There’s still time to enroll in several Coastal Senior College spring courses. Classes are affordable ($35 enrollment fee per class), meet during the day, and offer a fun and stimulating environment for lifelong learners.
For detailed descriptions of all spring classes, either visit CSC online at www.coastalseniorcollege.org or pick up a CSC at many businesses and libraries in Lincoln and Knox counties. For new students, membership is $25.
Bring an acoustic instrument to “Easy Bluegrass Jamming” taught by musician Resa Randolph. Class will be held in the undercroft at St. Andrew’s Church in Newcastle for eight sessions beginning on Monday, April 3 from 10 a.m. to noon. Students may arrive between 9:30 and 10 a.m. to tune instruments.
In addition to instruction in jamming etiquette and harmony singing, each week students will learn four or five traditional bluegrass songs by ear.
Learn more about how government works and share questions in seasoned facilitator Carmen Lavertu’s course “Ideals of Democracy,” beginning Wednesday, April 5 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Thomaston.
The class will study, discuss, and reflect on the major ideas of our democratic government and society over eight sessions.
Students will watch feature films and critique them in “Hollywood as Ideology.” Course runs for eight Thursdays beginning April 6 from 12:30 to 3 p.m. at the Camden Library.
Media culture and history expert Will Solomon will lead discussions examining how movies distort the complexity of modern life as they reaffirm and sometimes revise the values which pervade U.S. popular culture.
Engineer, researcher, and energy expert Paul Kando offers “After Capitalism” beginning on Friday, April 7 from 10 a.m. to noon for six sessions at URock in the Breakwater Building in Rockland.
Students will consider these questions: How well does the current economic system serve the basic human needs of every member of society? If it does not, what can we do? Participants will explore current systemic problems and crises and latent opportunities for beneficial change many of these problems present.
Art historian Antoinette Pimentel’s course “Tenebrism and Chiaroscuro: ‘How a single candle can both defy and define darkness’” focuses on Caravaggio, a master Italian painter from Milan whose used light and shadow deliberately to help tell the story of his canvases.
Students will look closely at Caravaggio’s works to better understand how the contrasting devices of tenebrism and chiaroscuro not only add drama to what is represented but also intimate events that precede and follow the moments captured on canvas.
The class meets for six Mondays beginning April 10 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Bremen Library.
To register for a class or classes: mail in the registration form from the CSC website or print catalog; call 596-6906, or visit the URock office, Suite 402 in the Breakwater Building at 91 Camden St. in Rockland.