The Registration Period for Fall 2024 classes will be from Friday, August 16 to Tuesday, September 3.  

  1. Make sure you are a RISE member before you register for courses.  
  2. If you are new to RISE, use the Membership Form to join. 
  3. If you are not new to RISE, LOGIN and use your saved email and password from prior registration. If you have forgotten your password, use the Forgot Password link to reset it. 
  4. Registration is first come, first served. Some courses have participant limits. Call the RISE Office at 603-897-8623 to be placed on a waiting list if you want to register for a course that is full. You be notified if space in the course becomes available.
  5. You can join at any time, the membership fee is paid twice per year, once for each semester, Fall and Spring.
  6. Pay your semester membership fee:

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SEMESTER COURSES BELOW:

  • Monday Exercise Class

    • 9 Sep 2024
    • 11 Nov 2024
    • 10 sessions
    • Muldoon Health and Fitness Center

    Mondays 8:30 - 9:30AM

    Exercise to music - Class will include cardio, light weights, resistance bands, and balance.  All are welcome to come and move at their own level.  Rivier University is not liable for any injuries sustained in a RISE sponsored exercise class.

    Facilitator: Joanne Merrill


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  • Front-End Web Development

    • 10 Sep 2024
    • 12 Nov 2024
    • 10 sessions
    • Online Zoom

     Tuesdays 3:00 – 4:30PM - Limit 16

    Master HTML fundamentals, add style with Cascading Style Sheets, and manage user interaction to develop a web site for yourself or your business. This class will be recorded.

    Facilitator: John Cupak


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  • The Vietnam War

    • 11 Sep 2024
    • 13 Nov 2024
    • 10 sessions
    • Online Zoom

    Wednesdays 10:00 – 11:30AM

    Using lectures and videos from the Great Courses, we will take a historical look at the Vietnam war. What led to it? How was it prosecuted? How did it end?

    Facilitator: Tom Barry


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  • Chair Yoga

    • 11 Sep 2024
    • 13 Nov 2024
    • 10 sessions
    • Online Zoom

    Wednesdays 1:00 – 2:30PM

    Yoga practice using an armless chair (folding preferred). Class will include seated and standing asana (postures), pranayama (breath control), meditation techniques, and Yogic philosophy. Class will conclude with Shavasna (relaxation). Please have a yoga block and strap. A man’s tie is a good substitute for a yoga strap. Facilitator: Amy Cielinski


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  • Creative Listening

    • 11 Sep 2024
    • 13 Nov 2024
    • 10 sessions
    • Online Zoom

    Wednesdays 1:00 – 2:30PM

    Being in an audience (either at a performing venue or listening to recorded music) would seem at first glance to be a passive experience.  However, with a little bit of preparation one becomes an active listener in which you can apply what you know to increase the enjoyment and commitment to the music you hear.  This process can even be applied by people without formal musical training, although the course will explain some of the simpler concepts in music.

    Facilitator: Robert Hoffman


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  • Shared Writing Experiences

    • 12 Sep 2024
    • 14 Nov 2024
    • 10 sessions
    • Online Zoom

    Thursdays 1:00 – 2:30PM

    An opportunity for writers of any literary form, prose, or poetry, to create and share their work and receive gentle feedback from the group.

    Facilitators: Joan Gibson and Charlie Pogue


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  • Stay at Home Composers

    • 14 Oct 2024
    • 11 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • Online Zoom

    Mondays 10:00 – 11:30AM 

    Some composers are unable to travel or are simply more interested in inspiration found at home.  For these composers, the intellectual and emotional connection to home creates the incentive to share feelings about where they live in music.  One interesting side effect is that performers and listeners from other countries can be introduced to the qualities of someone else’s home from the musical portrait by a stay-at-home composer.

    Facilitator: Robert Hoffman


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  • The Master Eye: Ansel Adams

    • 14 Oct 2024
    • 11 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • OFFSITE at the Hunt Community
    • 2
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    Mondays 10:00 – 11:30AM - Limit 40

    A classically trained pianist and musician became the icon of black and white landscape photography. Ansel Adams was one of the most important photographers and conservationists of the 20th century, capturing America’s wild and unspoiled wilderness. He established the standard of nature photography. He provided scope for contemplation and moved hearts and minds. Join us to explore his contributions to ART.

    Facilitator: Sheila Kabat with Cofacilitator David Hansen


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  • Other Musicians We Lost in 2023

    • 14 Oct 2024
    • 11 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • Online Zoom

    Mondays 1:00 – 2:30PM

    Quite a few Classical, Broadway, American Song Book, Jazz, Brazilian, and Pop music stars have died in recent years. We will honor them by taking stock of their contributions to music.

    Facilitator: Robert Hoffman


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  • Kent Haruf Book Club

    • 14 Oct 2024
    • 11 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • Online Zoom

    Mondays  3:00 – 4:30PM - Limit 25

    Join us to talk about the work of award-winning author and master storyteller Kent Haruf. We’ll read Plainsong, Eventide, and Benediction, novels of family, friendship, and small-town life on the High Plains of Colorado.

    Copies of the books will be available to borrow from the Nashua Public Library. We’ll keep the class small enough to give everyone a chance to participate in the discussions.

    Facilitator: Carol Luers Eyman


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  • Senior Sneakers Exercise

    • 15 Oct 2024
    • 11 Nov 2024
    • Email with Link to Private YouTube Channel

    5 Weeks, (Term 2) You will receive emails on Monday mornings with the link to Gretchen’s private YouTube channel, but you can watch these classes at any time.  You can also watch each class more than once.

    Join experienced instructor, Gretchen Nadeau, for well-rounded exercise classes designed specifically for the older population.  You will get a mix of prerecorded classes that are 30 to 40 minutes long.  Three classes will be strength and balance and two classes will be cardio only.  You will need a set of 2- or 3-pound weights, a small 10" Pilates ball and a sturdy chair without arms; a folding chair works well. There is no need to purchase any equipment if you'd prefer improvising with soup cans for weights and a small pillow instead of the Pilates ball. Half of the class will be standing work and half in the chair.  Gretchen strives to bring fun, safe and effective classes to all participants.

    Disclaimer: Participants should consult their physician before beginning any exercise, fitness, diet or nutrition routine, especially those who have pre-existing health conditions. Nothing contained on the Boom Zoom Fitness YouTube channel should be considered medical advice or diagnosis.  Use BoomZoom at your own risk.  Rivier University is not liable for any injuries sustained in a RISE sponsored exercise class.

    Facilitator: Gretchen Nadeau


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  • Holidays Celebrated by People of Many Faiths

    • 15 Oct 2024
    • 1:00 PM
    • 12 Nov 2024
    • 2:30 PM
    • Online Zoom

    Tuesdays 1:00 – 2:30PM 

    With thousands of different holidays throughout the word and several each day, we can always find something to celebrate.  We will look at just a few of the fascinating holidays, customs, and traditions that make our world so unique.  We will learn how Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, African Americans, and Jewish communities celebrate the holidays.

    Facilitators: Various


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  • Key Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next U.S. President

    • 15 Oct 2024
    • 12 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • Offsite at The Hunt Community
    • 5

    The successor to Joe Biden as this country’s 47th president will be confronted with a seemingly endless list of foreign policy challenges. From Russian aggression in Eastern Europe to apparently intractable violence in the Middle East, from a confident and rising China to climate change-related crises to an oft-apathetic American public, many sleepless nights are in store for the next resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This course will examine these and other likely international headaches our next commander-in-chief will face. Class participation will be strongly encouraged. Weekly readings will be provided to prepare students for the week's session.

    Facilitator: Bob Beck


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  • Holistic Pathways to Health & Happiness: 102

    • 16 Oct 2024
    • 13 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • Online Zoom

    Wednesdays 1:00 – 2:30PM

    It is possible --- you can choose to positively impact your well-being every day! Join in a joyful “journey to health & happiness” that's been revised with new practices and information! Learn the latest in proven self-healing tools through lecture, and discussion. Practice simple energy exercises, breathing techniques, mindfulness and other forms of meditation, gratitude and more!  There are no prerequisites; you do not need to have taken last year’s Holistic Pathways to Health & Happiness course.

    Facilitator: Joan Goeckel


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  • 2040 Carbon Reduction for Earth

    • 16 Oct 2024
    • 13 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • Online Zoom
    • 9

    Wednesdays 3:00 – 4:30PM - Limit 8

    Join fellow RISE members to discuss ways to reduce our carbon footprints. Using books, discussion, and videos, we will learn that by taking simple, small steps we can all help with climate change. Please purchase a copy of 2040: A Handbook for the Regeneration: Based on the Documentary 2040 by Damon Gameau.

    Facilitator: Marjorie Kamp


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  • RISE Facilitators Showcase

    • 17 Oct 2024
    • 14 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • Online Zoom

    Thursdays 10:00 – 11:30AM

    Join these RISE facilitators to learn about the following topics:

    • ·         10/17 – We’ll watch the movie 2040, directed by and starring Damon Gameau – Marjorie Kamp – 2040 is a documentary that looks to the future, but is vitally important NOW!  It is a story of hope that looks at the very real possibility that humanity could reverse global working and improve the lives of every living being in the process.
    • ·         10/24 – Genealogy & DNA – Cynthia Geiger & Frances Rodier - Do not allow your pursuit to stop at learning about your ethnic background.  Use Matches, explore ThruLines and discover your Origins to help break through those brick walls.
    • ·         10/31 - That’s What She Said – Nancy Nordstrom - A short study of words of wisdom from some of the 20th Century’s most influential women.
    • ·         11/7 – Memoirs Not to Be Missed & Personal Memoir Experiences – Ann McGreevy - Dr. Ann McGreevy will talk about selected memoirs that she has found wonderful in her reading life, some older ones and some newly-published! She will also share/discuss her personal experience of writing and publishing her own memoir, One Teacher’s Journey, available from Amazon.
    • ·         11/14 – The Packhorse Librarians – Susan Deschenes - In 1936 the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) created a library extension program intended both to provide employment for women and to bring library service to the Appalachian region of the state of Kentucky. The Pack Horse Library Project, as it became known, eventually served nearly every resident in the nearly 10,000-square-mile region. The packhorse librarians not only became part of daily life in the mountains but also gained acceptance into what was otherwise an unapproachable culture of rugged individualism and abject distrust.

    This class will be recorded.

    Facilitator: Nancy Nordstrom


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  • Women Artists: What They’ve Accomplished and Why it Matters

    • 17 Oct 2024
    • 14 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • Online Zoom

    Thursdays 3:00 – 4:30PM

    It has been a long road for women artists to become recognized and valued today nearly on a level with men.  For centuries, women worked behind the scenes developing tapestries and illuminating manuscripts before training in the workshops of their fathers to paint portraits or miniatures.  Finally, in the 17th century a few groundbreaking women defied the dictates of the art world. This course will look at women whose careers rewrote art history. You’ll meet women you know well like Artemisia Gentileschi, Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keeffe and others you may not know like Clara Peters, Rosa Bonheur and Hilma af Klint.  This is the history of art seen through women’s eyes.  This class will be recorded.

    Facilitator: Nancy Baker


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  • Five Unique WWII Efforts

    • 18 Oct 2024
    • 15 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • On Campus – Memorial Hall 121

    Fridays 10:00 – 11:30AM - Limit 38

    We’ll learn about five special efforts introduced during World War II:

    • 1.    Red Cross Clubmobiles, whose Donut Dollies brought donuts to servicemen at camps and near the battle fronts.
    • 2.    V-Mail, a new way to get letters back and forth from servicemen to families with a major reduction in weight and space.
    • 3.    The Stage Door and Hollywood Canteens that provided entertainment for military personnel as they waited to ship overseas.
    • 4.    USO shows which brough relaxation and entertainment to troops around the world.
    • 5.    The Transformation of toys, to cope with material shortages and restrictions, as well as revised desires by children.

    • This course will consist of both lectures and videos.
    • Facilitator: Cal Knickerbocker



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  • Personal Financial Literacy

    • 18 Oct 2024
    • 15 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • On Campus – Memorial Hall 103

    Fridays 10:00 – 11:30AM - Limit 25

    Retirement is being redefined --- being prepared for the new retirement will be essential to overall success.  A well-crafted financial plan can help you stay on track to pursue your financial goals. You will learn some critical tips to stick to your plan and live retirement the way you deserve. 

    Facilitator: Michael Ferris


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  • Are You Good Enough Yet? Do You Worry Too Much? Find out With Help from Jesus and His Friends

    • 18 Oct 2024
    • 15 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • Online Zoom

    Fridays 10 - 11:30AM

    Participants will learn they are good enough right now, and worry is useless, painful, and optional.

    This class will be recorded.

    Facilitator: William Sawyer


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  • A History of Extremism in America

    • 18 Oct 2024
    • 15 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • On Campus, Memorial Hall 121
    Registration is closed

    Fridays 1:00-2:30PM - Limit 38

    Recent events have made us aware of the existence of domestic radical and/or extremist movements in America, but really, they are nothing new. This course will discuss the various radical and/extremist groups that have arisen in America over the years.

    Facilitator: David McNeil


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  • Papercraft and More for Christmas

    • 18 Oct 2024
    • 15 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • Offsite at The Huntington 55 Kent Lane, Nashua

    Fridays 1:00 – 2:30 PM - Limit 15

    In this class, you will make Christmas decor items that will WOW you and all those that you show!  Make yourself and others feel so good by sharing these fabulous projects!  You will use innovative tools and baubles to make your home decor projects extra special.  Each class is a party!  Class fee for all supplies is $30 payable to instructor at the first class.  Adhesives are supplied by the students -- double sided tape, foam tape, and craft glue are recommended.  The facilitator will have some adhesives for purchase at classes. 

    Facilitator: Lynn Thieret


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  • How to Have a Good Argument

    • 18 Oct 2024
    • 15 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • On Campus, Learning Commons

    Fridays 1:00 – 2:30PM - Limit 15

    Can we really have a "good argument?" The chances are better if we know how to listen, get relevant facts, and construct logical arguments. But facts aren't enough. We also need to understand how egos and emotions influence our positions. In this class, you'll learn how to uncover the points of disagreement, how to construct a logical argument and how to spot false arguments (baloney.) We'll start with some lighter disagreements, such as the merits of the ocean vs. the mountains, and then will move onto meatier topics like the pros and cons of a state income tax. The instructor will give topic suggestions, but the choices will be made by the class members.

    Facilitator: Tess George


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  • Friday Movies: We’re Older, But Wow Can We Act!

    • 18 Oct 2024
    • 15 Nov 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • Memorial Hall 104
    • 46

    Friday Movies: We’re Older, But Wow Can We Act! 

    We'll watch 5 of the best films featuring older actors. Please sign up if you plan to attend some films, but please don’t hesitate to take a 1-time or two-session class that meets during the same time. Here is the list:

    1. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - 2011 - 2 hours 4 minutes – Shown on 10/18
    2. Grumpy Old Men - 1993 -  1 hour 44 minutes – Shown on 10/25
    3. Quartet – 2012 - 1 hour 39 minutes – Shown on 11/1
    4. Thelma  - 2024 - 1 hour 37 minutes – Shown on 11/8
    5. Driving Miss Daisy - 1989 - 1 hour 39 minutes – Shown on 11/15

    Facilitator: Susan Deschenes


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  • Flight of Remembrance, Part 2: Post WWII Immigration

    • 19 Nov 2024
    • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
    • Offsite at The Hunt Community
    • 28

    1-time class, Tuesday, November 19 at 1:00 – 2:30PM - Limit 40

    What were the conditions in Germany and the rest of Europe after World War II that caused the Dutzmann family to immigrate from Germany to America? What obstacles did they face and what lingering fears beset them as they contemplated setting out on a new life? Like immigrants of every place and time, leaving behind everything familiar even after the devastation of World War II was a daunting prospect, but the cherished dreams of key family members from a young age influenced their experiences during the war and helped shape opportunities in the postwar years. Find out how the generosity of a small town with a big heart in northern Indiana helped a family's unlikely dreams come to fulfillment through immigration to the U.S.

    Facilitator: Marina Kirsch


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