Workforce Development and Community Education: Fall 2022

47 | COVID-19 vaccination requirements for in-person classes at www.sunywcc.edu/wdce-vax Textbook Required OF SPECIAL INTEREST REMOTE Climate Change: Why We Must Act Now! Climate “tipping points” are points of no return. Once they are crossed, severe accelerated changes to the climate systems that support life on Earth may become irreversible. Discover what we can do to save the health of our planet by identifying the stressors and lessening their impact. CE-SCI 2061VA, 3 Mon., Oct. 3-17, 6:30-8:30 pm, $75. T Riley. #90029 REMOTE CRISPR’s Potential to Change the World Gene editing has the power to control evolution. CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit genes and is already changing the world. CRISPR will transform medicine as it is being used to treat and prevent many diseases (including sickle cell anemia). CRISPR acts like a scissor cutting the DNA at a certain spot and then science can remove, add, or replace the DNA. Learn how Jennifer Douda and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for discovering the main geneediting tool, CRISPR-CAS9. CE-SCI 2060, 3 Thurs., Sept. 8-22, 6:30-8:30 pm, $75. T Riley. #90028 REMOTE DNA Detectives Are you fascinated by how genealogists, DNA and genetics are revolutionizing criminology, cracking cold cases, freeing innocent people, and bringing justice to families? Modern scientific advances in forensics and the determination of investigators to track down perpetrators of horrific crimes by using DNA technology has led to the capture and incarceration of tens of thousands of criminals. Learn about these cases and how they were solved using these advanced methods. Please email instructor at totrwriter@aol.com for list of optional books. CE-SCI 2058, 3 Wed., Nov. 2-16, 6:30-8:30 pm, $78. T Riley. #90027 COMMUNITY ARTS Learn the Arts in Peekskill The following three courses are offered by the Peekskill Extension Center, located at 27 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY. To register for these classes, call 914-606-7300 or email peekskill@sunywcc.edu Painting En Plein Air in 24 Hrs Students will focus on outdoor landscape painting. Various locations throughout the local area will be selected. Rain dates TBA. Focus will be on color mixing, light and shadow, and composition. Students will be informed of the great plein air traditions of the Impressionists and the Hudson River School painters. Various approaches to landscape painting will be introduced, including water-mixable techniques in oil painting. This class will be offsite. CE-ART 2020PE, 8 Sat., Sept. 24-Nov. 12, 10:00 am-1:00 pm, $277. #90441 IN-PERSON Painting & Drawing for Adults in 24 Hrs Get your ideas out of your sketchbook! Students will enjoy painting in the studio in class and outdoors in an interactive environment. In this class, students will learn from discussion, group critique, examples of art while honing art skills of observation, gesture, composition, value, color mixing, and brushstroke, etc. The teaching artist demonstrates painting and drawing techniques for portraiture, representing the human form, and landscape, abstraction. At Peekskill Extension Center: CE-ART 2146PE, $277. 12 Mon., Oct. 3-Dec. 19, 6:30-8:30 pm. #90442 IN-PERSON Mixed Media Printmaking for Adults in 24 Hrs Discover innovative ways to make handmade prints in addition to how technology such as computers and jet printers make printing contemporary. Make a portrait print based on a photograph, drawing from observation, and imagination. The instructor will introduce soft linocut, monotype, stenciling, and how to marbleize paper, to create prints on rice paper and other printmaking papers. At Peekskill Extension Center: CE-ART 2334PE, $311. 8 Tues., Oct. 11-Dec. 6 (skip 11/22), 6:30-9:30 pm. #90443 Methods of Instruction: REMOTE Students and instructors report virtually to classes on the designated days, dates, and times they are scheduled for. HYBRID Combination of remote and in-person instruction. You will meet virtually and in-person on scheduled days. ONLINE Students work on assignments and view content at their own pace online for the duration of the course. IN-PERSON Students and instructors meet in-person on the designated days, dates, and times they are scheduled for.

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