COURSES – FALL 2026 / Old Courses

The courses listed below in alphabetical order were offered in previous semesters.

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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.

DAISY MILLER & WASHINGTON SQUARE

Coordinators: Patricia Geehr, Susan Keohane

Henry James was a 19th century American writer, a major figure in the history of the novel, and a master craftsman in the development of his recurring themes.

Our home is a solid planet, which can be studied from a wide variety of perspectives (e.g. ecology, geology, archaeology, history of the planet, evolution, art, poetry, and music), which will be different each semester.

ELIZABETH GASKELL

Coordinators: Arlene Curinga, Patricia Geehr, Susan Keohane

An English novelist, biographer, and short-story writer, Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels offer a detailed portrait of society, particularly the very poor.

EMILY DICKINSON CIRCLE

Coordinators: Martha Drezin, Mary Ann Donnelly, Sheryl Harawitz, Joyce West

Would you like to spend time digging into the poems of Emily Dickinson?