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Fall/winter online registration will begin on Friday, July 24, but the printed catalog will not be ready for a few more weeks. Early registration can ensure seating in popular classes.
Topical courses include Alfred Hunt’s newest offering, Dixie Rising, a three-week class or a six-week series devoted to the study of the role of the South in American history. Marjorie Miller returns with a discussion of Present Day China.
Journalist Andrée Aelion Brooks joins the faculty with a lecture titled Exploring Cuba: Its Once and Future Jews. And Ralph Buultjens will be back with several new pointed classes on World Politics.
Broadway fans will have several new options to sample. Michael Malina will discuss "Fiddler on the Roof;" Edmund Niemann will cover George Gershwin’s "Porgy and Bess," and Eddie Shapiro will regale students with anecdotes from his exclusive interviews with leading women on Broadway in "Nothing Like a Dame."
For hispanophiles, there will be wine tasting at Vintology in Los Vinos Españoles, a Tapas Workshop in America Gonzalez’s professional grade home kitchen, and an art appreciation class devoted to surrealist Salvador Dalí as well as his contemporary René Magritte.
The fall semester also promises an opportunity to: explore the history of food fads, study music theory, or improve your foreign language skills with French, Italian, Spanish, or Mandarin.
Book discussion groups abound with "The Nightingale," by Kristin Hannah, three works by Kent Haruf, and a specially crafted course devoted to Shakespeare.
Art appreciation instructors will lead guided walking tours through the Bushwick Collective in Brooklyn, the art galleries of Chelsea and Soho, and the recently relocated Whitney Museum. Study the Renaissance with an art appreciation course on the Low Countries, Religion and Art with Martin Merchant, and a study of Doña Gracia Nasi and Amelia Bassano Lanier in Shattering Stereotypes: Renaissance Jewish Women.
In its growing technology department, Scarsdale Adult School offers courses specific to iPads, iPhones, iPods, and apps.
For more information, visit http://www.scarsdaleadultschool.org/.
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