The Meeman Center for Lifelong Learning at Rhodes College is enrolling students for its spring 2014 continuing education classes. Since 1944, it has been an integral part of the college engaging adults of the Mid-South in the liberal arts and sciences.
JANUARY
The Search For Values: Session I-Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling starting Jan. 7 and ending Jan. 14
Hearing Music Differently: A Musical Miscellany starting Jan. 8 and ending Jan. 29
Taijiquan I- Session I starting Jan. 8 and ending Feb. 26
Drugs and the Brain, Science Versus Belief starting Jan. 13 and ending Feb. 3
The Search For Values: Session II-Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Undergroundstarting Jan. 21 and ending Jan. 28
The World of Literature: Session I-The Love Department by William Trevor starting Jan. 27 and ending Feb. 3
The Russian Novel: Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita starting Jan. 30 and ending Feb. 13
FEBRUARY
The Search For Values: Session III-Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo starting Feb. 4 and ending Feb. 11
How to Be a Wise and Compassionate Person: Mindfulness in the 21st Century starting Feb. 4 and ending March 25
Brigham Young’s American Kingdom starting Feb. 5 and ending Feb. 26
The Road to World War I starting Feb. 10 and ending March 3
Neuroscience of the Mind and Brain starting Feb. 12 and ending March 5
The Search For Values: Session IV-Music of Richard Wagner starting Feb. 18 and ending Feb. 25
Between Plato’s Eros and Freud’s Libido: Sexual Desire and the Morality of Sex starting Feb. 20 and ending April 3
MARCH
Music of the World of Downton Abbey-The Pre-War Years starting March 4 and ending March 25
American Realism starting March 17 and ending March 31
Christianity Before Christianity: The Letters of Paul starting March 19 and ending April 9
Taijiquan I- Session II starting March 5 and ending April 9
Outclass the Competition: Learn Old-Fashioned Etiquette and International Protocol Skills starting March 4 and ending March 25
APRIL
The History of Country Music starting April 1 and ending April 29
The World of Literature: Session II-Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz starting April 7 and ending April 14
Memphis History: Centuries of Adventure & Development starting April 7 and ending April 28
Connoisseurship in African Art starting April 8 and ending April 22
Jews in French Literature and Culture starting April 16 and ending May 7
The World of Literature: Session III-Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas starting April 24 and ending May 1
Shakespeare on Stage and Film: From the Taming of the Shrew to Kiss Me Kate starting April 28 and ending May 12
JUNE
Movies at the Meeman: Session I-The Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple on June 2
Movies at the Meeman: Session II-The Coen Brothers’ Raising Arizona on June 9
Movies at the Meeman: Session III-The Coen Brothers’ O Brother Where Art Thou? on June 16