Early registration for Fall 2024 study groups will take place June 24 - July 12. Study groups are assigned by lottery after early registration closes.
Fall 2024 courses will begin the week of September 9 and run through the week of November 18. There will be no classes October 3 or October 14. Classes can make up sessions November 19, 20, 25 or December 5.
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American Resistance: Times of Turmoil & Progressive Movements
H&G8-10-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Kerry Jo Green
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 9 - November 18 (No Class October 14)
The Art of Orchestration: Development of Orchestral Music and the Influence of Musical Instruments
MUS2-10-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Akram Haddad
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 9 - November 18 (No Class October 14)
Joni Mitchell: The Renaissance Woman
MUS5-10-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Julian Moehring
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 9 - November 18 (No Class October 14)
DRA2-5a-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Gail Leondar-Wright
Location: Zoom
5-week course: September 9 - October 7
“The Last Victorian Novel:” Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure
LIT12-5a-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Iana Seerung
Location: Zoom
5-week course: September 9 - October 7
The Material Innovations of Avant-Garde Women Artists
ART5-5b-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Talia Kwartler
Location: Zoom
5-week course: October 21 - November 18
WHODUNIT?: Murder in Ethnic Communities
LIT2-10-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Marilyn Brooks
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: September 9 - November 18
(No Class October 14)
The Indo-Europeans: Explore the Mysteries of Prehistory
H&G3-10-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Ollie Curme
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 9 - November 18
(No Class October 14)
WRI2-10-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Linda Wolfson
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 9 - November 18
(No Class October 14)
What Hath the Internet Wrought?
SCI3-5a-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Carl Lazarus
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: September 9 - October 7
Mark Rothko and the Spirituality in Art
ART9-5a-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Robert Solomon
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: September 9 - October 7
Eastern European Jewish Music Traditions: From the Concert Hall to the Hit Parade
MUS6-5b-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Dr. Hankus Netsky
Location: Zoom
5-week course: October 21 - November 18
Banned in Boston: Burned, Bowdlerized, Censored, and Silenced in the United States of America
LIT1-10-Mon3
Study Group Leader: Lois Ambash
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 9 - November 18
(No Class October 14)
Balzac's Cousin Bette: Rage, Revenge, and Ruin in Nineteenth Century Paris
LIT4-10-Mon3
Study Group Leader: Hollie Harder
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: September 9 - November 18
(No Class October 14)
You Are There: The Framing of the U.S. Constitution
H&G12-10-Mon3
Study Group Leader: Stephen Messinger
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 9 - November 18
(No Class October 14)
Strong Women: Five Australian Films
FILM4-5a-Mon3
Study Group Leader: Kate Seideman
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: September 9 - October 7
LIT3-5a-Mon3
Study Group Leader: Bennett Comerford
Location: Zoom
5-week course: September 9 - October 7
Colliding Dreams: The Modern Zionist Movement as Told Through the Eyes of its Inhabitants
H&G4-5b-Mon3
Study Group Leader: Jan Darsa
Location: Zoom
5-week course: October 21 - November 18
Wagner’s Das Rheingold: A Guided Tour
MUS7-5b-Mon3
Study Group Leader: Phillip Radoff
Location: 60 Turner Street
5-week course: October 21 - November 18
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Dueling Narratives
H&G9-10-Tue1
Study Group Leader: Steven J. Klein
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 10 - November 12
Exploring Lauren Groff: Stories Should Ask Difficult Questions
LIT5-10-Tue1
Study Group Leader: Marlene Hobel
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 10 - November 12
What Makes a Cult Classic?: Trashy Movies and their Gay Fans
FILM1-5a-Tue1
Study Group Leader: Tyler Clark
Location: Zoom
5-week course: September 10 - October 8
The Authoritarian Personality Then and Now
SOC4-5a-Tue1
Study Group Leader: Jeff Kichen
Location: Zoom
5-week course: September 10 - October 8
The Burgeoning Black Jews of Africa
SOC1-5a-Tue1
Study Group Leader: Jennifer Coplon
Location: Zoom
5-week course: September 10 - October 8
Sea of Impressions, Forest of Symbols: The Music of Debussy
MUS8-5b-Tue1
Study Group Leader: Jared Redmond
Location: Zoom
5-week course: October 15 - November 12
City Visions: Venice, Paris, and New York as Seen Through the Eyes of the Artists
ART2-10-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Suzanne Art
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 10 - November 12
A Study in Love and Betrayal: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady
LIT10-10-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Diane Proctor
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 10 - November 12
The Civil War in American Memory
H&G2-10-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Vince Canzoneri
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 10 - November 12
Love in the Yiddish Cinema: From the Dybbuk to Menashe
FILM2-5a-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Henry Morris
Location: 60 Turner St
5-week course: September 10 - October 8
An Introduction to the Grimms' Fairy Tales & Some Varied Interpretations
LIT7-5b-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Terry Lee
Location: 60 Turner St
5-week course: October 15 - November 12
American History in Film – New Films for Fall 2024
FILM3-5b-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Laurence Paluzzi
Location: 60 Turner St
5-week course: October 15 - November 12
Exploring 20th Century Physics and Cosmology
SCI2-10-Tue3
Study Group Leader: Gary Feldman
Location: 60 Turner St.
10-week course: September 10 - November 12
Page to Stage: Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt
DRA1-5a-Tue3
Study Group Leader: Steve Bloom
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: September 10 - October 8
Moving Right Along: How and Why Things Move the Way They Do
SCI1-5a-Tue3
Study Group Leader: Jerry Baum
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: September 10 - October 8
Changing Times: American Art of the 1960s
ART6-5a-Tue3
Study Group Leader: Emily Leifer
Location: Zoom
5-week course: September 10 - October 8
SOC3-5a-Tue3
Study Group Leader: Mark E. Jurman
Location: Zoom
5-week course: September 10 - October 8
Music in Classic Hollywood Cinema: A Journey Through the Golden Era
MUS4-5b-Tue3
Study Group Leader: James Heazlewood-Dale
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: October 15 - November 12
Reading King Lear: the Intrigue of Madness in Shakespeare
LIT8-5b-Tue3
Study Group Leader: Avi Mendelson
Location: Zoom
5-week course: October 15 - November 12
Diasporas, Ethnicity and US Foreign Policy
H&G7-10-Wed1
Study Group Leader: Dr. Athanasios Grammenos
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 11 - November 13
Innovation, Power & the Energy Transition
H&G11-10-Wed1
Study Group Leader: Scott McKnight
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 11 - November 13
Why Tocqueville’s America Is Relevant to Ours
H&G17-10-Wed1
Study Group Leader: Yiyang Zhuge
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 11 - November 13
Indigenous Art Today – An Historical Path
ART7-5a-Wed1
Study Group Leader: Margaret Mukherjee
Location: Zoom
5-week course: September 11 - October 9
Nazi Perpetrators and their descendants: How do they remember the Holocaust and the Third Reich?
H&G1-5b-Wed1
Study Group Leader: Tamar Aizenberg
Location: Zoom
5-week course: October 16 - November 13
The Private Lives of the Impressionists and Their Art
ART1-10-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Nancy Alimansky
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: September 11 - November 13
CE1-10-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Lois Sockol
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 11 - November 13
How Minds Change: Navigating Divided Societies
SOC5-10-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Steven J. Klein
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 11 - November 13
Divergent Identity: Unraveling China's Traditional and Modern Cultural Phenomena
H&G16-5a-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Manning Zhang
Location: Zoom
5-week course: September 11 - October 9
Some Like It Hot: A Brief Tour of Thermodynamics
SCI4-5b-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Franklin Segall
Location: 60 Turner Street
5-week course: October 16 - November 13
Free period for SIGs and Committees
Putting On the Style: How the Style of a Poem Reinforces, Qualifies, or Undercuts Its Message
LIT11-10-Thu1
Study Group Leader: Jan Schreiber
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 12 - November 21
(No Class October 3)
ART3-5a-Thu1
Study Group Leader: Ellen Foust
Location: Zoom
5-week course: September 12 - October 17
(No Class October 3)
How to Take and Edit Awesome iPhone Photos: Genres Module 2: ALL NEW TOPICS
ART4-5b-Thu1
Study Group Leader: Ellen Foust
Location: Zoom
5-week course: October 24 - November 21
From the Beats to the Hippies: An Evolution
LIT9-10-Thu2
Study Group Leader: David Moskowitz
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: September 12 - November 21
(No Class October 3)
The 2024 Election, the MAGA Movement, and Its Relationship to the Status of Women in Society
H&G15-10-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Saul Schapiro
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: September 12 - November 21
(No Class October 3)
Harry S. Truman: His Life and Legacy
H&G5-10-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Fran Feldman
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: September 12 - November 21
(No Class October 3)
The Vietnam Anti-War Movement: Its Origins, Activities, and Impact on the War and Later Movements
H&G14-5a-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Bill Prenovitz
Location: 60 Turner Street
5-week course: September 12 - October 17
(No Class October 3)
19th and 20th Century Russian Short Stories
LIT6-5a-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Olivia Kennison
Location: Zoom
5-week course: September 12 - October 17
(No Class October 3)
Looking for Good News in Times of Climate Crisis
FILM5-5b-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Sabine von Mering
Location: Zoom
5-week course: October 24 - November 21
Labor in the US – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
SOC2-5b-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Mark Erlich
Location: Zoom
5-week course: October 24 - November 21
Into The Unknown: The Great Explorations of Captain James Cook
H&G10-10-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Fred Kobrick
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 12 - November 21
(No Class October 3)
CE2-10-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Lois Sockol
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 12 - November 21
(No Class October 3)
In a Flash: Writing the Short Short Story
WRI1-10-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Donna Johns
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 12 - November 21
(No Class October 3)
The Politics of the Common Good: From Confucius & Plato to OpenAI & Xi Jinping
SOC6-10-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Kemal Onur Toker
Location: Zoom
10-week course: September 12 - November 21
(No Class October 3)
ART8-5a-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Carole Simon Pugliese
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: September 12 - October 17
(No Class October 3)
Ancient Slavery: the Dark Underbelly of Greek and Roman Civilization
H&G13-5b-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Steven Ostrow
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: October 24 - November 21
Songwriters Playground: Innovative Exercises in Creative Songwriting
MUS9-5b-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Barbara Jordan
Location: Zoom
5-week course: October 24 - November 21
Five Masterworks in the Choral Repertoire
MUS3-5b-Fri1
Study Group Leader: Gil Harel
Location: Zoom
5-week course: October 25 - November 22
Bowed, Plucked, and Strummed Stories: The Instruments of American Roots Music
Classes in the Fall will take place in a variety of modalities. All times refer to the Eastern Time Zone.