Lifelong Learning

Andrew Gurstelle
Tuesdays, 2 pm –  4 pm
February 11, 2020 – March 17, 2020
Class location: Brookstown Inn Campus

Final class session to be rescheduled.

Introduction to the visual arts of Africa with an emphasis on how these works relate to global exchanges, movements, and diaspora. Every class features authentic artworks from the WFU Museum of Anthropology collections for close-up inspection. Topics include specific cultures (Yoruba, Kuba, Zulu, Maasai, Tuareg, etc.) as well as mediums and materials (sculpture in wood, beadwork, ceramics, textiles, etc.). Big ideas include the social contexts of art, deep history and archaeology, aesthetic choices and traditions, and the influence of African art elsewhere in the world.

Dr. Andrew Gurstelle (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a museum anthropologist and archaeologist. Dr. Gurstelle is the Academic Director of Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology. His interest in museums focuses on making them hubs of anthropological research—places where research is both conducted and exhibited. His curatorial work emphasizes putting objects in context, historically and culturally.

Dr. Gurstelle has conducted archaeological and oral-historical research in West Africa, including Ghana, Togo, and Bénin. He is the director of the Savè Hills Archaeological Research Project in Bénin. The project’s goal is to examine the early history and development of the Shabe Yoruba kingdom between 1600 and 1960 CE. Dr. Gurstelle and his colleagues map ancient village sites in relation to geographic features and sacred landforms to demonstrate the social and economic networks that cross-cut West Africa. A second area of research is understanding the practices and material cultures of the pre-Shabe population that has lived in the Savè hills area since at least 1000 CE.

Related to archaeology, Dr. Gurstelle maintains a research interest in the historical arts of West and Central Africa—the sculptures, masks, musical instruments, metal castings, and beadwork exported from Africa in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. He has conducted research on blue glass trade beads, Yoruba pottery, Kongo power figures, and royal Kuba art.

Phillip Batten
Mondays, 6 pm- 8 pm
January 27, 2020 – March 2, 2020
Class location: Wake Downtown classroom #1505

Class completed

Along with hunger, sex is one of the primary unlearned human drives. It is associated
with both joyous and traumatic experiences. Our culture seems to simultaneously
obsess about sex and trivialize it. In this course we will examine psychological theories
that attempt to explain human sexual behavior. We will look at the strengths and
weaknesses of research about sex. The complex relationship between sex and power will be examined. We will consider how sex works and how psychologists can help when it does not work. We will look at the latest research about sexual orientation. Finally, we will examine how one’s family history influences the processes of romantic and sexual attraction.

Reading Material. Please note that NO reading for any Lifelong Learning class is ever
required. However the texts below are recommended to enhance your
class experience.

Maggie Scarf, Intimate Partners, Ballantine Books. ISBN: 978-0-345-41820
Donna Freitas. Consent on Campus: A Manifesto, Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0-19-067115-0
Cindy Meston & David Buss, Why Women Have Sex, St. Martins, ISBN: 978-0-465-7999-5
Thomas Maier, Masters of Sex. Basic Books. ISBN: 978-0-465-07999-5
Ogi Ogas & Sai Gaddam, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships, Penguin Random House. ISBN: 978-0-452-29787-6

Phillip Batten has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Wake Forest University since 1991. He has taught Introductory Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, and the very popular Human Sexuality course. Since 1986 he has maintained a private practice in Clinical Psychology in Winston-Salem. His practice has included individual and couples therapy, evaluations of suspected child abuse, and child custody evaluations.

Phil Archer
Fridays, 2 pm – 4 pm
March 20, 2020 – May 1, 2020 (note: no class on Friday, April 10)
Class Location: Reynolda House Museum of American Art

Remaining Spring classes cancelled.

Phil Archer is Betsy Main Babcock Deputy Director at Reynolda House Museum of
American Art, where he has worked since 1997. He oversees the museum’s curatorial,
program, education, archives, and collections departments. In 2016, Archer was recognized by the Southeastern Museum Conference with its annual Outstanding Services to the Museum Profession Award. He represented Reynolda House during the design and construction of the Babcock Wing, completed in 2005, and co-directed an interpretation program of the historic site in 2003-05. In 2016-2018, he directed an expanded interpretation project resulting in a mobile app that encompasses
the estate’s grounds, art collections, and archives. The project was funded by The
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and received a Gold Medal in
Technology from the Southeastern Museum Conference. He attended Wake Forest University and returned for a Master’s in Business Administration in 2006. Hobbies include gardening and carving miniature replicas of classical temples in walnut and mahogany.

John Dalton
Wednesdays, 6 pm – 8 pm
March 25, 2020 – April 29, 2020
Class Location:  Brookstown Inn Campus

Remaining Spring Classes cancelled.

This course provides an overview of the economics of international trade. The content of the course will cover four main areas: 1) the patterns of international trade in the data, 2) the theory of international trade, 3) the design and use of different trade policies, and 4) the effects of trade policies on the economy. As the course evolves, we will give increasing attention to real world examples, both historical and contemporary. Most of the discussion will center around the case of the United States, but examples from the global economy will also be featured.

Reading Material. Please note that NO reading for any Lifelong Learning class is ever
required. However the texts below are recommended to enhance your
class experience.

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy by Pietra Rivoli

Professor Dalton received his B.A. in International Studies and German Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. In between his undergraduate and graduate studies, Professor Dalton spent a year as a Fulbright Student Grantee at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, Austria. Before arriving at Wake Forest in 2010, he taught courses in Economics at the University of Minnesota and worked as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Since arriving at Wake Forest, Professor Dalton has been a visiting scholar at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Professor Dalton’s areas of expertise include international trade, growth and development, macroeconomics, and economic history. More information about Professor Dalton’s teaching and research can be found at his Wake Forest website, http://www.wfu.edu/~daltonjt.

Bernadine Barnes
Tuesdays, 1 pm – 3 pm
March 24, 2020 –  April 28, 2020
Class Location: Brookstown Inn Campus

Remaining Spring classes cancelled.

This course will focus on the city of Florence before, during and beyond the Renaissance. How did Florence become such a center of art and culture? How did various communities in Florence find ways to express themselves? In each class meeting we will focus on a specific time (usually two decades) and explore in depth the works of art and architecture that were most prominent then. We’ll try to imagine how people of the time interacted with the works, and how artists responded to political, religious and social developments.

Dr. Bernadine Barnes teaches Renaissance art at Wake Forest, where she is professor of art history and chair of the art department. She has published three books on Michelangelo, including her most recent work, Michelangelo and the Viewer in his Time.

Kate Storhoff
Mondays, 6 pm- 8 pm
March 16, 2020 – April 20, 2020
Class location- Brookstown Inn Campus

Remaining Spring classes cancelled

What does North Carolina sound like? This course explores the music of North Carolina, primarily focusing on the blues, jazz, folk, bluegrass, country, and other popular music of the twentieth century. From the iconic guitar-picking of the Piedmont blues to the funky grooves of the Kinston musicians who helped shape James Brown’s sound, we will discuss this music in the context of race, gender, and other social issues. We will explore how North Carolina has shaped the sound of several of the most iconic musicians of the twentieth century, including Etta Baker, John Coltrane, Earl Scruggs, Nina Simone, James Taylor, and Link Wray, and discover how their legacy lives on in the music of contemporary artists from Rhiannon Giddens to Mandolin Orange.

Kate Storhoff is a musicologist studying American music, primarily the culture of bands and wind ensembles. Her most recent teaching appointment was as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Wake Forest University in 2018-2019, where she taught music theory, music history, and American music.

Cynthia Kasee
Wednesdays, noon- 2 pm *except where noted below.
January 29, 2020- March 4, 2020
*Wednesday February 12 class will be held from 10 am-noon
Class Location:  Brookstown Inn Campus

Class completed

What we now call “home” (North Carolina), was once the homeland of
several Indigenous nations. Some were descendants of aboriginal origins, some descendants of Native North Americans who chose to, or were forced to come here. Today, our State remains “home” to the Coharie, Eastern Band of Cherokee, Haliwa-Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, Sappony, and Waccamaw-Siouan, as well as representatives of many other nations who chose to make this their new homeland. The disparate, yet intersecting histories of these nations are fascinating insights into America’s history of Indigenous relations, as well as the last several decades’ efforts by Native nations to take their history (and future) into their own hands. These are the elements we will discover together.

No required reading for this or any Lifelong Learning class. The book listed below is for  personal reading to enhance your class experience.

Theda Perdue and Christopher Oakley’s Native Carolinians: The Indians of North Carolina, ISBN 13 # 978-0865263451

Cynthia Kasee, Ph.D. holds the second Ph.D. in American Indian Studies ever awarded and has taught at Winston-Salem State University, the University of South Florida, and the University of Cincinnati, among others. She has also served as Curator of Education for the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Dept. of Cultural Heritage Resources/Tribal Museums. An Eastern Cherokee, she went to school on the Qualla Reservation and speaks Cherokee, as well as practicing the Kituwha religion. She has spent 30 years as a college professor.