For nearly 100 years, Continuing and Innovative Education (CIE) at the University of Texas at Austin has offered a variety of credit and noncredit courses, services, and programs that include informal classes. Typical courses tackle topics on language, business, arts, travel, and cooking.

“Home With the Armadillo: Four Decades That Changed Austin Music” is a monthlong course that discusses the Fifties through the Eighties, a period that saw Austin evolve from a folk and country-based college town into the live music capital of the world. Subjects include Dr. Hepcat, Roky Erickson, Janis Joplin, W.C. Clark, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rosie Flores, and Kathy Valentine.

For more information about UT Informal Classes, contact tccic@austin.utexas.edu or visit cie.austin.utexas.edu/informalclasses.

This article appears in September 21 • 2012.

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