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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-09-2021 to 03-09-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 12:00 PM-01:30 PM Central Standard TimeInstructor: Peter BollandTerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - San Diego OasisAfter his near-fatal car accident, Mexican physician Don Miguel Ruiz became an apprentice of a Nagual or shaman in the Toltec tradition. His groundbreaking book The Four Agreements, a distillation of that indigenous American wisdom, has been translated into 48 languages and remained on the New York Times bestsellers list for ten years. At the heart of his... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-17-2021 to 03-17-2021Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 12:00 PM-01:15 PM Central Standard TimeInstructor: Kim KeelineTerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - San Diego OasisJoin Kim Keeline as she takes you through the cultural and historical changes going on in England that would directly impact Shakespeare and his audience. Get an overview of the wars and plague that changed social structure in Europe, a look at the current popular entertainments and how they changed, the growth of the City of London, how playhouses first... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-18-2021 to 03-18-2021Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 12:00 PM-01:00 PM Central Standard TimeInstructor: Aniko Makranczy, MFATerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - San Diego OasisJoan Mitchell is considered a second generation Abstract Expressionist painter who was one of few women artists to gain public acclaim. She is known for her large landscape paintings, some bright and colorful, others more somber and toned down. All of them are expressive, conveying emotions , movement, intensity and an essence of nature. Her education,... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-23-2021 to 03-23-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 12:00 PM-01:30 PM Central Standard TimeInstructor: Peter BollandTerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - San Diego OasisIn this class we’ll focus on a close reading of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” the first poem in his 1855 masterpiece Leaves of Grass. As we move through extended passages, Whitman’s prophetic voice takes hold and a bracing vision of American individualism rises into view. Equally worldly and transcendent, carnal and spiritual, Whitman artfully... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-24-2021 to 03-24-2021Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 12:00 PM-01:15 PM Central Standard TimeInstructor: Kim KeelineTerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - San Diego OasisShakespeare wrote Comedies, Histories and Tragedies according to the Table of Contents according to the Complete Works of Shakespeare printed in 1623 and commonly called the First Folio. What is the distinction between them? Learn the elements that make up a tragedy, the sources Shakespeare used to write his tragedies, and... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-25-2021 to 03-25-2021Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 03:00 PM-04:00 PM Central Standard TimeInstructor: Josh Franco, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Political ScienceTerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - San Diego OasisAccording to the Center for American Women and Politics, a record-breaking 141 women will be serving the U.S. Congress. Which committees will be led by female congress members and Senators? How do women lead and govern differently than men? How will women who identify with the Democratic Party and Republican Party work together? This workshop will explore... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-30-2021 to 03-30-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 03:00 PM-04:30 PM Central Standard TimeInstructor: Blaine Davies, MATerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - San Diego OasisOur first “feminist” first lady was also one of our most active and influential first ladies. While her paralyzed husband led our country through the Great Depression and World War II, Eleanor traveled throughout the country and the world bringing back to the White House a perspective that Franklin Roosevelt valued, appreciated and often... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 03-31-2021 to 03-31-2021Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 12:00 PM-01:15 PM Central Standard TimeInstructor: Kim KeelineTerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - San Diego OasisShakespeare wrote Comedies, Histories and Tragedies according to the Table of Contents according to the Complete Works of Shakespeare printed in 1623 and commonly called the First Folio. What is the distinction between them? What is cuckoldry and why is Elizabethan England so fascinated by it? Learn about how marriage and dance hold a comedy together,... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 04-13-2021 to 04-13-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 03:00 PM-04:30 PM Central Standard TimeInstructor: Blaine Davies, MATerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - San Diego OasisThomas Jefferson remains the greatest enigma of all U.S. Presidents. How could the man who penned the words, “all men are created equal” own slaves? While doubting whether the Constitution allowed him to do it, he authorized the Louisiana Purchase. Blaine Davies explores the life and contradictions of the scientist, architect, farmer, astronomer,... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 04-13-2021 to 04-13-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 12:00 PM-01:30 PM Central Standard TimeInstructor: Peter BollandTerm: 2020-2Location: Zoom - San Diego OasisSwami Harinamananda of the San Diego Vedanta Monastery and comparative religion professor Peter Bolland join forces again for this dialogue exploring the Divine Feminine in Indian and western mythology. In the deepest traditions of India the ground of being is understood as fundamentally feminine. Shakti and her manifestation Mahadevi – the Great Mother... read more