Course Schedule – Spring 2024 / Old Courses / RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHY
Coordinators: Stephen R. Baker, Pete Weis
The history of Russia, a country encompassing one sixth of the land on our planet, has been in large measure molded by the exigencies of its geography and influenced more by its rivers than its mountains
It has been influenced in the East more by its climates than its cultures and in the peripheries to an equal degree by ice and water. Each of these factors has contributed forcefully to its uniqueness.
This lecture series seeks to provide specifics with facts and impressions related to Russia’s particular terrestrial situations and configurations.
B WEEK / THURSDAY / 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
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
- CONTEMPORARY BRITISH CULTURE
- AUSTRALIA – THE LAND DOWN UNDER
- HUCKLEBERRY FINN
- AGING
- FASCINATING ISLANDS
- 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