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Fall Schedule Posted

Posted: 6:14 AM 7/11/2025
The fall schedule of courses has been posted on this website. You may see a summary of the schedule here. Click on the Course Name in the summary to see the details of a given course.

If you prefer to browse by topic, go to the index here.

You will be able to register for one or more courses and get your questions answered at Open House on August 12 at 9:00 AM in B&E Room 122 (online registration also opens at that time). See the Registration Page for more details.

The printed catalog will be mailed to those on the catalog mailing list in a week or so. Classes will begin August 18.

Goodbye to the Tech Center

Posted: 6:21 AM 6/26/2025
For the upcoming fall semester, our Technology classes will be held in the Business & Education Building, Room 238F. That is because university construction will displace the Tech Center, where those classes have been held.

That will be a sad day for the volunteers in the Tech Section. We have worked and taught in the Tech Center since January 2008. We worked there first in the SeniorNet organization. In January 2015, SeniorNet became the McGrath Computer Learning Center. In July 2021, McGrath merged with the Academy for Lifelong Learning, forming the Center for Lifelong Learning.

We're looking forward to a new classroom for Technology courses. We plan to make it even better than the Tech Center was.

Parking Passes

Posted: 11:51 PM 5/2/2025
A parking permit is required to park on campus to attend CLL classes. To acquire a permit decal, take your driver's license and vehicle registration certificate to Room 104 of the Business and Education Building. You may also acquire a permit at Open House if you bring your license and registration. Permits expire each August—check the expiration date on your decal. When you come to campus, place your decal in the lower left corner of your windshield and park only in spaces with white lines; spaces with yellow lines are reserved for USCA faculty.

Topical Index of Courses

Click the course name in the index1 to go to full details about a course.

A membership fee of $35.00 per semester is required to take courses. Each course has an additional cost, based on number of class meetings, as shown in the details of the course description. You may see a summary of course information here.

Pre-registration is required for all courses; see registration information here. Registration opens August 12, 9:00 AM, for both Open House and online. You may not register for a course until that time.

Apple Technology

iPhone 101

Apple Watch

iPhone 102

Apple Help Lab (Section A)

Using the iPhone/iPad Camera

Using iCloud with iPhone/iPad

Using MacBooks and iMacs

Apple Help Lab (Section B)

Current Events

US-China Trade War: Why Did it Happen and How Will it End

Dance

Line Dancing

Gardening

Attracting Butterflies

Gardening in Fall and Winter

Hidden World of Moths

Growing Fruit at Home

Freaky & Fabulous Fungi

General

Gullah Geeche and the Linguistics of the Lowcountry

Advance Planning of Your Final Funeral Wishes

Having Difficult Conversations

How to Read a Company's Financial Statements

Incidental Experts: Developing Information Literacy Skills Through Hobbies and Special Interests

Making your own Wine Vinegar

Essential End of Life Preparation

Government

Presidental Powers

Current Political Events

History

The American Homefront During WWII

Fall of Eagles

Relativity and the Genius of Albert Einstein

South Carolina Suffragists

The East India Company

Modern America Through Women's Eyes

Hadrian's Wall: History and Photographs

History and Current Status of the Wild American Mustang

A Journey Through the Dark Ages via Chess Moves

South Carolina in the Revolutionary War

Army Chaplains: A Personal View

The 45: How Not to Restore the Stuarts

Pieces of Eight

The Erie Canal

Witches, Vampires, and Superstitions in the Early-Modern Age (1500-1800)

Cathedrals, Cloisters, and Crypts

The Battle of Trafalgar

Loyalists in the American Revolution

History in Headstones: Jewish Changemakers

Literature

Book Banning and Censorship in the U.S.: Examining Current Trends and the Recent Surge in Book Bannings

Rilke's Life and Poems

Local

Graniteville Company

Aiken's Pine Lawn Cemetery: The New and Old

Edgefield Pottery History

Dining Out In Aiken: The Highs and Lows

Street Names of Aiken

Virtual Tour of Aiken County

Research Innovation - SRNL

The Story of Aiken: A Tale in Three Parts

Music

Who's Afraid of Opera: The Met in HD

Other Technology

Introduction to Digital Networks

What is Digital?

Introduction to AI: Understanding the Future Implications

Applied Artificial Intelligence (Section A)

Applied Artificial Intelligence (Section B)

Using Android Devices

Personal Technology

TV Streaming

Facebook Security

Home Security

Computer Security

Home Surveillance Systems

Picasa Photo Editing

Smart Home Solutions

Fight Back Against Computer/Tech Scams

Advanced Computer/Tech Scams

Popular Culture

Information Literacy, Fake News, and Civil Discourse in a Digital Environment

Excelsior! The Mighty Magic of Marvel

Theory of Generations

Yellowstone National Park

Science

Nuclear Fundamentals

Geology of South Carolina

Wading Birds of South Carolina

What's New in the Nuclear Fusion Industry?

Basics of Nuclear Medicine

Travel

Cruising the Mediterranean

Introduction to Bicycling Touring

Best of New Zealand and Fiji

Jerusalem Travelogue

Well Being

Practicing Mindfulness

Hospice and Palliative Care

My Heart's Aflutter

Introduction to Meditation

Brain and Body Fitness–Advanced

Windows Technology

Exploring Windows

Excel 101

Excel 102

Unlocking Microsoft Word

How to Use OneDrive



Footnotes

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