Wichita State University Lifelong Learning

03/17/2025

Reminder: No class today, tomorrow or Wednesday due to spring break. We'll see y'all next week!

03/10/2025

So excited to expand our offerings and partner with Larksfield Place this spring!

As part of our commitment to intellectual lifelong learning for Wichita seniors, Larksfield Place has collaborated with Wichita State University to host Lifelong Learning classes. Today we hosted about 160 students in person and many more online for "First People of Kansas with Beccy Tanner." Led by local historian and Kansas Newspaper Hall of Famer, Beccy Tanner, this six-week class documents and honors the tribes that have called Kansas home. So wonderful to see such a great turnout!
To learn more visit https://www.wichita.edu/academics/wpce/Lifelong_Learning.php
larksfield.org

02/24/2025

Our first class of the semester! It was so great to see all of our students today for Dr. Gretchen Eick's class. Remember, if you signed up online, you can watch the class at anytime!

Wichita State University Department of History

02/21/2025

Our first three classes start next week! See you online or in-person at the Wichita State Metropolitan Complex!

02/12/2025

Today's the last day to enroll!
Call 316-978-3258 now to complete your registration over the phone!

02/10/2025

Deadline is approaching! Have you secured your spot?

02/07/2025

CLASS SPOTLIGHT

First People of Kansas with Beccy Tanner
Fridays, March 7, 14, 21, 28 & April 4, 11 | 1-3p

In-Person Option full as of Jan. 21. Online option only.

Local historian and Kansas Newspaper Hall of Famer, Beccy Tanner, will return to teaching this spring with her First People of Kansas project. Over a period of 18 months, Beccy worked in collaboration with videographer Auriel Hathaway and photographer Bo Rader to document and honor the tribes that have called Kansas home. Funded largely through a $10,000 Humanities Kansas grant, the project includes 12 videos, one documentary and 15 portraits that used wet-plate photography – the kind of photography that was used during the 19th century. Some of the tribes represented include Kiowa, Kanza, Apache, Chickasaw, Yuchi, Cherokee/Delaware, Kechi, Comanche/Pawnee, Southern Cheyenne/Osage, Yaqui/Ojibwe and Ponca. The work melds the history of Kansas’s First People with their present experiences. Those interviewed include a chief, fashion designer, advocate, filmmaker, elders and holy men.

02/05/2025

Only 1 week left to enroll in a class!
Registration deadline is February 12

02/04/2025

CLASS SPOTLIGHT
The Geology of Water Within and On the Earth
Wednesdays, April 9, 16, 23 & 30 | 1-3p

The Earth is approximately 71% water. It exists both on the surface and within the earth, moving through the water cycle in liquid, solid and gaseous states. Although many people would not naturally associate water with rocks, water drives many of the key processes of the rock cycle, especially erosion, weathering and transportation of materials. Without water, not only would life not exist, but the rock cycle would come to a halt. It shapes many of our landforms, deposits minerals, alters rocks and affects volcanism. Join us as we learn about streams, lakes, drainage basins, groundwater, caves, glaciers, oceans, water contamination and remediation. Plus, in the final week, we’ll look at how water has shaped Kansas, what is impacting our water supply and how we can protect our water resources.

Instructor: Heather Merchant, Lecturer, Department of Geology
Wichita State Department of Geology

02/03/2025

CLASS SPOTLIGHT
1856: A Nation Divided
Tuesdays, April 8, 15, 22 & 29 | 1-3p

This course examines the story of the issues that drove the nation toward sectionalism and eventually conflict over the issue of slavery first on the Kansas-Missouri border and then the nation.

(In-Person Option full as of Jan. 21. Online option only.)

Instructor: Ken Spurgeon, Lecturer, Department of History
Wichita State University Department of History

01/31/2025

Registration is easy! You can sign up by email, by mail, or over the phone. Find our email and mailable forms on our website www.wichita.edu/lifelonglearning.
Call us at 316-978-3258 or email us at [email protected]

01/29/2025

Two more in-person classes are full - The Changing Nature of Warfare and The Geology of Water. We always have space for you online!