French conversation returns to Stockton this summer with engaging material designed for adult learners at the beginner or intermediate level. This interactive course uses tactical language learning methods in dual French–English to help participants build confidence in speaking and understanding everyday French. Through guided conversation, practical vocabulary, and useful expressions for travel, business, and personal enrichment, students will strengthen their communication skills in a relaxed and welcoming environment. 

Jacques Press is an experienced instructor with an international background who spent many years at Stockton University. Fluent in French and English, he has conducted several conversation classes to local adults, under the direction of Stockton’s Office on Continuing Studies. Currently, he facilitates regular French online weekly meetings to a wider community of interest.

Click on the event title to register. Tuition for each SILL course is $45. 
Courses are FREE for residents age 60+ who live in Atlantic County. 

Maria Castillo has been teaching Spanish at Stockton for 25+ years. She has traveled several times to Spain, Venezuela, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic and is passionate about teaching the Spanish language. 

Click on the event title to register. Tuition for each SILL course is $45. 
Courses are FREE for residents age 60+ who live in Atlantic County. 

Extending French Conversation Part I, this added session explores the cultural side of the French language through a variety of engaging themes about France, its people, its food, its rich literature and romantic music, among others. In the process, participants will expand their vocabulary and fluency while exploring French culture. This course offers a pleasant way to immerse in both language skills and cultural understanding.

 

Jacques Press is an experienced instructor with an international background who spent many years at Stockton University. Fluent in French and English, he has conducted several conversation classes to local adults, under the direction of Stockton’s Office on Continuing Studies. Currently, he facilitates regular French online weekly meetings to a wider community of interest.

Click on the event title to register. Tuition for each SILL course is $45. 
Courses are FREE for residents age 60+ who live in Atlantic County. 

From the 1960s through the 2020s, the songs of Bob Dylan have fascinated and inspired audiences across the world. Drawing upon a vast range of American musical traditions — folk ballads, blues laments, country songs, slave spirituals, gospel hymns, cowboy serenades, mountain music, Tejano, Creole, and rock and roll — Dylan’s work offers a remarkable entry point into the history of American musical culture. Dylan’s lyrical style channels an equally wide range of literary and poetic traditions. His work echoes the voices of Whitman, Dickinson, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Pound, Ferlinghetti, Sandburg, and countless others. Dylan moves fluidly through the worlds of the Romantics, the Beats, the folk revival, protest movements, gospel traditions, surrealism, and vernacular storytelling.  This course will explore Dylan as a songwriter, performer, and a cultural figure. Over three weeks we will sample the songs, styles, contradictions and myths surrounding this extraordinary American artist.

Dr. John O’Hara is chair of the Master of Arts in American Studies program at Stockton University. He has taught a course on Bob Dylan at Stockton since 2017 and recently appeared as a guest speaker at the 3rd annual World of Bob Dylan international conference hosted by the Bob Dylan Center at the University of Tulsa, OK. Along with students, he has produced Stockton’s Bob Dylan Fest, an day-long concert event featuring student, faculty and staff performers celebrating Bob Dylan’s music.

Click on the event title to register. Tuition for each SILL course is $45. 
Courses are FREE for residents age 60+ who live in Atlantic County.