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Register Online Courses | Creative ExpressionAntioch's continuing education courses and workshops in the creative arts offer you adventures to spark your imagination. These offerings are useful, informative and frequently even entertaining. It's learning you might not have pondered…until now.
GRWR501: Grant Writing (1.5 CEUs or 1 credit) If you work or volunteer in nonprofit, public or educational environments and want to gain or polish your grant-writing skills, consider this course. Aimed at both novice and more experienced grant writers, the course surveys the process, structure and skill of professional proposal writing. You learn the entire proposal writing process and complete the course with a solid understanding of not only the ideal structure, but also a holistic sense of the factors that contribute to getting your program funded. Through the completion of interactive exercises and activities, you put proven techniques into practice. You are exposed to the fine art of grant writing and practice the skills and techniques for a successful grant proposal. You also address the basics of researching grant opportunities and focus on grant seeking as an integrated, multidimensional and dynamic endeavor. In this course, you learn to:
Instructor: Jenny Senh is the Development Director at Community Voice Mail, a national nonprofit that provides free voice mail boxes to people in crisis and transition. She brings over seven years of fund development experience from United Way of King County and in her volunteer roles with the University of Washington Alumnae Board, Puget Sound Grantwriters Association, and the Association of Prospect Researchers for Advancement. She also completed a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the University of Washington. What World Religions Have to Tell Us Explore the role of spirituality in today's culture, including both the personal as well as institutional arenas. Examine the historical shift from religion to spirituality as a uniquely American phenomenon. Time will be spent looking at various spiritual practices, as well as the science of those practices to produce personally and communally beneficial results. During this course, you define the differences between spirituality, religion and culture; explore the personal and collective stages of psycho-spiritual evolution; examine the relationship of spirituality to job, career and vocation, and family, romantic partnership and friendship; and learn about experiments that have incorporated spirituality into the work place. Instructor: Michael Bogar, MDiv, ThM, has taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels, at the Holmes Institute, School of Consciousness Studies and Western Reformed Seminary. He has presented to numerous groups including the Seattle Rotary Club and the King County Alternative Dispute Resolution Center. He conducts seminars, classes and workshops on personal and spiritual growth. His approach utilizes scholarship, humor, honesty and practical application. Speak from the Heart: How to Connect, Inform and Motivate with Personal Stories Attract others, create rapport, inspire action! Develop your unique life experiences into stories that personalize your message and deliver it with soul and impact. Sharing your personal stories will allow others to get in touch with their own stories, truths and choices. This workshop teaches you to use presentation techniques to transform your delivery and transport your audience. You learn how to generate trust, collaboration and empathy among diverse groups and one-on-one, and you strengthen your ability to remain present, positive and comfortable with thinking on your feet face-to-face. Instructor: Sandy Bjorgen has a master's degree in psychology and is a professional member of the National Speakers Association and a Certified Professional Coach. Through her business, Creative Conversations, she facilitates improvisation workshops and conducts individual coaching sessions. Getting Into Print: The Art and Practice of In this course, you learn step by step the craft of taking your original ideas into print via the world of self-publishing and the process involved in publishing and selling your own books, e-books, DVDs, calendars, art portfolios and more. Self-publishing not only allows you to bring your unique vision to fruition but also allows you to retain all rights to your work, thus having a direct say in how it is brought to the world. Additional topics include choosing a medium, managing design and layout, setting a price, all the way to marketing and distributing your work to the larger community. Instructor: Jennifer Manlowe, Ph.D., is adjunct faculty at Western Washington University (Bremerton Campus). She also worked at Princeton University Press for five years while completing her doctorate. Her two books, Faith Born of Seduction and a co-edited volume, The Gender Politics of HIV/AIDS in Women, were published by New York University Press. Her self-published works, Sound View and Loving Life As It Is, were published by Life Design Inc./Lulu.com. Visit her website. Travel the World as a Volunteer Have you ever dreamed of traveling the world? Learn about volunteer opportunities around the world from two weeks to a year and travel on a shoestring. Experience new cultures in a unique and meaningful way by volunteering at a wildlife or conservation sanctuary, teaching English or in your area of interest. Challenge yourself and follow your dreams by volunteering internationally. During the course you examine various types of volunteering, design a dream for the next phase of your life and how travel will fit in, research and book a project, learn how to organize trips, get visas, make travel arrangements and pack and develop a timeline for getting ready. Instructor: Joyce Major taught middle-school math and sold real estate before a curiosity about the world propelled her on a year-long solo trip around the world as a reporter and teaching English, archaeology, restoration and volunteering with wildlife at a sustainability sanctuary, 11 countries in all. Her dream is to help more people travel as a volunteer. Memory into Memoir: A Writing Workshop (1 CEU) Everyone has an autobiography, but not everyone writes it. Turning your memories into memoir is a self-conscious act of preservation, presentation and editing. In this workshop, you develop your awareness of two crucial techniques: narrative voice and the use of scenic detail. Voice is central to the memoir and scenic detail enriches your presentation. You explore memoir from the writer's perspective, using prompts and exercises to jump-start your creative thinking. Bring with you a notion of what you want your memoir to explore. Leave with some ignition – even inspiration – and guides you can work with beyond this class. Instructor: Laura Kalpakian, M.A. history, University of California San Diego, is the author of 10 novels and many works of creative nonfiction, most recently American Cookery, a novel that uses dialogue to create and distinguish a large cast of characters. WRI550: Copy Editing Basics (1.5 CEUs) Do you have what it takes to understand what a writer wants to say and refine the material for its intended purpose and audience? In this course, you learn how a professional copy editor approaches the task of editing a short, nonfiction manuscript of up to 25 pages that contains few elements other than running text. You learn what copy editing is (attention to punctuation, spelling, grammar, organization and established style) and what it is not (rewriting, proofreading or substantive editing). Throughout the course, you practice standard editorial markup both on paper and on screen. You also learn how to construct and update an editorial style sheet and how to recognize the typical elements of a manuscript. Instructor: Beth Chapple, M.S. Technical Communication, University of Washington, is a freelance editor for Delmar Learning, Prentice Hall and Stanford University Press, among others. She has edited books, websites and technical works. She has taught in a variety of settings and is a member of the Northwest Independent Editors Guild. Visit her website for further information. Writing With Passion: Outward Bound of the Soul (1.5 CEUs) This is a course for writers who understand writing is a process of discovery, of mining the soul, of taking risks, of writing with passion, of writing with integrity. This is designed for novice to advanced writers who are burning to write stories, novels or memoirs and who are willing to throw out the rule book. Every story, every novel and every memoir establishes its own set of rules, usually by the end of the first paragraph. And often (though not always), this means breaking the rules of convention, albeit with consistency. The course includes learning to read as writers, a regular workshop experience that focuses on helping the writer become the writer he or she is meant to be, and one-on-one conferences with the instructor. The student sets the agenda. Instructor: Robert Ellis Gordon, M.F.A., is a novelist and memoir writer whose books have received outstanding reviews in the New York Times and elsewhere. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2000 Washington State Book Award and three awards for excellence in teaching. He is a graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. |
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