Course Schedule – Fall 2024 / Old Courses / WEEK IN PARIS

Coordinators: Laura Lopez, Donna Basile, Ellen Rittberg

The course will offer a sampling of France’s notable contributions to Western culture and civilization.

This may include gourmet cuisine, vinicul- ture, perfume distillation, cabaret, haute couture, cinema, iconic monuments or inventions that you never knew were French. Or we may explore the work of a French artist, musician, writer, film maker, scientist, philosopher, or political leader.

B WEEK / MONDAY / 10:30 – 12:00 PM

Other Classes:

• THE TWILIGHT ZONE
• HEALTH AND MEDICINE
• IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE, CAN IT?
• FLAWED GREATNESS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
• PORTRAIT OF A LADY
• STAR-CROSSED LOVERS
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A BRAVE NEW WORLD?
• WOMEN SPIES
• DAISY MILLER & WASHINGTON SQUARE
• BEETHOVEN: THE MIDDLE YEARS
• ALL THE KINGS MEN
• JAZZ AT NOON
• WORLD OF THEATRE
• THE SCARLET LETTER
• THE GREAT GATSBY
• TOCQUEVILLES DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
• MEXICO: SOUTH OF OUR BORDER
• HISTORY OF MEDICINE
• HARLEM RENAISSANCE
• CONSTRUCTION: BEYOND BRICKS AND MORTAR
• ACTING WORKSHOP I
• THEATER TALKBACK
• BOOK CHATS
• ADVENTURES IN DINING
• FOOD: BEYOND JUST CALORIES
• TONI MORRISON: THE LEGEND
• INVISIBLE MAN BY RALPH ELLISON
• SIXTIES
• ELIZABETH GASKELL
• CLASSICAL MUSIC
• CREATIVE WORKSHOP
• MUSIC OF THE HEART
• EMILY DICKINSON CIRCLE
• SYMPOSIUM
• RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHY
• WATER
• FOLK MUSIC AND MELLOW ROCK
• CONTEMPORARY BRITISH CULTURE
• AUSTRALIA – THE LAND DOWN UNDER
• HUCKLEBERRY FINN
• AGING
• FASCINATING ISLANDS
• BLACK WOMENS VOICES
• THE NOBEL PRIZES
• READING EDITH WHARTON
• WOMEN IN GREEK DRAMA
• THE NEAR EAST
• HISTORY OF GERMANY
• A PASSAGE TO INDIA
• INDIE FILMS
• SLAVERYS ROLE IN U.S. CAPITALISTIST DEVELOPMENT
• RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
• READING THE RABBIS
• RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
• MYTHOLOGY
• LITERARY HEROINES
• HOWARDS END
• HOUSE OF MIRTH
• FABULOUS FIFTIES
• COMEDY CENTRAL
• READING BLACK LIVES
• BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES
• MOZARTS WOMEN
• ANTISEMITISM: PAST, PRESENT, FACTS, MYTHS
• AFRICAN CONTINENT
• PRESENTERS SHOWCASE
• INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
• ACTING CLASS
• FOREIGN AFFAIRS
• LAW & ORDER
• POINT OF VIEW
• MODERN OPERA
• MOVERS & SHAKERS
• SOCRATES AND THE PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHY
• FASCINATING NONFICTION
• GREAT CONVERSATIONS
• ORAL INTERPRETATION OF POETRY
• SHAKESPEARE: CYMBELINE

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