Course Schedule – Spring 2024 / Old Courses / THE SCARLET LETTER
Coordinators: Patricia Geehr, Arlene Curinga, Susan Keohane
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer was born into an established old New England family.
Much of his writing reflects on the dark world of his ancestors during 17th century Puritan Boston. In The Scarlet Letter, one of his most famous novels, Hester Prynne, a victim of this society, is condemned to wear the scarlet embroidered letter A on her breast, as punishment for her adultery.
A WEEK / MONDAY / 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
See the timely Next Week at Quest documents for class details
Other Classes:
- JAZZ AT NOON
- WORLD OF THEATER
- 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
- 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