Courses – Spring 2025 / Old Courses / CONSTRUCTION: BEYOND BRICKS AND MORTAR

Coordinators: Andrea Irvine, Marion Schultheis, David Bartash

Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated Questers do it. What is it? It’s construction.

At its broadest, construction is the creation of something complex out of multiple components. Of course, it is a building. But it can be so much more. A piece of music; a theory; a spider’s web; even a lie. So join our presenters as they expand their creativity and discover what construction means to them.

B WEEK / THURSDAY / 1:00 PM – 2:30 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
• TOCQUEVILLE'S DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
• MEXICO: SOUTH OF OUR BORDER
• HISTORY OF MEDICINE
• HARLEM RENAISSANCE
• 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
• WEEK IN PARIS
• 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
• SLAVERY'S 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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