OLLI Course Archive –  2011

Spring 2011

  • Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials - Sarah Wisseman
  • Bickering and Bonding:  Exploring "Buddy" Films - Craig Cutbirth
  • OLLI Classroom
  • China:  An Overview of a Country on the Move – Team-Taught
  • Dickens: From Novel to Screen - John Frayne
  • From Constantinople to Istanbul: A Cross-Cultural History - Sharon Michalove
  • Gregorian Chant - Fred Stoltzfus
  • Healthy Animals, Healthy Humans: Research that Benefits Both – Team-Taught, School of  Veterinary Medicine
  • How Humanists Define Our World – Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities – Team-Taught, coordinated by Christine Catanzarite
  • Illinois Architecture in Our Lifetime - John Bennett
  • Laugh Louder, Live Longer - Tom Neufer Emswiler
  • National Parks: What Ken Burns Didn't Tell You - Robert Pahre
  • Nature, Love, and Death in the Symphonies and Songs of Gustav Mahler - 1860-1911) - Robert McColley
  • Pablo, Bill, Philip and Me: Development of an Artis - Rosalyn Schwarz
  • Poetry: Yoga for the Mind - Marva Nelson
  • Psychology and Your Health - Justin Rhodes
  • Singular American Jazz Voices - Sam Reese
  • Sustainability: Into the Near Future - Jonathan Tompkin
  • Tai Chi - Mike Reed
  • Telling a Life from Different Perspectives: An Undergraduate Student and OLLI Exchange - Lauren Marshall Bowen
  • Three Trails West: Settling a Continent, 1750-1869 - Fred Christensen
  • Weird Words in the Bible - Steve Shoemaker
  • World War I - Why?...And Was It Really Significant? - Walter Tousey

Fall 2011

  • Animals as Spiritual Guides - Tom Neufer Emswiler
  • Bioethics: Policy Dilemmas and Challenges - Bob Rich
  • Exploring the Musics of the World's Cultures - Bruno Nettl
  • Films of Oz: Australian Cinema 1970-Present - Sandy Camargo
  • Gregorian Chant - Fred Stoltzfus
  • Islam and the West: Historical and Cultural Perceptions and Misrepresentations - Nancy Blake
  • Matter, Energy and the Universe: University of Illinois Physics Department Program – Team-Taught, coordinated by  Inga Karliner
  • Monsters from Outer Space and Other Locations - Richard Tempest
  • Music Theory: The Language of Music - Linda Jordan
  • Papa Haydn: Servant, Leader, Wit, Teacher, Husband, and Godfather - Anne Heiles
  • Personal Finance for Retirees – Cleora and Steven D'Arcy
  • Playing with Fear: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fiction - Peter Garrett
  • Political and Socio-economic Change in the Middle East and North Africa – Team-Taught,  Program in South Asian and Middle East Studies
  • Public Persuasion: Presidents, Scandals and the Rhetoric of Self Defense - Craig Cutbirth
  • Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers - Walter L. Arnstein
  • Singing: A Performer's Perspective - Ronald Hedlund
  • So, You Call THAT Art?? - Rosalyn Schwarz
  • Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Studio Season - Lawrence D. Smith
  • Sun and Stars - James B. Kaler
  • Tai Chi - Mike Reed
  • Talmudic Ethics: Finding Your Way to Good Decisions - Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel
  • The "Good" Society: Foundations – Robert Alun Jones
  • The 1970's and the Film School Generation - Christine Catanzarite
  • The Beethoven String Quartets - Peter A. Michalove
  • The Civil War in the Border States, 1861 - Fred Christensen
  • The Great Detectives on Film and Television - John Frayne
  • Venice: From Rialto to the Grand Canal - Sharon Michalove
  • Viewing Dance: Enriching the Audience Experience - Kate Kuper
  • We Need to Talk: A Discussion of End of Life Issues - George Perlstein
  • Younger Next Year - Richard Fiese