Monthly Archives: January 2020

Intersession Wows the LLI Audience

Introduction

Gene Burns, Chair of the Special Programs Team, outdid himself this winter by arranging an intriguing selection of presentations for Intersession. Lou Trapani led off by challenging his audience to debate whether art is of any use. (Hint: All of us thought it is.)

Read below for a summary of the topics discussed during the different Intersession classes.

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Stretch Yourself (or How I Learned to Love Poetry)

Try Something New

As a newcomer to Bard LLI, I was disappointed when I didn’t get into the second-period class I really wanted. I remembered that, during my orientation, Nanci Kryzak suggested we stretch ourselves and take something different. I had never really liked poetry and didn’t see myself as a poet,

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Three Reasons to Get an LLI Account

Introduction

You should get yourself an lli.bard.edu account because:

  1. It makes you look smart to friends and business associates.
  2. It saves you money.
  3. It helps build the LLI community.

An lli.bard.edu address is a major benefit to being an LLI member.

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A Fresh Perspective from New Members

Introduction

Many of our 61 newcomers provided their opinions about their introduction to LLI and their courses in the Council’s recent new member survey. The good news is that most of the comments were positive. The negative feedback is valuable, however, since the survey was undertaken with a genuine desire to learn how our organization can improve.

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Spring Registration Upgrade

Introduction

On Saturday, February 8, registration for LLI classes will enter the 21st century. No longer will the registration committee spend hours adjusting enrollments while never being sure their decisions were optimal for LLI members.

Since LLI has grown in members and in class offerings, the time has come to automate.

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Spring 2020 Registration Process

Get Instant feedback about course availablity during registration

LLI is using a different registration process for this coming Spring 2020 semester. We want to give you a heads up so that we are all ready for the changes.

Here are the key dates: the catalog will be available next Friday,

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Intersession Offerings, January 29, 2020

11:00 – 12:30 a.m.

GIVING EFFECTIVE PRESENTATIONS

Are you making your point or putting your audience to sleep? Have you ever attended a bad presentation, even if the subject matter was interesting? What makes an effective presentation with PowerPoint® or Keynote®? You’ll learn techniques, strategies, and best practices for presentations that cater to different learning styles.

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Intersession Offerings, January 22, 2020

11:00 – 12:30 a.m.
IMAGES THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD: THE 1960s

Our generation grew up with certain core beliefs: the United States was good, the Soviet Union evil; democracy was good, communism bad; God favored the United States; we would be wealthier than our parents; the future was bright. As we came of age in the 1960s,

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Intersession Offerings January 15, 2020

11:00 – 12:30 a.m.

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE MUSIC AND CAREERS OF RECORDING ARTISTS FROM THE 1950’s AND EARLY 1960’s IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Based on personal interviews with 100 top recording artists from the 1950s and 1960s, author Anthony Musso corrects longtime inaccuracies and myths that have plagued the artists’ biographies for more than 50 years.

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Celebrate LLI Spring Course Offerings

A Semester of Firsts

We celebrate a semester of firsts. We can welcome a record number of Bard faculty teaching individual courses at LLI this spring as well as a record number of LLI member presenters. Curriculum is also testing the popularity of a new scheduling option by offering the same course in the first and fifth periods to better accommodate members’ varying schedules.

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