Course Schedule – Spring 2024 / Old Courses / FASCINATING ISLANDS

Coordinators: Stephen Baker, Pete Weis

In this course we will explore some fascinating islands. These are widely scattered throughout the world in oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as well as scattered in time with references from antiquity to the future.

We will consider factors such as insular governance; island boundaries, including man-made modifications and spontaneous geomorphic reformations; unique island products with a special influence on island life and economy, and islands in which a single animal species is overly persuasive in defining the allocation of settlement and resources.

B WEEK / THUR/ 1:00pm to 2:30pm

Other Classes:

• JAZZ AT NOON
• WORLD OF THEATER
• THE SCARLET LETTER
• THE GREAT GATSBY
• TOCQUEVILLE’S DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA: A CLASSIC FOR OUR TIME
• MEXICO: SOUTH OF OUR BORDER
• HISTORY OF MEDICINE
• THEATER TALKBACK
• SOCIAL EVENTS
• FOOD: BEYOND JUST CALORIES
• TONI MORRISON: THE LEGEND
• INVISIBLE MAN BY RALPH ELLISON
• SIXTIES
• ELIZABETH GASKELL
• WEEK IN PARIS
• CREATIVE WORKSHOP
• EMILY DICKINSON CIRCLE
• SYMPOSIUM
• RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHY
• CONTEMPORARY BRITISH CULTURE
• AUSTRALIA – THE LAND DOWN UNDER
• HUCKLEBERRY FINN
• AGING
• BLACK WOMEN’S 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
• MOZART’S WOMEN
• ANTISEMITISM: PAST, PRESENT, FACTS, MYTHS
• AFRICAN CONTINENT
• PRESENTER’S SHOWCASE
• INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
• ACTING CLASS
• LAW & ORDER
• POINT OF VIEW
• MODERN OPERA
• MOVERS & SHAKERS
• SOCRATES AND THE PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHY
• GREAT CONVERSATIONS
• ORAL INTERPRETATION OF POETRY

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