Winter term at Coastal Senior College offers classes for every taste from Lucy Bauer’s art history of indigenous peoples in Australia Dreaming to the modern day Collapse of the Soviet Union, a repeat of Louis Sell’s popular fall course. Students can study The Shrines of Jerusalem with instructor Byron Stuhlman or Earth’s Ancient Climate History with instructor Katharine Cartwright. If your historical interests lie closer to home, you can choose genealogy research in Helen Shaw’s Climbing Your Family Tree or Arnold Aho’s class on The Folk Architecture of America. Rolf Winkes continues his exploration of Greek and Roman crafts with Handmade II, and Dick Miller offers a hands-on course in Woodcut Printing.

CSC instructors are themselves lifelong learners. Lucy Bauer’s course is inspired by two recent trips to Australia where she saw an “eye opening and mind expanding” exhibit of aboriginal art and “dreamed up” this course which she will augment with a showing of "First Footprints," an Australian film series on aboriginal art history and its legacy.

Ongoing groups, free to CSC members, continue with the CSC Coffee House, the Challenge of Change, and the Writers’ Group.

CSC serves seniors age 50 and over in Lincoln and Knox counties. Classes are $30 each and membership for the year is $25. For further information visit coastalseniorcollege.org. The first class begins February 1. Call 800-286-1594 to register. Class size may be limited.