Length: 28 hours (7 weeks).
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Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: evaluate current research findings in the field of adult development in order to better understand the components of aging effectively; determine the influence that gender, culture, ethnicity, race, and socioeconomics have on successful aging; assess brain research and its implications for lifelong learning and aging; structure a process for conducting interviews and use the information in a research project; and relate information from the course to one's own life and how the aging process is playing out.
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Length: 28 hours (7 weeks).
Dates:
Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: gain confidence in their ability to be creative; develop convictions to generate and refine highly original, non-obvious solutions to a wide variety of needs and problems; explore resources, tools, and techniques to use in helping creative efforts; experience many different approaches to being creative, bringing into the effort viewpoints from the sciences, the arts, and all forms of human endeavor; understand idea generation and development; and develop skills in the management of creative individuals, including themselves, and projects in business, the community, and personal development.
Instruction: This course explores the subject of creativity from the standpoint of making the student more aware of a world of potentials and the limitless surrounding possibilities for making and doing the new and useful in a wide variety of settings. Major topics covered in the course are: enhancing personal creativity; explore the deep intellectual background of creativity with noted physicist David Bohm; generate and refine ideas with others, using a wide variety of group and team creative processes; explore the creative process in business and other realms.
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Length: 28 hours (7 weeks).
Dates: July 2010 - Present.
Objectives: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: model the process involved in creating a speech; assess the factors surrounding a speech: presentation, audience, and environment; gain experience in live speaking situations with diverse topics and audiences; develop and apply skills to other situations where speech-making is required; evaluate historical and contemporary presentations, made by others; develop confidence and ease in speaking; and communicate ethically.
Instruction: Major topics include: public speaking and the communication process; managing communication apprehension; listening effectively; analyzing one's audience; adapting to diverse audiences; enhancing one's credibility and selecting a topic; speaking with a purpose; discovering and outlining a speech; supporting one's ideas with evidence; organizing and outlining a speech; delivering a speech effectively; and using language effectively.
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