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This course helps older adults learn sewing-based skills, including how to construct clothing, engage in creative sewing projects, use patterns, engage in patchwork or machine quilting, and/or other specialized sewing techniques. Older adults learn economical sewing techniques and socialize with their peers in a supportive and creative environment.

This course helps older adults learn about the resources consumers can use to make the best choices about goods and services and provides a space to discuss these resources with their peers. The course covers several topics of interest to older adult consumers, including insurance; older adult services, products, and health issues; and entitlement programs.

This course assists older adults in making nutritional changes that enhance their quality of life and allow them to maintain a high level of independence. Older adults will learn about food fads, as well as factual information about food additives, mixing herbs and medications, and basic nutritional information. The course provides older adults with a sense of how nutrition can enhance their lifestyles, improve their health, and ease physical changes.

This course helps older adults learn how to prepare healthy foods for a small household and how to make cost-effective choices in planning a menu. Older adults work together to create a cookbook or recipe book, share food and recipes with their peers, learn restaurant terms, learn to write a standard recipe, and discuss and write about memories involving food. The course also engages older adults in discussions about food fads and provides factual information on food additives, vitamins, safe food storage, health precautions, and basic nutritional information.

This course explores American history through different cultural lenses using food and cooking. We will examine the cultural and culinary contributions of different ethnic groups to American cuisine and how they have influenced and shaped American History and the food we eat today. Recipes that relate to different historical periods will be put in context for a deeper understanding of the human experience though food.

This course provides a supportive, stimulating, and creative learning environment to allow older adults to create inexpensive knitting projects. Older adults learn and practice knitting and crocheting techniques, including the selection of materials, planning projects, and finishing methods.

This course provides a supportive, stimulating, and creative environment for older adults to create handmade needlework or other fiber arts projects using an assortment of techniques, including knitting, crochet, needlepoint, weaving and macrame. Beginning students will learn basic skills; students with some experience in needlework will learn more advanced techniques.

This course provides a supportive learning environment for older adults to learn needlecrafts and create inexpensive and handmade garments or projects for personal or charitable use. Beginning and intermediate students will learn about the materials and stitches needed to complete simple and complex needlepoint projects, including embroidery, hand, and crewel work.

This course provides a supportive and creative learning environment for older adults to create inexpensive, handmade needlework projects. Older adults will learn knitting and crocheting techniques, as well as cabling and blocking.

This course furthers older adults — consumer knowledge about home gardening techniques; older adults learn what to buy, what to avoid, and how to get the most pleasure out of home gardening. Older adults also discuss gardening choices and techniques to compensate for difficulties brought on by aging, living in an apartment, or being on a fixed income. In addition, older adults study a wide variety of plants used in homes and gardens around them and learn about plant selection, care, and maintenance. This course emphasizes hands-on instruction in ornamental and edible gardening techniques, native plants, and water conservation.

This course helps older adults select and maintain a small garden or group of plants in an indoor environment. The course is designed especially for older adults in residential or daycare facilities, and helps older adults get the most pleasure out of gardening while socializing with others and using as many life skills as possible.

• Prerequisite: ENGL C1000 (formerly ENGL 1).

In this introduction to the humanities students will survey literature in conjunction with great works of art through the ages (painting, sculpture, music, architecture, dance) exploring how, at widely separated points in time, artists and writers have expressed and responded to cultural, political, and intellectual concerns of their day. In doing so, they will see literature in the context of other art forms.

HUM 26 is the same course as ENGL 26. Credit may be earned for one, but not both.

This course offers an introduction to the social, cultural, economic, and political patterns of life in today’s People’s Republic of China. Study tours to local centers of Chinese culture or to the People’s Republic; plays; seminar discussions; readings; and other cultural opportunities will be utilized to understand contemporary China.

Please see “Independent Studies” section.

Please see “Independent Studies” section.

Satisfies Global Citizenship

This course explores popular and traditional cultures and civilizations of South Asia through an interdisciplinary perspective. The course examines the characteristic qualities of the region with a focus on its religious and linguistic traditions, music, art forms, and literatures.

This course serves as an orientation to the Emeritus Program of Santa Monica College for students to take in their first term of enrollment in Emeritus. This class will teach students the policies and procedures of Emeritus and introduce students to new peers.

This course assists older adults in finding valuable and significant volunteer opportunities in their community. The course also emphasizes ways that older adults can become successful volunteers and how they can make the most of a volunteer association, and provides general information about local volunteer agencies. Older adults can socialize with peers who are also interested in volunteering, and may receive some skills training as part of their preparation for a volunteer activity.

This course helps older adults review and discuss their life with peers in order to understand the past more fully, give new meaning to their present life, and validate the lives of older adults through shared experiences. Older adults will discuss major life events, achieve greater insight into their personal history, and share their experiences and thoughts with others.

This course familiarizes older adults with the aging process, including physiological, psychological, and sociological aspects. Older adults become more comfortable with changes in themselves and others over time, and learn to celebrate the benefits of a longer life. Older adults also learn new coping strategies and explore issues facing adults of all ages, including conflicts, stereotypes, age bias, loss, and change.