Winter Quarter 2012 Classes - Mondays
January 9th - March 5th
A Layman's Introduction to Economics for Voters
Shakespeare's Macbeth
The Magic Mountain
A Matter of Taste-Getting to Know Ingredients
Film: Identities; Howard Hawks, Master of Genre
Illuminations: The Song Cycles of Benjamin Britten
Crochet
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
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A Note on Monday Classes
The John Marshall School Building will be closed for the winter holidays:
Monday, January 16, Martin Luther King's Birthday; and Monday, February 20, President's Day. We will extend the quarter to Monday, March 5. The Winter Quarter at LLC will be a seven-week quarter for Monday classes.
Class Descriptions - Mondays
| A Layman's Introduction to Economics for Voters | 9:30-10:45 |
| Bill Taylor | Room 106 |
This course will focus on what the informed voter needs to know about how our economic system operates. Some classes will take the form of lectures; others will focus on discussion. Please be forewarned that I have never even taken a course in economics - so please sign up if you have and can help me out!
| Shakespeare's Macbeth | 9:30-10:30 |
| Michael Shurgot | Room 107 |
Macbeth is the last of Shakespeare's "four great tragedies," and centers on a demented killer and his murderous, ambitious wife. It is also filled with some of Shakespeare's most astonishing and complex poetry, especially Macbeth's famed soliloquies. We will examine the psychology of Macbeth's murderous rampage through Scotland and the web of recurring images that sustain the play's focus on one of the least happy couples in western theater history.
| The Magic Mountain | 11:00-12:15 |
| Bruce Bigley | Room 107 |
We will read and discuss Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, his novel about the state of Europe just before World War 1, as seen through the eyes of an average young man who is visiting a tuberculosis sanatorium with an international clientele located in Davos, Switzerland. It is regarded by many as his most important novel, and with Ulysses and the Remembrance of Things Past, both published in the same decade, as among the most important novels of the Modern period.
| A Matter of Taste-Getting to Know Ingredients | 11:00-12:15 |
| Rebecca Crichton | Room 108 |
This semester we will continue to explore the fascinations of food and the gifts of our Seattle food scene. We will have guest speakers, discussions, tastings, and begin to construct and deconstruct our own 'flavor profile.' We will surf the internet to use the vast resources available to us. As we did in the fall, class participants will help determine the direction and focus of some of the sessions.
Rebecca Crichton was a caterer, recipe developer and food writer. She blogs about food (among other things) and qualifies as a serious "Foodie." She really does think about food "all the time!"
| Film: Identities; Howard Hawks, Master of Genre | 1:00-3:00 |
| Jim Mohundro | Room 108 |
A seven-week class in two parts.
Part I, Identities: The Prisoner of Zenda (Ronald Colman; Madeleine Carroll; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr,1937), Vertigo (Kim Novak, James Stewart, 1958) and Zelig (Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, 1983).
Part II, Howard Hawks, Master of Genre: Scarface (Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft, 1932), Bringing Up Baby (Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, 1938), The Big Sleep (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, 1946) and Red River (John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, 1948).
| Illuminations: The Song Cycles of Benjamin Britten | 1:00-2:30 |
| Theodore Deacon and Barbara Miller | Room 106 |
Benjamin Britten was arguably the greatest opera composer of the 20th century (as those of you who took Prof. Deacon's Britten opera classes in 2005 no doubt discovered). But did you know he was also the finest writer of dramatic song cycles as well? These beautiful and emotionally complex works were inspired by the grandest of poets: Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson, Rimbaud, even poems by the illustrious sculptor and painter Michelangelo. Not merely for voice and piano, Britten's cycles employ a creative array of instrumental accompaniment that matches the timbre and atmosphere of each text's unique imagery. Every cycle is an opera in itself, a journey reflecting Britten's own turbulent life and times. All of them are brilliant and unforgettable. A class both music novice and aficionado will enjoy.
| Crochet | 1:30-3:00 |
| Stacy Schulze | Lounge |
For beginners or refreshers. All you need is a hook and some yarn, and you can learn the skills to make clothes, household items and decorations. For learning and practice, bring some yarn and at least one hook of the right size for the yarn. You are invited to bring any patterns or crochet books that interest you. Class limited to ten participants.