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
- 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