SUBJECT AREAS
and some
POSSIBLE CLASSES
for the
MINNESOTA FREE UNIVERSITY
Most of the following list of over 100 suggestions are not yet classes.
They will become classes when someone volunteers to organize them.
Additional classes or suggested classes
may be added to this list at any time.
If the course title is blue,
you can click it for a full course description.
If a title is not clickable,
this means that no one has come forward to offer that class.
Face-to-face classes meet in the Twin Cities
of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.
Some of these classes have a distant-learning option.
To add your course or for other questions about the MFU,
write to the MFU webmaster, James
Park
.
Introduction to Bonsai
Sewing & Quilting Workshop
Writers' Workshop
Visual Arts Workshop
Watercolor Painting
Musicians Cooperative
Dance
Theater Improvisation
Tying Beautiful Knots: Macramé Workshop
Beginning Linoleum and/or Wood Block Printmaking
Photography
Book Club
Chess Club
Let's Rent a Movie Together
Basic Computer Skills
Computer Games Club
Computer Cooperative
How to Find What You Want on the Internet
How to Create a Web Page
Graphics for Web Pages
Cooking Fundamentals: Soup
Cooking: Simple & Cheap
Cooking with Curry
Chinese Cooking
Dining Group
Starting a Basic Food Coop
GARDEN
Community Garden Workshop
House Plants for the Apartment
Compost Your Garbage Using Earthworms
HEALTH, FITNESS, & SPORTS
Tai Chi in the Park
Walkers
Massage Workshop
Herbs that Heal
Exercise Group
Archery
Football
Baseball
BICYCLES, BUSSES,
& OTHER ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION
Bicycling Group
Simple Bicycle Repair
Sharing a Car or Van with Neighbors
LOVE, SEX, & RELATIONSHIPS
New Ways of Loving:
How Authenticity Transforms Relationships
Romantic Love is a Hoax! Emotional Programming to 'Fall in Love'
How to Avoid Seduction: Recognizing the Romantic Predator
Loving without Needing: Seven Pre-Existing Needs and How to Transcend Them
Romantic & Sexual Jealousy: Cause and Prevention
Multiple Loving without Jealousy
Growing in Love: 21 Ways to Become Less Dependent and More Authentic
Masculinity/Femininity: Loving Beyond Our Gender-Personalities
Transcending Machismo: Positive Masculinity Workshop
Androgyny: The Best of Both Gender-Personalities
Imprinted Sexual Fantasies: A New Key for Sexology
How I Became Comfortable with My Sexual Orientation
Loving without Marrying
We Like Being Single: Marriage Resisters' Support Group
Designer Marriage: Write Your Own Relationship Contract
The End of 'Love': Letting Go of Harmful Relationships
FAMILY & CHILDREN
Raising Children in the City
Finding Playmates for Our Children
Parenthood is Voluntary: Should We Have (More) Children?
APARTMENT LIVING
Problems of Living Together in a Small Apartment
Dog Owners Unite!
Dog Obedience Training
Landlord-Tenant Relations
Converting Rental Apartmenthouses to Owner-Occupied Cooperatives
LIFE-STYLES & PERSONAL GROWTH
Becoming More Authentic:
The Positive Side of Existentialism
What Should I Do with my Life?
Surviving Your Mid-Life Crisis
Journaling
SUPPORT GROUPS
Coping with Our Parents
Telephone Friends
Being a Single Woman in the City
Preparing for Divorce: A Support Group for Couples and Individuals
Support Group for the Newly Divorced
Alcohol Recovery Support Group
EARNING A LIVING & MAKING ENDS MEET
Right Livelihoods and Low-Impact Life-Styles
Creative Ways to Find a Job
Writing a Resume
Operating a Home Business
Best Ways to Deal with the Welfare System
Voluntary Simplicity: How I Live on $200 a Month
SOCIAL PROBLEMS, POLITICS, & CRIME
Many Races: One Community
The Politics of Race and Gender
Non-Racist Ways to Overcome Racism
Preventing Domestic Violence
Preventing Crime
When to Call the Police
How to Start a Block Club
Block Leader Training
Home and Personal Security
Crime Prevention thru Environmental Design
Earliest Signs of Drug Dealing
Using the Political System to Improve Stevens Square
LANGUAGE & HISTORY
Universal Verbal Language
Conversational Spanish
Conversational English
RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY
Creating Your Philosophy of Life
Why People Believe Weird Things
Spirituality for
Humanists:
Six Capacities
of Our Human Spirits
Our Existential
Predicament:
Loneliness, Depression,
Anxiety, & Death
Existential Loneliness: Deeper than the Reach of Love
Looking for the Meaning of Life
Opening to Grace: Transcending Our Spiritual Malaise
Skeptics Explore the Bible
Romans Demythologized
/ Exploring New Testament Mythology
/ An Existential Interpretation of Paul's Letter to the Romans
Spiritual Paths Less Taken
DEATH & DYING
Is There Life After Death? Scientific and Philosophical Questions
'Living Will' Workshop:
Write Your Own Advance Directive for Medical Care
When Is a Person? Pre-Persons & Former Persons
Ten Safeguards for Life-Ending Decisions:
Withdrawing Life-Supports, Voluntary
Death, & Merciful Death
Three Differences between Irrational Suicide and Voluntary Death:
and between Mercy Killing and
Merciful Death
Don't Kill Yourself:
Psychological and Spiritual Reasons for Irrational Suicide
The Living Cadaver: Medical Uses for Permanently Unconscious Bodies
Voluntary Death by Means of Dehydration
An Existential Understanding of Death
or A Phenomenology of Ontological Anxiety
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