Archived Courses
This class is an introduction to the Middle East through lectures and conversations about major social and political events from the past 100 years.
Reading/discussing short fiction with a focus on the social issues raised by the stories we'll read
A facilitated discussion aimed at designing a logical solution to the Drug War in Baltimore and the United States.
A one-session lecture and discussion on the connections between real estate and urban warfare
This reading and discussion course will focus on reading contemporary female poets. Students do not need to have read a great deal of poetry but should be open-minded and willing to discuss poems that may contain disturbing and/or graphic images.
Learn to perform a home energy audit on your home and save money using no-cost-to-low-cost methods.
In this discussion-based course we will, as a class, develop a new lens for seeing the world, its issues, and the course of human history, and in doing so develop drastic and simple solutions for sociopolitical issues.
A six week course on the function, maintenence, and repair of the bicycle.
A Workshop on Five Element Theory of Chinese Medicine
What is geography? How can it be creative? How can it be critical? This two-part discussion will examine directions and themes we can explore in a longer class.
This group will assist participants to become tobacco-free by equipping them with evidence-based strategies for treating nicotine dependency. A unique feature of this group will be the dialogue about the role of the tobacco industry in perpetuating tobacco use and addiction of the individual and community level. To Be Tobacco-free is facilitated by a certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist and former smoker
This class will cover simple tax preparation. Can be taylored to the needs of the participants.
Micronations, Seccession, and Disputed Territory
An introduction into the methods of Clown based on techniques from Jacques Lecoq.
This course will focus on reading and discussing contemporary poetry published within the last decade, with an equal emphasis on both emerging and more established American writers.
Learn to perform a home energy audit on your home and save money using no-cost-to-low-cost methods.
This one time only two hour session will cover small scale passive solar design and implementation.
A collaborative workshop for anyone interested in creating live electronic music, multimedia performance, and sound installations. Public extension of a course currently being offered through the Video Department at MICA this Spring.
Ireland As A Prototype of Colonialism and the Long Resistance
Tuesday and Friday morning sessions of collaborative art, music, and story activities for children and their parents together.