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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 01-23-2023 to 01-23-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:30 PMInstructor: Naomi Daremblum, Professor, Latin American Culture & Politics, Montgomery Coll.Term: 2023-1Location: Online ClassAfter 40 years of uneven experience, democracy is facing acute challenges in Latin America. Over the past two decades, two of the region’s countries—Venezuela and Nicaragua—have completed the transition from being representative democracies to fully-fledged dictatorships, while a few others are barely worthy of the democratic label. Democracy in... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 01-23-2023 to 01-23-2023Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 3:00 PM → 4:00 PMInstructor: Justin Martello, MDTerm: 2023-1Location: Online ClassParkinson’s Disease is a neurological condition said to impact more than 1M people in the U.S. Join Dr. Justin Martello for an overview of the disease and how the Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area helps people slow its... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 01-24-2023 to 01-24-2023Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Julie Kurzava, Music Faculty, Loyola UniversityTerm: 2023-1Location: Online ClassSadly, we recently lost the great stage and screen actress Angela Lansbury in 2022. An amazingly versatile actress, her career stretched over 80 years. Julie Kurzava revisits her stage work and the writers and composers she inspired. She earned 6 Tony Awards in the process, including Stephen Sondheim (Sweeney Todd and more), Noel Coward (Blithe Spirit),... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 01-24-2023 to 01-24-2023Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Julie Kurzava, Music Faculty, Loyola UniversityTerm: 2023-1Location: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreSadly, we recently lost the great stage and screen actress Angela Lansbury in 2022. An amazingly versatile actress, her career stretched over 80 years. Julie Kurzava revisits her stage work and the writers and composers she inspired. She earned 6 Tony Awards in the process, including Stephen Sondheim (Sweeney Todd and more), Noel Coward (Blithe Spirit),... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 01-24-2023 to 01-24-2023Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:15 PMInstructor: Brian Rose, Professor (ret.), Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham UniversityTerm: 2023-1Location: Online ClassAlfred Hitchcock is probably the most famous film director who ever lived. For five decades, first in England, then in Hollywood, he made fifty-four films, including classics such as The Thirty-Nine Steps, Rebecca, Notorious, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo, and Psycho. Few filmmakers have been as popular, critically celebrated, and as influential,... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 01-24-2023 to 01-24-2023Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 3:00 PM → 4:30 PMInstructor: Jonina Duker, Certified Book Discussion LeaderTerm: 2023-1Location: Online ClassMaryland’s new governor Westley Watende Omari Moore's short life has been eventful enough that he has two memoirs. You can choose which memoir to read and we'll examine both to understand more about this man who has big plans for Maryland. In The Other Wes Moore, he writes, "The other Wes Moore is a drug dealer, a robber, a murderer. I am a Rhodes... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 01-25-2023 to 01-25-2023Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 11:30 AMInstructor: Lewis M. Simons, Foreign Correspondent and AuthorTerm: 2023-1Location: Online ClassBy way of an interview-style format, Philippino journalist Christian Esguerra will talk with foreign correspondent Lewis Simons about Simons' Pulitzer-prize winning story that led to the toppling of the Marcos regime, followed by a discussion of the recent return to power of the Marcos... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 01-25-2023 to 01-25-2023Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:30 PMInstructor: Jane Ellen, Performer, Composer, and Recording ArtistTerm: 2023-1Location: Online ClassSinger/songwriter Carole King (1942- ) began her career in the 1960s writing hit songs with then-husband Gerry Goffin. A decade later, she became an award-winning performer in her own right when the album Tapestry topped the US charts in 1971 for 15 weeks and remained on the charts for six years. Recipient of the Gershwin Prize from the Library of Congress... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 01-26-2023 to 01-26-2023Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Deeva Garel, Technology InstructorTerm: 2023-1Location: Online ClassFrustrated with all the long incomprehensible passwords that you need to stay safe online? Are you using the same password everywhere, or using passwords that are not secure because it’s so hard to keep track of them? This class will show you how to really ramp up your online safety easily by using a password manager app. You’ll learn what popular apps... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 01-26-2023 to 01-26-2023Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:30 PMInstructor: Robert Sutter, Professor of Practice of International Affairs, George Washington Univ.Term: 2023-1Location: Online ClassWith a steady foreign policy approach mixing economic benefits and an array of coercive measures, China has gradually displaced the United States as the most important power in Southeast Asia in the past decade. The Donald Trump administration was aware of the importance of this region for American interests in avoiding China's dominance in Asia but was... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 01-26-2023 to 01-26-2023Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 1:00 PM → 2:30 PMInstructor: Robert Sutter, Professor of Practice of International Affairs, George Washington Univ.Term: 2023-1Location: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreWith a steady foreign policy approach mixing economic benefits and an array of coercive measures, China has gradually displaced the United States as the most important power in Southeast Asia in the past decade. The Donald Trump administration was aware of the importance of this region for American interests in avoiding China's dominance in Asia but was... read more
