This class continues to engage students in the exploration of philosophies to expand creativity in photography. These philosophies incorporate strategies for creating photos that are artforms. We engage in the joy of minimalism, intentional camera movement, and wabi-sabi. The goal is to have fun!

We will do an in-depth review of the musical Hamilton. There are many backstories and hidden meanings in the lyrics, costumes, staging, etc. This class will watch the Act 1 the first week followed by Act 2 the second week. But rather than just watch this, we will be looking closely at the lyrics and hearing about how Lin-Manuel Miranda created this Tony award winning musical.

The Dayton Foundation, the region's largest community foundation, has been helping you help others locally and around the world since 1921. We will discuss how we provide unmatched services, resources, support and counsel to help individuals achieve their charitable giving goals. We'll touch on how we assist non-profits by funding important initiatives and offer our expertise to help them operate more effectively and how we're helping to build a better community by identifying important issues and bringing together people and organizations who can solve them.

This seminar is for members interested in becoming Red Lanyards. You will become familiar with all the AV equipment they will needed for presentations. Red Lanyards help Moderators setup PowerPoint or other media and make sure it works perfectly in presentation mode. The class meets one time for 2 hours.

This class provides training on UD’s classroom technology for the Red Lanyard Team. The Red Lanyard Team provides technical support to moderators and guest lecturers in the use of UD’s classroom technology. In this role, the team provides first-touch response and support. We provide training, perform diagnosis, troubleshooting, and trouble ticket reporting support. The UDOLLI Red Lanyard Team provides assistance with equipment in classrooms, including troubleshooting, equipment check-out and training. We escalate network, server, and application issues to UDIT when necessary.

Thomas Jefferson referred to the First Amendment as creating a “wall of separation” between church and state as the third president of the U.S. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black famously stated in Everson v. Board of Education that “[t]he First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state,” and “[t]hat wall must be kept high and impregnable.” This two-hour seminar will look at the origins of “the wall of separation” as well as its supporters and critics.

The class will read and discuss Joe Ruff's poems that were featured in Si Burick’s Dayton Daily News Sports column from 1940-1970.