Explore how to keep your mind sharp in this engaging Brain Fitness course featuring insights from Richard Restak of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Learn how the brain works and discover practical ways to improve attention, memory, and cognitive skills. Through guided video segments and discussion, you’ll use your senses and everyday experiences to support brain health. Research shows it’s never too late to strengthen your mind using your environment and relationships. Includes five 90-minute Tuesday morning sessions.

From the discovery of fire to the rise of artificial intelligence, this course explores the 'What, Who, Why, When, Where, and How' (5W1H) behind the most significant inventions and discoveries in human history. Students will examine the forces that drive human ingenuity and the lasting impact these breakthroughs have had on civilization.

It seems that nations around the world are rapidly pivoting away from yesterday's military equipment and embracing the new realities of modern warfare. In this course, we will explore the new ways wars are being fought — and likely will continue to be fought for some time to come. Covered will be drones (air, sea, submarine, and land-based), drone interceptors, GPS-guided missiles, laser air defense, space warfare, hypersonic missiles, stealth, cyberattacks, autonomous and humanoid armies, and more. Military strategy changes during Russia-Ukraine and Persian Gulf conflicts will be presented.

An in depth look at the events at the end of WWII that led the world into the cold war.

After exploring free market economy benefits, we examine current issues that stress our social order. As society becomes more impersonal and politically divided, it is hard for the economy to deal with climate change, artificial intelligence, aging population, increasing income inequality and numorous other issues. This makes us concerned that our social order is at risk. But we can be hopeful that our future economy can survive and thrive. Formal economics studies are not a prerequisite for this course.

In this course, the key figures and events of the Old Testament (OT) will be covered in chronological order, supported by maps illustrating the locations of kingdoms, cities, battles, journeys, and more. In addition, modern biblical scholarship, along with scientific and archaeological discoveries, has raised questions concerning some of the events described in the OT, and these will be examined as well.

How do we look compared to the values the founders wanted to see the republic they created embody? This class will read some of the seminal texts of revolutionary era--Common Sense, the Declaration of Independence, letters and articles--with a view to thinking about life, liberty, happiness, equality, security, and so forth, with one eye on what they meant to the founders, and another on how America today would look to them. Readings distributed by email and in paper; $5 copy fee included in course fee.

A concise, analytical survey of Europe’s political systems, institutions, and power dynamics. The course examines parliamentary and presidential models, EU governance, party systems, policymaking, and contemporary challenges such as migration, populism, and democratic backsliding. Students develop comparative frameworks to understand how European states negotiate identity, sovereignty, and integration within a rapidly evolving political landscape