Courses – Spring 2025 / Old Courses
The courses listed below were offered in previous semesters.
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A PASSAGE TO INDIA
Coordinators: Lynnel Garabedian, Sandy Kessler
Continuing our fall course on the fiction of E. M. Forster, the focus during the spring term will be his novel, A Passage to India, considered by many scholars to be Forster’s masterpiece.
ACTING CLASS
Coordinators: Roy Clary, John Spiegel
The class includes exercises and improvisations. Members also work on monologues and scenes. Emphasis is on the importance of relationships and relating to objects to achieve a greater reality in creating a character.
ACTING WORKSHOP I
Coordinators: Roy Clary, Dena Kerrin
The class performs theater exercises and improvisations. Members also work on monologues and scenes.
ADVENTURES IN DINING
Coordinators: Frank Montaturo
Step out of your familiar neighborhood and explore with Frank the extraordinary gastronomical options, available everywhere in our city.
AFRICAN CONTINENT
Coordinators: Ann Goerdt, Bob Gottfried, Bob Reiss
In the fall semester we will add to the information that we provided about Africa in the spring. As we present specific countries, including Zimbabwe, Namibia and Tunisia, we will continue to address their history, economy, health, education, and social aspects. We will also present overviews of Africa that may focus on specific groups of countries as we address topics such as the relations between African countries and their former colonizers and the influence of China on the continent.
AGING
Coordinators: Art Spar, Bryn Meehan, Larry Shapiro
The class will study the phenomenon of aging, from lectures on biology to discussion topics related to aging.
ALL THE KINGS MEN
Coordinators: Lynnel Garabedian, Sandy Kessler
Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men is one of American literature’s greatest political novels.
ANTISEMITISM: PAST, PRESENT, FACTS, MYTHS
Coordinators: Harriet Finkelstein, Marian Friedmann, Bob Reiss
This course will explore antisemitism from ancient times to its current manifestation. It will be interesting to anyone of any faith, race, or background who wants to understand fully the magnitude of hatred toward a people and how it can distort and destroy both soul and society.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A BRAVE NEW WORLD?
Coordinators: Wayne Cotter, Leslie Goldman, Michael Wellner
It’s hard to make it through the day without hearing about the latest development in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
AUSTRALIA – THE LAND DOWN UNDER
Coordinators: Andrea Irvine, David Bartash, Marion Schultheis
Tucked away in the bottom of the world, isolated for tens of thousands of years, Australia stands unique in the world in so many ways. In this course we will explore the history, geography, culture and wildlife that make this place so singular.