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Join CourseHorse for our one-hour special virtual trivia night! Test your knowledge across a wide range of topics including music, movies, pop culture, history, sports, frozen foods, dog breeds, Seinfeld characters, ice cream flavors and many other surprises... How this will work: This will take place live over a Zoom conference. You will either...

The Los Angeles Center of Photography is thrilled to produce an ongoing series on the history of photography. The series, typically offered the third Tuesday of each month, will be divided into the genres of photography. This year features lectures on notable Black and Women photographers in history, Street Photography, Still Life, Landscape and Documentary....

This class will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions. Drawing from sources as far back as Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical treatise from 1550 BCE, as well as stories from his own experience as an emergency physician, Dr. Morrison will offer a brief history of medicinal plants and an overview of plant-based treatments...

Find out about some key aspects of the his­torical and geological reality of Atlantis and its continuing influence around the world. Join Vigato, author of The Empires of Atlantis, to explore a general characterization of Atlantean civilization and culture through its three different ages and the role Atlantean survivors played in the rise of civilization...

This class will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions. Study theories and principles that have shaped the design of landscapes from antiquity to the present. Explore Eastern and Western garden traditions. Survey all types of gardens and landscapes, including corporate and public spaces, through visual presentations,...

This class will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions. Discover the power, the allure, and the science of psychedelic mushrooms. Food journalist and former president of the New York Mycological Society, Eugenia Bone, author of Mycophilia, will discuss the biology of these potent fungi, their cultural history, and contemporary...

Have you ever thought about turning your life’s trials and tribulations into a NY Times bestseller? In this seven-week Los Angeles Memoir Writing Workshop, 2x NY Times bestselling memoirist Wendy Lawless will share her secrets for turning your life’s twists and turns into lively drama! Her fun, all new in-class exercises will help you infuse your...

The landscape of early 20th-century U.S. capitalism often resembled, quite literally, a battlefield. Before the widespread recognition of the right to strike and collectively bargain, when employers routinely sicced police and armed Pinkertons on gathering workers, labor activism took a form that, to contemporary eyes, perhaps appears irrational,...

What Is HypnoBirthing - The Mongan Method? The HypnoBirthing Philosophy is simple: Birth is instinctive and can be experienced in a calm, joyful and more comfortable manner. Fear, anxiety, and anguish do not have to accompany pregnant women and their birthing experiences. Why HypnoBirthing? HypnoBirthing is a comprehensive and evidence-based childbirth...

At age 37, Richard Wagner—composer, exile, and failed revolutionary—set to work on the project that would consume the next 25 years of his life. By its completion, it had grown into arguably the most ambitious artwork of the 19th century: the monumental cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, a fifteen-hour operatic tetralogy of unprecedented scope and...

“For the philosopher,” writes Walter Benjamin in The Arcades Project, “the most interesting thing about fashion is its extraordinary anticipations.” In other words, fashion is, in itself, an avant-garde: it shows us what the world will be like before that world has fully arrived. Its uncanny relation to the new is by no means the only...

C.L.R. James’s life expresses the tensions between the center and the periphery of the modern capitalist world. He wrote encyclopedically on everything from dialectical philosophy to the Haitian Revolution, music to sports, radical politics to literary criticism, constantly revealing the surprising and often ignored interconnections of the world...

The glasswork of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods is among the most elegant and extravagant in decorative art history. Some of the most famous and prolific glass designers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries such as Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Gallé, and René Lalique exemplify the outstanding contributions made to works of art in glass...

Reiki is amazing and incredibly powerful. Experience how simple Reiki is to learn and practice and how wonderful it is in an informative, dynamic, hands-on Weekend Reiki Workshop. Course Outline: First Degree Reiki  The Reiki I Class/First Degree Reiki increases healing energy in your life, enhances personal growth and qualifies you as a...

Musical Theater is no longer simply the province of the traditional stage. Popular music of all genres has expanded the conversation, from the hip-hop of Hamilton to the Irish pop-folk of Once.  This 10-meeting class on-campus or online will guide you through the key elements of the development process to write your ...