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Learning to Use an Adjustable Camera
Description: If you are new to owning an adjustable camera or just need to get more familiar with all the knobs and dials, then you’ve come to right class! You’ll learn the ...  (More)
Acrylic Painting Techniques
Description:  Landscape,Water, Ocean, Clouds and sky,individual subjects such as barns, trees, animals, sheep, cows, birds, water reflections, vineyards, Individual su...  (More)
Bones Fit: Osteoporosis Prevention and Bone Health Workshop
Description: In this two-hour workshop, you will be introduced to the fundamentals of exercises for bone strength. Learn about postural alignment, key strengthening exercise...  (More)
SoulCollage®: Finding the Wisdom Within
Description: Inside each of us exists a cast of characters: The sage, the fool, the critic, and the child to name a few. SoulCollage® offers you a playful way to give them f...  (More)
The Charterhouse Of Parma: Historical And Romantic Novel By Henri Stendhal
Description: Henri Stendhal, the famous author of the French novel "The Red and the Black", wrote his second masterpiece in 1838. Upon its publication Honoree de B...  (More)
"Fault Lines", Novel by Nancy Huston
Description: Join us in reading excerpts, analyzing and discussing this captivating novel by one of France’s current most talented writer. “Fault Lines” won the “Prix Femina...  (More)
"She Came to Stay” by Simone de Beauvoir
Description: The French writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir occupies, deservedly a central place in the history of feminism.  Her works, that include novels, essa...  (More)
"The Map of the Territory" a novel by Michel Houellebecq
Description: Michel Houellebecq, “l’enfant terrible” of French literature is a most acclaimed and controversial European writer of our period. His novel, “The Map ...  (More)
"The Way of the Kings" by Andre Malraux vs. "Hearts of Drakness" by Joseph Conrad
Description: Andre Malraux’s (1901-1978), The Way of Kings is a perfect companion to Joseph Conrad’s (1857-1924) The Heart of Darkness. Heart of Darkness is a novella by Po...  (More)
2013 Excel Expert
Description: Become an Excel Expert! Topics include: Naming Ranges, Logical Functions, Nested Functions, Import/Export Data, Vlookup, Database Functions, creating Data ...  (More)
20th Century American Music: From "Rag" to "Rap"
Description: 20th-century music is defined by the sudden emergence of advanced technology for recording and distributing music as well as dramatic innovations in musical for...  (More)
2D Art: Working in a Series
Description: Take your artwork to the next level. This is a 2D class for the intermediate to advanced painting or drawing student who is ready to take on more abstract conce...  (More)
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Description: For over 55 years, 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' has been an indelible part of the holiday season. But it was because of its unconventional approach in its creati...  (More)
A Course in Miracles
Description: “There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost”    A Course in Miracles, workbook lesson 164 Since its first publication in 1...  (More)
A Cut Above: Introductory Knife Skills
Description: Preparing great food begins with a sharp knife and solid hand skills. None of us are born with great knife skills, but a good teacher can help you get professio...  (More)
A New Approach to Acrylic Paint
Description: In this course you will learn the versatility of painting with acrylics, acrylic mediums and adding additives into your paint. Each individual will produce thre...  (More)
A Night Of Gnocchi And Ravioli with Chef Lisa Lavagetto
Description: A NIGHT OF GNOCCHI AND RAVIOLI with Chef Lisa Lavagetto Hands On Class Join us as Chef Lisa showcases the true art of fresh pasta making, demonstrating how to...  (More)
A Parent’s Guide to Google Suite
Description: Now that students are learning online, parents are having to act as in-home tech support for their children.  Many guardians have never used the software t...  (More)
A Political History of the Sixties
Description: This course examines seven key movements and central figures during the 1960's: The New Frontier and liberalism (JFK); SNCC sit-downs and freedom riders (John L...  (More)
A Romance in Spain
Description: Mediterranean Flatbread with Bacon and Caramelized Onion Ensalada Mixta –Green salad with olives peppers and sherry Vinaigrette Seafood Paella with clams ...  (More)
A Wild Spirituality Of Nature: On The Trail Of John Muir And John Burroughs
Description: Early crops of environmentalism were firmly planted by Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman and others before the conservation and preservation harvest in (the Scots-Calif...  (More)
A Woodland Spring Arrangement
Description: Think of an enchanted forest. Spring Flowers are so ethereal and delicate. We’re going to feature the smaller flowers of spring in an arrangement of mosses and ...  (More)
Abstract and Traditional Acrylic Paintings from Composition to Finish
Description: Guidance in BOTH Abstract and Traditional acrylic landscape paintings in paint-along sessions with the instructor. The first three classes are Traditional ...  (More)
Abstract Ink Painting
Description: Inspired by the exciting show at the Cantor Museum Ink Worlds, this is not your average painting class: This seven week course will be based in the traditional ...  (More)
Abstracting Landscapes in Acrylics
Description: An artistic departure from traditional landscapes In these painting sessions we employ various abstract and creative techniques to produce a fresh approach to p...  (More)
Acoustic Jam Session
Description: Learn what to do at a jam session: how to lead a song, how to follow other musicians, and basic jam session etiquette. Players of all acoustic instruments are w...  (More)
Acrylic Painting-Elements of the Landscape with Bernard Healey
Description:   While painting along with the instructor we will paint new and  different compositions at each session which will include various elements existe...  (More)
Acrylic Paintings from Composition to Finish: Expert Guidance for Rendering the Elements in nature
Description: Paint along with Marin artist Bernard Healey and get expert guidance for the completion of your painting projects from composition to completed paintings that ...  (More)
Advanced Piano Duet
Description: The study, rehearsal and performance of music for one piano/ four hands (piano duet) by advanced pianists who are comfortable with public performance. At the en...  (More)
Advanced Strength and Fitness Training
Description: Improve your quality of life, prevent — or even reverse — typical trends of aging, and have fun along the way. For adults of all ages. This class provides sensi...  (More)
Advanced Wild Goose Qigong
Description: Wild Goose Qigong is an ancient practice, 1700 years old. It is a non-strenuous discipline which generates health and balanced well-being. Throughout the year, ...  (More)
Aging and Medical Science: UC Davis Mini Medical School Sampler
Description: College of Marin Mini-Medical School, Medical Science and Aging is an opportunity to focus on the second half of life, normal human aging and avoiding ...  (More)
Albion- History and Culture of the English People
Description: The History of England is one of the most remarkable successes of the human species: A few Saxon and Danish tribes, lost on an island nearby Europe, mixed with ...  (More)
All about French Food for Travelers
Description: In this class, students will learn the vocabulary related to food, where to go and interact when you go food shopping, read and share recipes, and feel comforta...  (More)
Amazing Pet Portraits in Pastel
Description: They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. Capture not just the look but your pet’s personality as well. Starting with just the right photo to work fr...  (More)
An Artful Approach to Personal Style
Description: Discover how understanding your personal color palette and visual design can enhance your appearance. In this interactive workshop you will learn about your bes...  (More)
An Introduction to Caste in American Society
Description: We typically think of caste as something belonging to another country, one with its own unique social hierarchy. Though frequently conflated with racism, caste ...  (More)
An Introduction to the Language of Drawing
Description: What do we find compelling about great drawings through art history? Perhaps the manner in which they are drawn—the way an artist makes marks—has something to d...  (More)
An Introduction to Vedic Chanting
Description: The Veda-s are a huge collection of texts in the form of chants that were believed to be heard by ancient Indian sages when they were in a deep meditative state...  (More)
Ancient Armenia Through the Middle Ages
Description: TBD
Android Basics 2
Description: Have you been using a smart phone or tablet for a little while but still feel like you don't know what you are doing? Need to review some of the basic features ...  (More)
Android Basics: Smartphones & Tablets
Description: Are you getting the most out of your Smartphone or Tablet? In this class, you’ll learn how to use the essential applications such as: Phone, Contacts, Calendar,...  (More)
Animal Tracking and Nature Awareness
Description: In this workshop we will had directly outdoors to study animal tracks and signs as we encounter them. We will practice some of the ancient hunter/gatherer skill...  (More)
Animals as Muse
Description: This course will help you learn to paint and draw animals. Animals can be expressive, realistic, whimsical. We will focus on the expression, gesture and capture...  (More)
Application Fee for Two (2) Semesters (F1 Students)
Description: Fall 2014: August 19 – December 5, 2014 International Students: Please contact Rebecca Freeland   415.457.8811, Ext. 7740   Rebecca.Freeland@marin.ed...  (More)
Aqua Exercise for Older Adults
Description: The purpose of this tranquil class is to experience gentle, health-providing exercises in a relaxing medium: the water. Active adults especially enjoy this kind...  (More)
Aqua Yogilates
Description: TBD  
Argentine Tango: Beginning Class And Practica
Description: Join our sizzling Argentine Tango classes and discover a dramatic new world of music and dance! This course is designed to accommodate both novice tango dancers...  (More)
Armchair Safari: Preparing for a Trip to Tanzania
Description: Do you dream of going on a safari and seeing the Great Migration? Whether you have already started planning to make this dream come true, or you would like to j...  (More)
Artistically Yours
Description: “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” Pablo Picasso When you think of Picasso, Diebenkorn o...  (More)
Atheism: An Exploration
Description: What is atheism? We can define it broadly as the belief that there is no God or gods. Typically, this includes a rejection of any supernatural or nonphysical re...  (More)
Basic Creative Cooking
Description: Learn the concept of cooking rather than just following recipes. You will learn to cook with what you have on hand with emphasis on health and nutrition. You wi...  (More)
Basic Photography
Description: This course covers the basics: camera types, lenses, filters, depth of field, metering, exposure control, and tripods. We also discuss digital formats, the came...  (More)
Basketweaving With Julia And Lucy Parker
Description: In this class, with nationally renowned basket weavers Julia Parker (Coast Miwok/Pomo) and Lucy Parker (Coast Miwok/Pomo/Paiute), participants create their own ...  (More)
Be a Grand Juror
Description: This course will be presented by several previous Marin County Civil Grand Jurors. Learn about the Marin County Civil Grand Jury, find out how it works and cons...  (More)
Beach Volleyball Basics
Description: This course introduces students to the fundamentals of beach volleyball, including passing, serving, hitting, and setting. The course focuses on promoting team ...  (More)
Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Introduction with Essential Oils Workshop
Description: Explore the aromatics being grown at the Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden and then dive into the science of chocolate, the art of chocolate making, and t...  (More)
Beauty and Culture at the Court of Versailles
Description: This class will follow step by step the 2009 Versailles Exhibition based on the legacy and enriching cultural accomplishment of King Louis XIV, presented for th...  (More)
Become Who You Really Are
Description: This experiential skill-building class is designed to serve as a vehicle to enhance inner exploration. In this course students will be taught through instructio...  (More)
Beer and Cider Tasting Fundamentals
Description: While Beer, and Cider, have been around for thousands of years, and have seen a resurgence in popularity recently, can you identify what you are tasting? This c...  (More)
Beginning and Intermediate Latin
Description: This course is being offered to both beginning and intermediate level students. Students of both levels will enroll in the same class; the instructor will devel...  (More)
Beginning and Intermediate Latin Continued
Description: This course is a continuation of the class offered in Fall, Term 1 and is based on the textbook Wheelock’s Latin. Students of both beginning and intermedi...  (More)
Beginning Cold Press Soapmaking
Description: Calling all crafters, here is your new passion. Soapmaking is part art, part science and completely addicting. This demonstration class will show you step-by-st...  (More)
Beginning Fencing
Description: Fencing is the art and science of the sword. Practicing swordsmanship refines focus, improves dexterity, and makes flexible the mind and body. The science of th...  (More)
Beginning Fencing Part 2
Description: This course further develops the 19th century French foil fencing skills learned in Beginning Fencing I and adds new techniques including compound attacks, repo...  (More)
Beginning Folk and Blues Harmonica
Description: Breathing is our foundation as we take simple folk and pop melodies and rhythms and invigorate them with easy but powerful techniques to make any song deeply ex...  (More)
Beginning Guitar
Description: Learn to play the guitar. This class will use simple melodies from a variety of genres and time periods to teach instrument skills and basics of music theory. D...  (More)
Beginning Irish Dance for Adults: "Old Style" and Sean-Nós.
Description: Always loved Irish music and "Riverdance" but thought "I can't do that athletic stuff?"    Unlike modern competitive (athletic) Irish stepdanc...  (More)
Beginning Oil Painting
Description: Dive into oil painting! This class will cover the fundamentals of painting: color, composition, palette and mixing, as well as developing an understanding of pr...  (More)
Beginning Pop/Rock Ukulele
Description: Learn how to play basic chords, strum patterns by playing classic Rock standards to modern songs. Learn how to read music "charts". Play basic songs and recogni...  (More)
Beginning Ukulele
Description: Absolute beginners are welcome! The ukulele is easy and fun to play. Learn some simple chords and strums that you can use to play your favorite songs. All you n...  (More)
Bird-Watching in Marin: A Field Exploration
Description: Learn to recognize local birds by sight or sound! This class is a field exploration of birds and birding localities of Marin County. The first class meets in th...  (More)
Bold and Dramatic Arrangements
Description: Local flowers are limited this time of year, so we will look to the warm weather states to provide and shake up our palette of large elements. This may include ...  (More)
Bollywood!
Description: Bollywood! is a dance fitness class designed to make you sweat! With music from the latest Bollywood hits, this class consists of easy to learn classical and fo...  (More)
Bone Broth, Stocks and Soups
Description: Don’t throw out your food scraps, make stock! Every good soup and sauce starts with a good stock, but store-bought stocks can have a lot of additives and can be...  (More)
Boxing for Fitness
Description: Note: This is a movement class and there is NO CONTACT involved. Train in the art of boxing, and feel healthier and more alive! This fitness class is suitable ...  (More)
Breads of Italy Savory and Sweet
Description: Stromboli-bread stuffed with peppers, onions, sausage and cheeses Focaccia with Roasted Garlic and Rosemary Neapolitan Easter Bread stuffed with Provolone...  (More)
Breads of Italy Savory and Sweet
Description: Stromboli-bread stuffed with peppers, onions, sausage and cheeses Focaccia with Roasted Garlic and Rosemary Neapolitan Easter Bread stuffed with Provolone...  (More)
Buddhist in the Cinema
Description: Buddhism in, one of the fastest growing spiritual traditions, is well represented in main stream cinema. This course presents seven feature length films which d...  (More)
Buddhist Narratives: Telling the Story in Murals, Sculpture and Dance
Description: Buddhism in Asia has a long and lively tradition of storytelling.  Stories were used to convey Buddhist principles, morals, ethics and history.  Stori...  (More)
Building a Roadmap to Protect You and Your Assets in the Cyber World
Description: This program offers a comprehensive examination of elder financial exploitation and identifies the various types of cybercrime and financial fraud schemes that ...  (More)
Building Healthy Soil in Your Garden
Description: Healthy soil is a living ecosystem that supports all other life on earth. Learn about the basic soil types common in Marin and how they can be improved with eas...  (More)
Business Basics Series (3 Workshop Package): Planning, Finance and Legal, and Marketing
Description: Learn what it takes to start a business and succeed! Business Planning gives you the basic information on business start-up, business planning, and different ty...  (More)
Business Basics Series (English): Finance and Legal
Description: BUSINESS BASICS SERIES - Learn what it takes to start a business and succeed! This series of 3 classes is perfect for those exploring business ownership and wan...  (More)
Business Basics Series (English): Marketing
Description: BUSINESS BASICS SERIES - Learn what it takes to start a business and succeed! This series of 3 classes is perfect for those exploring business ownership and wan...  (More)
Business Basics Series (English): Planning
Description:   BUSINESS BASICS SERIES - Learn what it takes to start a business and succeed! This series of 3 classes is perfect for those exploring business ownership...  (More)
Business Basics Series (Spanish): Finance and Legal
Description: CONCEPTOS BÁSICOS SOBRE PEQUEÑOS NEGOCIOS - Taller ideal para explorar la propiedad de negocios - aprenda lo que debe hacer para comenzar y tener éxito. Serie d...  (More)
Business Basics Series (Spanish): Marketing
Description: CONCEPTOS BÁSICOS SOBRE PEQUEÑOS NEGOCIOS - Taller ideal para explorar la propiedad de negocios - aprenda lo que debe hacer para comenzar y tener éxito. Serie d...  (More)
Business Basics Series (Spanish): Planning
Description: CONCEPTOS BÁSICOS SOBRE PEQUEÑOS NEGOCIOS - Taller ideal para explorar la propiedad de negocios - aprenda lo que debe hacer para comenzar y tener éxito. Serie d...  (More)
California and Oregon Indian Baskets
Description: The class offers a well-rounded knowledge of the basket-making experience with a presentation of the complete process and beliefs surrounding it. Participants w...  (More)
California Landscape Painting, Part 2
Description: This course is designed for both beginners and experienced. There will be ongoing constructive critiques as we progress through this unique, interesting, and me...  (More)
Capturing Childhood: An Introduction to Writing for Children and Teens
Description: Growing up is full of ups and downs, and for young people especially, emotional incidents are particularly powerful. That’s why most of us will never forget our...  (More)
Cardio Pilates
Description: A fun, fat-burning workout that develops cardio endurance, deep core strength, and flexibility. The class starts with a full body cardio workout using various e...  (More)
Cashing in on the Longevity Dividend
Description: People are living longer, living healthier, and staying mentally and physically active for longer. This course will appeal to Baby Boomers, Gen X, and anyone wh...  (More)
Celebration of Fall
Description: It’s the season of beautiful fall color! Low containers are perfect for holiday centerpieces. Metal floral frogs are the secret for holding everything in place....  (More)
Ceramics; Beginning and Advanced Clay Work
Description: Ceramic class working with stoneware clays to develop personal expression with 3-dimensional results. A basic and advanced course introducing and expanding your...  (More)
Certified Nursing Assistant
Description: A Certified Nursing Assistant (C.N.A) is an important position in any hospital setting. CNAs have many responsibilities that make them an integral part of the p...  (More)
Chamber Music Workshop
Description: Musicians! Join us for a weekend chamber music workshop to study works from the standard instrumental chamber music repertoire. Musicians are assigned music fro...  (More)
Cheese, Wine and Cider Pairing
Description: Cheese, Wine and Cider - all great products on their own, but do you know the best way to pair them? This class will explore the major prodution areas of these ...  (More)
Chi Walking
Description: Walking is one of the best forms of daily exercise for people of all ages and when your walking form is improved, the benefits are far reaching.  The ChiWa...  (More)
Chi Walking: : Run with Ease, Energy and Avoid Injury
Description: The ChiRunning technique emphasizes running form and draws from principles of Tai Chi to make running easier on the body by promoting energy efficiency and inju...  (More)
China Camp State Park: A Unique Cultural and Natural
Description: This course is an introduction to the unique local resource embodied in China Camp State Park, a popular destination for recreation and scientific research, as ...  (More)
Chocolate, Bean-to-Bar
Description: Chocolate Making Workshop: Join chocolate maker, winemaker and fermentation specialist Sean Taylor as we make organic, single-origin dark chocolate in this hand...  (More)
Chorus Emeritus
Description: If you like to sing or think you would like to sing, come and join the Chorus Emeritus! The music is fun, encompassing diverse styles and eras. The class will c...  (More)
Cinema and Psyche: Essential Pre-Code
Description: The brief, legendary “Pre-Code” era of film history proliferated when The Great Depression coincided cinematic innovation. Boundary-pushing, sociall...  (More)
Cinema and Psyche: Fate and Destiny
Description: Fate and Destiny are universal motifs found in every form of storytelling, every genre and period of cinema. These tales contemplate the old idea that within th...  (More)
Cinema and Psyche: Memory, Movie, Dream
Description: Memories, movies, and dreams are surprisingly kindred mediums. They each intertwine image and metaphor into unique expressions of myth, which intersect onscreen...  (More)
Cinema and Psyche: Movies Watching Movies
Description: Study, view, and discuss six legendary movies about movies. Watch uniquely gifted filmmakers examine themselves and their art form through self-reflexive works....  (More)
Cinema And Psyche: The Genius Of Billy Wilder
Description: Join us for a depth immersion in the cinematic genius of Billy Wilder, as we study, watch, and discuss five of his masterworks. Delve into Wilder’s brilli...  (More)
Cinema And Psyche: The Genius Of Hitchcock
Description: Alfred Hitchcock specialized in tales of ordinary people thrust by fate into life-or-death oppositions with unknown forces of darkness. Join us for a depth expl...  (More)
Cinema and Psyche: The Genius of Preston Sturges
Description: The first writer-director in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges churned out eight brilliant films between 1940 and 1944, then all but disappeared. Startlingly o...  (More)
Client Service Spanish
Description: Client service-related Spanish vocabulary and phrases can help improve communication in a multicultural work environment. This class will help County of Marin e...  (More)
Cold Press Soap Making Lab
Description: Even after you’ve learned the basics of cold process soapmaking, it may still feel daunting to try alone at home. If that is the case, this hands-on soapmaking ...  (More)
Color at Play
Description: Let's "play" with color! We will help you discover your unique color palette. Overcome your fear of working with color, through a series of exercises, such as c...  (More)
Community Science and the Wildlife and Marine Protection of the Coastline
Description: TBD
Comparative Literature; "The Door” By Magda Szabo
Description: The Door” by Magda Szabo won France's Prix Femina in 2003. It concerns the developing relationship between a Hungarian writer and her housekeeper, and...  (More)
Computer Fundamentals
Description: In this course you can get more familiar with the PC by learning the fundamental elements for successful computer literacy. We will cover computer system basics...  (More)
Consciousness and Non-Duality
Description: This course will present the definitions and teachings of consciousness and concepts of non-duality with a view to refining the present day understanding of the...  (More)
Contemporary Mosaic
Description: Students will learn the use of common mosaic tools, basic mosaic techniques, and how to combine different materials and texture effectively in a contemporary co...  (More)
Contemporary Vocal Technique for Jazz and Pop Singers
Description: Singing is an extension of speaking! Learn how to use and maintain a healthy voice while singing with ease through the breaks in your range. This class covers v...  (More)
Conversational French: First Year
Description: These sequential courses are designed for those who have no or very little knowledge of French. We work with pronunciation, vocabulary enrichment, and short con...  (More)
Conversational French: Second Year
Description: These second year refresher courses are for those who would like to review what they learned in high school or college French classes, or for those students who...  (More)
Conversational German: First Year
Description: This fun course is for beginners, as well as serving as a refresher course for those who have previously had some exposure to German. In each class words, phra...  (More)
Conversational German: Second Year, First and Second Quarters
Description: Join this continuing class with other students who have completed Conversational German: First Year, First through Fourth Quarters, or have equivalent know...  (More)
Conversational Italian: First Year, First and Second Quarters
Description: Learn basic conversational Italian, including pronunciation, vocabulary, and command of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms. Emphasis will be on speaking ...  (More)
Conversational Italian: Level C
Description: Advanced conversational Italian courses help students to engage in every day conversation and to handle typical situations. These courses build on Beginner (Lev...  (More)
Conversational Italian: Second Year , First and Second Quarters
Description: This class is designed for students who have had at least 2 years of Italian. We will study verb drills in future, past, and imperative and usage of idiomatic e...  (More)
Conversational Italian: Second Year, First and Second Quarters
Description: Join other students who have completed Conversational Italian: First Year, First through Fourth Quarters, or have equivalent knowledge. With the goal being to ...  (More)
Conversational Mandarin for Beginners
Description: This course is designed to teach the basic skills of listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing in Mandarin Chinese to students with no prior backg...  (More)
Conversational Spanish: First Year, First and Second Quarters
Description: These are introductory courses for beginners who wish to learn to converse in Spanish with others at home or while traveling. Students will learn vocabulary, ...  (More)
Conversational Spanish: First Year, First and Second Quarters
Description: These are introductory courses for beginners who wish to learn to converse in Spanish with others at home or while traveling. Students will learn vocabulary, ...  (More)
Conversational Spanish: Second Year, First and Second Quarters
Description: Join this continuing class with other students who have completed Conversational Spanish: First Year, First through Fourth Quarters, or have equivalent knowled...  (More)
Cooking Basics for College-Bound High School Seniors
Description: This class is specially designed for young adults preparing to live on their own for the first time (please note that this class is open to high school students...  (More)
Cooking for Two-Simple Pan Sauces and Reductions
Description: Salmon Filets with Creamy Vodka Sauce and Green Peppercorns Pork Tenderloin Medallions in French Dijon Sauce Chicken Marsala with Fresh Wild Mushrooms ...  (More)
Cooking Master Class with Featured Chef Stazi Dulman
Description: Learn from a master chef at this one-day special event! Try new techniques and recipes in this exclusive, hands-on culinary experience. This course introduce...  (More)
Cooking on a Budget
Description: You will come away from this hands-on, save-more, waste-less cooking class with the skills to create delicious and nutritious meals on a budget. Food costs are ...  (More)
Core Class III: Overview of California Indian Culture and History
Description: Renowned COM anthropologist Betty Goerke offers an overview of the variety and complexity of Native populations in California and their marked differences in f...  (More)
Create Loose & Lively City and Landscapes In Charcoal, Ink, And Paint
Description: This course will help you learn to paint and draw loose & lively landscapes and cityscapes. They can be expressive, realistic, whimsical. We will focus on t...  (More)
Creating Legacy Letters
Description: A Legacy Letter is a time-honored method for sharing our wisdom, blessings, values, love, and hopes and dreams for the future with those who matter to us. Writi...  (More)
Creating Your Own Podcast, Part 2: Content Creation
Description: This course is part two of an introduction to Creating Your Own Podcast. Part one, which is required to participate in part two, is to acquaint students with th...  (More)
Creating Your Own Podcast: Part 1
Description: This course is an introduction to creating your own podcast which is offered in two parts. Part one is to acquaint students with the technical aspects of postin...  (More)
Creative Acrylic Painting
Description: Gain valuable insight into painting acrylic landscapes. Learn painting through ongoing demonstrations, how to render Textures, Shapes, and understand Color th...  (More)
Creative Seasonal Cooking: The Comforts of Winter
Description: Join Nugget Markets Executive Chef Stazi Dulman for this hands-on cooking class, demonstrating the many reasons—aesthetic, nutritional, ecological, and eco...  (More)
Creative Seasonal Cooking: The Promise of Spring
Description: Join Nugget Markets Executive Chef Stazi Dulman for this hands-on cooking class, demonstrating the many reasons—aesthetic, nutritional, ecological, and eco...  (More)
Creative Voice Acting for Video Games
Description: The video game market is the most lucrative consumer entertainment market on the globe. And, contrary to what many think, it is not the exclusive province of ma...  (More)
Cuban Contemporary Art
Description: The contemporary art scene in Cuba is one of the most interesting and thriving in the world outside of the United States. It is relatively well represented and ...  (More)
Current Events and Homeland Security
Description: Privacy, hacking, terrorism, earthquakes, floods, risk, emergency, ISIS - these terms are part of weekly headlines and are all linked to homeland security. Come...  (More)
Current Issues before the United States Supreme Court
Description: This is a discussion class for which we read a summary, briefs, and other materials concerning major cases on the current calendar of the U.S. Supreme Court. Th...  (More)
D-I-S-C-O
Description: D-I-S-C-O is a dance-fitness class designed to make you possibly ‘remember’ while you sweat! With music from the iconic disco years of the 70’...  (More)
Dance Exploration
Description: This is a beginning level dance movement class for adults. The class will explore the various styles of theatrical dance-contemporary dance, ballet and jazz dan...  (More)
Democracy and Republic: Greece and Rome in the Classical Age
Description: The Athenians were willing to take a chance and set up something called a democracy in 508 BCE. The Romans one year earlier had taken a chance and set up a Repu...  (More)
Demystifying Addiction and Addiction Treatment
Description: You're hearing it in the news and on social media, the opiate epidemic is now the number one cause of accidental death in the country. Everyone has been affecte...  (More)
Design Inspiration—Gardening with a Sense of Place
Description: Learn about the environmental qualities that make Marin such a special place—the watersheds in which we live and garden, our varied microclimates, our native pl...  (More)
Design Your Garden as a Mini-ecosystem
Description: Identify and plan for the environmental factors influencing your garden design decisions. Explore climate zones, hydrozones, microclimates and shade/sun p...  (More)
Designing Your Home Landscape
Description: Whether you envision your garden to be for entertaining, quiet relaxation or family fun, sustainable landscape design is a collaboration between the needs of th...  (More)
Developing a Planting Plan for Your Garden
Description: Choosing the right plant for the right place is key to a successful garden. In this class you will learn about plant types, plant choices appropriate to Marin, ...  (More)
Diego Rivera to Banksy: Murals as Civic Self-Expression
Description: Some of the most innovative art work being made today will not be found in galleries and cannot be bought or sold, it is out there for you to discover, free. Wi...  (More)
Digital Literacy Program (Spanish)
Description: Marin Community College District (MCCD) agrees to offer a series of digital literacy classes during Spring 2022 for students participating in Canal Alliance Eng...  (More)
Dining on the Italian Riviera with Chef Lisa Lavagetto
Description: The Italian Riviera  is famous for its particularly mild climate and relaxed way of life which, together with the charm of its old fishing ports and the be...  (More)
Do-It-Yourself Fitness
Description: No matter what your fitness level, you can feel stronger, healthier and more balanced with the right combination of exercise, healthy food choices and active re...  (More)
Draw Your Dog-Paint Your Pooch
Description: Draw or Paint your canine best friend. Express your love while learning valuable drawing and painting skills. You will learn how to capture expression and chara...  (More)
Drawing and Painting Workshop
Description: Develop your skills in drawing and painting while discovering and nurturing your unique expression.  Composition, color, spatial relationships, layering, a...  (More)
Drawing with Chalk Pastels
Description: Drawing With Chalk Pastels From sketches and dark and light studies to fully developed drawings/paintings, explore the full range of chalk pastels. Here is an o...  (More)
Drawing Workshop
Description: Learn to draw in this fun and informative 7-week workshop in which you will be introduced to a variety of materials and learn and practice core drawing skills. ...  (More)
Dueling in California
Description: Dozens of duels were fought in California in the short span between the Gold Rush and the Civil War. These affairs of honor were fought with shotguns, rifles, a...  (More)
Early New Wave and Punk Rock
Description: In the mid-1970s, one of rock’s most explosive and controversial styles challenged conventional musical and social norms as acts like Patti Smith, Blondie, the ...  (More)
Easeful Living in a Stressful World: Reducing Stress and Increasing Energy
Description: According to medical literature, 80% of all illness is directly related to mental stress. Drawing on the newest research in neuro-science and stress management,...  (More)
East Meets West Winter Braising
Description: Learn the art of cooking in  flavorful liquids, creating perfect delectable one-pot comfort meals show-casing  global cuisine and spices. Learn to cre...  (More)
Easy Outdoor Entertaining
Description: Green Olive and Almond Spread Crostini Grilled Smoky Eggplant Salad Marinated Shrimp in Grilled Tomato Gazpacho Summer Paella from the Grill with Chick...  (More)
Easy Summer Evening Hikes
Description: Enjoy Marin’s gorgeous summer evenings and stunning sunsets in good company. Hikes will be around four miles. Along the way we discuss plants, birds, inse...  (More)
Easy Ways to Preserve Nature’s Bounty
Description: Can’t resist that carton of peaches and now face a rotting mess? Don’t despair – and don’t run out and invest in expensive canning equipment you may only use on...  (More)
Eating for Health
Description: Learn the tools necessary to better your health, energy, and performance. We will discuss the role of nutrition in disease development and how whole foods suppo...  (More)
Ecommerce
Description: E-Commerce Series A hands-on 3-hour workshop introducing this amazing E-Commerce solution: Shopify. Trusted by over 325,000 businesses and entrepreneurs worldw...  (More)
Ecotourism for Travelers
Description: Do you believe that travelers, with an understanding of our planet’s social and environmental concerns, can be instrumental in creating a better world? This co...  (More)
Elegant Holiday Meal
Description: Chef Lisa will guide you in this hands-on experience of making an elegant meal including Crab and Shrimp Crostini, Beef Wellington, and Chocolate Souffle. St...  (More)
Elementary Spanish Skills Saturated in Culture, Conversation, Cuisine and a Splash of Grammar
Description: This course is an introduction and introspection into the Spanish language and elements of Spanish and Latin American culture. Students will learn the intellect...  (More)
Elements of Creative Writing
Description: There are three rules for writing well. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." Somerset Maugham Not to worry. There are tried and true elements to th...  (More)
Energy Warm-Ups for the Active Older Adult
Description: A gentle, yet effective stretching and strengthening class for active adults which uses non-strenuous movement to increase flexibility, mobility, and range of ...  (More)
ESCOM Membership Fee
Description: ESCOM Membership Fee
Everyday Health
Description: This class is for those interested in learning more about Natural medicine and how to apply it for good health.  Each lecture will provide various tools to...  (More)
Everyday Mindfulness for Happy Healing, Aging, & Growing
Description: This course teaches basic mindfulness; welcoming to meditation newcomers as well as those wanting to deepen their practice, it will guide students in compa...  (More)
Everyone Can Paint
Description: This class will emphasize the ease & simplicity of painting: the reasons everyone can paint! Class will include exercises and tools to express the "what" of...  (More)
Exercise for Adults with Special Needs Instructor Certification Course
Description: Designed to train students, certified personal fitness instructors, activity coordinators, recreational therapists, and occupational therapists interested in be...  (More)
Explore Dickens On Stage: David Copperfield
Description: Explore the world of Charles Dickens (through Alistair Cording’s stage aptation of "David Copperfield") with our 4 hour interactive course. Discuss the process ...  (More)
Exploring Our Hidden Brain: How Emotions and Behaviors Shape Our Decisions
Description: How do our emotions influence our behavior and life choices? How does our “hidden brain” make important decisions in our lives without our awareness? In this co...  (More)
Exploring Ship Operations In The Bay
Description: This class will provide a general overview of commercial shipping operations in the Bay.  The course will include a presentation on types of ships, ship co...  (More)
Exploring Sparkling Wines and Port
Description: When most people think of wines for special occasions, two words come up – Champagne and Port. This class will explore these unique wines of the world, bo...  (More)
Expressions of Gender: Studying Differences and Similarities in Art
Description: Through the practice of Painting, this class will examine what makes a painting feminine, masculine, or gender neutral. We will look at work from female painter...  (More)
Fabulous Fish from the Grill
Description: Grilled Salmon Salad with Butter Lettuce Barbecued Trout with Ginger and Soy Sauce Swordfish Salad with Baby Greens and Heirloom Tomatoes Linguini with...  (More)
Family Constellations-Illuminating the Influences of the Past in the Present
Description: Systemic constellations are a way of working with issues within human systems. They focus on family systems to disclose the deeper forces that unknowingly influ...  (More)
Famous “Courtisanes” throughout the Centuries
Description: During the Middle Ages in Italy they used to be referred as “Cortigiana Onesta” meaning “the Honest Courtisane" and they were cast as int...  (More)
Farm to Table
Description: This Farm to Table class will demonstrate a seasonal approach to eating healthy and learning creative ways to use the various seasonally fruits and vegetables t...  (More)
Fermentation 101
Description: n a three part series we will discuss the principles of fermentation and create our own fermented food and drinks. We will explore the roles of oxygen, pH and p...  (More)
Figure Drawing from Art History
Description: Have you always wanted to learn how to draw the figure? Or are you proficient and looking for a way to practice your skills? This class offers a structure for y...  (More)
Figure Painting
Description: This studio course is an opportunity to explore materials, color, composition and agenda in any medium while painting the figure. Class time will be primarily d...  (More)
Figure Painting in the Impressionist Style
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Film Appreciation: Going Far While Sitting Still: Cinematic Journeys
Description: Journeys of self-discovery, exploration, adventure, romance, or survival.  Why do we leave home?  Why do stories of these treks fascinate us? Three of...  (More)
Film Appreciation: Looking Out-Looking In
Description: Humans are, by definition, social creatures, forming groups in families, at work, rooting for athletic teams, or as a nation.   Most of us move fluidly thr...  (More)
Film Appreciation: San Francisco Bay Area - The Movie
Description: The SF Bay Area is more than just beautiful backdrops for movies and television. Our communities are a unique blend of ethnicities, social and political activis...  (More)
Film Appreciation: The Seventh Annual in Spring Everyone’s Fancy Turns to Love Festival
Description: Love! It’s thrilling, fascinating, terrifying, life affirming, heart breaking, and essential. We can love people, places, animals or God.  We spend o...  (More)
Film Appreciation: Who’s the Boss? How Do We Know?
Description: All human relationships (families, friendships, politics, social standing) can be viewed through the lens of hierarchical struggle. Supremacy can change or osci...  (More)
Film Music History and the Art of the Film Score
Description: When and how did the use of music in film begin, and how has it changed over the decades? How does music express the sweetness of Scout's and Jem's...  (More)
Film Score Composers
Description: A film score (also sometimes called film music, background music, or incidental music) is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The creative ...  (More)
Financial Fitness
Description: This class is an intense workout of your financial goals, income statements, retirement planning understanding of the capital market, investment alternatives an...  (More)
Financial Literacy Basics
Description: This class is designed for students or adults, to understand the basic fundamentals of personal finance that all people must deal with: banking, investments, cr...  (More)
Find the Right Fit: Career Choices for Who You Are Today
Description: Don’t wait any longer to find a career that is more rewarding for you. Whether you are considering changing careers or returning to the job market after a...  (More)
Find The Right Fit: Career Transitions For Women
Description: Don’t wait any longer to find a career that fits your work/life balance and is also rewarding.  Whether you are considering changing careers or retur...  (More)
Finding Your Life Work at Any Age
Description: Discovering your right livelihood can be a fun and exciting journey.  In this experiential class, students will be presented with the latest research on ca...  (More)
Flash Fiction
Description: "If I had more time, I’d write a shorter story." Mark Twain Strive for sinewy prose and stories that charge the moment. We'll practice the art of Flash Ficti...  (More)
Flower Carpets-Pave’s
Description: A flower carpet or Pave’ is a flat, textural arrangement of flower heads made in a shallow container. They are so close together that no space shows between the...  (More)
Flower Crowns/ Flower Jewelry
Description: Wearing flowers is a very popular kind of adornment now. We will make a delicate flower crown and a more bold and substantial one out of dried and fresh flowers...  (More)
Fly Fishing 101
Description: Join the 10% of fly fishers who catch 90% of the fish! In this class about catch-and release fly fishing, you learn the basics: use of equipment, rigging and ca...  (More)
Fly Fishing 102
Description: Fly Fishing 102 is a “Follow-up” Course, designed to aid students on their journey toward becoming one of the “10% of Fly Fishers who catch 90...  (More)
Folk Dance 101
Description: Around the globe, folk dancing developed in many societies, spanning east and west. Back then, these dances were integral parts of religious rituals. Today, com...  (More)
Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA) Preventive Controls Rule For Human Food Training
Description: The Food Safety Modernization Act is bringing much change to the food industry. All businesses manufacturing, processing, packaging or holding food, that are re...  (More)
For The Roses: A History of Roses in Floral Design
Description: The rose still reigns supreme as the queen of the flowers. This slideshow/ talk explores the use of roses in floral design since the 1860’s when the first Europ...  (More)
For The Roses: A Workshop
Description: Roses will be in full bloom starting in May! We will make a hand tied bouquet of a selection of beautiful roses not available in local stores along with herbs a...  (More)
Forensic Psychology
Description: This course addresses the nature of Forensic Psychology in a free and just society. Unlike a course in Forensic Sciences which focuses on scientific issues such...  (More)
Forensic Psychology
Description: This course addresses the nature of Forensic Psychology in a free and just society.  Unlike a course in Forensic Sciences which focuses on scientific issue...  (More)
Freedom from Resentment: The Art of Forgiveness
Description: Course Description: This course guides students through the process, the art, of forgiveness, allowing them to drop the rocks of resentment from the backpack th...  (More)
Freedom from Resentment: The Art of Forgiveness
Description: This course guides students through the process, the art, of forgiveness, allowing them to drop the rocks of resentment from the backpack they carry. As a resul...  (More)
French for Travelers
Description: Be prepared for your next trip to a French speaking country. Learn useful expressions and travel tips to make your stay more meaningful. We will work on real si...  (More)
From Collage to Painting
Description: Discover the exciting possibilities of collage, a technique where different materials are assembled together to create a new work of art. This class guides begi...  (More)
From Kitchen to Market
Description: Kitchen to Market Workshop - Have you thought of taking that delicious family recipe and turning it into a business? Already own a food manufacturing business a...  (More)
Fruit Tasting Series
Description: Enjoy the fruits of the season! At each tasting students will enjoy a curated selection of seasonal fruit fresh from the Indian Valley Organic Farm Orchard, wit...  (More)
Fruit Tree Basics for Abundance
Description: Bare root fruit tree season will soon be here, and there are so many considerations to ensure a productive long term investment of choosing, planting, and carin...  (More)
Fun With Phyllo
Description: Join Chef Lisa Lavagetto for an exciting cooking class showcasing the true art phyllo, demonstrating how to make and shape savory and sweet pastries. Students w...  (More)
Functional Fitness
Description: This fitness course offers opportunities to enhance cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, balance, coordination, and over-all sense of well-...  (More)
Funding Series: Pitching
Description: Funding Series: Pitching
FundingSeries: Find the Right Source of Funding
Description:   E-Commerce Series A hands-on 3-hour workshop introducing this amazing E-Commerce solution: Shopify. Trusted by over 325,000 businesses and entrepreneur...  (More)
Furniture Painting-Give A New Life To Your Furniture Finds!
Description: Do you have a piece of furniture that you have always imagined painting in a special way, style or finish, but didn’t know the steps how to get there? In...  (More)
Gates to Western Europe: Eastern Europe Part 1
Description: During “part I” of this this course we will discuss the origins, culture and evolution of parts of Eastern Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Czeck...  (More)
Gates to Western Europe: Eastern Europe Part II
Description: During “Part II” of this course we will discuss the origins, culture and evolution of Croatia, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia, their importa...  (More)
Gentle Yoga
Description: Gentle Yoga is adapted for all levels and will benefit beginner to advanced students. Starting with a review of foundations at an easy pace, you will learn bas...  (More)
Geologic and Tectonic Origins of Coastal California
Description: The west coast of North America (NA) has sustained a repetitive series of glancing collisions with micro continents, volcanic island arcs (Japan-like) and ...  (More)
Get Ready to Paint: Beginners Really Welcome!
Description: This class is an orientation designed for the enthusiastic, but apprehensive novice painter who wishes to start in acrylics. Even 'beginners welcome' pa...  (More)
Gilbert and Sullivan’s First Three Great Musical Hits
Description: In this course will study three outstanding American naturalistic sociological novels of the Twenties and Thirties, John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, F. Sco...  (More)
Glass Mosaic Workshop
Description: An informative weekend workshop geared towards beginners and those who want to learn about basic techniques, tools, and materials. Students gain confidence and ...  (More)
Gmail at Your Fingertips!
Description: Make Gmail your best assistant. Learn to receive and compose messages. Save and/or send important information such as attachments, links, or images. Access your...  (More)
Goddess Traditions in Asia
Description: Buddhism in Asia has a long and lively tradition of storytelling.  Stories were used to convey Buddhist principles, morals, ethics and history.  Stori...  (More)
Google Suite: Getting to Know All Things Google
Description: Google provides a suite of tools or apps called G-Suite that can be used wherever you have internet access. The G-Suite includes a variety of Google owned apps ...  (More)
Griefwriting
Description: Everyone experiences moments of pain, betrayal, or sorrow at any number of points in our lives. Then we suffer the kind of giant loss that leaves us feeling utt...  (More)
Grisaille Painting in Acrylics
Description: Grisaille is a technique of painting using shades of gray or a similar neutral tone. This allows the artist to work primarily with values and composition, rathe...  (More)
Guided Autobiography : Continued
Description: This course is a continuation of the journey of life story writing for students who have taken a Guided Autobiography Course with the Instructor. In Guided Auto...  (More)
Guided Autobiography: One
Description: In Guided Autobiography, you will write your life stories - two pages at a time – using tested themes such as family, career and work, and health. Priming quest...  (More)
Guided Autobiography:Two
Description: In Guided Autobiography, you will write your life stories –two pages at at time-using tested themes such as family, career and work, and health. Priming questio...  (More)
Haddie Mini-Lecture Series - Author Series and Others
Description: Haddie Mini-Lecture Series proudly sponsored by Emeritus Students at College of Marin Presents Explore Shakespeare King Lear Explore the world of King Lear w...  (More)
Hamlet and Macbeth: Two of Shakespeare’s Great Tragedies
Description: In this course, the class will study, see and discuss two of Shakespeare’s great tragedies, Hamlet and Macbeth. We will read the plays and see performances of t...  (More)
Hand-Tied Bouquets
Description: Hand Tied bouquets are really versatile and once you make them, everything stays in place. All the arranging takes place in your hand while you rotate the bouqu...  (More)
Handmade Art Books
Description: This class will introduce you to the inspiring and creative world of handmade art books. Using mixed media such as altered papers, photos, collage, metal, and f...  (More)
Handmade Summer Pastas
Description: Join Chef Lisa Lavagetto for a hands-on cooking class showcasing handmade summer pasta dishes both sweet and savory. Students will enjoy a family-style meal tog...  (More)
Hands-On Gorgonzola Blue Cheese
Description: Gorgonzola is a delicious Italian blue cheese made with whole cows milk and cream. Join cheesemaker Sacha Laurin to learn the art and science of blue cheese mak...  (More)
Hands-On Making And Baking With Ricotta
Description: Ricotta ("twice-cooked" in Italian) is traditionally made from cooking the whey left over in cheese making. Ricotta is one of the most versatile ...  (More)
Happier Hour: Life Hacks for Well-being
Description: Happier Hour is a fun, interactive and practical course that takes the "woo-woo" out of well-being. The workshop – created by a cognitive behavioral psychologis...  (More)
Happy Gut! Food Allergies, Intolerances & Gluten-Free Cooking
Description: Indigestion, tummy ache or worse? You may have a common food allergy or intolerance. The first part of this class will show you how to find out why your gut isn...  (More)
Hatha Yoga-Beginning
Description: This series of classes will take students through the fundamentals of breath awareness, proper alignment, stability and focus via a sequence of standing and sea...  (More)
Healing Your Life: Ayurvedic Wellness Program
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Healthy Asian Cooking for 1 or 2
Description: Cooking fresh and healthy meals for just one or two people can be as challenging as going on a blind date. This class will equip you with the knowledge and skil...  (More)
Hearty Italian Dinner
Description: Bring some Italian comfort foods into your fall kitchen. Chef Lisa Lavagetto will share some hearty recipes in this hands-on cooking class featuring Lasagna, Gn...  (More)
Hiking Marin Trails
Description: Curious about the many trails to hike in Marin, but don’t know where to start? Explore some of the many open spaces in our county on these four- to six-mi...  (More)
History of Design: Ideas, Objects, and Impact
Description: This class will follow step by step the 2009 Versailles Exhibition based on the legacy and enriching cultural accomplishment of King Louis XIV, presented for th...  (More)
History of France and the French People
Description: Few modern countries possess such a multifaceted history as France. Its distinctive character has been a key feature of the successive stages of European histor...  (More)
History of Wine in 150 Minutes!
Description: Wine has been made for over 7,000 years, and has shaped cultures and civilization throughout recorded human history – but what do you really know about it? Come...  (More)
History of World War I
Description: World War I started in 1914 and ended in 1918. It destroyed million of people, 4 empires - German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Romanov; and triggered colonia...  (More)
History of World War II
Description: Global war from 1939 to 1945. Included most world’s nations forming opposing military alliances: Allies vs. Axis involving 30 countries. Participants used all e...  (More)
Holiday Wreaths and Swags for Your Door
Description: Join me to create some beautiful and welcoming decorations. We’ll embellish store bought wreaths, I’ll demonstrate how to make a garland and sw...  (More)
Holistic Health and Wellness 1-Day at IVC
Description: Join experienced instructors in movement, mindfulness and meditation, and creative engagement for a holistic health and wellness experience. Focus on ...  (More)
Home Winemaking Basics
Description: Making wine at home is a wonderful avocation, but many people do not know where to start or what they might need to do. This class explores the basics of making...  (More)
Honoring our Grieving: Guiding our Heart’s Healing
Description: We all experience many kinds of loss all during our lives: loved ones, homes, relationships, health, friendships, jobs, unmet expectations, and dreams. &nb...  (More)
Hors d’oeuvres for Entertaining
Description: Italian Sausage Rolls Salmon Mousse Tartlets Spiced Pecans Whole Wheat Pita Chips with Hummus Moroccan Chicken Phyllo Rolls Cinnamon Churros Shri...  (More)
How to Ask for Money: Fundraising 101
Description: Most people are afraid to ask for money even though these gifts are for a cause they deeply care about. “ I’ll do anything but ask for money’&...  (More)
How to Create a Personal Brand to Advance Your Career
Description: Discovering your right livelihood can be a fun and exciting journey.  In this experiential class, students will be presented with the latest research on ca...  (More)
How To Make Store Bought Bouquets Look Great!
Description: Buying bouquets at the grocery store or supermarket is how most of us bring flowers into our homes. It’s so easy; take the wrapper off and plunk it in wat...  (More)
How Yeast Built Civilization: The Impact of a Single Cell on Food and Drink for the World
Description: Civilization was built, in part, when humans stayed in one place to wait for food and drink to transform - and all of of that was caused by yeast. Come on a jou...  (More)
Hugelkultur Raised Garden Bed
Description: Hugelkultur is a raised bed built on buried wood that will save you water and fertilizer. This garden bed is loaded with organic material, nutrients, and air po...  (More)
Idioms and Topics in American Culture - Level 1/2
Description: Reading 1 prepares students to read texts at a fourth-grade level and develops reading comprehension skills through reading for meaning, identifying main ideas,...  (More)
Idioms and Topics in American Culture - Level 2/3
Description: Level 3 students will improve speaking, pronunciation and listening skills necessary for successful communication in social and academic situations and will dem...  (More)
IEP Fall 2018 Application Fee (F-1Students Only)
Description:     Who is this fee for? The Application Fee is for F-1 students who wish to submit an application to the Intensive English Program.   To Ap...  (More)
IEP Shipping Fee
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IEP Spring 2019 Application Fee (F-1Students Only)
Description:     Who is this fee for? The Application Fee is for F-1 students who wish to submit an application to the Intensive English Program.   To Ap...  (More)
IEP Tuition (F-1) 12 weeks/ 20 hours a week
Description: The Intensive English Program is a dynamic language acquisition program offering courses taught by highly skilled instructors, cultural activities, presentation...  (More)
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IEP Tuition (Resident/Other) (16w/Quarter)
Description: Welcome to College of Marin Intensive English Program (IEP) College of Marin’s Intensive English Program (IEP) has more than 30 years of success educating En...  (More)
IEP Tuition (Resident/Other) (4w/Full)
Description: The Intensive English Program is a dynamic language acquisition program offering courses taught by highly skilled instructors, cultural activities, presentation...  (More)
IEP Tuition (Resident/Other) (4w/Half)
Description: The Intensive English Program is a dynamic language acquisition program offering courses taught by highly skilled instructors, cultural activities, presentation...  (More)
IEP Tuition (Resident/Other) (4w/Quarter)
Description: The Intensive English Program is a dynamic language acquisition program offering courses taught by highly skilled instructors, cultural activities, presentation...  (More)
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Description: The Intensive English Program is a dynamic language acquisition program offering courses taught by highly skilled instructors, cultural activities, presentation...  (More)
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Description: The Intensive English Program is a dynamic language acquisition program offering courses taught by highly skilled instructors, cultural activities, presentation...  (More)
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IEP Tuition 16 weeks/20 hours per week (F1 Students)
Description: Fall 2014: August 19 – December 5, 2014 International Students: Please contact Rebecca Freeland   415.457.8811, Ext. 7740   Rebecca.Freeland@marin.ed...  (More)
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Description: The Intensive English Program is a dynamic language acquisition program offering courses taught by highly skilled instructors, cultural activities, presentation...  (More)
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Ignite Creativity in Community…Every Season
Description: In this course we’ll explore creativity through poetry, nature, and perception. You will learn how to tap into your own creative genius and learn how to nurture...  (More)
Illustrated Nursery Stories and Poems
Description: Illustrate classic nursery rhymes, poetry, or stories - in your own style! This course will examine and interpret passages that you select as a means of learnin...  (More)
In Your Own Hands: Mindfulness-Based Practices to Optimize Wellbeing
Description: This experiential skill-building class is an introduction to a mindfulness-based, values-directed approach to optimize wellbeing. In this course you will learn ...  (More)
Income Tax for Smart People Who Don’t Feel Smart about Their Taxes
Description: Through lively discussion and real-life examples, we will learn the basics of how our U.S. income tax system works, a little about its colorful history, and a l...  (More)
Increase Your Home Value with a Junior Unit
Description: Your home is your biggest investment, and it should be working for you. Come learn how the creation of a legal second unit (a.k.a. accessory dwelling unit or in...  (More)
Inner Well-Being – Ancient Perspectives and Practical Insights
Description: This class is part lecture and part guided explorations. You will discover the ways to grow inner resilience and clarity through timeless tools such as mantra, ...  (More)
Inspirational Painting in Acrylics
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Institutional TOEFL(R)
Description: The Institutional Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL(R)) is used to evaluate the English proficiency of people whose native language is not English. I...  (More)
Intaglio Printmaking
Description: This course will explore the expressive qualities of combining the techniques of drypoint, sugarlift, spitbite aquatint, and chine collé in intaglio printmaking...  (More)
Interfaith 101: Cultivating Interfaith Literacy and Engaging in Religious Diversity
Description: The U.S. is increasingly becoming one of the most religiously diverse countries in the world. It is also a place where religious conflict, polarization, and int...  (More)
Intermediate Excel 2013
Description: In this course you will learn how to become more productive using Excel’s financial and data tools. Topics include Table Design, Sorting & Filter...  (More)
Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar
Description: This class is designed for guitarists with previous experience (intermediate level). We will work with arrangements that encompass chords and melody together, k...  (More)
Intermediate Piano Duet
Description: Playing piano duets is one of the most thrilling musical experiences.Combining your intermediate (or higher) classical piano skills with another pianist at the ...  (More)
Intermediate Word 2013
Description: This course will help you become more productive with the program. We will review and then we will turn our attention to templates, envelopes and labels, styles...  (More)
Intermediate: Conversational Mandarin Chinese
Description: This course is designed to teach an intermediate level of listening and speaking in Mandarin Chinese. Students will expand vocabulary and develop ability to eng...  (More)
Internet & Email Basics
Description: Have you been wanting learn how to use the internet but don't know where to begin? Do you see your friends on computers or iPads sending emails and think t...  (More)
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Description: What enables us to be our best selves in relationship? Come and explore the science and psychology behind interpersonal effectiveness. Learn the practices that ...  (More)
Intro to Computers
Description: Let's start at the very beginning and get an overview of what a personal computer can do for you. This is a hands-on course that will provide you with the basic...  (More)
Intro to Traditional Hawaiian Dance
Description: Now you too can learn Hula: the traditional dance of Hawai’i. In the classic choreographies to be presented, we will explore Hula Auwana (contemporary dan...  (More)
Introduction to Social Media for Older Adults
Description: NEW   Intro to Social Media for Older Adults What is Facebook or Twitter and why would I use them? Social media is everywhere and can be very confusing. This...  (More)
Introduction to DJ’ing
Description: Whether you already DJ or are a complete beginner, this course is a great place to get started.  Learn how to download and organize your music collection, ...  (More)
Introduction to East Coast Swing
Description: This course is intended for students between the ages of 18 and 80 with no previous dance background who would like to learn the basic technical and social skil...  (More)
Introduction to Excel 2013
Description: A spreadsheet is a powerful, yet easy-to-use tool to keep track of anything that can be counted. In this course you will learn the basics of creating, modifying...  (More)
Introduction to IPhone/IPod Touch/IPad Apps
Description: Transform your iPhone, iPad or iPod into the true mobile computers these devices have become and access their full internet capability and mobile connectivity. ...  (More)
Introduction to Jungian Dream Analysis: A Journey Into the Unconscious
Description: When Sigmund Freud published his groundbreaking work, The Interpretation of Dreams, in 1900, he famously declared that dreams were the "via regia" (royal road) ...  (More)
Introduction to Paleotechnology
Description: Join us as we explore universal hunter gatherer skills used by humans all around the world. You’ll learn basic and essential living skills through a numbe...  (More)
Introduction to Pilates
Description: This popular mind/body exercise conditioning program was developed by Joseph Pilates. We focus on deep breathing while strengthening the core muscles of the tru...  (More)
Introduction to the Water
Description: Did you miss being properly introduced to the water? Do you hang back at the beach or pool or resort when everyone else jumps in? Introduction to the Water will...  (More)
Introduction to Vedic Chanting
Description: The Veda-s are a huge collection of texts in the form of chants that were believed to be heard by ancient Indian sages when they were in a deep meditative state...  (More)
Introduction to Voice Acting
Description: This is a chance to have time on the mic with a critique from Terry McGovern, as well as learn everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the business an...  (More)
Introduction to Windows 7
Description: Introduction to Windows 7 Learn about the basic features of Windows 7, Microsoft’s latest desktop operating system. This course covers customizing windows...  (More)
Introduction to Word 2013
Description: If you are looking for a job in today’s market, this is the software program to learn. This course will explore techniques used to create letters, reports...  (More)
Introductory Flintknapping
Description: Arrow, spear and drill points and knife blades of obsidian (volcanic glass) and chert have been made in California for thousands of years. In this introductory ...  (More)
Intuitive Communication With Animals : Level 1
Description: This experiential class will teach you how to communicate with animals using silent words and mind pictures. Animals are intuitive beings who respond to human e...  (More)
Intuitive Communication With Animals : Level 2
Description: Level 2 is intended to deepen your connection and understanding with your animals. We’ll review your technique to connect and discuss any blocks or doubts that ...  (More)
Intuitive Communication With Nature
Description: Ever wonder what creates the feeling of inner calm when immersed in Nature? Imagine communicating with a hummingbird or ancient oak. This class will teach you h...  (More)
iPad/iPhone Basics 2
Description: Are you confused about iCloud, Maps, or Photo storage? This course will review some of the basics of using your device and then show you what else your phone ca...  (More)
iPad/iPhone Basics 3
Description: iPad and iPhone users, come discover the incredible world of applications! Find apps to help you manage your daily activities and feed your passions! In this th...  (More)
Iranian Cinema
Description: Iranian Films are known globally for their outstanding humanistic storytellers, industry leaders and scholars whose diverse, innovative voices enlighten, enga...  (More)
Iranian Culture and Civilization
Description: Becoming familiar with the cultural and social history of the Iranian world, with emphasis on legacy of Persian literature and art, will help you to understand ...  (More)
Irrigating Efficiently: How Much Water Does Your Garden Need?
Description: A plant’s type, location in the landscape, and the local climate all play a major role in determining its irrigation needs. Learn to determine how much water yo...  (More)
Italian Classics-Risotto and Polenta
Description: Classic Risotto Milanese with saffron and shallots Seafood Risotto with Scallops and Shrimp Arancini Balls stuffed with Fontina Cheese and Prosciutto C...  (More)
Italian Film and Conversation
Description: Increase your knowledge of Italian grammar, vocabulary, traditions, history, and cultural comprehension through Italian cinema. After each film there will be in...  (More)
Italian First Year, First & Second Quarter
Description: This class is designed to acquaint students with basic tools for conversation which will include verbs, vocabulary and idiomatic expressions with use of multi- ...  (More)
Italian in the Kitchen
Description: Have fun learning Italian through recipes and sharing with your classmates your ability to talk in Italian about food and recipes.Every other week you will shar...  (More)
Italian Soups for the Soul
Description: Pasta e Fagioli- white bean and pasta soup with sausage and escarole Italian Wedding Soup with Pork, Fennel and Bread Crumbs Cioppino-Seafood soup with Cl...  (More)
Jazz Standards from Around the World
Description: Sing standards in Portuguese, French, Italian, and Spanish. A fun way to learn songs in different languages and add them to your repertoire. Class will cover he...  (More)
Jewelry and Metalsmithing /Beginners/Beginners Plus
Description: The beginners/beginners plus class focuses on fundamentals of soldering, forming, construction, use of hand tools, and finishing techniques. The number of proje...  (More)
Jewelry and Metalsmithing /Intermediate/Advanced
Description: The beginners/beginners plus class focuses on fundamentals of soldering, forming, construction, use of hand tools, and finishing techniques. The number of proje...  (More)
Jewelry Making: Forming and Beyond
Description: Students will learn a variety of forming techniques including forging, shell-forming and die-forming. They will explore how to incorporate forming into their ow...  (More)
Journey through Jewish Music: An Excursion Through The History of Jewish Music from The Time Of King
Description: Multimedia course covers the history of Jewish music from the earliest days to modern times. Includes Jewish music as evolved from Sephardic (Spanish, and Lad...  (More)
Joy of Tai Chi
Description: The purpose of this tranquil class is to sample a series of gentle, health-giving exercises in a relaxed and playful environment. Tai Chi combines the flow of d...  (More)
Joy of Tai Chi: Intermediate/Advanced
Description: The purpose of this tranquil class is to sample a series of gentle, health-giving exercises in a relaxed and playful environment. Tai Chi combines the flow of d...  (More)
Joy Of Tennis Beginning
Description: This evolutionary approach to the game eliminates the biggest impediment to peak performance — competition. Playing competitively before mastering the bas...  (More)
Joy Of Tennis Intermediate 1
Description: This evolutionary approach to the game eliminates the biggest impediment to peak performance — competition. Playing competitively before mastering the bas...  (More)
Joy of Tennis Intermediate 2
Description: This evolutionary approach to the game eliminates the biggest impediment to peak performance — competition. Playing competitively before mastering the bas...  (More)
Joywriting
Description: In Jack Gilbert’s poem “A Brief for the Defense,” he acknowledges that there is “sorrow everywhere” and yet “we must risk delight.” In Joywriting, you will enga...  (More)
Keep On Voting After The Election
Description: Joel Blackwell has worked in 47 states and Washington DC helping ordinary people learn how to lobby elected officials and get results. You will understand the r...  (More)
Key Yogic Principles: A look into their Vedic and ancient influences, and their relevance today
Description: Universal principles have timeless value and offer a way to confidently navigate the modern world.  In this course, we'll look at the origins and contempor...  (More)
Keys to Drawing Perspective
Description: This class is designed for anyone interested in learning simple techniques for creating a sense of depth in their drawings. The focus of this class is to have f...  (More)
Knife Skills 101
Description: Join Chef Dara in this fun, hands-on and informative knife skills class to learn the basic cuts for everyday ingredients: slice, dice, mince, julienne and chiff...  (More)
Knitting for the Beginner
Description: Are you interested in DIY projects, and want a productive, relaxing hobby? Did you know that knitting can actually help with stress levels, and improves brain p...  (More)
Learning to Advocate for your Learning Disabled Child
Description: Having a child with a learning disability means moving through a maze of evaluators, learning specialists, teachers, administrators, coaches-anyone who touches ...  (More)
Learning To Draw Using Graphite Pencils
Description: Learn the basics of drawing objects and form and create a sense of depth through the use of pencils. Students will learn how to simplify forms in order to creat...  (More)
Let’s Travel Together!
Description: This class is designed for the art lover and world traveler in all of us! We’ll visit and discover the ten most famous art museums in the world online, beginnin...  (More)
Life & Retirement Planning
Description: This class explains time-tested strategies that help you to make informed financial decisions. Whether your objective is to build a nest egg, protect your asset...  (More)
Life in the World of Big Data – Oh, the Stories Our Data Can Tell!
Description: The growing use of smartphones, social media, online retailing, electronic healthcare records, surveillance systems, etc. has driven the explosive growth in the...  (More)
Life Sculpture in Clay
Description: This sculpture class focuses on learning how to sculpt the human form from a live model. Lecture and demonstration will be included in each class as students ...  (More)
Life Sculpture in Clay
Description: This sculpture class focuses on learning how to sculpt the human form from a live model. Lecture and demonstration will be included in each class as students ...  (More)
Literature of Death and Dying
Description: “Illness, suffering, and death are the human condition. As long as people have lived, they have fallen ill, suffered, and died, and they have tried to understan...  (More)
Live View Digital Camera Photography: Beginning to Intermediate
Description: Everything about photo image capture has changed. What happened when we switched from film to digital? What does it look like? Why is it important? What can we ...  (More)
Live View Digital Camera Photography: Beginning to Intermediate
Description: Everything about photo image capture has changed. What happened when we switched from film to digital? What does it look like? Why is it important? What can we ...  (More)
Lost and Found: A Generative Writing Workshop
Description: “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. B...  (More)
Lovely Valentine Brunch
Description: Chocolate Dipped Strawberries with Champagne Heart Shaped Cherry and Chocolate Scones Goat Cheese, Sun-Dried Tomato, and Roasted Garlic Souffle served on ...  (More)
Low Fat Fiction
Description: "If I had more time, I’d write a shorter story." Mark Twain Strive for sinewy prose and stories that charge the moment. Practice the art of low fat fiction, ...  (More)
Macro Photography
Description: Come celebrate the natural world and learn how to photograph close up where the inside of a flower becomes a world of it’s own. Carrying on the tradition and sp...  (More)
Mahayana Buddhism & the Middle Way
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Make a Change: Habits for Optimal Health
Description: Whether it’s losing weight, managing diabetes, or quitting smoking, changing our habits can be hard---even when we know making a change would improve our health...  (More)
Make Your Own Earrings
Description: Learn to make your own inexpensive, personalized earrings! NO prior experience needed: fee includes materials to make up to 5 custom earring pairs. Holiday opti...  (More)
Makers Workshop
Description: Create and invent things in our makerspace/woodshop. You will learn to make designs in Adobe Illustrator, Fusion 360, and V-carve; then fabricate your designs o...  (More)
Making Lotions, Creams and Salves at Home
Description: Have you ever stood in a cosmetic shop, overwhelmed at the variety--and prices--of skin moisturizers? In this demonstration class you’ll learn the different pro...  (More)
Marin Men’s Chorus
Description: “The camaraderie and brotherhood is an important part of this group, and keeps me coming back year after year.” Michael Open to all men who want to...  (More)
Marin Men’s Chorus
Description: “The camaraderie and brotherhood is an important part of this group, and keeps me coming back year after year.” Michael Open to all men who want to...  (More)
Mastering French Knife Skills ( a Cut Above)
Description: Roast Five-Spices Whole Chicken Prawn Pad Thai Noodles with cut vegetables Scallop and Tofu Stir-Fry with Black Bean sauce  
Meandering In Marin
Description: If you enjoy getting exercise, socializing with a congenial group, and learning about birds, flowers, butterflies, and mushrooms, come join the Meanderers. Hike...  (More)
Medicare Today
Description: With all of the recent changes to our health care system, today’s choices can be overwhelming. Whether you are currently on Medicare or approaching it, it has n...  (More)
Medications and the Older Adult
Description: The way we absorb and metabolize medications changes with age, and the effects of drugs on body and mind are increased. In an era in which taking ten or more me...  (More)
Mediterranean Harmony: Nourish & Thrive
Description: TBD
Memories of Italy (Molise)
Description: Join us in the Nugget Markets Farm Kitchen to learn how to prepare Italian specialties and share in your cooking at the end of class. Chef Lisa will guide you a...  (More)
Migrations and Cultural Encounters: Nomads, Caravans, and Dancing along the Silk Road
Description: From Jaisalmer in India to Bagdad and beyond, the “Silk Road” was a vast network of land and sea routes connecting great civilizations of the classical and medi...  (More)
Mikkyo Zen: How To Live In The Present Moment
Description: Through the practice of Mikkyo Zen, students will seek how best to live in the present moment with less stress and less manifestations of the “Three Poiso...  (More)
Mindful Body 101
Description: Modern culture encourages us to criticize our bodies, while aging and health issues frighten us. But no matter its age or condition, every body is a ma...  (More)
Mindful Body, Artful Life
Description: The human body is a wonder of biological artistry. By investigating its form and feeling mindfully into its rich, sensuous interior, we renew our creative conne...  (More)
Mindful Wing Chun for Living From Your Center
Description: In this atypical martial arts class, the focus is on optimization of wellbeing. Solo mindfulness-based form practice and two-person mindfulness-based exercises ...  (More)
Mindfulness Photography: Opening to the World Around You
Description: The term mindfulness has received a lot of attention lately. But what exactly is mindfulness and how can it be incorporated in your photography, and what are th...  (More)
Mindfulness-Based Self-Compassion and Self-Empowerment
Description: Would you like to feel more awake, alive, and present for your life? By helping you understand your own body and mind, this course encourages compassion and app...  (More)
Mini-Medical School Seminars
Description: The Mini-Medical School Sampler program has been developed in collaboration with the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine’s Mini-Medical Sc...  (More)
Movement and Music for the Older Adult: A Universal Language
Description: This class is created for older persons who have not been exercising regularly, or have arthritis related problems. It moves at a moderate, comfortable (yet pro...  (More)
Mushroom Cultivation
Description: Learn about the life cycle and morphology of fungi. Discover the role of fungi in ecological systems. Learn outdoor, non sterile methods for growing edible mush...  (More)
Music Performance Workshop
Description: Singing is an extension of speaking! Learn how to use and maintain a healthy voice while singing with ease through the breaks in your range. This class covers v...  (More)
Music, Health and Consciousness: At Play in the Field of Sound
Description: Music is an interface between outer and inner worlds. This didactic and experiential course is about the power of music to promote physical health and well-bein...  (More)
Musical Snapshots: American Masters
Description: This class will explore the life and music of three of America’s greatest composers: Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and George Gershwin. Join us as we listen ...  (More)
Musical Snapshots: American Singer Songwriters of the Sixties & Seventies
Description: From the ‘50’s sounds of Chuck Berry, through the protest-oriented songs of Bob Dylan and the wide-ranging Career of Paul Simon, the singer-songwriters ha...  (More)
Musical Snapshots: Comedic Musicians
Description: We will discuss, see video, and hear music from six of many American comedic musicians. Included will be Jerry Lewis in scenes from “The Bellboy” and singing “R...  (More)
Musical Snapshots: Crosby, Sinatra, Cole, Bennett – Four Of America’s Best
Description: This class will explore the musical styles and lives of 20th Century America's most popular and adored male singers; Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Nat "K...  (More)
Musical Snapshots: Duke Ellington
Description: Duke Ellington could go from elegant society music to the lowest-down blues to new forms that he invented himself.  From a ragtime piano player in Washingt...  (More)
Musical Snapshots: Great Jazz Singers
Description: So, what is a jazz singer anyway? For this class, I am going to talk about a selected few out of the many...some in more detail than others who I feel have had ...  (More)
Musical Snapshots: The Blues
Description: Tracing its origins from the Mississippi Delta to its amplification in Chicago right after World War II, this class will show the blues evolution through the mu...  (More)
Musical Snapshots: Wild Women of Song
Description: “I’m in the Mood for Love,” You Oughta Be in Pictures,” and “I’ll Never Smile Again” are some of the best-loved standards from the 'American Songbook' tunes tha...  (More)
My Letter to the World": The Personal Essay, Prompted by Poetry
Description: Using fresh, accessible poetry as writing prompts, this class will help you tease out the most charming and poignant facets of your unique personal story. See h...  (More)
Mystic Art Circle
Description: Artists learn by seeing the ways great artists of the past used line, form, color and composition, but more importantly we feel the artist through their express...  (More)
Native Americans: Past, Present and Future and Certificate of Completion Ceremony
Description: Six speakers will share their insights of the past, present, and future of Native American culture. Joanne Campbell, Coast Miwok Elder, Federated Indian...  (More)
Natural Floral Design Series: The Daily Vase
Description: Aside from special occasions, it’s nice to have simple flowers for every day; small little compositions for many rooms. A simple composition is as rewarding and...  (More)
Nature as Secular Sanctuary: Freethinkers from Paine to Burroughs
Description: This course tracks the evolution of Freethought in America from Thomas Paine to John Burroughs. Focus will be on the fertile ground of 19th Century America whic...  (More)
Naturopathic Health Solutions
Description: This class is for those interested in learning more about Natural medicine and how to apply it for good health.  Each lecture will provide various tools to...  (More)
New Thinking about Heart Health, Blood Pressure and Cholesterol
Description: Learn why there are new guidelines in how blood pressure should be treated at sixty and older. Understand the dramatic shift in thinking as to who should and sh...  (More)
Non-Traditional Watercolor & Fluid Acrylic Painting
Description: Free your painting style with wet-on-wet techniques that enhance visual interest, atmospheric effects and textual elegance. Course includes tips and techniques ...  (More)
Nonprofit Careers in Fundraising and Grantwriting
Description: This course is for anyone who has wondered what it’s like to work for a nonprofit, what jobs tend to be most in demand, and where to find them. One thing that a...  (More)
Northern Shaolin Kung Fu
Description: Get in the best shape of your life!  Northern Shaolin is the famous kicking style of Kung Fu.  Northern Shaolin is famous for its high kicks, long sta...  (More)
Nutrition: Does Anyone Know What to Believe Now?
Description: As a registered dietitian with a doctorate in nutritional biology and board certified in sports dietetics, Dr. Braun brings a wealth of information on how best ...  (More)
One With Nature: Plein Air Workshop
Description: This is a seven week plein air workshop whose primary location s will be in Central Marin County locations. Students will learn how to work directly from Nature...  (More)
Painting as Spiritual Practice
Description: The act of painting lends itself to the spiritual qualities of focus on inner life and concentration. The deep, in-the-moment engagement of art making (present ...  (More)
Painting on Porous Surfaces
Description: In this class, students will have the opportunity to work on two paintings using a foundation of plaster and a foundation of lime paint. Both surfaces are porou...  (More)
Painting Subjects and Scenery Inspired by Early California Landscape Artists
Description: By painting a Paint-along technique the weekly subject will be fully demonstrated at each class session The class will be supplied with a painting subject in th...  (More)
Painting V Group
Description: Painting
Painting with the Masters - Old and New!
Description: This course will help you appreciate some of your favorite “Master" painters, studying and copying paintings from different time periods, matching some of the o...  (More)
Path to Quietude: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Description: In the midst of sweeping global changes, many of us are looking for reliable insight into re-orienting our perspective and lifestyle to foster clarity and&...  (More)
Peanuts by the Decade: A Celebration of the Charles Schulz Centennial
Description: With the approaching centennial of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz's birth, we will look at his life and work, and its impact on society throughout its lengthy r...  (More)
Performing Poetry With Authentic Voice
Description: Writers are reading their work aloud more and more in public settings but often without communicating subtle moods and meanings to audiences. How do readers rec...  (More)
Permaculture Gardening
Description: This course is an introduction to permaculture design for the home gardener.  As a whole-systems design method, we will dive into the foundations of tendin...  (More)
Petroglyphs and Miwok Cultural History
Description: Anthropologist and respected author Betty Goerke will guide you on a hike to view the best example of rock art in Marin County on Ring Mountain, Tiburon, Califo...  (More)
Petroglyphs of West Marin
Description: This new field trip will cover parts of West Marin to view rarely seen and recently discovered  petroglyphs. The possible interpretations and significance ...  (More)
Pharmacology (Study of Drugs) for Everyone
Description: A reality of modern western life is that most citizens will, during the course of their lifetimes, be exposed to a multitude of pharmaceutical agents for mainta...  (More)
Piano Classes For Beginners To Advanced
Description: Piano instruction in both classical and popular music (chords and melody) is offered in a relaxed, supportive, and friendly environment. You will have your own ...  (More)
Piano Duet
Description: Music for two pianos for two or more pianists will be studied in this nine week class with an optional performance on March 30. Repertoire suitable for the inte...  (More)
PINK FLOYD: FROM PSYCHEDELIA TO SPACE ROCK
Description: n the mid-to-late 1960s, the San Francisco Bay Area exploded with psychedelic rock that captured the imagination of the world. The roots and heyday of the San F...  (More)
Plant-based Meals 101
Description: Eating more plant-based meals supports the the environment and our health. Vegetables can stand on their own without meat or fish at all, so come learn how to l...  (More)
Playing With Color Theory
Description: In this four week workshop students will have the opportunity to learn the basic principles of color mixing through examples, demonstrations and hands on color ...  (More)
Plein Air Painting
Description: The plein air painting class is an instructional, progressive outdoor painting class. We will meet at the classroom every week and walk to a different location ...  (More)
Plugging into Electric Vehicles
Description: Driving an electric vehicle is going to be in everyone’s future. The state has mandated that all new cars and trucks must be zero-emissions by 2025, and this cl...  (More)
Poetry Writing Master Class
Description: "Poetry is language at its most distilled and most potent." ~Rita Dove Poets attempt to say the unsayable—an ambition that should never be "all work, no play...  (More)
Poetry: From Delight to Wisdom
Description: A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost Our study of poetry will serve as an introduction for those unfamiliar or unsure of the territory, an...  (More)
Portraiture in Different Media: Examining Facial Features and Understanding Proportion
Description: Learn the Rules of Features and Proportion, so you can break them! This couse will help you understand the basic construction of the face. Learn how "portraitur...  (More)
Practical Wine and Food Matching- From the Farmer’s Market to your Table
Description: Farmer’s Markets continue to bring opportunities for local growers to present wonderful food to an enthusiastic public. But, how do you pair what you get ...  (More)
Present Day Cuba and How to Travel There Legally
Description: This course begins with a review of the past 50 years of Cuba’s history, including Cuba’s current social structure, the Cuban Revolution that began ...  (More)
Preview Day
Description: Events
Professionalism and Etiquette
Description: This course is designed for those seeking to enhance their professionalism and etiquette acumen. The audience would be those seeking to learn about professional...  (More)
Prohibition and Repeal: how it still affects America today
Description: Almost a century ago, America tried a bold experiment – Prohibition. And, over the next 13 years, it changed American history, culminating in the ultimate chang...  (More)
Prohibition at 100
Description: How the only constitutional amendment to be overturned still rules our liquor laws, and goverment reach in all areas of our lives Prohibition turns 100 - and...  (More)
Prose Writing Workshop: The Practice of Effective Revision
Description: Good storytelling and compelling reading are a vibrant mix of summary, narration and scene. Yet, all too often a good story is obscured in a muddle of these imp...  (More)
Public Speaking for Beginners
Description: Would you like to speak with clarity and confidence? This course provides a practical, interactive introduction to the basic principles and methods of effective...  (More)
Quiltmaking
Description: This course teaches the fundamentals of quiltmaking, including fabric and color selection, block techniques, finishing, borders, barring and binding. Students w...  (More)
Radiology 101
Description: Instruction in the operation of dental x-ray equipment with emphasis on radiation safety. Intraoral techniques, criteria for diagnostically useful radiographs, ...  (More)
Raga and Rock ’n Roll- the History of Indian Music in 60’s Rock
Description: Pop music in the 1960's was a time of irrefutable experimentation and exploration. One of this era's distinct influences was that of the music of North India, k...  (More)
Re-envisioning Beekeeping in a Time of Crisis
Description: The accelerating loss of animal species and biodiversity reflects the urgency with which we need to move towards the preservation of honeybees. This course is a...  (More)
Reading and Writing Prose and Poetry: A Class For Seniors
Description: TBD
Red Wines of the World
Description: Exploring Red Wines With their varying hues and bodies, red wine brings hundreds of subtle flavors and nuances. Discover the different red wine varieties, their...  (More)
Redefining Gender: Women in 20th Century Fiction
Description: In this course, we will analyze literature by women that redefines negative gender and race stereotypes by rewriting cultural and literary myths to&nb...  (More)
Regional Geography Alive: Europe
Description: Add a geographic perspective to your knowledge of Europe. Our study integrates essential physical and cultural geographic elements within this continent of ance...  (More)
Regional Geography Alive: Latin America and the Caribbean (Geografia Regional: Latino America y el C
Description: In English, with Spanish references. Second in a series of five regional courses. Our study integrates essential physical and cultural geographic elements of a ...  (More)
Regional Geography Alive: USA and Canada
Description: Our study integrates essential physical and cultural elements of U.S. and Canada Geography, and is enhanced by a variety of basic maps, thematic maps and slides...  (More)
Regional Geography of Asia
Description: The study of Geography typically is approached systematically (physical or cultural/human Geography) or regionally.  This course includes focus on continen...  (More)
Regional Wines of California
Description: Many great wines come from Sonoma and Napa, but we have a bounty of great wines from some truly dynamic regions. This class will look at wine from – Lodi, Paso ...  (More)
Regional Wines of California
Description: Many great wines come from Sonoma and Napa, but we have a bounty of great wines from some truly dynamic regions. This class will look at wine from – Lodi,...  (More)
REGIONAL WINES SERIES - Follow that Compass to Discover lesser known Wines of the World
Description: Great wine comes from all points on the compass - The Pacific NorthWest, the Southern Hemisphere and Eastern and Southern Europe. Come along to explore some of ...  (More)
Respect: Minority Voices in Early Soul, Reggae, Rock, And Folk
Description: For decades, ethnic minorities have expressed some of their strongest and most influential protest and social activism through popular music. This course will d...  (More)
Restorative Yoga and Meditation - Special Summer Edition!
Description: This class is adapted for all levels and will benefit beginner to advanced students. We will cover basic poses, detailing principles of movement, relaxation, b...  (More)
Restore and Improve Your Balance
Description: Learn how balance works, why your balance may be deteriorating, and how you can safely implement very simple exercises to train your balance. Improve your stabi...  (More)
Retirement Planning Today for Entrepreneurs
Description: You went to school to prepare for your occupation.  Now, it’s time to prepare for the option of retirement. Whether you plan to retire 20 years from now or...  (More)
Returned Check Fee
Description: miscellaneous fee: Returned Check Fee $15
Reverse Mortgage 101
Description: You’ve heard about them and seen the TV ads, now come and learn how reverse mortgages really work. If you are a homeowner, age 62+ who would like to utili...  (More)
Rock ’n’ Roll: 1955-1967
Description: In this course, we investigate the evolution of rock music from 1955 to 1980, starting from its roots in rhythm & blues and country, and moving through the ...  (More)
Rock ’n’ Roll: 1967-1980
Description: New and continuing students are welcome in this class, where we will investigate the evolution of rock music from the late 1960s to 1980. Starting with psychede...  (More)
Rock’n’Roll’s First Decade: From Elvis to the Beatles
Description: In the mid-1970s, one of rock’s most explosive and controversial styles challenged conventional musical and social norms as acts like Patti Smith, Blondie, the ...  (More)
Rome in the Fall
Description: Welcome in the fall with a taste of Rome. Chef Lisa Lavagetto will take you on a hands-on cooking adventure highlighting the specialties of Rome from handmade f...  (More)
Russian Music : Peter Tchaikovsky
Description: This spring will be a continuation of the Autumn session focusing on the music and life of Peter Tchaikovsky. Join us as we explore and enjoy more performances ...  (More)
Russian Music : Peter Tchaikovsky
Description: Join us to learn about the music and life of Peter Tchaikovsky. Enjoy performances and participate in analysis of Tchaikovsky’s major works: concertos, sy...  (More)
Russian Music : Sergei Rachmaninov
Description: Join us to learn about the music and life of Sergei Rachmaninov. Enjoy performances and participate in analysis of Rachmaninov major works: concertos, symphonie...  (More)
Russian Music: Historical Masterpieces
Description: This class will focus on masterpieces of the Russian Music in historical performances by the world famous artists from Russia. Learn more about Russian music an...  (More)
Russian Music: Sergei Rachmaninov
Description: This Winter will be a continuation of the Autumn session focusing on the music and life of Sergei Rachmaninov. Join us as we explore and enjoy more performances...  (More)
Sailing 101: Introduction to Sailing
Description: Join the 10% of fly fishers who catch 90% of the fish! In this class about catch-and release fly fishing, you learn the basics: use of equipment, rigging and ca...  (More)
San Francisco in Photographs, 1850-2020
Description: From the time photography was invented, the San Francisco Bay Area has been the setting for fabulous pictures of its beautiful landscapes and earthshaking socia...  (More)
Sanity: An Eastern Perspective Personal Enrichment
Description: As the right and left sides of the brain have different ways of knowing, so too the Eastern and Western hemispheres of our earth. For example, of the eight or s...  (More)
Scottish Highland Dance
Description: This course focuses on essentials of Scottish Highland Dance: stretching/warming up, fundamental movements/steps of the Fling, The Highland Reel,and more. Cours...  (More)
Script Writing
Description: Creative writers/drama students will focus on writing a play for production. Goals include correctly formatting a three-act play, critiquing your own and other ...  (More)
Scripting Concepts for Unity3D: An Exploration of Code for Game Designer
Description: Calling all aspiring game designers! If you are looking to take your Unity3D project to the next level with custom scripts, this class is for you. Learn the ins...  (More)
Self-Defense for Women
Description: This class is designed for women and will include the special obstacles they face in a hostile environment, including addressing societal conditioning to &ldquo...  (More)
Self-Healing Through Intuition Medicine
Description: Is there a way for us to minimize the outside world's chaos and maximize your potential naturally? This class will teach you a simple beginning meditation pract...  (More)
Sell it on eBay!
Description: Discover if your item will sell or not in just One Minute! Learn how to create a Seller account, upload photos, accept online payments, and determine shipping c...  (More)
Send It!
Description: "The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home" John ...  (More)
Sensational Summer Main Dish Salads
Description: Perfect for warm summer evening fare, come join Chef Lisa Lavagetto for this hands-on cooking class and explore making a variety of fabulous main dish salads. S...  (More)
Sentimental Education, novel by Gustave Flaubert
Description: Join us in reading excerpts, discussing and analyzing Gustave Flaubert’s celebrated narrative “Sentimental Education”. The novel was publ...  (More)
Servsafe Manager Preparation Class
Description: The participants will learn the basic principles of food safety and sanitation, and the application of these principles in a food service operation. The class w...  (More)
SHIFT: Writing as a Process of Discovery
Description: This class is for writers of all levels who seek to break out of genre restricitions, or overcome obstacles like writer’s block. It is also designed for those w...  (More)
Short Story Masterpieces
Description: In this course we will consider the modern short story as a reflection of our changing concepts of reality.  In the 20th century the psychological realism ...  (More)
Simple Sauces and Pan Reductions
Description: Learn to create a variety of delicious dishes using simple sauces and pan reduction techniques. Recipes will include:  Perfect Chicken Piccata Lamb C...  (More)
Sister Carrie, The Age of Innocence and The Call of the Wild
Description: This course will study three outstanding American naturalistic novels – two of them rather short -- of the turn of the 20th Century. Naturalism was a style th...  (More)
Social and Emotional Learning for Parents and Children
Description: Ten evidence based social and emotional lessons for parents and their children ages 7-13. These brief and practical lessons will promote self-regulation and res...  (More)
Social Media 101
Description: Social Media 101 Do you want to catch up with old friends or long-lost family? Wish you knew what a tweet was? This course will give you an overview of the most...  (More)
Social Media and Online Sales
Description: Social Media Marketing Class Social media marketing offers businesses a great opportunity to engage with their clients, across the entire customer lifecycle, o...  (More)
Social Security Today
Description: Filing for Social Security is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. This course will help you to identify strategies for maximizing your benef...  (More)
Sourdough Made Simple
Description: Maybe you’ve heard that making sourdough bread at home is labor intensive, time-consuming and difficult to master. None of the above, says Stephen Yafa. In t...  (More)
Sow Your Wild Notes: A Workshop for Songwriters and Composers
Description: Calling aspiring composers and songwriters! Have you ever wanted to write your own songs and instrumental music but wondered how to bring it from your imaginati...  (More)
Spanish Basics
Description: Client service-related Spanish vocabulary and phrases can help improve communication in a multicultural work environment. This class will help County of Marin e...  (More)
Spanish for Travelers
Description: Prior knowledge of Spanish is not a prerequisite for this course. This class prepares you for travel in Spanish-speaking countries, and helps develop an appreci...  (More)
Spanish: Short Films, Short Stories with Subjunctive Mood and Conversation
Description: This course will provide new vocabulary for conversation by watching short films in Spanish and reading stories by well-known writers from Latin America and Spa...  (More)
Speaking/Listening/Pronunciation - Level 1/2
Description: Listening/Speaking level 1 is a high-beginning course that focuses on improving listening and speaking skills in order for students to be able to communicate su...  (More)
Speaking/Listening/Pronunciation - Level 3
Description: Level 3 students will improve speaking, pronunciation and listening skills necessary for successful communication in social and academic situations and will dem...  (More)
Speaking/Listening/Pronunciation Level 2 (Intermediate)
Description: Students discuss, listen, take notes, and read about subjects like architecture, psychology, behavioral science, game studies, sociology, business, environmenta...  (More)
Spirit Yoga
Description: This is a slow flow Hatha Yoga class with an emphasis on opening the spirit…something higher. Originally Hatha yoga was designed to reach the more advanced stat...  (More)
Spontaneous Painting: Watercolor and Fluid Acrylic Wet-into-Wet
Description: Discover the nature of watercolor and fluid acrylic paints, and learn how to handle them! A full range of wet-into-wet techniques will be presented, from pre-mo...  (More)
Spring Acrylic Landscape Painting With Bernard Healey
Description: You can learn to paint finished work with subjects such as Clouds, Sunsets, California Beaches, The Wine country and ocean scenes. Bring what supplies you have ...  (More)
Squarespace.com: Fast, Easy Website Creation
Description: Squarespace.com: Fast, Easy Website Creation Design and construct your own website using Squarespace, a fully hosted, completely managed environment for creatin...  (More)
Start Living Your Legacy
Description: How can you be more memorable? This class will give you the tools to explore what makes you who you are, what gives your life meaning, what is your life purpose...  (More)
Strategies for Getting Your Child into College Today
Description: In this introductory course, you learn strategies that keep you and your child ‘on track’ with the college application process. Learn about College ...  (More)
Street Food Of Singapore
Description: Street food is the beating heart of Singaporean which defined their identity, culture, history and social context of its community. They are available on menu f...  (More)
Strength and Balance Chair Yoga for Older Adults
Description: Strength and Balance Chair Yoga is a safe way for older adults to get the wonderful health benefits of becoming aware of their bodies through a g...  (More)
Strength, Flexibility, Balance, and Agility Training for Adults and Older Adults
Description: This beginner/intermediate class is designed for you to get stronger and more flexible along with improving your posture, balance, and response time. Starting w...  (More)
Stress Reduction Strategies for Helping Professionals:Nurses, Teachers, Health Care Workers & Others
Description: This experiential course for Helping Professionals presents skills to successfully manage stress and avoid burnout. Helping Professionals work in unpredictable ...  (More)
Student Semester Permit
Description: Semester permits should be affixed to the lower corner of the windshield, on the driver's side. You may use the "suction cup hanger" sold at the C...  (More)
Summer Asian Wraps
Description: Green Papaya Salad with Steak with Red-leaves lettuce Soba Noodle Bundles with Chili-Garlic Sauce Chicken & Shrimp with pine-nuts lettuce cup Smoke...  (More)
Summer Entrée Salads
Description: Join us at the Nugget Demonstration kitchen to learn to create a variety of delicious salads for dinner on warm summer evenings. Recipes will include: Mango...  (More)
Summer Fruit Crisps, Crumbles, and Cakes
Description: Turn summer fruits into scrumptious desserts during this hands-on class with Chef Lisa Lavagetto and learn to make crisps, crumbles and cakes for your summer sw...  (More)
Summer Fruit Tree Pruning and Pest Control for the Home Orchard
Description: Your backyard fruit trees will benefit from you getting to know the care best given in the summer months. Pruning at this time of the year can keep your trees f...  (More)
Summer in Rome
Description: Welcome the summer with a taste of Rome. Chef Lisa Lavagetto will take you on a hands-on cooking adventure highlighting the specialties of Rome and students wil...  (More)
Summer IVC Farm Tour
Description: The Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden (IVOFG) supports and sustains local food systems and organic agriculture, to help educate and develop the local agricu...  (More)
Summer Makeup Intensive
Description: Master your makeup skills in one day.  You will learn and practice camera ready makeup application from start to finish. Students will learn and practice s...  (More)
Summer Test Class
Description: In this two-hour workshop, you will be introduced to the fundamentals of exercises for bone strength. Learn about postural alignment, key strengthening exercise...  (More)
Support Wisdom in Your Life
Description: We are each innately wise, but get sidetracked by life and forget our own capacity for ease, clarity, and creativity.  In this class, we will explore basic...  (More)
Surfing 101
Description: During this introduction to surfing, you will learn basic water safety and surfing fundamentals, including an understanding of wave formation, tides and wind, s...  (More)
Sustainable Investing and Building Socially Conscious Portfolios
Description: Forbes had an article in 1980’s that sneered at socially responsible investing. It implied that it would screen out all potentially high –return investments.&nb...  (More)
Swaying the Soul: Women, Dance, and Spirituality in the Islamic World
Description: This course will give a broad understanding and appreciation for the artistic and spiritual contributions of the Muslim world through its dance and music, givin...  (More)
Swim Fitness
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Tai Chi Sword- A Beautiful Way to Build Energy and Health
Description: T’ai Chi Sword is a fun and entertaining way to exercise, build your health, boost your energy level, improve balance, increase strength, enhance coordina...  (More)
Tales Told from Memory
Description: Memoir has become one of the hottest genres of the current literary scene. This writing workshop will help you retrieve your own remembered experience and shape...  (More)
Talk about Talk: Linguistic Principles of Conversation
Description: Through a light-hearted introduction of linguistic principles and practice of discourse analysis, we investigate what makes a conversation engaging --- or not.&...  (More)
Tame Your Smartphone: Take A Digital Tuneup
Description: This class will help you learn how to use your smartphone more mindfully and effectively. We can’t live without our smartphones, but sometimes it feels like the...  (More)
Tapping to the Oldies for Adults
Description: Get into shape with the rhythmic of the 30’s and 40’s. Join us for a non-stop aerobic workout learning tap steps and routine sin an individualized, noncompetive...  (More)
Teaching Exercise Training
Description: Have you ever thought about a career working with older adults and frail elders? This is your opportunity to get started. Become approved by California’s...  (More)
Tech Basics For Seniors
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The “Plague” by Albert Camus
Description: Join us in discussing and analyzing “The Plague” novel by Noble Prize winner Albert Camus, released in 1947. It was immediately a great success. • In the 1940s...  (More)
The Anatomy of Aging
Description: A look at how and why we age, how much we actually control, and whether men or women do it better. Learn how some animals grow old with little or no sign of agi...  (More)
The Art of Makeup: Makeup for Yourself
Description: Learn how to achieve red carpet quality makeup look at home. In this class students will learn how to combine colors for makeup and everyday use. How to correct...  (More)
The Art of Piano Interpretation
Description: This course is designed to awaken a critical ear when it comes to the task of how to interpret piano repertory. This is a remote format class which will explor...  (More)
The Beatles: The Rock Group that Changed the World
Description: An in-depth overview of the history of the Beatles, the most popular and influential rock group of all time. Using both common and rare recordings and video cli...  (More)
The Breath of Stir-Fry Wok Cooking
Description: The Breath of Stir-Fry Wok Cooking Date - 2/22/20  11 a-3pm Class description – Sizzle your way to success as you slice up some fresh seasonal vegetables...  (More)
The British Invasion: British Rock Of The 1960’s
Description: An in-depth overview of British rock in the 1960’s, particularly emphasizing the years (1962-1970) in which the Beatles were the most popular band in the ...  (More)
The Caves of the Vatican
Description: Andre Gide, most important writer of the XX century, winner of Noble Price for Literature in 1947, wrote “The Caves of the Vatican” in 1914, about the time of W...  (More)
The Doors: The Greatest Psychedelic Rock Group
Description: An in-depth overview of the history of the Doors, one of the most popular and influential rock groups of all time. Using both common and rare recordings and vid...  (More)
The Emotional World of Picture Books: A Children’s Book Writing Workshop
Description: The day-to-day life of young children is chock-full of emotion. They can express fierce anger, deep sadness, pure fear and irrepressible happiness on an hourly ...  (More)
The Enneagram: Finding Your Personality Type
Description: In this course you will learn the framework and ancient roots of the 9-pointed Enneagram (Ennea is Greek for nine) and see how aspects of the diagram accurately...  (More)
The Feast of the Italian Big Night with Chef Lisa Lavagetto
Description: The Feast of the Big Night is an amazing meal prepared by Italian immigrants who came to America to open an authentic Italian restaurant.     Come an...  (More)
The Feldenkrais Method for the Active Older Adult
Description: The Feldenkrais Method uses gentle, pleasurable movement to produce powerful changes that help people look and feel better, moving with more confidence, coordin...  (More)
The Flow of Waterclolor: Design with Line / Indoors and Outdoors
Description: Improve your drawing skills AND paint beautifully with line! Primarily use watercolor in washes and in the form of line, adding waterproof and water soluble lin...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor
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The Flow of Watercolor: Atmospheric Lakescapes
Description: ming with ideas. All you need is continual support to let these ideas develop. Gain the technical skills to paint imaginative skies, trees, mountains and shrubs...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Atmospheric Landscape
Description: We live in a beautiful part of the country, where the skies are filled with a variety of luminous and lustrous atmospheric effects. Step-by-step, learn how to i...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Beginning Portraiture
Description: The Flow of Watercolor: Beginning Portraiture There is something very special about painting portraits in watercolor. Because this art medium is so fluid, it c...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Control Your Color Choices With Color Schemes-Henri Matisse
Description: You LOVE color, and you want to have more control over your color choices before and during your painting process. All levels can benefit from this class. ...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Control Your Color Choices With Color Schemes-Paul Cezanne
Description: You LOVE color, and you want to have more control over your color choices before and during your painting process. All levels can benefit from this class. ...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Deciduous Trees
Description: Deciduous trees are stunningly beautiful as they change color in autumn and blossom in spring. Learn how to paint loose, yet convincing silhouettes, as well as ...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Evergreen Trees
Description: Sequoias, pines, and palm trees are just a few of the sturdy and long-living evergreens flourishing in our own northern California landscape. They mostly group ...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Expressions of Sea and Sky
Description: The drama of the sea and sky is so beautiful to behold. Learn all the basics you need to paint  believable yet loose renditions of seascapes. Understand c...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Figures – City, Countryside, Interiors
Description: You enjoy painting the figure and have an interest in buildings and perspective. In this class we will start with small and medium-sized figures viewed within ...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Flowers – Traditional & Contemporary
Description: Springtime ushers in a vast array of beautiful flowers! We will start with painting flowers loosely and freely using line and shape and dramatic lighting. As th...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Flowers, Vases and Reflections
Description: Watercolor’s transparent qualities are perfectly suited for depicting glass vases, water and reflections. Julie will guide you step by step as you render ...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: From Landscape Photos to Memory
Description: You often paint landscapes from photographs and yet yearn to use them only for inspiration, not simply to copy. This class will provide you with memory training...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Impressions of the Sea and Coast
Description: Bring to life the mood of the sea while painting impressions of sky, sea, and coast. Paint our beautiful California coastline and other coastlines that enthrall...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Intermediate Portraiture
Description: You have experience painting people in watercolor though you want to paint with a looser style and bring more ‘life’ into your portraits. This class will help y...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Intuitive Abstracts
Description: How would it be if you let go of any predetermined ideas of what you were about to paint and if you learned to let your intuition guide each paint stroke you ma...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: The Clothed Figure
Description: You can make figures look believable without rendering every detail. Working from two live models , and from Julie’s and your own photos of people shown a...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: The Figure
Description: Julie will give you the essentials for how to easily draw and paint nude figures.  No knowledge of figure drawing or portraiture is required.  As you ...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Travel Sketching with Watercolor and Mixed Media
Description: Watercolor is the perfect medium to bring outdoors. We will comfortably set up outdoors for 3 of the six classes. Add an array of mixed media to watercolor &nda...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Trees, Lakes and Snow
Description: You love nature and want to paint it in a way that is unique to you. Learn how to create trees that feel alive, and paint beautiful, tranquil lakes that show re...  (More)
The Flow of Watercolor: Wild and Domestic Animals
Description:   We can learn so much from animals. Their instincts in the wild and display of emotion in our homes teach the beauty of connection to nature and capacity...  (More)
The Fundamentals of Good Composition in Art
Description: Are you new to art? Or, have you been creating your art for a time but know there is something missing, but not sure what it is? This course is a good starting ...  (More)
The Gods are Athirst by Anatole France
Description: The works of Anatole France, French author and Noble Prize recipient for Literature in 1921, are considered remarkable for their sophistication, wit, passion fo...  (More)
THE GOLDEN AGE OF SAN FRANCISCO ROCK: THE SUMMER OF LOVE
Description: n the mid-to-late 1960s, the San Francisco Bay Area exploded with psychedelic rock that captured the imagination of the world. The roots and heyday of the San F...  (More)
The Golden Age of the Abbeys - A Medieval Utopia – Their Role in History and Evolution
Description: The Golden Age of Abbeys was the outcome of Gregorian reform when the Church took control of society in the 11th century. Abbeys, exported from Egypt to Europe ...  (More)
The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gatsby and Babbitt
Description: In this course will study three outstanding American naturalistic sociological novels of the Twenties and Thirties, John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, F. Sco...  (More)
The Hero’s Journey
Description:   The Hero’s Journey Course Description (for Marin Community Education College of Marin) This course is based on Joseph Campbell’s teaching, the instruct...  (More)
The History of Switzerland
Description: The Swiss Confederation consists of 26 cantons. Geographically it is landlocked, bordered by Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. Switzerland is o...  (More)
The History of the Holy Roman Empire
Description: Please join us in analyzing and discussing the existence of one of the most remarkable purview in European history, a state that was highly instrumental in the ...  (More)
The History of the Jews from Spain
Description: The history of Spanish Jews dates back two thousand years to when the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and brought Jews with them back to Europ...  (More)
The House Of Romanov: A Russian Dynasty
Description: Born at the end of “Time of Troubles” in the XVI century, the Romanov Dynasty did not cease confronting the defiance of the Slavophil, the ambitions...  (More)
The Journal as Source of Prose, Poetry and Performance
Description: The seemingly private practice of journal writing is a source of raw material that can be revised and shared with wider audiences. In this supportive workshop w...  (More)
The Lives of Famous People
Description: Join us in analyzing the lives of 7 people who left a strong impact on the world. Jean Racine (1639-1699): Historiographer of King Louis XIV, involved in the “S...  (More)
The Masterpiece, Novel by Emile Zola
Description: Emile Zola created the literary school of “Naturalism” in France. “The Masterpiece”, is a strikingly accurate story of artistic life in ...  (More)
The Modern Shepherd
Description: This is an introduction to both the theory and practice of modern day shepherding broken down into four main categories: A natural history of California and its...  (More)
The Modern Shepherd Part II
Description: This course will get into the specifics of land management in relation to livestock with real life examples of various land use practices. We will explore some ...  (More)
The Pleasures of the Poem: Creating and Enjoying Poetry
Description: Poetry writing offers myriad pleasures: beauty, exploration, stimulation, validation, heightened self-expression, and more. In this class, we explore the pleasu...  (More)
The Poetic Pilgrimage : Writing Poetry as Spiritual Practice
Description: As we rush through our days, the urge to center ourselves in something deep and sustaining intensifies. Writing poetry not only serves this urge but shares many...  (More)
The Poetic Pilgrimage : Writing Poetry as Spiritual Practice
Description: Winter’s Theme: The Narrative Poem/ Spring’s theme: The Lyric Poem As we rush through our days, the urge to center ourselves in something deep and sustaining...  (More)
The Poetic Pilgrimage Intensive: Poem Making as Spiritual Practice
Description: As we rush through our days, the urge to root ourselves in something deep and sustaining intensifies. The writing of poetry not only serves this urge, but has m...  (More)
The Poetic Pilgrimage: Writing Poetry As Spiritual Practice:The Awakening Heart
Description: As we rush through our days, the urge to center ourselves in something deep and sustaining intensifies. Writing poetry not only serves this urge but shares many...  (More)
The Psychology of Courage
Description: Courage is a learned skill that can be practiced and strengthened over time. In this course, students will be introduced to the six types of courage and will de...  (More)
The Rolling Stones
Description: An in-depth overview of the history of the Rolling Stones, the most popular and influential rock group of all time besides the Beatles. Using both common and ra...  (More)
The Singer-Songwriters of the Sixties-Seventies
Description: From the ‘50’s sounds of Chuck Berry, through the protest-oriented songs of Bob Dylan and the wide- ranging career of Paul Simon, the singer-songwri...  (More)
The Singer-Songwriters of the Sixties-Seventies Part 2
Description: As opposed to contemporary pop music singers who write or co-write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry.  This...  (More)
The Socratic Circus, a Salon
Description: This class provides a venue where thoughtful people can learn to reasonably and intelligently discuss critical issues of today. They will learn how to analyze i...  (More)
The Street of Food of Penang Island Malaysia
Description: Street food is the beating heart of Asian food culture. In this class, you will learn to make healthy and delectable small bites of Penang Island, an unesco sit...  (More)
The Times And Life Of Leonardo Da Vinci
Description: Was he an inventor, a genius? An ecologist ahead of his time?  Was he a revolutionary, an artist, or a pure product of the Renaissance? Join us in explorin...  (More)
The Twenty-first Century Novel
Description: Since September 11, 2001, a new kind of realist narrative called the global novel has emerged. Post-millennial authors are engaged in a diversity of new fiction...  (More)
The Who: From Mod Anthems To Rock Operas
Description: An in-depth overview of the history of the Who, one of the most popular and influential rock groups of all time. Using both common and rare recordings and video...  (More)
The Whole Picture: life review in word and image
Description: Artists, scientists, poets, philosophers, and explorers have historically used a journal to investigate and chronicle their inner lives and outer worlds.&n...  (More)
The Wilderness Within: John Burroughs and Walt Whitman
Description: The friendship between Burroughs and Whitman, beginning during the Civil War, brought together a great naturalist and a great poet who shook our world.  Th...  (More)
The Wounded Feminine: Perspectives on Healing and Embracing the Power of the Feminine Through Myth
Description: This course offers insight into wounds of the feminine felt by women in a patriarchal culture and suggests ways to remedy the attack on the feminine that is ali...  (More)
Theatre’s Greatest Moments
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Thomas Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd And Tess Of The d’Urbervilles
Description: Thomas Hardy challenged Victorian notions about the issues the novel could address. In doing so he created memorable characters, asked challenging and provocati...  (More)
Three Famous Fairytales
Description: In choosing Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella for this class on Fairy Tales the goals are to enhance the student’s awareness of the histori...  (More)
Three Shakespearean Comedies: Much Ado about Nothing, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It
Description: In this course the class will study, see and discuss the three great comedies of Shakespeare’s middle period: Much Ado about Nothing, Twelfth Night and As...  (More)
Tour of Sicily
Description: Join Chef Lisa Lavagetto for this hands-on cooking tour of Sicily. Learn to make warm Sicilian octopus salad, stuffed swordfish, and more and experience the tas...  (More)
Traditional Chinese Brush Painting
Description: Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world! Students will learn how to use a Chinese brush and ink to paint different ani...  (More)
Traditional Hawaiian Dance
Description: This course focuses on Traditional Hawa’iian Dance presented to audiences: the curation, staging, choreography and authentic costuming of performance hula. Stud...  (More)
Traditional Hawaiian Dance
Description: The focus of this course is Hula Auwana and Kahiko: the contemporary and ancient styles of Hawai’ian dance. In the eight classic choreographies presented, we wi...  (More)
Traditional Storytelling, Tule Crafts, and Cultural Wisdom
Description: Wila! Come! Explore the Coast Miwok culture with Sky Road Webb (Coast Miwok) and Alicia M. Retes (Mayo, Yaqui and Cherokee). These engaging storytellers and art...  (More)
Transcendental Love
Description: Love sustains our passions and yearnings, holds us in times of joy and loss, nourishes our hearts, and melts our fears.   It opens us to our deepest s...  (More)
Transformational Feldenkrais Movements
Description: Learn how The Feldenkrais Method™ can help you improve your functioning, balance, flexibility, coordination, posture, and sense of well-being. These lesso...  (More)
Turn ! Turn ! Turn !: The 1960s Folk -Rock Revolution
Description: In the 1960s, folk and rock music merged to create folk-rock, taking popular music and culture to a new and more poetic, socially conscious place that neither ...  (More)
Tuscan Grill
Description: Grilled Pizza with Tomato, Fontina, and Eggplant Roast Flank Steak stuffed with Prosciutto, Spinach & Herbs served with a Cabernet Sauvignon Reduction Sa...  (More)
Understanding Social Networks and Career Development
Description: It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Whether you are just starting to look for a job or want to look back at your career, using the social network perspec...  (More)
Understanding Wallstreet
Description: The stock market is rarely taught in High school and even on college level. Investors generally find it difficult to educate themselves even with the flood of k...  (More)
Underwater Hockey
Description: Learn and practice the basic skills of Underwater Hockey (UWH) in a structured 7-session course! Underwater Hockey is a fast, action-packed (non-contact) sport...  (More)
Up And Rolling With Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Description: You’ll learn the power and elegance of this superb photo organizer and image processing powerhouse.  Discover how Lightroom’s Library and Develop Module’s ...  (More)
Upcycled Art with Paper-Mache’
Description: Students will use a variety of recyclable materials including plastic bottles, cardbooard , and newspaper to create an animals body shape or an object and then ...  (More)
Using Your Smartphone to Capture The World Around You
Description: Do you want your smartphone's pictures to match what you see—or more?  Learn to improve your photography skills, regardless of what smartphone yo...  (More)
Virtual Bird-Watching: Birds of the Bay Area
Description: This is a series of presentations of birds that are present during winter in the Bay Area.  Each presentation will feature a different group of birds. We w...  (More)
Visual Journaling: Self-Discovery Through Creative Play
Description: This mixed media class is for those who wish to discover a window into your inner life and free your creative voice. Play with an assortment of art&nb...  (More)
Voice, Body, Action!
Description: Join the dynamic theater professional, Tim Flavin, on a fun and challenging exploration of performance and stage. This course will provide skill development in ...  (More)
Voices From the Plantation
Description: As evident by the recent racial conflicts and dialog surfacing in various cities across the united States, issues concerning American slavery remain deeply divi...  (More)
W R I T E O N ! Workshop: Creative Writing that Nurtures Well –Being through Self -Expression
Description: We write to reveal ourselves to ourselves and to others. W R I T E O N ! creates a non-judgmental context where a person’s deeper truths are uncovered and...  (More)
Wado Ki Kai Karate
Description: “At the end of a long day, it feels so good to move and stretch while learning something new!” —Christina Wado Ki Kai means ‘to learn f...  (More)
Water Media for Self-Expression Intensive
Description: Discover the nature of watercolor and fluid acrylic paints, and learn how to handle them. A full range of wet-into-wet techniques will be presented, from pre-mo...  (More)
Watercolor Basics and Beyond
Description: An all levels class, however, beginners will receive the very basics. More advanced students are encouraged to work on their own projects, or if desired, the in...  (More)
Watercolor Workshop
Description: All skill levels are welcome. For the beginner, we will ease into the fun and beauty of mixing colors and moving the water on the paper. With the experienced wa...  (More)
Weaving a Kumeyaay Coiled Willow Basket
Description: The class offers a well-rounded knowledge of the basket-making experience with a presentation of the complete process and beliefs surrounding it. Participants w...  (More)
Weaving a Pomo-Style Coiled Willow and Sedge Basket
Description: This class offers a well-rounded knowledge of the basket making experience, with a presentation of the complete process and beliefs surrounding it. Participants...  (More)
Web Site Best Practices for Beginners
Description: Does Your Web Site Commit These Common (but Deadly) Mistakes? Is your web site a success? Is it bringing you new customers and the right customers?  ...  (More)
Weight Management
Description: Committed to losing weight and keeping it off for a lifetime? Learn how to change your eating and exercise behaviors and adopt a healthy lifestyle.  No gim...  (More)
Weights, Core and More
Description: Weights, Core and More is a fitness class combining a mix of interval cardio and gravity challenges. This class entails a warm up, full body, free weight exerci...  (More)
West Coast Jazz
Description: West Coast jazz refers to various styles of jazz music that developed around Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s. It is often seen as a subgenre of &...  (More)
What Food Investors & Entrepreneurs Need to Know to Successfully Scale & Invest Today
Description: Do you dream of selling your product on store shelves or getting into the food business? In this course, you will learn industry insider tips to help you determ...  (More)
What Is Your Gold, Silver and Jewelry Worth?
Description: If you’ve inherited jewelry, silver, or coins, want to add to your income, have some jewelry to sell or are just curious about how precious metals are valued, ...  (More)
What the Buddha Taught: How to be Happy in the Ups and Downs of Life
Description: Buddhism is the fastest growing spiritual tradition in America. This course explores the three cycles of the teachings of Siddharta Gautama, the Buddha, and his...  (More)
Whats So Great about Opera?: An Exploration of Some of Opera’s Greatest Moments
Description: An exploration of some of the greatest moments in Opera. Take the funniest moments, wildest “Mad”scenes, best of the supernatural and see how music history, soc...  (More)
White Wines of the World
Description: Exploring White Wines From crisp and fruity to round and full bodied, white wines cover the gamut of the expressions of these grapes. Learn about different whit...  (More)
Wi$E Up: Financial Education For Women
Description:   This course is a financial education program for women of all ages.  The class will help you gain knowledge, skills, and confidence. By the end of ...  (More)
Wild About Crêpes
Description: Explore the world of sweet and savory crepes in this hands-on cooking class. Students will learn recipes for a variety of dishes and enjoy them together at the ...  (More)
Wild Goose Qigong
Description: Wild Goose Qigong is an ancient practice, 1700 years old. It is a non-strenuous discipline which generates health and balanced well-being. Throughout the year, ...  (More)
Wild Goose Qigong KTD
Description: Wild Goose Qigong is an ancient practice, 1700 years old. Throughout the year, we will learn a lovely set of 64 flowing movements that imitate the daily activit...  (More)
Wild Goose Qigong-Summer Edition
Description: Wild Goose Qigong is an ancient practice, 1700 years old. It is a non-strenuous discipline which generates health and balanced well-being. This summer will be a...  (More)
Wild Women Suffragists - A Forgotten Side of Women’s History.
Description: The struggle for women’s right to vote coincided with America’s first culture war – a battle between a strong Free Love Movement and its better-known opposite, ...  (More)
Wine Country Brunch
Description: Learn to create the perfect brunch meal to share with family and friends in this hands-on cooking class. Recipes will include:  Buttermilk Cake with Bl...  (More)
Wine Tasting Fundamentals
Description: This class will cover: the basics of the process of winemaking, wine tasting, explore different types of wines, talk about “wine talk” and what it a...  (More)
Wine Tasting: From Grapes to Glass
Description: Wine goes back thousands of years in human culture, but have you ever wanted to learn more about it? This course will look at the history, regions and culture o...  (More)
Wisdom Healing Qigong
Description: Through movement, visualization, sound, breathing, and conscious intention to cultivate energy for health, well-being, and self-healing, the ancient practice of...  (More)
Women in Rock Music: The First 25 Years
Description: The history of women’s contributions to rock music from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Using both common and rare recordings and video clips, the cour...  (More)
Woodworking Studio
Description: NEW   Woodworking Studio This woodworking class is for beginning, intermediate, and advanced woodworkers. Beginning woodworkers will complete two projects: a ...  (More)
World Dance
Description: World Dance is a dance-fitness class designed to make you ‘travel’ while you sweat! With these authentic global dance movements & easy fitness routines, we ...  (More)
Writer’s View Of The World
Description: No single work of fiction has more influenced the course of contemporary literature than James Joyce's 1922 masterpiece, Ulysses. Equal parts poetry, legend...  (More)
Writing a Book for Children
Description: Do you love children's literature? Do you have a children's book that you want to create in your heart? Most of us remember books from childhood that truly affe...  (More)
Writing Performance Poetry: Chant to Slam
Description: Performance poetry transports audiences, body and heart, straight into the writer/performer's world. But how do you write with authentic feeling and also expres...  (More)
Writing with Grammar Practice - Level 1
Description: By the end of Writing 1, students should be able to write a coherent paragraph with a good topic sentence, supporting details, and a concluding sentence with mi...  (More)
Writing with Grammar Practice - Level 2
Description: Writing 2 continues to build on writing skills from level 1. By the end of Writing 2, students should be able to produce an organized, focused, detailed paragra...  (More)
Writing with Grammar Practice - Level 3
Description: In addition to skills covered in level 2, in Writing 3, students will gain confidence in their ability to communicate in writing and will practice and improve t...  (More)
Writing with Reading Level 3 (Advanced)
Description: Students discuss, read, and write about subjects like power and responsibility, appearances, growing up, health, art today, the science of food, work and educat...  (More)
Yoga And Meditation
Description: In this hatha yoga class, the regular practice of asanas builds to encompass a rich transition of seated, supine, prone, standing, twisted, inverted, and balanc...  (More)
Yoga For Every Body, Yoga For Every Mind
Description: Practice Iyengar yoga postures with attention to the connection of mind, spirit, and breath. Increasing flexibility and strength restores the body’s freed...  (More)
Yoga for Men
Description: Envision a new physical, mental and spiritual challenge in your life. Let’s learn some of the aspects of the ancient discipline of Hatha Yoga to become more fle...  (More)
Yoga Sculpt
Description: A combination of Power Yoga, Core Training, and Pilates Mat. An upbeat and challenging class designed to strengthen your yoga practice, keep your heart healthy,...  (More)
Yoga Therapies for Anxiety
Description: Come learn therapeutic approaches to managing anxiety using Yoga Therapies and Ayurveda. Gain a clear understanding of the contributing factors of anxiety and h...  (More)
Your Basic Body Mindfulness
Description: We hear a lot about mindfulness and its benefits. But how do we practice it? This class introduces the basic but important practice of mindfulness of the human ...  (More)
Zoom Basics
Description: This class is ideal for those new to remote learning! This course will cover how to use the online conferencing software Zoom including: Logging on, Getting aro...  (More)
Zumba ® Gold I
Description: Join the Party! Zumba Gold is a fusion of Latin and other international music and dance that creates a dynamic, exciting, and effective total body workout, spec...  (More)
Zumba ® Gold II
Description: Zumba Gold II is designed for students who have either attended at least two sessions of Zumba Gold I, have dance experience and are comfortable moving at a mor...  (More)
Zumba ® Gold II with Toning
Description: Zumba®Gold II is designed for students who have either attended at least two sessions of Zumba®Gold I, have dance experience and are comfortable moving at a mor...  (More)
Zumba®
Description: Move to the hypnotic Latin rhythms of salsa, calypso, reggae, meringue, and pop in easy-to-follow moves in an aerobic fitness program that will blow you away. R...  (More)
Zumba® Gold with Toning
Description: Zumba®Gold with Toning offers easy-to-follow dance-fitness routines to Latin and other international music, redefining total body workout, using Zumba® Toning S...  (More)