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Public University takes lifelong learning to a deeper level by offering six to eight-week online courses by some of the nation’s most engaging faculty. Limited class sizes, structured teaching, and engaging dialogue without grades or tests make learning fun and stress-free. Free to members, non-members pay a small registration fee.

 

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2022 Spring Semester Classes

Online Using Zoom

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  • Chautauqua & Chat with historical figures Walt Whitman, Josiah Henson, and Richard Wright
    Chautauqua & Chat with historical figures Walt Whitman, Josiah Henson, and Richard Wright
    Sun, Jan 29
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Jan 29, 4:00 PM CST – Jan 31, 7:00 PM CST
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    In this webinar series you will learn about three historical figures: the father of free verse poetry, an abolitionist minister, and originator of the phrase "Black Power"
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  • The Constitution and Presidential Power with David Adler
    The Constitution and Presidential Power with David Adler
    Mon, Jan 30
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Jan 30, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    The enduring debate on the nature and scope of presidential power.
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  • Dearly Departed: Write Your Own Obituary with Ann Crews Melton
    Dearly Departed: Write Your Own Obituary with Ann Crews Melton
    Thu, Feb 02
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 02, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    A two-part writing workshop where you will be invited to reflect on a life well (and still to be) lived.
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  • The Humanities Are Calling! with Brian Palecek
    The Humanities Are Calling! with Brian Palecek
    Sun, Feb 05
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 05, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    A lively symposium in four sessions for friends of the humanities who want to be effective advocates.
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  • Chautauqua & Chat with historical figures Kasturba Gandhi, Frances Perkins, and Michael Mooney
    Chautauqua & Chat with historical figures Kasturba Gandhi, Frances Perkins, and Michael Mooney
    Sun, Feb 05
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Feb 05, 4:00 PM CST – Feb 07, 7:00 PM CST
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    In this webinar series you will learn about three historical figures: Gandhi's wife, the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, and the leader of a massive 1880's miners strike
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  • Contested Histories in Remembering Americana with Raffi Andonian
    Contested Histories in Remembering Americana with Raffi Andonian
    Wed, Feb 08
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 08, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    What makes historic sites, monuments, curriculums, publications, films, and symbols so controversial?
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  • Romanticism in Short Fiction: Naturally, Worth a Read with April van Buren
    Romanticism in Short Fiction: Naturally, Worth a Read with April van Buren
    Thu, Feb 16
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 16, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Fascinating, strange and sometimes terrifying late 18th (and early 19th) century stories.
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  • The Beauty of Being Wrong with David Bjerklie
    The Beauty of Being Wrong with David Bjerklie
    Sun, Feb 19
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 19, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Intellectual humility is linked to a long list of potential benefits, personal as well as social.
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  • Deserts to Mountaintops book event featuring authors Lonna Whiting, Ruth Hetland and Sue Muraida
    Deserts to Mountaintops book event featuring authors Lonna Whiting, Ruth Hetland and Sue Muraida
    Sun, Feb 19
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    Feb 19, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CST
    ONLINE event via Zoom
    This book chronicles 22 women's voices and their unique journey from the desert of self-abandonment to the mountaintop of self-love. Each chapter focuses on one woman’s specific story.
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  • The Messiness of Human Nature with Serge Danielson-Francois
    The Messiness of Human Nature with Serge Danielson-Francois
    Mon, Feb 20
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Feb 20, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CST
    ONLINE class via Zoom
    Let’s write a contemporary interpretation of Federalist 51!