(FULL) ALL Course: A Sense of Place

12/4/19 UPDATE: This course is now full. Click here to find another ALL program.

A Sense of Place: An Introduction

With Charles Edward Yonkers

Date: Five sessions on Tuesdays, April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

Time: 1:30–3:00pm

Location: Van Lennep Auditorium, CBMM

Enrollment is limited; sign up early!

Course Description:

This class is a guided conversation and exploration about the power of place in our lives and your personal special places. We all have places that are particularly meaningful to us. What are they and why? Typically, we think of a geographic or physical place like a family home, a museum, a city or neighborhood. But place can take many forms. We love social places like farmers’ markets, the family dinner table, a book club. And there are also subjective places like sailing, playing music, or reading. An object, an author, an art work can be an evocative place. Place-based studies now appear across many disciplines, from creative writing to architecture, art, food, travel, and local and international politics. Our class conversation will be aimed at exploring “place” in general and helping identify and interpret your places, positive or negative. The class is both an individual and collective experience. We learn from each other to expand our perspectives. There will be opportunity for reading, discussion, and producing a personal product.

Note: A helpful but not required book is Place: An Introduction by Tim Cresswell (Wiley Blackwell, Second Edition, 2015; 193pp)

Members $31.50 | Non-Members $45

About the Instructors:

Charles Edward Yonkers is a former Peace Corps Country Director, lawyer (Harvard, J.D., Yale, B.A.), and adjunct professor in Georgetown’s Graduate Liberal Studies Program (M.A.L.S.). His thesis was “The Creation of a Sense of Place: History, Culture, and Henderson, KY.” He has taught a course on A Sense of Place since 2011. His current place is Pot Pie Farm, Wittman, MD.