OLLI Course Archive – 2010

Spring 2010

A Feast for Ears and Eyes: Opera as a Visual Medium - John Frayne
A Major Link: Understanding our World Through Culture and Art – Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Team-Taught, coordinated by Christine Catanzarite

A Private Look at Krannert Art Museum - Ann Sautman
All that Jazz - Sam Reese
American Gangster Films - Pat Gill
Ancient Britain: From the Ice Age to the Anglo-Saxons - Fred Christensen
Biodiversity: Why Should We Care? - May Berenbaum
Build Illinois! 500 Million Years of Illinois History. - Bob Vaiden
Communication: How the Media have Changed our World - Inger Stole
Deeper Meanings: Understanding the Mysteries of Western Art - Sara Ross
From Antiquity to the Present: Contemporary Glass Art - Jon Liebman
Laugh Louder, Live Longer: The Healing Power of Humor - Tom Neufer Emswiler
Queen Victoria and Her World - Walter L. Arnstein
Spare Parts: The Science of Organ Regeneration - Jo Ann Cameron
Tai Chi - Mike Reed
The Great Religions: Are There Common Threads? - Steve Shoemaker
The Problem of Evil in Western Thought – Robert Alun Jones
The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy and the Greek Revival Style of Architecture in the South - Paul Hardin Kapp
Theater in Context: Performing Realism - Amy Stoch
Viewing Dance: Enriching the Audience Experience - Kate Kuper

A Natural History of North America – Michael Jeffords and Susan Post
America Through the Looking Glass: Perceptions of US Foreign Policy within Strategic Regions - Colin Flint
Blood, Iron and Bismarck: Germany's First Unification, 1815-1871 - Fred Christensen
Conversations about Physics: Basic Principles - Charles Jordan
Everyone Has a Story: Focusing on the Moment - Millie Davis
Evolution: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – Team-Taught, coordinated by Gene Robinson
Exploring Architecture - Robert Porter
Hollywood Films: The Golden Era - Christine Catanzarite
Human Impact on the Environment - Jack Paxton
Intrigue, Money, Terror, War: The Geopolitics of the Former Soviet Union - Richard Tempest
Mysteries of the Ancient World - Cultural Heritage of the Modern World - Helaine Silverman
On-Screen Austen and Bronte: The Confrontation of Word and Picture - John Frayne
Opera as Drama - Peter A. Michalove
Reforming Government - Robert F. Rich
Rules of War: An Oxymoron? - Bob Wiltz
Sun and Stars - James B. Kaler
Tai Chi - Mike Reed
Talking Painting: Contemporary Painting and its Sources - Rosalyn Schwarz
The Films of John Ford - Craig Cutbirth
The World Beneath Our Feet: an Appreciation of Life in the Soil - Jim Nardy
Viewing Dance: Enriching the Audience Experience - Kate Kuper