Author: Susan

Fall
2022
Catalog
Sessions A, B & C

Register In-Person: August 18, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
On-Line: MJC.edu in Community Education Section

CLASSES ARE HELD
IN THE EL CAPITAN CENTER BUILDING
MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
DURING FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
SUMMER No Mondays or Fridays
LOCATED ON THE WEST CAMPUS OF
MODESTO JUNIOR COLLEGE

Session A
MONDAY
INTERNET 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Coordinator: David Froba
While we m@y compl@in @bout it, most of us find the internet @ v@lu@ble tool, @nd in so m@ny w@ys. In this class we will @ttempt to sep@r@te the whe@t from the ch@ff @nd m@ke it @ better experience. We h@ve things to present, but @nticip@te th@t we will share our collective knowledge @nd tips. How to @ccess news, we@ther, shopping, music, movies, sports, g@mes, hobbies, fin@nces, and wh@tever. How to m@int@in security. Social medi@? @pplications? If you c@n, bring your l@ptops, t@blets, or sm@rt phones. But most of @ll bring yourself. @nd m@ybe @ friend. @nd fina@lly, what is "@" c@lled?

BRIDGE 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Coordinator: Ron Rutschman
*A & B Sessions
This is a long-standing class that is finally returning, now that we are back in-person. As always, this class serves both experienced players and members who have never played bridge and want to learn something new.

TUESDAY
ADDICTIVE BRAIN 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Coordinator: Bob Druoal
Addiction touches us all. This course explains the difference between drug use, abuse, and clinical addiction. The causes of addiction are explained. The course will reveal what happens when your brain is on drugs, and why do addicts behave the way they do.
Addiction is sometimes viewed as a failure of morality, character, or will. But neuroscience offers a very different picture—one that can inform how we, as individuals and as a society, can treat addicts and the problems caused by addiction. Addiction is a scientifically understandable problem that has its origins in neurobiology and genetics.

SOCIAL ZOOM 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Coordinators: Wayne & Diana Sicard
*A, B & C Sessions
If you're missing your friends during these days of social distancing, consider joining our MICL Social Zoom. It's fun, and it will lift your spirits more than you might imagine. Time spent talking to, and hanging out with people will lift your mood! Please join us!

WEDNESDAY
POTPOURRI 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Coordinators: Roger Jackson & Diana Sicard
A mixture of classes with no overall theme or objective.
8/24 1) Adult CPR and AED - Diana Sicard 2) First Aid - Roger Jackson
8/31 1) Is Smart Technology Making Us Dumb? Roger Jackson
9/07 1) How Blood Pressure Works - Roger Jackson
2) On Pins and Needles: Living with Neuropathy - Diana Sicard
3) Home Safety for Seniors - Roger Jackson
9/14 1) Exercise for Seniors - Debi Jackson 2) Mindfulness - Debi Jackson
9/21 1) Broken Ties - A documentary about the Russian/Ukraine conflict, Betty Stewart

WRIGHTING IT DOWN 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm
*A, B & C Sessions
Coordinator: Joyce Starkey
Do you like to write? Do you have family stories you want to share with your grandkids? Do you like to write poetry? If you answered yes to any of these questions, come join our writing group. Write anything you like at home and bring it to class when you are ready to share. We will enjoy what you wrote and offer friendly feedback. Don’t worry, sharing is always voluntary! If you are not sure, come and listen to check it out. Come and join our writing community of writers and listeners.

THURSDAY
CURRENT EVENTS (FORMERLY WHAT IN THE WORLD) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
*A, B & C Sessions
Have you ever watched TV or read a news paper article, opinion, or letter to the editor and really wanted to discuss or react to what you read? “Current Events” is just the class for you. We discuss all kinds of issues and happenings from your neighborhood, local, regional, state, national, and world news. You bring in the topic, introduce it, and we all discuss it with the help of our collective expertise.

THE BIG BANG 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Coordinator: Deidre Bush
*A & B Sessions
Join us as we continue our exploration of Astronomy, and the wonders of the universe, be dazzled by the remarkable photos taken by the new James Webb Telescope which it is hoped will look back to when the Big Bang began. The Big Bang is not necessarily the beginning of the universe, instead, it refers to the earliest moment we can currently talk about.
This course will begin in Session A and be completed in Session B. In Session A, we will learn how the Big Bang changes Everything, the First Few Minutes of the Universe, the First Galaxies, the First Stars and Dark Matter, How Big was the Big Bang, Mysteries that Re-Shaped the Big Bang Model, and the idea that there may be More Than One Big Bang in the Multiverse.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022 - LAST THURSDAY OF EACH SESSION
SESSION A POTLUCK 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
*A, B & C Sessions

BOOK CLUB - ON ZOOM 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Coordinator: Carol Sullivan
*A & B Sessions on Zoom **C Session in the classroom
“20 Lessons on Tyranny”, by Timothy Snyder
This is a very important and powerful little book and I think it deserves all the time we will spend on it. It was written in 2017, yet it is very pertinent to what is happening today.
Lessons 11-20 are the second session. Please listen to the You Tube Link before the meeting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tocssf3w80&t=40s

FRIDAY
FRIDAY AT THE MOVIES 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Coordinator: Ed Padilla
*A, B & C Sessions
08/26 - “Pandora's Box “ - 1929 - Silent Film Classic
09/02 - “Excalibur” - 1981 - Fantasy
09/09 - “Identity” - 2003 - Mystery
09/16 - “Mirror Mask” - 2005 - Fantasy
09/23 - Picnic at Hanging Rock - 1975 - Mystery

Session B
MONDAY
“UNDERSTANDING RUSSIA - A CULTURAL HISTORY” 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Coordinator: Betty Stewart
*B & C Sessions
We will start a journey of learning about the last several hundred years of Russian history and culture. Our goal? To understand the complex, fascinating Russian spirit. What does it mean to be Russian? Lectures will be interspersed with personal impressions from my 17 trips to the country. This journey will start in Session B & continue through Session C. Discussions should be lively in light of their current war with Ukraine.

BRIDGE 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Coordinator: Ron Rutschman
*A & B Sessions *C Session on Tuesday

TUESDAY
JOHN MIUR, YOSEMITE, AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Coordinator Anita Young
A bill creating the first national park, Yellowstone, was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872. Eighteen years later, in 1890, Yosemite was designated a national park, due to the influence of John Muir on President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1892, the Sierra Club was founded by Muir and others interested in exploring the “mountains of the Pacific Coast” and in preserving the natural beauty of Yosemite.
We will journey with Muir as he explores the natural world and shows others its wonders. The Sierra Club created an information center in Yosemite Valley to educate visitors and protect the Valley from encroaching development; it still works diligently to educate and protect the environment on a much larger scale.
Many other activists have traveled in Muir’s footsteps, including David Brower, whose work helped to create the Wilderness Act, and Rachel Carson, who many credit with starting the environmental movement. We will hear from local activists and pay tribute to other notable figures in the environmental movement

SOCIAL ZOOM 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Coordinators: Wayne and Diana Sicard
*A, B & C Sessions

WEDNESDAY
WORLD WAR I 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Coordinators: Hugh Brereton and Wayne Sicard
Our Presentation on World War I is being presented by volunteer members of MICL with an interest in history. You will not learn “all about World War I”, but rather specific topics chosen by the individual members, including the Start of the War; Aviation; Propaganda; the War Years of 1917 and 1918; and Versailles where the Treaty was signed.

WRITING IT DOWN 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Coordinator: Joyce Starkey
*A, B & C Sessions

THURSDAY
CURRENT EVENTS (FORMERLY WHAT IN THE WORLD) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
*A, B & C Sessions
Coordinator: Duane Nelson

THE BIG BANG 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Coordinator: Deidre Bush
*A & B Sessions

OCTOBER 27, 2022 - LAST THURSDAY OF EACH SESSION
SESSION B POTLUCK 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
*A,B & C Sessions
BOOK CLUB 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Coordinator: Carol Sullivan
*A,B & C Sessions
October 27, 2022, has been canceled for this one meeting only. Our next meeting will be December 8, 2022, IN PERSON in the Classroom after the potluck, at our regular 1:00 PM time. We have selected a book that is 400 pages so we hope many of you will take the time to read with us and join us at our first IN PERSON class since the dreaded covid had reared its head.

FRIDAY
FRIDAY AT THE MOVIES 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Coordinator: Ed Padilla
Sept 30 -- Rabbit Proof Fence - 2002 - Drama
Oct 7 -- Carnival of Souls - 1962- Horror -- Unrated
Oct 14 -- The Fall - 2010 - Fantasy
Oct 21 -- Devil -- 2010 - Horror - PG13
Oct 28 -- The Ring - 2002 - Horror - PG13

SESSION C
MONDAY
UNDERSTANDING RUSSIA: A CULTURAL HISTORY 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
*B & C Sessions
Coordinator: Betty Stewart
We will start a journey of learning about the last several hundred years of Russian history and culture. Our goal? To understand the complex, fascinating Russian spirit. What does it mean to be Russian? Lectures will be interspersed with personal impressions from my 17 trips to the country. This journey will start in Session B & continue through Session C. Discussions should be lively in light of their current war with Ukraine.

CLASSICAL MUSIC APPRECIATION 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Coordinator: Christine Beckstrom
October 31- It’s Macabre! Dark, Scary, Mysterious Classical Music November 7- Let’s get to know Rachmaninoff and Sibelius! November 14- Musical Instruments that Survived the Holocaust November 21- No class November 28- Synesthesia December 5 - St. Cecilia, Patron Saint Of Music

TUESDAY
NON-PROFITS IN OUR COMMUNITY 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Coordinator: Roger Jackson
A nonprofit organization is formed for the sole purpose of benefitting societal welfare in a tangible manner, seeking to answer a humanitarian or environmental need.
Please join us on this 5-week journey to learn about some of these organizations serving our greater Stanislaus area.

BRIDGE - IN THE CLASSROOM 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Coordinator: Ron Rutschman
SOCIAL ZOOM 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Coordinators: Wayne & Diana Sicard

WEDNESDAY
EVERYDAY ENGINEERING: UNDERSTANDING THE MARVELS OF DAILY LIFE
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Coordinator: Ed Ponganis
Discover how engineering and technology influence our daily life. This class focuses on the engineering principles you encounter in your daily life at home and in the car. Explore how engineers use math, science, technologies, and experience to provide electrical, water, plumbing, structural, drainage, and communication solutions in our home. Engineering focuses on how something works, the scientific principles used, how and why systems fail, and the role of government to provide predictable functional solutions. Explore the workings of the fascinating buildings, devices, and public utilities that we use almost every minute of the day.

WRIGHTING IT DOWN 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Coordinator: Joyce Starkey
*A, B & C Sessions

THURSDAY
CURRENT EVENTS (FORMERLY WHAT IN THE WORLD) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Coordinator: Duane Nelson
*A, B & C Sessions

BIRDING 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Coordinator: David Froba
We'll use our field guide, photos, videos, and audio to learn to identify and appreciate the birds of our local area. We'll work both mind and soul, since to know nature is to love it. In connection with the classes, each weekend we will take a non-MICL field trip to selected parts of our local area to hone our skills and deepen our appreciation for the birds that we have just studied. David Sibley's Field Guide to the Birds of Western North America" is recommended but not required. In preparation for the class it would be good to watch the video "Wings Over Out Two Counties" on YouTube.

DECEMBER 9, 2022 - LAST THURSDAY OF EACH SESSION
POTLUCK 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
*A, B & C Sessions
BOOK CLUB 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Coordinator: Carol Sullivan
*A, B & C Sessions
”The Book of Lost Names”, by Kristen Harmel
Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish Children flee the Nazis in this historical novel.
As a Polish-Jew graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris. She begins forging identity documents for Jewish children so they can flee to neutral Switzerland.
Erasing people comes with a price, and Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records kept in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell helping is betrayed.

FRIDAY
FRIDAY AT THE MOVIES 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Coordinator: Ed Padilla
Nov 4: “Young at Heart” - Musical
Nov 11: Veterans Day -- MJC Closed
Nov 18th: “Shut Up & Sing” - Drama
Nov 25 - Thanksgiving Holiday -- MJC Closed
Dec 2 - “Whiteout” - Mystery
Dec 9 - “Samsara” -- Documentary

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