Course Catalog OLLI@UGA
January through June 2015 Learning for Successful Retirement You can learn a lot about successful retirement during OLLI@UGA’s spring semester, says curriculum chair Carol Kurtz. “We have a lot of classes addressing physical, mental and emotional needs in aging, such as improving the immune system and balance, problems such as hearing loss and senior safety, preventive medicine and even suicide and depression,” she says. Keeping active is a foundation for feeling good, and opportunities to learn tai chi, yoga and even pickleball offer fun and games. All in all, there are 25 courses in the aging, fitness and health and health-related categories. “Certainly eating and drinking well are part of good health and happiness and there are 11 courses that explore preparation, cooking and the enjoyment of healthy foods,” Kurtz says. Classes on ingredients such as cheese, wine, vinegar, olive oil and plantbased foods complement how-to sessions on dishes from snacks and entrees to sushi. One of timely interest is Wild, Fresh, Whole, Trader and Farm with Elizabeth Warner, whose academic career included 25 years as a senior faculty member at Miami Dade College. Warner, who has taken doctoral courses at the Clayton College of Natural Medicine, will discuss the natural food, farm-to-table movement, along with the corporations and politics involved. Hot topics will include organic foods, labeling, GMOs, pricing and food choices. “Consuming holistic and sustainable foods connects us to the web of life as stewards of the earth and makes for healthy people and a healthy planet,” Warner says. Kurtz points out that “social events and personal enrichment are also good for physical and mental health,” and the spring curriculum offers a wide selection. Two one-session classes of special interest are Daura at GMOA— Modernism in Europe and America presented by Dr. Lynn Boland, Pierre Daura curator of European Art at the Georgia
Museum of Art, and American Newspaper Marches: A Forgotten Musical Genre presented by Dr. George Foreman, director of the UGA Performing Arts Center and a member of the School of Music faculty. The development of 20th-century art can be seen in the paintings of Pierre Daura (1896-1976), Catalan-American co-founder of the influential Cercle et Carré, whose members included Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondarian and Fernand Leger. A collection of Daura’s works and archive materials were given to GMOA by the artist’s daughter, Martha Randolph Daura, in 2002, along with an endowment to support the Daura Center Collection and curator. Newspaper marches are not well known today but were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, inspired by the rousing “Washington Post March” by John Phillip Sousa. Foreman has documented some 600 American newspaper marches and other instrumental pieces, including “The New York Times,” “The Chicago Tribune” and “The Baltimore Sun.” This year’s spring curriculum has 20 categories and a total of 154 classes, as well as 25 special interest groups, social events and trips. “It is a privilege and an honor to serve as the chair of the curriculum committee, an extremely hardworking, creative group of men and women who bring us the rich array of OLLI classes and field trips,” Kurtz says. “These varied offerings significantly contribute to the successful aging of each of our members.”
What’s Inside? Course listing by Category
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Alphabetic listing of presenters
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Alphabetic course listing with descriptions
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Monthly Calendar with courses
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Special Interest Groups
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Alphabetic course listing with schedule
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OLLI@UGA – Membership Form
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OLLI@UGA – Maps
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