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The 20th Century American Poets Class has been canceled

Fall Courses at a Glance - To ensure up-to-date course information please check the course information below.

YHC campus map highlighting location of the ICL classroom and Goolsby center.   YHC-Campus-Map.pdf

Current Courses

    • October 22, 2025
    • November 12, 2025
    • 4 sessions
    • ICL Classroom - 862 Main Street, Young Harris
    • 3
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    Course Instructor - Ann Marie Stanczyk

    Course Fee - $25.00

    Materials Fee - $25.00

    Because the students' are clamoring for more, this class will be a continuation of the Super Healthy Foods for a Super Healthy YOU class that ended on Oct. 7, but with all new Superfoods.  The intent, again, will be to improve the health of our bodies and minds with foods that are known to do just that. There's no need to have taken the first class. 

    There will be a one-time $25 supply fee, collected at the first class. 

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    Ann Marie Stanczyk is a Medical Technologist with a Master's degree in Nutrition. She is focused on improving people's health and has shown many people of all ages how to avoid or reverse diabetes.  She has also worked for a holistic doctor in Blairsville for 6 years, who used diet and exercise, not drugs, to restore people's health.

    • November 12, 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
    • Union General Hospital - Classroom A, 35 Hospital Road, Blairsville
    • 2
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    Instructor - Melanie O'Neill

    Course Fee - $35.00

    $20.00 of the course fee is for materials and an AHA certificate

    The AHA’s Basic Life Support (BLS) course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

     What does this course teach?

    • High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
    • The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS component
    • Important early use of an AED
    • Effective ventilations using a barrier device

    • Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for adults and infants

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    Melanie O’Neill, DNP, RN, NE-BC is the Director of Education at Union General Hospital.

    • November 17, 2025
    • December 15, 2025
    • 4 sessions
    • ICL Classroom - 862 Main Street, Young Harris
    • 1
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    Course Instructor - Stephan Banakas

    Course Fee - $25.00

    Due to Thanksgiving there will not be a class on November 24th 

    You must have a code to register for this class and you must have taken a previous photography class with Stephan Banakas.

    A very basic introduction to photo processing in PhotoShop will be a series of four classes to be conducted electronically through Zoom off campus. The class will be on these four dates:  November 17th, December 1st, 8th,15th.  The time for the class will be 2:00 – 4:00.  The class will be limited to 15 students.

    Participants will be required to have the latest version of PhotoShop available.  And to follow the content of the class it will be necessary to have two screens available, one to follow the Zoom call and one to simultaneously work during the class when required.  A sound internet connection is also required.  ALL CLASSES WILL BE RECORDED.

    The focus of the class will be to introduce you to the basic and essential suite utilized to process your photographs known as Adobe Camera Raw, which is found within PhotoShop.  All classwork will begin with RAW images that will be provided and there will also be ‘homework’ assignments.

    The course is very basic and is intended to provide a solid foundation for further image processing in PhotoShop.

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    Stephan Banakas is an avid fly fisherman and wildflower/landscape photographer.  He is originally from Pensacola, FL. where he worked as a police officer until he retired in 1999.  He now lives in Hayesville with his wife, Diane, and their two cats Gordon and Maggie.


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