This class provides in-depth viewing and discussing the selected work of esteemed photographic artists from the early nineteen twenties to today. The focus is for students to become aware of how to see and understand the artists’ intentions at the moment of “making the image.” The value of examining the work of these highly creative artists is to enable the students to apply what they have discovered to their own work. Each week you will investigate and discuss the work of three or more artists. Assignments will involve students’ selecting a particular photographer’s way of working and making imagery which emulates that artist. A portion of class time will be devoted to viewing the students’ efforts.

Richard Olderman has an M.F.A. in photography from The Art Institute of Chicago and has taught at Northern Illinois University; Columbia College, Chicago; and The Art Institute of Chicago. For more information, contact Richard Olderman at 904.261.2544.

The first cooking class presented by the Center will teach you to prepare your own Oktoberfest dinner, and let you eat what you cook! Session one will include menu familiarization, appetizers, salads, bread and doing the prep work for the second session. The second session will complete the menu items and culminate with a buffet for all to enjoy. The Menu: Reuben Balls, Assorted Raw Vegetable Salads, Onion Pie, Sauerbraten, Wiener Schnitzel, Spaetzle, Braised Red Cabbage, German Potato Salad and Apple Strudel.

Chef Castleberry is the Culinary Professor at the Lewis “Red” Bean Technical Center at FCCJ in Yulee. He has owned and operated Castle Catering for 15 years, has extensive experience teaching adult cooking classes, has authored two cookbooks and has been featured on HGTV.

This class will prepare you to get the most out of a trip to Italy or simply to your favorite Italian restaurant! It will cover greetings, introductions, common expressions, making friends, asking directions, going shopping and dining out. You will learn basic pronunciation and a few notions of grammar.

Italian is Maria Clucas’ native tongue, and she has taught Italian at the university level.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged” that Pride and Prejudice is one of the five best novels ever written. Its main characters struggle with class distinctions, which reflect the prejudices of Jane Austen’s time. As we will see in a six-week close reading, those prejudices are still with us almost 200 years later.

Bernie McCabe, who is teaching for the ninth year in this program, also taught literature for many years before moving to Florida.

This course will provide an overview of Pre-Columbian South America, and the Spanish conquest through the colonial and independence periods. It will examine historical intellectual and cultural themes in both North and South America and make comparisons. You will then relate these political cultures to how the United States manages its relations using particular cases like Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico and others.

Peter Johnson served with the U. S. Foreign Service in Spain, Portugal and three Latin American countries, and founded a non-profit organization (C/CAA) concerned with development in Central America and the Caribbean.

This workshop is for officers, Board members, staff and key volunteers of non-profit organizations. It is designed to provide and apply information about best practices for leadership, board governance, strategy making, fund raising, and related topics that impact the success of every not-for-profit organization of any size. The course will include case studies and assessment instruments for your organizations. Our discussion facilitator recently retired after a career working in the NFP sector as CEO, Board member and university professor.