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Previous Classes

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