LITERATURE, WRITING & LANGUAGE

A Joyous Way to Learn

Mandarin Chinese

LWRL 1007

Thursday

Dates: 9/21 to 10/19 (5 weeks)

Time: 1–3 PM

Facilitator: Yi Ren

Location: 1st Universalist

Class Limit: 10 Participants

Sponsoring Site: Central

This five-week course is specially designed for OLLI at DU members.

In this class, you will learn essential and important pronunciation and four tones of Chinese language and about basic Chinese character writing skills. We will work on greeting people and introducing ourselves with some courtesy phrases and sentences, practice counting numbers and singing Chinese songs. We will use innovative approaches such as using hands, fingers, writing/drawing and singing songs to learn vocabulary and to practice common sentences. For many students, these are easier methods to learn Mandarin Chinese in a classroom setting.

All The Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy

LWRL 1009

Thursday

Dates: 9/21 to 11/9 (8 weeks)

Time: 9:30–11:30 AM

Facilitators: Gracie and Don Batt , Master Facilitators

Location: Online

Class Limit: 25 Participants

Sponsoring Site: Central

From the cover: “All the Pretty Horses tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border Mexico beckons—beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two companions, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.”

We approach reading as discovery in a reading community; therefore, some of the reading is done in class so that, together, we encounter the text as a group. PLEASE DO NOT START READING THE BOOK BEFORE CLASS BEGINS.