OLLI Course Archive –  2012

Spring 2012

• America's Ancient Chiefdoms, 1539-1543  - Fred Christensen
• Children's Literature Worth Reading after Age 50 - John Bennett
• Contemporary Glass Art - Jon Liebman
• Dickens: From Novel to Screen Part Two - John Frayne
• Envisioning the Future - Milo Kaufmann
• Friedrich Nietzsche: Threat or Menace? - Richard Schacht
• How and Why Your City Government Functions - Tom Bruno
• How Genomics is Changing Everything - Jo Ann Cameron
• Listening to C.S. Lewis - Steve Shoemaker
• Literature and War - Nancy Blake
• Looking at Art Today, Part 2: Contemporary Painting - Rosalyn Schwarz
• Madrigals: 16th Century Broadway - Chester L. Alwes
• Men of the Same Blood: Putin, Medvedev and the Future of Russia - Richard Tempest

• Musical Theater - Kent Conrad
• Race, Gender, Class in Movies of the 1950s - Connie Hosier
• Reality TV - Jason Kosovski
• Shocking Events in the Changing World of Electric Power - Debbie Insana
• Small Mammals: How they Compete and Contribute - Joseph Merritt
• Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Studio Season - Lawrence D. Smith
• Tai Chi - Mike Reed
• The Economic Growth of Nations and the Problem of Global Poverty - Tom Ulen
• The How and Why of Animal Behavior - Team - Ken Paige
• The Human Place in Nature: Sustainability Series - Eric Freyfogle
• The Lincoln Law Circuit - Guy C. Fraker
• The Unknown Age of American History: 1660-1763 - Robert McColley
• Three-Minute Jazz Masterpieces - Sam Reese
• Understanding the Energy Challenge:  Science, Technology, Economics and Policy - Paul Debevec
• Viewing Dance: Enriching the Audience Experience - Kate Kuper
• Visual Persuasion: How Who We Are Affects What We See - Tom Kovacs

Fall 2012

• 2012 Elections – Lecture Series, coordinated by Christine Catanzarite
• A Sentimental Journey: Exploring the "Women's Weepies" - Pat Gill
• Biotravelogue: Exploring the Earth's Biodiversity – Michael Jeffords and Susan Post
• Champaign and Chicago: Celebrating an African American Cultural Corridor - Sharon Irish and Angela Rivers 
• Christian Art and Architecture in Champaign-Urbana - Steve Shoemaker
• Dissecting the Digital Media: Truth, Lies, and Uncertainty - Brant Houston
• Exploring Architecture: Structures of Stone - Robert Porter
• Gregorian Chant - Fred Stoltzfus
• Humor as a Spur to Creativity - Tom Neufer Emswiler
• Italian Cinema, 1945-1980 - Sandy Camargo
• Krannert Center for the Performing Arts: Behind the Scenes - Maureen Reagan and Emily Laugesen
• Madness and Literature - Nancy Blake
• McCarthyism and Film: The Fear Factor - Mark Leff
• Music Theory: The Blueprint of Music - Linda Jordan
• Physics for Presidents - Charles Jordan
• Presidential Campaign Advertising: Historical and Contemporary Views - Craig Cutbirth
• Reawakening Your Senses - Judith Braunfeld
• Science and Pseudoscience - Kevin Pitts
• Sun and Stars - James B. Kaler
• Tai Chi - Mike Reed
• Tales from the Crypt: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Death - Helaine Silverman
• The Art of the Variation - Peter A. Michalove
• The Film Musical after 1945 - Kent Conrad
• The Genealogy of the Quilt - Deborah Fell
• The Great Detectives II: From the 1930s to the 1980s - John Frayne
• The Santa Fe Trail, 1821-1880 - Fred Christensen
• The Singing Voice: A Performer's Perspective - Ronald Hedlund 
• Viewing Dance: Enriching the Audience Experience - Kate Kuper