This one-day course is a real life-saver! This American Heart Association designed course is specifically for those not in the medical field. Participant will learn to recognize the signs of heart attack and stroke, and to perform CPR when necessary. There is no charge for this course, but if one wishes to purchase rather than just read a book on the subject, the cost is $10. Also, an American Heart Association card noting completion of the course is available for $10. Neither expense is required to fully complete the course. "Doc" Campbell, the facilitator, has been an American Heart Association instructor for 17 years.

Dowsing (Divining, Questing, Witching, Doodle-bugging) is an ancient practice that has been used throughout the world. It is defined as, "finding things or answers to questions, using a tool of some sort, and the individual dowser's subconscious." Some consider dowsing an art while others view it as science. In the past, it was considered magic. There will be a brief history of dowsing along with practical exercises in using the four basic dowsing tools. There also will be instruction to help the student dowser properly develop a mind-set that will permit accurate and reliable dowsing. A folder full of literature and a complete set of tools will be provided to each student. The facilitator, Frank Geisel, is an accomplished dowser who has taught thousands how to be successful at dowsing.

Learn the basics of gourd-crafting skills. Each student will receive a gourd and have the use of tools, paints and dyes, finishes and embellishing stuff. In addition, students are encouraged to bring anything they might want to add to their gourd as an additional personal statement. There is a $10 materials fee and students are encouraged to bring a sack lunch and drink to this one-day class. The facilitator, Karen Rossman, has been working with gourds for seven years, and has won several national awards.

Use paint and paper to bring visibility to the invisible wisdom that resides within. Soul searching is fun and easy. There is a $10 fee payable to the Mary Gravelle, the facilitator, at the beginning of this one-day course to cover cost of materials. Gravelle is a professional artist and teacher of painting.

In two hours of slides, Anthony Howell will recommend where to visit within a day's drive so that participants may view special vistas, landscapes and wildlife of our state. Howell's photographic images of the panoramas of the southwest and of Indian pictographs and petroglyphs have made him a major interpreter of our wild desert world; as an artist, a raconteur and mountain man, he brings experience and wit to his presentation.

[POSTPONED to FALL] This one-day course begins with a carpool towards Deming; then travel north through the Mimbres Valley stopping to visit and study classic Mimbres ruins and rock art sites. The final stop will be in the Lake Roberts area, and then we will return to Silver City. Bring sack lunch, water, hat, sunscreen, and wear walking shoes in anticipation of traveling on rough terrain. Cynthia Bettison, the facilitator, is the WNMU Museum Director, has a PhD in Anthropology with specializations in Southwest Archaeology and the archaeology of arid environments. Bettison has a special interest in archaeology of west central and Southwest New Mexico.

As one of the longest desert rivers in the world, the Gila is the lifeblood of our arid southwestern landscape. It is rich in cultural history and wildlife diversity, with remnants of Mimbreno pit houses scattered throughout the Cliff-Gila Valley. Established as the border between the U.S.A. and Mexico in the mid-1800s, the Gila River has also played a key role in attracting settlers to the southwest. Join the Gila Conservation Coalition and special guests for a hike along the Gila River and learn about the natural and cultural history of New Mexico's last wild river. Wear sturdy shoes and bring a sack lunch, water and binoculars (optional) for this one-day course. The facilitator Allyson Siwik is executive director of the Gila Conservation Coalition.

Beginning with an introduction to the New Mexico red chili, this course will follow the preparation of the classic, though simple New Mexican enchilada. If time permits, students will also prepare a red sauce from chili powder, using a roux.

This is a true beginners' course in establishing an email address, sending emails to others, receiving emails, adding and opening attachments to your email letters and using a distribution list for recipients. The facilitator has a PhD in Business Education, and has taught computer usage for 15 years.

This is a very basic beginners' course on how to use the Internet's power to your advantage. Students will be introduced to Google, as well as various other search engines, with an emphasis on acquiring confidence in searching the Internet for information. Virginia has a PhD in Business Education, and has taught computer usage for 15 years.

Learn how to create, edit, save and print letters, memos and tables using Microsoft Word. Our facilitator Virginia is a Microsoft Office Specialist certified in Word, Excel and PowerPoint with 15 years of computer teaching experience.

Learn how to create, edit, save and print spreadsheets, formulas and charts using Microsoft Excel. The Virginia Huegel, the facilitator, is a Microsoft Office Specialist certified in Word, Excel and PowerPoint with 15 years of computer teaching experience.

This course will teach you how to create, edit and run formal and informal presentations including title, text and digital photographs. The facilitator, Virginia Huegel, is a Microsoft Office Specialist certified in Word, Excel and PowerPoint with 15 years of computer teaching experience.

This course, offered in conjunction with the Upper Gila Watershed Alliance, is built around their experiences and expertise. It presents an opportunity to hike through and learn about the Burro Mountains, south of Silver City, with an emphasis on Apache history and culture. The March 1st hike, titled "Hiking Apacheria," will be led by Jerry Eagan, and will explore Apache watering holes, history and life style. The March 8th hike focusing on the theme "Native Plants for Native Peoples," will be led by Donna Stevens and will highlight primarily food plants used by native peoples. Wear sturdy shoes and bring a sack lunch and water. A camera and binoculars might also be useful. Jerry and Donna have led many hikes in the Burro Mountains for the Upper Gila Watershed Alliance and other groups.

Fascinated with the Stars? This is the course for you. In the first three sessions, participants will be introduced to an astronomer's view of the solar system, the milky way, and the rest of the universe. This material will cover the known universe "as of the date of the course". The fourth session will be a star party to look at the universe through telescopes. The facilitator, Gary Emerson, has worked in astronomy and space science for forty years.

Spring bird migration in southwest New Mexico is a great time to learn about, see and hear species in our yards and fields. This course offers three class sessions and a nearby field trip to build useful skills in identifying local birds. Bring a birding field guide to class and binoculars on the field trip if possible. David, Beatty, the facilitator, is a local Audubon board member with experience and expertise in bird identification.

This course has two meetings. The first one is in a classroom as the facilitator, Anthony Romero, describes how he was inspired to explore the Camino del Cobre. This road was first made in 1805 between Santa Rita and Janos, Chihuahua. The second meeting will be a trip in which participants travel by car to uncover the remains of the road formed by the passage of thousands of mules. Anthony Romero, the facilitator, is a retired school administrator and historian, has been interested in this subject for many years.

Improve your Digital Photographs! Learn how to use the advanced software that comes with your digital camera. Participants will learn several functions of this software that can enhance photographs and enable one to create more attractive images. Gary Emerson, the facilitator, has been doing advanced image processing for seventeen years.

This course will offer the opportunity to view selected films from The Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films on DVD. Some possible showings for this semester include Brazil, 8½, Historias Minimas/Minimal Stories, Viridiana and Sundance Shorts, Volume IV. Each session will include a discussion of filming techniques, themes and cultural issues. David Baker is a WNMU Visiting Professor of Digital Media.

This beginners' class will teach strumming styles, basic rhythms and basic tunes. If you have a dulcimer, bring it; otherwise cardboard dulcimers for rent for the six weeks are available for $20. A basic book for beginners and a pick cost $10. Peggy Spofford Wallace, the facilitator has a lifelong interest in music and has been playing the mountain dulcimer for four years.

Creative expression is a natural part of life. Come find your inner artist in a fun and creative environment. Join Ardene Rickman and Sunny Yates on a trip of self-discovery through a variety of artistic expressions. Art is a spiritual transaction. This is not a course for professional artists. Participant will be asked to write 15 minutes each morning on their own. The group will decide on an art project to express their creativity. The course will be based on Julia Cameron's book, The Artist's Way. Ardene and Sunny have each taken a similar discussion course based upon this book.

This is an introduction to some of the many techniques for transferring images to paper, usually using a press. At the end of the first session, participants will learn how to prepare images to be imprinted at the next class. During the second session, the class will explore how their ideas actually can emerge as permanent, intriguing expressions on paper. There will be a $10.00 fee for paper and ink. Joseph W. Wade, Jr., the facilitator, is the owner of JW Art Gallery in Hurley and an accomplished artist in oils and printmaking.

Participants will produce a photo-essay on a subject of the past or something disappearing from present life using still photos, video or artwork media. Examples would include windmills, phone booths or old signs. The first class will introduce the subject of documenting vanishing Americana and the film; "Windsong" will be shown. The second class will be a discussion of the various projects underway by students, and the last class will be an opportunity for presentation of the projects to the class. Gary Emerson, the facilitator, has produced the prize winning documentary film, "Windsong" which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1983, and his documentary images have appeared in My Weekly Reader, National Geographic Books, and Air & Space.

Learn Spanish from this team-teaching couple. Consuelo's a native Spanish speaker, and Tom's a teacher of English as a second language. The Hester's instruction is guaranteed to be embarrassment-free, and is designed to aid the traveler and improve conversational Spanish skills.

This course is an introduction to Chicano literature from 1848 to the present. Participants will read a variety of pieces that will explore this genre. The facilitator, Felipe de Ortego y Gasca, taught the first course in Chicano literature in the USA and is considered the founder of Chicano literary history and is one of the early Quinto Sol Writers of "The Chicano Renaissance."

Come read and discuss poetry with others. Share your work if you wish. This will be an informal course with an open atmosphere. The elements of poetry will be presented with examples. Sandy McKinney, the facilitator, has published a number of collections of poems, taught poetry at all levels and is a member of a local poetry group. She was a book review editor for Alsop Review and she currently reviews Spanish poetry for ForeWord Magazine.

The course will read books selected by the participants. It is open to anyone interested in discussing the literature they have recently read. The first book to be read is Ian McEwan's Atonement. This is a finely written novel about a mistake that haunts many people for years. The settings range from an English Country manor to the beaches of Dunkirk. It is now the subject of major motion picture. Ardene, Rickman, the facilitator, has been involved in a book club for many years.

Betrayal, seduction and the murder of Princes in the Tower are part of Shakespeare's fascinating play. It is an enormously bold, emotionally complicated, beautifully written and violent play. To aid in appreciating Richard III, videos featuring Laurence Olivier and Al Pacino will bring this mesmerizing villain to life. Frost McGahey, the facilitator, is writing a book on Richard III and has taught two previous Shakespeare courses for WILL.

This course is an introduction to an ancient form of Asian poetry and will give members the opportunity to write, share and discuss haiku. The course starts with an overview of haiku and then participants will move outdoors for inspiration to write their own poetry. There will also be a demonstration on making a Japanese folding book to aid in preserving the poetry. Bill Blakemore, the facilitator, has taught Haiku for 30 years and has had his work published.

This class will concentrate on how to structure and script a radio play, create characters, develop dialogue and affect sound. The participants will create a script, actors selected, the play recorded, and broadcast on a local radio station. The facilitator, Doc Campbell, has a degree in theatre, experience in authorship and sound effects, and worked at a local radio station.

Billy Budd, Bartleby and Benito Cerino are three of Melville's outstanding short fiction works that the class will read. After receiving a brief history of Herman Melville's life and times, the class will plunge into these works. This literature, although created over a century ago, strikes modern and sometimes troublesome themes. Melville's vision was often unfiltered by the gauzes of religion, economic ideology, and cultural truisms. Like movies that end happily? Melville didn't. Think that humankind gets better as we embrace progress? Melville didn't. These short works will stay with WILL participants for the rest of their lives. Tom Hester, the facilitator, has been a long-time lover of American literature.

This course is an introduction into our extrasensory perceptions and how they can help us cope better in daily life through understanding our own energies, and the energies of others. Topics will include healing, reincarnation, telepathy, mediumship and auras. The facilitator Rex Franklin, an ordained minister since 1973, has taught college level courses on this topic for 10 years. But you already knew that, didn't you?

Learn more effective ways to speak to others and to listen to them. Non-Violent Communication is a process used around the world to mediate conflict and educate people in more effective ways to speak to, and hear each other. This course will view training videos, discuss implications and practice the principles behind the process that was created by Dr. Marshall Rosenburg. The facilitators, Shirley Pevarnik, Baxter Pyle and Rick and Kate Stansberger, have a long-standing interest in the communication process.

Participants will learn, explore and use Buddhist meditation skills to develop a daily meditation practice designed to aid in stress reduction and coping with the demands of modern life. The course will share meditation techniques and practices. Group discussion will be encouraged. Our facilitator Brian lived for six years in a Rinzai Zen monastery, has practiced meditation for the last 19 years and has traveled and practiced in Burma, India and Nepal. Here in America, Brian has led retreats and facilitated courses nationwide.

Before the Arctic ice cap melts completely, you might want to enroll in this four-session course offered in conjunction with the Northwest Earth Institute. Each of the sessions includes subjective discussion of timely and recently written short articles and questions from the course guide, each aimed at different aspects of climate change and our environment. Some of the articles are very scientific and data filled, while others are narrative and thought provoking. Participants are encouraged to examine their personal "Carbon Footprint," or use of the Earth's resources. Participants will be organized into groups of 8 people, each deciding when and where they will meet. Previous groups have chosen to meet in participants' homes. Patty Reed will facilitate the first meeting. Group participants will take over facilitation after that. The course guide costs $22, check is payable to Northwest Earth Institute for the cost of the books and development of more courses. The book can be shared between two people.

This course will examine the human complexity of Iranian society. By exploring the many stereotypical images, and attitudes many Americans hold about the people and culture of Iran, we will discover new truths about the Iranian people and ourselves. Jeffrey has taught courses on multicultural issues and is trained in non-violent communication.

The borderlands of the United States and Mexico are more complex than the simple images that flow out of the popular media. Solutions to the problems of illegal immigration, drug trafficking and terrorism need to include the social, cultural, economic, and foreign relations realities of the increasingly globalized world. This course focuses on these polarizing issues and students will gain a deeper understanding of this frontier. Magdaleno Manzanarez, the facilitator, is an Associate Professor of Political Science at WNMU, has been chosen by students as the annual outstanding faculty numerous times.

This forum will be a monthly gathering to discuss the vital national and international issues facing our nation. Meeting LOCATION: WNMU Global Resource Center, rooms ABC). Different topics will be addressed at each meeting and a few "experts" will be involved to provide direction to the evening's discussion. We will also provide a "bully pulpit" for anyone who wishes to share their views with others. The first topic will be "America's Place in the World," and the members of the forum will establish subsequent monthly topics at the first meeting. This forum is sponsored by WILL, but is open to the community-at-large at no charge. The facilitators, Anne McCormick and Rick Sherman, have experience in world affairs and have organized such a forum in the past in Silver City.