Courses – Spring 2025 / Old Courses
The courses listed below were offered in previous semesters.
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THE TWILIGHT ZONE
Coordinators: Tamara Weinberg, Marian Friedmann
The Twilight Zone was a successful TV series created by Rod Serling in which characters dealt with often disturbing or unusual events, an experience described as entering “The Twilight Zone.”
THEATER TALKBACK
Coordinators: Yona Rogosin, Mary Ann Donnelly
This noontime discussion will meet in a relaxed environment to talk about experimental/avant-garde theater and offerings that we have seen recently and in the past, and to share reviews, upcoming shows to see – both experimental and traditional – and tips on how to get discount tickets. Film clips will also be shown.
TOCQUEVILLE'S DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
Coordinators: Sandy Kessler, Ellie Schaffer
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1835;1840) is considered one of the greatest commentaries ever written on American life.
TONI MORRISON: THE LEGEND
Coordinators: Donna Ramer, Sheryl Harawitz, Tamara Weinberg
Through two of her books — Jazz and Song of Solomon — we’ll traverse Toni Morrison’s winding road into African mythology and mysticism, race and racism, the legacy of slavery, relationships, love and desire, violence and trauma that are a critical path as her characters search for identity.
WATER
Coordinators: Judy Weis, Pete Weis
Water. Something we interact with every day. We wash in it, cook with it, put our wastes into it, swim in it and travel in boats on it. In cold winter it freezes and we can skate or ski or sled on it. We shelter from it when it falls down from the sky. “Bad weather” usually involves it.
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.
WOMEN IN GREEK DRAMA
Coordinators: Sheryl Harawitz, Mary Ann Donnelly, Donna Ramer.
Antigone, Medea, Clytemnestra, Phaedra, Electra … some of the most fascinating and memorable female characters that have endured over centuries.
WOMEN SPIES
Coordinators: Penelope Pi-Sunyer, Judy Hampson, Donna Ramer, Tamara Weinberg
The stories of hundreds of courageous women spies have been long hidden from reports of battles and war. Before and during World War II, both Allied and Axis powers trained and sent women to the war fronts in occupied territories, to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance.
WORLD OF THEATRE
Coordinators: Yona Rogosin, Mary Ann Donnelly, Karen Cullen, Lauren Gee
The late 19th and 20th and 21st centuries in the world of theatre spawned many distinguished playwrights of dramatic works that have garnered prestigious awards and are performed around the world.