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Renesan Institute for Lifelong Learning

Renesan

Institute for Lifelong Learning

Classes

Unless otherwise noted, classes meet at St. John’s United Methodist Church—see the map on our Location page. An asterisk * after a name denotes a new Renesan presenter.

Once you choose your courses and field trips, you can download and print a registration form from the navigation menu, our our Forms page, or Registration links available elsewhere on many other website pages. Send the completed form, with a check to Renesan.

Due to our many excellent class suggestions, we've double-scheduled some time slots. Please check the calendar carefully before you sign up!

C-1 Old Wine, New Bottles: Platonism after Plato
Karl Kregor
Monday: Jan 30; Feb 6, 13, 20, 27; Mar 5; 10-noon
C-2 Jazz
Bob Jones
Monday: Jan 30; Feb 6, 13, 20, 27; 1-3
C-3 Reading Around the World
Martha Simonsen
Monday: Jan 30; Feb 6, 13, 20; 3-5
closed to registration
C-4 The Car Guys
Fred Vang and Denise McCluggage
Tuesday: Jan 31; Feb 7; 10-noon
C-5 Hot Spots
Bill Stewart
Tuesday: Jan 31; Feb 14, 28; Mar 13, 27; Apr 10; 1-3
C-6 A Layperson's Introduction to International Human Rights Law
Donna Gomien
Wednesday: Feb 1, 8, 15, 22; 10-noon
C-7 German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945
K. Paul Jones
Wednesday: Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; 1-3
C-8 Film Discussion I
Kathy Adelsheim
Thursday: Feb 2, 16; Mar 1, 15, 29; 9:30-11:30
C-9 Film Discussion II
Kathy Adelsheim
Thursday: Feb 2, 16; Mar 1, 15, 29; noon-2
C-10 The New Yorker I
K. Paul Jones
Tuesday: Feb 7, 21; Mar 6, 20; Apr 3, 17; 1-3
C-11 The New Yorker II
Trish Steindler
Tuesday: Feb 7, 21; Mar 6, 20; Apr 3, 17; 1-3
C-12 19th Century Russian Literature: Four Short Masterpieces
Robert Glick *
Thursday: Feb 9, 23; Mar 8, 22; 10-noon
C-13 Adapting Jane Austen's Novels to Film
Patricia Hopkins Lattin *
Wednesday: Feb 15, 22, 29; Mar 7, 14; 3-5
C-14 Ibsen's Women
Terry Otten
Tuesday: Feb 28; Mar 6, 13, 20; 10-noon
C-15 Social Class in America—What Is It?
Jo Ellen Jacobs *
Tuesday: Feb 28; Mar 6, 13, 20; 3-5
C-16 Rossini—Performance
Joe Illick
Tuesday: Feb 28, 7:30PM at the United Church of Santa Fe
C-17 Memoir Writing
Pat Shapiro *
Monday: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26; 1-3
closed to registration
C-18 Mabel Dodge Luhan and the Debate Over Anglo Patronage of Native-American Arts
Lois Rudnick *
Monday: Mar 5, 12; 3-5
closed to registration
C-19 Eternal Echoes—Reading the Bible as Literature
Rabbi Nicolas Behrmann *
Wednesday: Mar 7, 14, 21, 28; 10-noon
C-20 Fabulous Ladies of Song—From Pop to Jazz
Bev and Gano Evans
Wednesday: Mar 7, 14, 21, 28; 1-3
C-21 The Santa Fe Trail
Allan Wheeler
Monday: Mar 12, 19; 10-noon
C-22 Thornton Wilder's Our Town—Production and Discussion
Scott Harrison *
Thursday: Mar 15; Apr 5; 10-noon (classes, Santa Fe Playhouse)
Saturday: Mar 31; 7:30PM (performance, Santa Fe Playhouse)
C-23 Ethical Issues at the Beginning of Life
Halley Faust
Monday: Mar 19, 26; Apr 2; 3-5
C-24 Nordic Noir
Margy Willen and Patricia Jonietz
Wednesday: Mar 21, 28; Apr 4; 3-5
C-25 Navajo Baskets
Susan McGreevey
Monday: Mar 26; Apr 2, 9, 16 (at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture located on Museum Hill); 10-noon
C-26 Music and the Piano
Sergio Rodriguez
Tuesday: Mar 27; Apr 3, 10; 10-noon
C-27 Unflinching Gaze: Faulkner and Morrison in Conversation
Lib O'Brien
Tuesday: Mar 27; Apr 3, 10, 17; 3-5
C-28 Shakespeare's Lost Play
cancelled due to low enrollment
C-29 An Introduction to Studio Glass: Touring Santa Fe's Art Galleries
Betsy Ehrenberg *
Wednesday: Apr 4, 11, 18; 10-noon
C-30 The New Deal and the Humanities
Kathy Flynn
Monday: Apr 9, 16; 1-3