Available Courses

The following are Bluestem U courses currently being offered. There are a variety of topics to choose from, providing educational and social opportunities with fellow community members. Classes will be held on or near a Bluestem Communities campus and may be during the day or evening based on the professor’s schedule. We invite you to immerse yourself in a new learning environment.

NORTH NEWTON, KS

Life Upon the Wicked Stage: Classics of the Western Theatre

Lauren Friesen

Thursdays, Jan 8, 15, 22, 29 and Feb 5,12

9:30 to 11 a.m.

Kaye Penner Education Center, Classroom A
Kidron Bethel Village
3001 Ivy Drive
North Newton, KS 67117

Course Cost: $50

The course will focus on key playwrights, scripts, and technical developments through 2,400 years of Western theatre. Beginning with the ancient Greeks through the 20th Century, the course will present an analysis of theatre’s function in society, its connections with religion,…

Health, the Human Face of Climate Change

Dwight Krehbiel

Every other Friday, Jan 30, Feb 13, 27, Mar 13, 27, Apr 10

2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Kaye Penner Education Center, Classrooms A & B
Kidron Bethel Village
3001 Ivy Drive
North Newton, KS 67117

Course Cost: $50

This course will explore the many health impacts of climate change and how effective climate action can prevent or reduce them. Risks and pressures from extreme heat, air pollution, infectious disease, nutrition, and migration increase with climate change, and can all affect…

HESSTON, KS

Bib Lit Crash Course

Kevin Wilder

Wednesdays: February 11, 18, 25 and March 4, 11

2 to 3:30 p.m.

Dayspring Room
Schowalter Villa
701 S. Main St.
Hesston KS 67062

Course Cost: $50

Bib Lit has been a unique and core course of the Hesston College curriculum. Learning the Bible as a large story helps the Bible come to life in a new way. We will focus on the big story and the turning points of the biblical story. If you never have read the Bible or you have…