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Steinbeck: The Voice of the West Coast
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
Steinbeck: the Voice of the West Coast
Nobel Prize author John Steinbeck uniquely captures our coastal region in such novels as East of Eden and his short stories. Our discussion will explore Steinbeck’s process of composing the novel and how the region influenced his greatest works. The instructor’s father was a lifelong friend of Steinbeck and passed on many stories of their friendship that relate to the published works. Please read East of Eden in preparation for this class.
date .......... Tues., Feb. 12-March 18
time .......... 3-4:30 p.m.
fee/members .......... $50 (crn 23790)
fee/nonmembers .......... $65 (crn 24434)
place .......... HBAC Room 208
instr .......... Tom Gage
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
David Korten’s book, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, offers a compelling spiritual and ethical blueprint that can help us build a just, sustainable and peaceful future. This book draws on the spiritual, social, economic, scientific, psychological and common sense history of the last 5000 years. We will read and discuss the Earth Community model as a cooperative, locally rooted self-organizing blueprint for a sustainable future and will reflect how we in Humboldt are working toward The Great Turning.
THIS COURSE HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Consider this course instead:
Climate Change: Science, Policy & the Human Response
Here is an introduction to the writing of fiction and memoir. We will share and discuss each other’s work while also reading works of world literature. At its core, the class aims to help writers learn to tell the stories of their life. In order to do so, students must learn to process their vast experience, choose the stories they most want to tell and the way they want to tell them. They must try to find their own voice. Flannery O’Connor called the habit of observant interpretation “the habit of Art.” To learn to write is also to learn to cultivate a way of seeing things, to take note of one’s surroundings, and choose which details are worth telling. In this class we will cultivate observant interpretation of one’s own memories.
date .......... Thurs., Feb. 21-April 10
time .......... 1-3 p.m.
fee/members .......... $60 (crn 23599)
fee/nonmembers .......... $75 (crn 24394)
place .......... HBAC Room 208
instr .......... Leila Binder
