OLLI Course Archive –  2013

Spring 2013

  • A Rabbi Encounters the New Testament - Rabbi Norman Klein
  • America's Orchestras: Startups and Upstarts - Anne Mischakoff Heiles
  • Constructing Greek Identity: Greeks and the Others from Antiquity to the Modern Times – Modern Greek Studies – Team-Taught, coordinated by Stefanos Katsikas
  • Despots and Democrats: Charismatic Leadership in the Modern World - Richard Tempest
  • English Country Dancing with Jane Austen - Jonathan Sivier
  • Exploring Architecture: Structures of Steel - Robert Porter
  • Getting and Spending in Early Modern Europe - Sharon Michalove
  • Gettysburg - Fred Christensen
  • OLLI Classroom
  • Heart, Body, Soul: Contemporary American Secular and Sacred Music Styles - Barrington Coleman
  • Historic Preservation: A Citizens’ Guide - Paul Hardin Kapp
  • History of the Art of Colonial Mexico - Bernard Cesarone
  • Illinois Mammals: Habits and Habitats of Our Native Mammals - Joe Merritt
  • Introduction to Latin - Kay Neal
  • Introduction to Tai Chi and Qigong - Mike Reed
  • Living with Integrity: Navigating Everyday Moral Dilemmas - Rabbi Dovid Teichtel
  • Often Overshadowed Hitchcock Movies - Connie Hosier
  • Poetry 101: An Introduction to the Amazing Variety of Forms and Styles - Steve Shoemaker
  • Solving the Energy Challenge: Science, Technology, Economics, and Policy - Paul Debevec
  • Storytelling: The Art of the Spoken Word - Dan Keding and Kathleen Brinkmann
  • The Great Detectives III: 1980s to the Present - John Frayne
  • The New Administration: What Is the Agenda? What Can We Expect? - Robert Rich
  • Understanding the Weather and Climate in the 21st Century - Eric Snodgrass
  • Unsafe at Any Speed: Fast Women and Dangerous Curves - Pat Gill
  • World War I: History and Significance - Walt Tousey
  • Writing from Life: Reading and Writing Memoirs and Personal Histories - Amy Hassinger
  • Your City Government: How and Why It Functions - Tom Bruno
  • Handel’s Messiah - Chester Alwes
  • High Tech Archaeology - Sarah Wisseman
  • J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion - Chester Alwes
  • Let's Make a Quilt: An Artists' Workshop – Deborah Fell
  • Looking Back at the Poetry of the Beat Generation - John Bennett
  • Political and Socio-Economic Change in the Middle East and North Africa – Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies – Team-Taught, coordinated by Angela Williams
  • The Fine Art of Faking It: Forgeries in Our Museums - Sarah Wisseman
  • The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln on the Eighth Judicial Circuit – Guy Fraker
  • Windows into Jazz Style - Sam Reese
  • Viewing Dance - Kate Kuper

Fall 2013

  • Writing Compelling Characters in Fiction and Non-Fiction - Amy Hassinger
  • Understanding Evolution - Mary Severinghaus and Richard Blazier
  • Latin: The Next Step - Kay Neal
  • Tai Chi and Qigong: An Introduction - Mike Reed
  • Tai Chi and Qigong: Intermediate Level - Mike Reed
  • Backstage at the Symphony: Behind the Footlights - Barbara Hedlund
  • The Bartók String Quartets - Peter Michalove
  • The Future of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare): Implementation Challenges for 2014 and Beyond - Robert F. Rich
  • John Ford: Beyond the Western - Connie Hosier
  • Demystifying Computers - Scott Badman
  • A History of Champaign County - Dannel McCollum
  • The Natural History of Illinois - Michael Jeffords and Susan Post
  • What Lies Below the Water? Investigating Aquatic Ecosystems in Illinois - Sarah Bales
  • Perils in the Digital Media: Truth, Lies, Insecurity, and Bad Data - Brant Houston
  • The Lincoln Law Circuit - Guy Fraker
  • Central Asia: An Overview - Marilynne B. Davis
  • Italian Renaissance Art and the Renovation of Antiquity - Rosemary Trippe
  • World War II on Film: Sacrifice on the Home Front - Mark Leff
  • Matter, Energy, and the Universe - The Distinguished Faculty of the U of I Physics Department;
    • Inga Karliner, Coordinator; Michael Weissman and Celia Elliott, Co-Directors
    • Professor Charles Gammie – “How Can You See a Black Hole?”
    • Professor J.C. Peng – “The Mysterious Neutrinos”
    • Professor Steve Errede – “The Acoustical Physics of Music and Musical Instruments”
    • Professor Emeritus Gordon Baym – “Heisenberg and Copenhagen”
    • Samir Sayegh, M.D., Ph.D. – “Physics and Vision Restoration”
    • Swanlund Endowed Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor Laura Greene – “Transforming Science, Policy, and Power Grid with High Tc Superconductivity”
    • Sir Anthony J. Leggett, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics, and Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics – “Quantum Liquids”
    • Professor Emeritus Alan Nathan – “The Physics of Baseball”
  • Science and Pseudoscience - Kevin Pitts
  • Let’s Make a Quilt: A Studio Workshop - Deborah Fell
  • Early Illinois: From the Ice Age to the American Revolution - Fred Christensen
  • Singing: The Craft and the Art - Ronald Hedlund
  • Verdi’s Requiem - Chester L. Alwes
  • Laughter and Humor in Religion - Tom Neufer Emswiler
  • Universal Studios Horror Films (1931-1946) - Chuck Koplinski
  • Eroticism in Literature, East and West - Nancy Blake
  • Commonsense Personal Finance for Grownups - Stephen and Cleora D’Arcy
  • Reason and Logic in Math, History, and the Law - Douglas Elrick
  • Confronting Inevitability: Planning to Die - George Perlstein
  • A Civil War Ball - Jonathan Sivier
  • A Universe of Stars - James B. Kaler
  • Ol’ Timey Hymn Sing - Steve Shoemaker
  • The Samurai Films of Akira Kurosawa - Elizabeth Oyler
  • An Insider’s Guide to Viewing Contemporary Dance - Kate Kuper
  • Dickens and Other Victorians on Film - John Frayne