it delves into the exploration of physical, social and cultural relationships between settlers and the places that they would call home in the United States. Topics include pre-contact contexts, new encounters of exchange and adaptation, and the rise of the modern landscape.

□□LL1710 Bob Anne’s Book Club: First Ladies by Susan Swain

Thursdays, 1:30-3 pmMarch 16, 23 and 30, April 6Pipkin Center, Austin Avenue Methodist Church, 1300 Austin Ave.

Bob Anne Senter returns to review the exciting First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women by Susan Swain. The book was informed by C-SPAN’s year-long history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image, aired in 2013 and 2014. The book provides an intimate look into the lives and stories of America’s first ladies, including those first ladies history has too-long overlooked.

□□LL1711 Language in SocietyMondays, 3-4:30 pmMarch 20, 27, and April 3Mayborn Museum Complex, 1300 S University Parks Dr.Dr. Clay Butler, a senior lecturer of language and linguistics in Baylor’s Department of English, will introduce the field of sociolinguistics in this course. He will discuss the role of language in forming personal and social identity, the relationship between society and its languages and dialects, and the wide variety of interactions between language and our social world.

□□LL1712 The Scarlet Letter: An American IconTuesdays, 1-2:30 pmApril 4, 11, 18 and 25 Pipkin Center, Austin Avenue Methodist Church, 1300 Austin Ave.

Class limited to 25 students

“Man’s accidents are God’s purposes” etched Sophia Peabody Hawthorne into the glass window of the Olde Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1843. The inscription became the inspiration for her beloved husband Nathaniel’s literary legacy, beginning with his novel The Scarlet Letter (1850). This dark romance focuses on the psychological impact of sin, guilt, and revenge on three sinners in Puritan New England. Diane Hamilton returns to focus on Hawthorne’s use of symbols in weaving his Gothic tale about the wearer of the iconic scarlet letter. Participants should read chapters 1-4 of The Scarlet Letter for the first class; they do not need to read the “The Custom House” forward.

LIFELONG LEARNING MEMBERSHIP FORM

January 1, 2017 – May 31, 2017

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WINTER/SPRING-ONLY MEMBERSHIP DUES: (Unnecessary if you joined in the fall. Remember a portion of the dues goes into the LLL Scholarship Fund)

MEMBER DUES: Couple $60/Individual $30 = $

CLASS FEE: Number of courses @ $20 = $

TOTAL ENCLOSED: $

TO REGISTERVisit: baylor.edu/continuingeducation

Call: (254) 710-6440 to pay with credit card or return this form and check payable to Baylor University to:

DIVISION OF CONSTITUENT ENGAGEMENT BAYLOR CONTINUING EDUCATION Lifelong Learning One Bear Place #97340 Waco, TX 76798-7340

FOR QUESTIONS: (254) 710-6440 or lifelonglearning@baylor.edu baylor.edu/continuingeducation

COURSE REGISTRATION In the blanks below, fill in the course number (located in the listings in this brochure). Enroll in as many classes as you wish, and be sure to note for yourself which you choose.

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WINTER/SPRING 2017 COURSES

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