Previous Classes
These are classes that Senior College has offered in the past.
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 and Chills in the Local Economic Development Efforts
TED Visits AI
Winterim - January/March, 2025
Cather, the Nation's Capitol, and Creativity: the Writer and the Sculptor
Artificial Intelligence
Seeing the World the Wrong Way - The Mercator Projection and LB962
Why Has the US Become a Decocratic Laggard, and 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 and a One-Man Band
Frontier Feminism and the Woman's Tribune
Fall Semester - September/October, 2024
Tai Chi
Black and White - A Look at Black and White Perspectives in American Literature
Find Your Family - Come on the Genealogy Trail with Us
The Magic and Allure of the Movies
Alternative Altars: Minority Sects and 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 and 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 and the Messiah
Winterim - January/February 2024
Touring Turkey with Myths, Tales, Religious Sites and Word/Phrase Origins
The 1619 Project and American Politics
Getting to Know the Kearney Outdoor Learning Area
Acme Presents - A Coyote Howl
Why Can't Republicans and 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 and 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