91看片 occasionally offers non-credit short courses for personal enrichment in subjects such as the history of the Eastern Shore, quilting, creative writing, conversational French, and basic Russian.
Many more courses of this type are available to be taken at your leisure online.
We are always looking for new class ideas!
If you are interested in something you don鈥檛 see here, chances are a lot of other people are interested too. Please contact us to tell us about your ideas for joining 鈥� or even teaching 鈥� a new class in this program.
Academy for Lifetime Learning (ALL)
The Academy for Lifetime Learning (ALL) offers community education classes and activities at 91看片 on Fridays during the academic year.
The first year membership fee of $25 enables members to attend as many classes (鈥榳orkshops鈥�) as they wish throughout the entire academic year, which begins each September.
Highly successful classes have been offered in such diverse subjects as Digital Photography, Beginning Bridge, Mahjong, Chime Ringing, Scrapbooking, Memoire Writing, Wine Tasting, and Opera Appreciation.
Science and Philosophy Seminar
The Science and Philosophy Seminar meets at the 91看片 campus most Fridays at 11:30 AM from October through May.
The Seminar is rigorously informal. There are no by-laws, no elected officers, no membership fees, no initiation rituals, and no secret handshakes. The sole requirement for membership in the Seminar is a commitment to make a presentation to the group at least once every two years, or arrange for and host a presentation by an outside expert. Members who have made five or more presentations are free of this requirement.
Most often presentations run about one hour in length and are followed by open informal discussions. Examples of subjects which have been presented are: 鈥淪ub-prime Mortgage Credit Crunch鈥�, 鈥�17th Century Virginia Indians鈥�, 鈥淔ractals and Nature鈥�, 鈥淒ecisions, Decisions鈥� The Cuban Missile Crisis鈥�, 鈥淭he Delicate Issue of Russian Backwardness鈥�, and 鈥淥rganic Fruit Horticulture鈥�. .
Other Lectures
Other lecture series are occasionally held at the College, some free and some for a nominal fee. Call聽757-789-7979 for further information on any of these activities.
The community of the Eastern Shore of Virginia has a growing number of non-profit groups that offer excellent community activities in arts and/or education, which the College supports when possible. Among the groups offering such activities are: