STUDY GROUPS
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SAGE SUMMER SESSION
JULY 8-- AUGUST 21, 2008
In addition to nurturing and encouraging wives, there are also many individual women who have led advancements in American history. We will study some of these important and interesting women from the 1800's to the early 1900's. These can include Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Dolly Madison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Carrie Nation, Susan B. Anthony, Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sacajawea, The Grimke Sisters, and whomever else you might like to study.
"Odds and Ends"
Is there some different type of single session subject you have always wanted to discuss? Now is your chance, as this class will have no specific topic. Is there something that bothers you that you want to discuss in depth? Have you a favorite trip you'd like to share or a geographical site you'd like to find out more about? Is there a famous person you'd like to study in depth or a political topic you'd like to introduce for challenge and discussion? You get the idea. Anything goes for this summertime class!
Outstanding Comedians
What makes us laugh?
Literary Renaissance of the American South
During the period of approximately 1920-1950 the American South experienced an extraordinary flowering of the literary arts: poetry, fiction, drama. Some of America's greatest writers were a part of this renaissance. The South had massive social and cultural transformations thrust upon it. These provided a fertile background for writers who lived in, or migrated from the South as they struggled with such questions as a desire to protect the tradition and myth of the "Old South" as opposed to embracing social change. There is a diverse wealth of literary voices to study: Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, to name just a few. Presentations will focus on an individual author and his/her works.
Jewels of the Valley and Surrounding Areas
Seven points of interest, both historical and current, will comprise seven separate tours. Possible sites may include several areas at California State University at Northridge, an excursion on the Orange Line to the Red Line and lunch in Hollywood. Weather permitting, we will return to the Japanese Gardens. Other sites are to be arranged. This class offering is contingent upon approval of venues for our visitations. The class will have plenty of advance warning.
THE PRESS: Red, Blue and Yellow
What is the history of journalism? How has news been disseminated in the past and how has this changed in the present? Find out how the public finds things out with topics such as Yellow Journalism, newspapers, modern media, even magazines, journals, newsletters, web sites, and television. What part has government and the current Federal Communications Commission (FCC) played in the pressing issues of the press and other new media?
LITERATURE: The Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll
We'll read and discuss The Annotated Alice, the definitive edition by Lewis Carroll with original illustrations by John Tenniel and notes by Martin Gardner. A Norton Book hardback at $29.95: however, it's offered at Amazon.com for $19.77. ISBN# 978-0-393-04847-6
Musicals (we almost never see any more)
This study group is inspired by last summer's "The Musicals of Jerry Herman" Class. There are so many musicals we could choose from. Twelve have been chosen: Roberta (Kern), The New Moon (Romberg), Anything Goes (Porter), Babes In Arms (Rodgers), Kismet (Wright & Forrest), The Most Happy Fella (Loesser), Flower Drum Song (Rodgers), Crazy for You (Gershwin), The Life (Coleman, Grossman & Newman), The Little Prince (Lerner & Lowe), Sunset Boulevard (Webber, Black & Hampton), Chess (Andersson & Ulvaeus).
Famous Native Americans
We will study great Native American Indians, their tribes, the times they lived in and their achievements. Some possibilities are Sitting Bull, Powhatan, Sequoyah, Cochise, Tecumseh, Red Cloud, Chief Joseph, Crazy Horse and others. We will also find out about the culture and economic survival of their tribes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
We will research and discuss in depth different aspects of his work such as the Prairie style, cement, rock, and Usonian Houses as well as individual works including Hollyhock House, Falling Water, the Johnson Wax Building, the Guggenheim Museum, Taliesin East and West. We'll include his ideas about architecture and his interesting life. There will be two field trips: 1) to Hollyhock House recently reopened after repairs resulting from the '94 earthquake, and 2) to the 700 square foot house in Reseda designed by FLW's son Lloyd and built by the owners on Usonian principles.
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