Courses – Fall 2025 / Old Courses


The courses listed below were offered in previous semesters.

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BEETHOVEN: THE MIDDLE YEARS

Coordinators: Arlene Hajinlian, Larry Shapiro

Beethoven, now established as a celebrated Viennese composer, is astonishingly productive during the the years from 1802 – 1814.

BLACK WOMENS VOICES

Coordinators: Ilene Winkler, Barbara Barnes, Susannah Falk Lewis, Penelope Pi-Sunyer

This course discusses a wide range of works by Black women: novels, memoirs, essays, poetry, music, and art.

BOOK CHATS

Coordinators: Kathy Cook

We don’t all read the same books, so let’s share our great book suggestions and talk about them.

BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES

Coordinators: Stephen Baker, Pete Weis

Defining a nation-state and its subnational components requires physical delineation acknowledged by those within and beyond its geographic limits. Establishment of boundaries is vital, and borders and boundaries have often been a key component of history.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Coordinators: Sol Makon, Peter Dichter, Pete Weis

Historically, Classical music and social/political structures have always been interrelated. A change in one has the potential to alter or transform the other.

COMEDY CENTRAL

Coordinators: Wayne Cotter, Leslie Goldman, Vince Grosso, Michael Wellner

You never know what to expect at a Comedy Central class. It could be a session on New Yorker cartoons or a live interview with a top-shelf television comedian.

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.

CONTEMPORARY BRITISH CULTURE

Coordinators: Judy Hampson, Jennifer Jolly, Donna Ramer, Sheryl Harawitz

This course focuses on the global influence of contemporary British culture, including art, music, dance, theatre, literature and fashion.

CREATIVE WORKSHOP

Coordinators: Mary Ann Donnelly, Beth Callender

Whether you think of yourself as creative or not, these interactive classes will help unlock abilities you may not have known you had.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Coordinators: Sheryl Harawitz, Patricia Geehr, Andrea Irvine, Ellie Schaffer

In this study group, we shall plunge headlong into the dark labyrinthine corridors of the human soul as laid bare by Fyodor Dostoevsky in Crime and Punishment.