Previous Classes at Senior College
These are classes that Senior College has offered in the past:
Summer Semester - June 2025
- Maintaining Your Civic Sanity
- Behind Every Successful (Or Not So Successful) Man Is a Woman
- Learn About Nebraska's Insect/Butterfly World!
- Chair Yoga
Spring Semester - March/April 2025
- Stories from the History of Medicine: Superstitions to Modern Practice
- Engaging Your Aging Brain
- Contested Ground: Women's Sports Around the World
- Maps and Mapping: How We Know Where Stuff Is
- If You Build It, They MAY Come: Thrills & Chills in the Local Economic Development Efforts
- TED Visits AI
Winterim - January/March, 2025
- Cather, the Nation's Capitol, & Creativity: the Writer and the Sculptor
- Artificial Intelligence
- Seeing the World the Wrong Way - The Mercator Projection & LB962
- Why Has the US Become a Democratic Laggard, & Can We Catch Up?
- The Poppers' Buffalo Commons: Reimagining the Great Plains
- Stories From the Nebraska State Historical Society Historic Sites
- City of Kearney - How Did We Get Here?
- A Poet & a One-Man Band
- Frontier Feminism & the Woman's Tribune
Fall Semester - September/October, 2024
- Tai Chi
- Black & White - A Look at Black & White Perspectives in American Literature
- Find Your Family - Come on the Genealogy Trail with Us
- The Magic & Allure of the Movies
- Alternative Altars: Minority Sects & New Religions in American History
- What Can We Learn from the Holocaust?
Summer Semester - June, 2024
- The Supreme Court in the Crosshairs of American Politics
- Understanding the Brain
- A Tour of Kearney's Harmon & Yanney Parks
- Who Dun It?
Spring Semester - March/April, 2024
- Tai Chi
- Rivers
- Economics 2024
- The Third Best Thing
- Chapters in the History of American Religion
- Diversity - Equity - Inclusion TED Talks
- Yo, Grandpa! Things Have Changed
- Bach & Handel - The Passion & The Messiah
Winterim - January/February 2024
- Touring Turkey with Myths, Tales, Religious Sites & Word/Phrase Origins
- The 1619 Project & American Politics
- Getting to Know the Kearney Outdoor Learning Area
- Acme Presents - A Coyote Howl
- Why Can't Republicans & Democrats Understand Each Other?
- Advance Directives in Nebraska
- What Happens When My Spouse Enters a Nursing Home?
- Be Red Cross Ready
Fall Semester - September/October 2023
- Renewable Energy
- T'ai Chi
- The Hollywood Western
- Precision Agriculture
- Reading the Landscape - Geology for the Traveler
- Getting Into Those Classical Orchestral Favorites
Summer - June 2023
- Keeping Kearney Klean
- Politics of Public Education
- The Wisdom of our Body
- Chair Yoga
- Stories We Have Heard
- Discovering the Hidden World of Insects
Spring Semester - March/April 2023
- T'ai Chi
- Maize (Zea Mays)
- Six Economists Who Shaped the World: What Insight Could They Offer Today?
- Journey Through Judaism: Snapshots of a Religious Culture
- Houseplants 101
- Senior Estate Planning
- American Labor: Work, Struggle & Process
- Religious Worlds
- Celebrating National Poetry Month with More About Poems
Winterim - January/February 2023
- Touring Ancient Greece with Myths, Tales & Word Origins
- Assessing 101: What Property Owners Need to Know
- Finding Corn's Roots
- Whiskey's fer Drinking; Water's fer Fighting: Hydropolitical Megatrends
- History of Kearney: All 150 Years
- From Arrest to Disposition: The Nuts & Bolts of Criminal Litigation
- The Next Arms Race: Weaponizing Behavioral Economics for Political Campaigns
- Six Proposed Amendments to the US Consitution
Fall Semester - September/October 2022
- T'ai Chi
- Endangered Species in Nebraska
- Life and Times of Electric Vehicles
- What Will You Find in Your Family?
- Kearney's Industrial Base
- Einstein Yesterday, Einstein Today, Einstein Forever
- Chronicling the Civil War Through Images and Artifacts
- Residential Energy Savings as a Local Economic Driver
- Philosophy 001: Thinking About What's Been Thought
- American Women's History
- TED Talks and Ageism
Summer - June 2022
- Watercolor
- Murder She Wrote
- Ukulele Lessons
- On-Site Walking Park Tours
- New Realities in American Politics
- The Rowe Experience
- Upstairs Downtown
Spring Semester - March/April 2022
- Tai Chi
- Inflation: What Causes It? What Can We Do About It?
- Why Are There Mountains?
- The Classic Hollywood Era and Its Stars
- Everyone Loves a Blanket
- What Is a Good Test? How to Test a Test
- Art Reading Us While We Read It
Winterim - January/February 2022
- Art & Meaning: A Preview for Spring
- The State of the City and County
- Fall Prevention - One Step at a Time
- The Civil War and Nebraska
- Stories from the Nebraska Cowboy Trail
- Reader's Theater: Acting Up with Comedy and Drama
- What's Happening at UNK