Quest Courses – Spring 2023 / Old Courses / MOVERS & SHAKERS
Coordinators: Bob Gottfried, Ellen Gottfried
We will examine the lives and accomplishments of outstanding people whose ideas and actions have had a lasting effect on our society, whether for good or evil.
Subjects covered in past talks have included Dimitri Shostakovich, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin (founders of Google), Isaac Bashevis Singer, Winston Churchill, and Martin Luther.
B WEEK / TUESDAY / 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
[wptb id="5702" not found ]Other Classes:
- CREATIVE WORKSHOP
- EMILY DICKINSON CIRCLE
- RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHY
- CONTEMPORARY BRITISH CULTURE
- AUSTRALIA – THE LAND DOWN UNDER
- HUCKLEBERRY FINN
- FASCINATING ISLANDS
- THE NOBEL PRIZES
- READING EDITH WHARTON
- WOMEN IN GREEK DRAMA
- THE NEAR EAST
- A PASSAGE TO INDIA
- INDIE FILMS
- 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
- 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
- ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
- LAW & ORDER
- POINT OF VIEW
- SOCRATES AND THE PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHY
- GREAT CONVERSATIONS