We hope you choose to welcome spring by joining your friends and neighbors at a Coastal Senior College class in Knox or Lincoln County. The variety of course offerings in science, history, art, and more by both seasoned and new CSC instructors is noteworthy. Twelve courses have spaces left, and sign-up is easy. All classes meet during the day and offer both a relaxing environment and stimulating teaching by instructors passionate about their topics.

For complete class descriptions and additional information about our amazing instructors, we encourage you to visit the CSC website at coastalseniorcollege.org or to pick up a print catalog at many local libraries and businesses.

Monday morning classes feature TV Sitcoms and The Moon Landings.

If you watched “Leave It to Beaver,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” or “Seinfeld,” then join former television news producer Peter Imber for “The History of Television Sitcoms.” This course “will include lots of film and video clips and will make you think as well as laugh” and meet for three classes from May 13-June 3 (no class May 27) in the Camden Library Picker Room from 9:30 to noon. Peter Imber recently completed two years as president of the Camden Conference.

If you wish to learn more about the moon landings, astronauts and the Apollo missions from someone who can share period news sources, audios and other memorabilia as well as personal insights gained from his interaction with 20 or the 24 Moon travelers, then Derek Webber’s course is for you. “The Moon Landings-What was the Point?” meets for six sessions from 10 to noon at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Newcastle from April 8-May 13. Derek Webber has more than 50 years of experience in space development in the U.K. and the U.S.

Three classes meet on Tuesdays. Have “a pair of scissors, a glue stick, stuff to cut up, and a readiness to play?” Join well-known collage artist Deborah Stevenson for creative fun from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Picker Room at the Camden Library for six classes from April 9-May 14. Deborah has taught and exhibited in many venues, and most recently was a guest artist at Shakerag Workshops in Tennessee.

Two veteran CSC instructors are also offering courses on Tuesdays. If you wish to learn more about the history, issues and the laws of surveillance, then join instructor Paul Somoza for “We Know Where You Live: The Surveillance State.” Class meets for six sessions from 9:30 a.m.-noon from April 9-May 14 in the Lincoln Home Media Room in Newcastle. Popular past courses taught by this instructor have included “Where Are My Keys: A Journey into the Aging Mind” and “Religion: Looking in from the Outside.”

Fagels’ translation of Virgil’s Aeneid provides the material for “Aeneas, Hero or Cad?” taught by Byron Stuhlman for six classes from 10 a.m to noon on April 9-May 14 at Chase Point on the LincolnHealth Campus in Damariscotta. Students will consider whether “whether Vergil is presenting an apology for Rome’s imperial aspirations or a critique of them.” Popular classes offered by instructor Stuhlman, a retired Episcopal minister, have included “St. Augustine: Hero or Villain?” and “Exploring the Parables of Jesus.”

Looking for an opportunity to share your writing and receive constructive feedback from peers? Join author Caroline Janover in “Editing Techniques: How to Cut and Prune Your Writing” for six Wednesdays from April 24-June 5 (no class May 15) from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Lincoln Home Media Room in Newcastle. Students will share stories and memoirs and learn how to strengthen the impact of their writing.

Cosmic, Space, Coleridge, and AI are offered for Thursdays this spring. Retired professional astronomer Ted Williams teaches “A Guided Tour of Space and Time.” No scientific expertise required, just an inquiring mind, and students will use the book “Origins, Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution” by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith. This class meets from 10 a.m.-noon from April 28-May 23 for six sessions at Porter Hall in the Skidompha Library in Damariscotta.

Enjoy poetry? Nature? Gardening? Veteran CSC instructor Maryanne Ward, whose prior popular courses have included “The Brontes: Is This the Same Book I Read When I Was Young?” will teach “Dancing with the Daffodils: The Mature Poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge” from April 11-May 16 at Chase Point on the LincolnHealth Campus in Damariscotta from 10 a.m.-noon.

Interested in looking at how philosophers, scientists and other scholars view the phenomenon of artificial intelligence? Then join Michael Werner, a retired computer science professor for “What’s Up with the Artificial Intelligence Explosion?” for six classes from 1:30-3:30 p.m., April 25-May 30, at UMA Rockland in the Breakwater Building. Michael has taught at Instituto Allende’s Life Long Learning program and at Tufts University’s Osher program.

Maine in the Civil War, Capitalism, and Satire are the subjects of Friday’s three classes. Dick Mayer returns to teach “What’s That Monument in the Town Square: Maine in the Civil War-Part II,” which will include discussions of key battles, including Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. The instructor, who describes himself as an amateur historian with a lifelong passion for the Civil War, notes that this course is not a repeat of the fall 2018 course. Four classes, from 10 a.m.-noon will be held from April 12-May 3 in Porter Hall at the Skidompha Library in Damariscotta.

Paul Kando, veteran CSC instructor, engineer and Midcoast energy expert, will teach “After Capitalism” at the Lincoln Home in Newcastle from 1:30-4 p.m. for six classes from April 12-May 17. The course poses the question “How well does the current economic system serve the basic human needs of every member of society, and if it does not, what can we do?”

If you enjoy discussing satire, then sign up for Ann Nesslage’s “Through the Lens of Satire: Gulliver’s Travels.” This course meets for eight sessions from April 12 - May 31 at the Bremen Library from 1-3 p.m. Past popular classes from this instructor have included “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and “Courage, Magic, and Trickery in Medieval Welsh Tales.”

To register for a class, call UMA Rockland Center at 207-596-6906, send in a registration form (found in the print CSC catalog or download and print it from our website ), or register in person at the office, Suite 402 in the Breakwater Building in Rockland. Each course is $35, and if you are taking a course for the first time, a yearly membership is $25.