Spring 2015
Fall 2015 Course Proposal form and instructions
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Course assignments are available on the Harvard Website.
You can also still see the Course Catalog for Spring 2015. As SGLs create their course Websites, links to them will become active on the Courses page. Be sure to check back if yours isn't available, or check with the instructor.
Fall 2014 course websites have moved to the archives.
Monday & Tuesday (Spring 2015)
NOTE: * indicates different start and end dates. See the course description for details.
Monday 10am-12 noon
525 Louise Erdrich's North Dakota Quartet, Gary Jones
526 Immigration Reform: Latinos and the 2016 Presidential Campaign, Jennifer Huntington
527 Dante's Paradiso, Todd Boli
528 The Novels of Dorothy Dunnett: Flesh on the Bones of History, Part 3, Phillip Stubblefield & Penelope ReVelle
566 Gadfly to Washington: I.F. Stone and the Relentless Exposure to Truth, Ross Neisuler (1st half)
578 Ice Age Floods and the Landscape They Created, Steve Senturia (2nd half)
579 Art and Poetry Creativity Journals, Fran McCormick (2nd half)
Monday 1pm-3pm
529 Understanding Poetry, Bill Boone
530 Images of Valencia, Gervasio Prado
531 The Business of Life: From Philosophy to Praxis, Nasswan Dossabhoy
532 Marcel Proust: Within a Budding Grove, Barbara Carlson
533 Boston's Gilded Age (1865–1900), Martha Vicinus
567 Reading The New Yorker, Part 1, Irene Fairley & Kate McGillicuddy (1st half)
580 Reading The New Yorker, Part 2, Irene Fairley & Julie Altshuler (2nd half)
581 Barbara Kingsolver: Two Novels, Sondra Shick
582 Voyage to the Moon and Beyond: The Case for Mars, Fred Martin
NOTE: * indicates different start and end dates. See the course description for details.
Tuesday 10am-12 noon
534 Oceans, Seashores and Salt Marshes, Fred Chanania
535 Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877, Tony Pazzanita
*536 Who Am I, Really? , John Ehrenfeld
537 McCarthyism: Security vs. Liberty, Bernard Shuster
538 Mindreading, Murray Smith
568 Exploring Ideas in The New York Review of Books, Robert Ketchum (1st half)
569 Social Invisibility, Peter Temin (1st half)
583 The Amazing iPad, Dick Rubinstein & Judy Uhl (2nd half)
584 Slavery in the New World: Origins to Abolition, Alan Altshuler (2nd half)
Tuesday 1pm-3pm
539 Sprechen Sie etwas Deutsch?, Mitch Cohen & Jake Bakalar
*540 Emile Zola, Theodore Dreiser: MONEY!, Andrea Gargiulo
*541 The Revenge of Geography, George Theodosiou
542 Introduction to Astronomy: The Solar System, Gene Ferrari
543 A Tale of Two Cities: Venice and Constantinople, Linda Sultan & Easley Hamner
544 Emotion & Meaning in the Music of Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), Virginia Newes
* 570 The Promised Land in Fact and Film, Carol Albright (1st half)
585 Performing Othello, John Kirsch (2nd half)
586 Andrzej Wajda: Filmmaker, Chronicler of Polish History, Zoltan Mathe & Ronna Perlmutter (2nd half)
NOTE: * indicates different start and end dates. See the course description for details.
Wednesday & Thursday (Spring 2015)
NOTE: * indicates different start and end dates. See the course description for details.
Wednesday 10am-12 noon
545 This is Your Life: Memoir Writing, Suzanne Pemsler
546 Vision and Art , Peter Kugel
547 (See 2nd half courses, below.)
548 Seminal Plays of the Twentieth Century, Judith Castle
549 The Age of Atheists: How Do We Live Without God?, Anne Pirrera
550 Evolution's Tangled Bank, Dan McCarthy
551 Four Biographies that Bend the Genre, Kate McGillicuddy & Louise Loewenstein
*571 Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Chinese Language, Min-Hwa Kennard (1st half)
547 The US Government's Response to Climate Change, Burt Jaffe (2nd half)
587 Frederick Law Olmsted: Sculptor of the Landscape, Al Levin (2nd half)
Wednesday 1pm-3pm
552 Architectural Words: The Art of the Sonnet, Jim McArdle
553 Working with Green Communities, Margo Woods,project leader
554 From the Age of Enlightenment to the 21st Century, Allan Roth
555 An HILR Film Festival, Linda Zeltzer
556 Purloined Letters: Daniel Deronda and The Portrait of a Lady, Jo Ann Citron
572 What's Gone Wrong with Democracy?, Mark Yessian (1st half)
573 Gertrude Bell: English Adventuress, Diplomat, Scholar, Spy, Eleanor Price & Parker Damon (1st half)
588 Science in Our Times, Beverly Cohen & Howard Cohen (2nd half)
589 Why Europe Matters: The Case for the European Union, Luise Druke (2nd half)
590 Hidden Treasure: Patrick Modiano, 2014 Nobel Laureate, Mimi Hooper & Elizabeth Neild (2nd half)
NOTE: * indicates different start and end dates. See the course description for details.
Thursday 10am-12 noon
557 The Harvard Art Museums, Renovated and Expanded, Betty Stone
558 Two Takes on Human Behavior, Peg Senturia
559 Digital Photography: Photoshop Elements, Easley Hamner
560 The Middle East: A History, Ernest Pittelli
574 Who's Afraid of Edward Albee?, Mickey Zemon (1st half)
575 A Close Reading of Shakespeare's The Tempest, Joe Westlund (1st half)
576 Six Visual Artists, Six Poets, Part 1, Fran McCormick (1st half)
591 Six Visual Artists, Six Poets, Part 2, Fran McCormick (2nd half)
592 Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy, Julie Altshuler (2nd half)
*593 Fresh Water 101, Betty Krikorian (2nd half)
594 Gatsby: His Legend in Fiction and Film, Kate Stout (2nd half)
Thursday 1pm-3pm
*561 The Materials Used in Painting and Sculpture, Emmy Norris
*562 Paris Under the Nazi Occupation, Serena & Frank Kafker
563 Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks: The Aesthetics of Realism, Michael Bennett
564 India from Independence to the Modern Day, Wendy Reich & Anwar Bhamla
565 Because I Am a Girl, Kathleen Hubbard-Ismail
577 Courtroom Cinema Classics, Abbreviated Version, Marty Aronson (1st half)
595 Big Fracking Deal, Bob Stuart & Bill Eykamp (2nd half)
596 The History and Practice of Street Photography, Milton Dietz (2nd half)
NOTE: * indicates different start and end dates. See the course description for details.
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