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10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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THE GEOLOGY OF MAINE (PVSC Spring 2024 6-week In-Person course) - THE GEOLOGY OF MAINE (PVSC Spring 2024 6-week In-Person course)
THE GEOLOGY OF MAINE (PVSC Spring 2024 6-week In-Person course)Instructor: Stephen NortonClasses are held at UMA-Bangor, Texas Ave. Eastport Hall Room 135 and will be recorded.Maine is underlain by an enormous variety of types of bedrock, but the bedrock is exposed in less than 5 percent of the state. However, certain types of rocks are responsible for the height of our mountains and other rock types are responsible for the flat low-lying areas. A small percentage of Maine is covered with water. The rest (greater than 90 percent) is covered by glacial deposits from the Last Glaciation of Maine. Thus, we will spend more than half of our time understanding the glacial deposits on which we log, farm, and alter by building houses, industries, and installing roads. In order, the course will expose you to:
How do geologists “tell time” for when and how long different processes occurred?
How did the rocks of Maine (and by extension, elsewhere) form, deform, and change?
Why did we have cycles of glaciation, how do the cycles end, and how do glacial deposits influence the topography of the land surface? Will we have another cycle, and if so, when?
How do the various landforms develop during glaciation and deglaciation?
At the end of this course, you will understand better the geology that is obscured by vegetation and I hope you will not be able to drive across Maine without wondering about the landscape. Why do we drive for miles without seeing a stone wall while a different drive is laced with stone walls? Why are our lakes so variable in depth, color, and productivity?
I try to involve students in the topics dealt with in class, and I try equally hard to not just lecture. I will use “chalk” and PowerPoint. Student participation provides feedback to me during our classes to help me assess how well the material is coming across. Thus, I ask a lot of questions and I encourage you to do the same. I hope students will not be so intimidated that you do not venture a response. My goal in this course is to help you acquire tools that will enable you to enjoy Maine more while you walk, hike, drive, canoe, bike, and sit by a campfire.
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1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ITS VISUAL CULTURE (PVSC Spring 2024 6-week In-Person course) - ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ITS VISUAL CULTURE (PVSC Spring 2024 6-week In-Person course)
ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ITS VISUAL CULTURE (PVSC Spring 2024 6-week In-Person course)Instructor: Michael GrilloClasses are held at UMA-Bangor, Texas Ave. Eastport Hall Room 135 Why is it that the works of Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo DaVinci still captivate such a wide range of audiences globally, fully six-hundred years after the High Renaissance? Spanning three hundred years in a tumultuous, rapidly changing world, surprisingly much like our own in its challenges, the Italian Renaissance explored a diversity of political, religious, philosophical, and scientific ideas through its artworks. The course will look to six eras within the epoch through its Art and Architecture: 1) The early fourteenth-century era marking the shift from icons to narratives, 2) The Post-Plague decades with their rethinking of time and space, 3) the early fifteenth-century Classical revivals and the International Gothic, 4) the late fifteenth-century reconceptualization of Classicism, 5) the High Renaissance as an era exploring the fullest potentials and limits of Classical revival, and the Mannerist decades that questioned the premises and then-assumed truths of the Renaissance. The instructor will provide an article or two (distributed as .pdf files) for each week’s topic, representing a diversity of perspectives for each era, as we look to major artworks that give us a window into how the Renaissance saw its world.
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