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3.00 - 45.00 Credits
A survey of western and alternative medical models incorporating exercises in breathing and stretching and journal keeping, as well as a peer support group. There are guest lecturers in acupuncture, massage, chiropractic, and hypnotherapy. The objective is to enable students to become more active and knowledgeable participants in their own health care.
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3.00 - 36.00 Credits
Older adults discover and practice memory and mental fitness techniques in practical and creative ways. Learn how memory works, and what factors affect how well our brain functions. Students discover and use their own learning style to improve their ability to retain and retrieve information.
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3.00 - 36.00 Credits
Research has shown that social engagement is a key to healthy aging. Learn what research and practice have uncovered about different aspects of social relations in later life, such as intergenerational/cross-generational activities, family relations, civic engagement, intimacy, care giving, and death and grieving. Discover free and low-cost opportunities for social engagement, including intellectual, social and physical activities in and around San Francisco.
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3.00 - 45.00 Credits
Open to beginning and advanced students. Using oil paints or watercolors, students will study and work to develop different painting techniques through a series of exercises. Students will receive individual instruction on how to mix colors, work from still life materials, work from landscapes and eventually work from live models. Students provide their own materials.
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3.00 - 45.00 Credits
A general survey of arts and crafts with an emphasis on exercises and experiments with methods and materials, including: painting, drawing, color theory, composition rendering, batik, tie-dye, macrame, block printing, ceramics, metal crafts, leather, and weaving.
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3.00 - 54.00 Credits
Studio class in drawing the human figure from a live model. For beginners to professionals. Pencil, charcoal, ink, and watercolors. Field trips will be included in the program to study and evaluate other artists' works.
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3.00 - 36.00 Credits
Study of and familiarization with the music of western civilization. Students are introduced to a sampling of music from ballets, operas, and symphonies.
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3.00 - 54.00 Credits
Students read plays, attend performances, and develop critical skills in review discussions. The history of theater, elements of dramatic literature, and production techniques.
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3.00 - 45.00 Credits
Patchwork, Hawaiian quilting, trapunto, cross stitch, embroidery stitches. Projects include two pillows, a small quilt, embroidering on a garment, a purse, and construction of a bound book.
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3.00 - 36.00 Credits
Introduction to art, painting and sculpturing from the Lascaux cave paintings to modern day artists. Topics include: biographies and personalities of various artists; different art styles; the basic elements of art; the basic periods of art history and their characteristic styles along with the reasons such styles were developed.
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