Leisure Learning and Fun Classes
Community Education Roy Lock, Continuing and Community Education Coordinator
757-789-1751
rlock@es.vccs.edu
ESCC offers non-credit short courses for personal enrichment in subjects such as the History of the Eastern Shore, Quilting, Creative Writing, Conversational French, and Basic Russian. Many more courses of this type are available to be taken at your leisure online, and can be accessed at http://www.ed2go.com/es/ Academy for Lifetime Learning (ALL) in the summer of 2007, ESCC supported the formation of a new, independent non-profit group called the Academy for Lifetime Learning, which offers community education classes and activities at the Melfa campus on Fridays. By the start of the spring semester of 2008, ALL membership exceeded 120. The first year membership fee of $25 enables members to attend as many classes (referred to by the group as ‘workshops’) as they wish throughout the entire academic year, which begins each September. Highly successful classes have been offered in such diverse subjects as Digital Photography, Beginning Bridge, Mahjong, Chime Ringing, Scrapbooking, Memoire Writing, Wine Tasting, and Opera Appreciation. Contact information and the schedule can be accessed at http://www.allesva.org/ Science & Philosophy Seminar: another independent group which meets most Fridays at the ESCC Melfa campus is the Science and Philosophy Seminar. The Science and Philosophy Seminar is rigorously informal. There are no by-laws, no elected officers, no membership fees, no initiation rituals, and no secret handshakes. The sole requirement for membership in the Seminar is a commitment to make a presentation to the group at least once every two years, or arrange for and host a presentation by an outside expert. Members who have made five or more presentations are free of this requirement. Regular meetings are held on Fridays at 11:30 AM, from October through May. Most often presentations run about one hour in length and are followed by open informal discussions. Examples of subjects which have been presented are: “Sub-prime Mortgage Credit Crunch”, “17th Century Virginia Indians”, “Fractals and Nature”, “Decisions, Decisions... The Cuban Missile Crisis”, “The Delicate Issue of Russian Backwardness”, and “Organic Fruit Horticulture”. The schedule can be found at the group’s website: http://sciphi.org/ Other lecture series are held at the college from time-to-time, some free and some charging a nominal fee. For further information on any of these activities, call Roy Lock at 757.789.1751 The community of the Eastern Shore of Virginia has a growing number of non-profit groups that offer excellent community activities in arts and/or education: where possible the college tries to support these activities rather than compete against them, and often provides free facilities for their activities. Among the groups offering such activities, for example, are: o Eastern Shore Public Library, Accomac: 757.787.3400 o Northampton Free Library, Nassawadox: 757.414.0010 o Island Library, Chincoteague: 757.336.3460 o Northampton Memorial Library, Cape Charles: 757.331.1300 For more information, please review the current schedule of class offerings (Continuing & Community Education Schedule) for specific course schedule, fees, and registration instructions. We are always looking for new class ideas. If you are interested in something you don’t see here, chances are a lot of other people are interested too. Please contact us to tell us about your ideas for joining – or even teaching - a new class in this program. Telephone Roy Lock at 757-789-1751.
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