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Art & Architecture Art & Architecture American Landscape: Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School (Spring 2022) Course Description Class 1 - April 7 Class 2 - April 14 Class 3 - April 21 Class 4 - April 28 Class 5 - May 5 Class 6 - May 12 The Arts Of The Viceroyalties Of The Spanish Empire (1522-1810) (Spring 2022) Course Description Class 1 - Jan 31 - Part 1 Class 1 - Jan 31 - Part 2 Class 2 - Feb 7 Class 3 - Feb 14 Class 4 - Feb 28 *Second half of class N/A Class 5 - March 7 Class 6 - March 14 Class 7 - March 21 Exploring Visual Images of Fortuna: The Fickle Goddess of Chance (Spring 2021) Course Description Class 1 - April 23 Class 2 - April 30 Class 3 - May 7 Class 4 - May 14 Islamic Architecture and its Legacy to the West (Spring 2021) Course Description Class 1 - February 5 Class 2 - February 12 Class 3 - February 19 Class 4 - February 26 Class 5 - March 5 Class 6 - March 12 Michelangelo: The Misconstrued Titan (Spring 2021) Course Description Class 1 - April 7 Class 2 - April 14 Class 3 - April 21 Class 4 - April 28 Class 5 - May 5 Orthodox Iconography from Apostle Luke to Alyona Knyazova (Spring 2021) Course Description Class 1 - April 1 Class 2 - April 8 Class 3 - April 15 Class 4 - April 22 Raphael, Painter of Beauty (Spring 2022) Course Description Class 1 - Feb 3 Class 2 - Feb 10 Class 3 - Feb 17 Class 4 - Feb 24 Class 5 - March 10 Class 6 - March 17 Rembrandt in Context: His Horizon of Expectations (Fall 2020) Course Description Class 1 - October 7, 2020 Class 2 - October 14, 2020 Class 3 - October 21, 2020 Class 4 - October 28, 2020 Class 5 - November 4, 2020 Titian’s Allegorical and Mythological Paintings: Venetian Poesie (Spring 2021) Course Description Class 1 - February 3 Class 2 - February 10 Class 3 - February 17 Class 4 - February 24 Class 5 - March 3 Class 6 - March 10 Venetian Splendor: Color, Light & Fantasy (Fall 2021) Course Description Session 2 - October 14 Session 3 - October 21 Session 4 - October 28 Session 5 - November 4 Session 6 - November 11 Session 7 - November 18 Vermeer: The Allure of the Studio and Street (Fall 2021) Course Description Session 1 - October 6 Session 2 - October 13 Session 3 - October 20 Session 4 - October 27 Session 5 - November 3 Vienna: Medicine, Psychology and Art at the Turn of the 20th Century (Fall 2021) Course Description Class 1 - April 7 Class 2 - April 14 Class 3 - April 21 Class 4 - April 28 Environment Environment Design with Nature: An Approach to a More Sustainable City (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 7 Class 2 - October 14 Class 3 - October 21 Class 4 - October 28 Class 5 - November 4 Class 6 - November 11 Inundated: Greater Boston's Water Challenges (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 6 Session 2 - October 13 Session 3 - October 20 Session 4 - November 3 Session 5 - November 10 Session 6 - November 17 Solving New England’s Biggest Environmental Challenges (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 6, 2020 Class 2 - October 13, 2020 Class 3 - October 20, 2020 Class 4 - October 27, 2020 Class 5 - November 3, 2020 History History American Tories: Loyalists in the First Civil War (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 18 Session 2 - October 25 Session 3 - November 1 Session 4 - November 8 Session 5 - November 15 The Best of All Worlds (Spring 2022) Course Info Class 1 - Feb 3 Class 2 - Feb 10 Class 3 - Feb 17 Class 4 - Feb 24 Class 5 - March 3 Class 6 - March 10 Chinese Revolution – From Sun Yat-sen to Mao Zedong (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 6 Session 2 - October 13 Session 3 - October 20 Session 4 - October 27 Session 5 - November 3 Session 6 - November 10 Colonial Entrepreneurship 1620 to 1700: “Massachusetts Inc.” (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 Class 2 - October 15, 2020 Class 3 - October 22, 2020 Class 4 - October 29, 2020 Class 5 - November 5, 2020 The Dogs of War (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - February 4 Class 2 - February 11 Class 3 - February 18 Class 4 - February 25 Class 5 - March 4 Class 6 - March 11 The Dogs of War; Part II (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 7 Session 2 - October 14 Session 3 - October 21 - Recording Unavailable Session 4 - October 28 Session 5 - November 4 Session 6 - November 11 Fifty Years of Affirmative Action: Remedy for Oppression or Reverse Discrimination? (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - April 7 Class 2 - April 14 Class 3 - April 21 Class 4 - April 28 Class 5 - May 5 Class 6 - May 12 Nationalism and Its Discontents (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 7, 2020 Class 2 - October 14, 2020 Class 3 - October 21, 2020 Class 4 - October 28, 2020 Class 4 - November 4, 2020 Class 5 - November 11, 2020 The Pacific War (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 9 Class 2 - October 16 Class 3 - October 23 Class 4 - October 30 Class 5 - November 6 Class 6 - November 13 Class 7 - November 20 Pioneer Women in the Civil War (Spring 2022) Course Info Class 1 - Jan 31 Class 2 - Feb 7 Class 3 - Feb 14 Class 4 - Feb 28 Class 5 - March 7 Pioneer Women on the Northern Plains (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 5, 2020 Class 2 - October 19, 2020 Class 3 - October 26, 2020 November 2, 2020 November 9, 2020 Presidential Health and Illness throughout History: Bloodletting, Bad Cherries and Ballistics (Spring 2022) Course Info Class 1 - February 1 Class 2 - February 8 - Recording unavailable Class 3 - February 15 Class 4 - February 22 Class 5 - March 1 Class 6 - March 8 Speaking in Tongues: Language, Langue and Parole (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 3: October 21, 2020 Class 4: October 28, 2020 Class 5: November 4, 2020 Class 6: November 11, 2020 Final Class 7 - November 18 The Three Alices: Alice James, Alice Roosevelt & Alice Paul (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1- March 29 Class 2 - April 5 Class 3 - April 12 Class 4 - April 16 Class 5 - April 26 We the People: The 500-Year Battle Over Who is An American (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 9 Class 2 - October 16 Class 3 - October 23 Class 4 - October 30 Class 5 - November 6 Winston Churchill: A Remarkable and Varied Life (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 8 Session 2 - October 15 Session 3 - October 22 Session 4 - October 29 Session 5 - November 5 Session 6 - November 12 Session 7 - November 19 Literature & Poetry Literature & Poetry "The Betrothed" by Alessandro Manzoni (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - February 3 Class 2 - February 10 Class 3 - February 17 Class 4 - February 24 Class 5 - March 3 Class 6 - March 10 The Poetic Visions of Frost & cummings (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 18 Session 2 - October 25 Session 3 - November 1 Session 4 - November 8 Session 5 - November 15 Session 6 - November 22 Return of the Woolf (Spring 2021) Course Description Class 1 - February 1 Class 2 - February 8 Class 3 - February 22 Class 4 - March 1 Class 5 - March 8 Class 6 - March 15 Local Interest Local Interest Boston Uncommon: Five Boston Tours You Haven’t Taken (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 7 Session 2 - October 14 Session 3 - October 21 Session 4 - October 28 Session 5 - November 4 Design with Nature: An Approach to a More Sustainable City (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 7 Class 2 - October 14 Class 3 - October 21 Class 4 - October 28 Class 5 - November 4 Class 6 - November 11 Inundated: Greater Boston's Water Challenges (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 6 Session 2 - October 13 Session 3 - October 20 Session 4 - November 3 Session 5 - November 10 Session 6 - November 17 Solving New England’s Biggest Environmental Challenges (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 6, 2020 Class 2 - October 13, 2020 Class 3 - October 20, 2020 Class 4 - October 27, 2020 Class 5 - November 3, 2020 Music, Theatre & Film Music, Theatre & Film Beethoven and His Times (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1: October 6 Class 2 - October 13 Class 3 - October 20 Class 4 - October 27 Class 5 - November 3 Class 6 - November 10 Classics of Soviet Cinema (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - February 2 Class 2 - February 9 Class 3 - February 16 Class 4 - February 23 Class 5 - March 2 Contemporary Russian Cinema (Spring 2022) Course Info Class 1 - February 8 Class 2 - February 15 Class 3 - February 22 Class 4 - March 1 Class 5 - March 8 Fred Astaire, His Partners, and Others (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - February 2 Class 2 - February 9 Class 3 - February 16 Class 4 - February 23 Class 5 - March 2 Class 6 - March 9 French Music between the Wars (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - May 5 Class 2 - May 12 Class 3 - May 19 Class 4 - May 26 Music and Representation (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 8, 2020 Class 2 - October 15, 2020 - Recording Unavailable Class 3 - October 22, 2020 Class 4 - October 29, 2020 Class 5 - November 5, 2020 Class 6 - November 12, 2020 Class 7 - November 19, 2020 Portraits of Leadership in Classic Films (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 5 Session 2 - October 12 Session 3 - October 19 Session 4 - October 26 Session 5 - November 2 Session 6 - November 9 Producing Live Theatre: From Backstage to Centerstage (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 Class 2 - October 26 Class 3 - November 2 Class 4 - November 9 Class 5 - November 16 Class 6 - November 23 Staging History: Setting History to Music (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 5 Session 2 - October 12 Session 3 - October 19 Session 4 - October 26 Session 5 - November 2 Session 6 - November 9 Philosophy & Religion Philosophy & Religion King Solomon Shares His Wealth: Gaining Wisdom from the Bible (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 18 Session 2 - October 25 Session 3 - November 1 Session 4 - November 8 Session 5 - November 15 Session 6 - November 22 Politics, Economics, Social Science Politics, Economics, Social Science Can We Dig Ourselves Out of this Hole? Confronting Our Economic Choices and Challenges (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - Jan 31 - Part 1 Class 1 - February 2 Class 2 - February 9 Class 3 - February 16 Class 4 - February 23 Class 5 - March 2 Class 6 - March 9 Design with Nature: An Approach to a More Sustainable City (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 7 Class 2 - October 14 Class 3 - October 21 Class 4 - October 28 Class 5 - November 4 Class 6 - November 11 Fifty Years of Affirmative Action: Remedy for Oppression or Reverse Discrimination? (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - April 7 Class 2 - April 14 Class 3 - April 21 Class 4 - April 28 Class 5 - May 5 Class 6 - May 12 Modern Monetary Theory: Can We Print Our Way to Happiness? (Fall 2021) Course Info Class 1 - Feb 3 Session 1 - October 5 Session 2 - October 12 Session 3 - October 19 Session 4 - October 26 Session 5 - November 3 Nationalism and Its Discontents (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 7, 2020 Class 2 - October 14, 2020 Class 3 - October 21, 2020 Class 4 - October 28, 2020 Class 4 - November 4, 2020 Class 5 - November 11, 2020 Speaking in Tongues: Language, Langue and Parole (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 3: October 21, 2020 Class 4: October 28, 2020 Class 5: November 4, 2020 Class 6: November 11, 2020 Final Class 7 - November 18 Understanding Current Events: Both Domestic and Foreign (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 1 - October 7, 2020 Class 2 - October 14, 2020 Class 3 - October 21, 2020 Class 4 - October 28, 2020 Class 5 - November 4, 2020 Class 6 - November 11, 2020 Water and Energy: Competing Priorities or Good Partners (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - March 30 Class 2 - April 6 Class 3 - April 13 Class 4 - April 20 Class 5 - April 27 Class 6 - May 4 Science Science Copenhagen and Quantum Reality (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - February 3 Class 2 - February 10 Class 3 - February 17 Class 4 - February 24 Class 5 - March 3 - Recording Unavailable Class 6 - March 10 Emerging Biosciences – Straight from the Lab (Spring 2022) Course Info Class 1 - Feb 4 Class 2 - Feb 11 Class 3 - Feb 18 Class 4 - Feb 25 Class 5 - March 4 Class 6 - March 11 Science in the News (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - March 30 - Recording Unavailable Class 2 - April 6 Class 3 - April 13 Class 4 - April 20 Class 5 - April 27 Stem Cell Medicine: Regenerating the Future (Fall 2020) Course Info Class 2 - October 15, 2020 (Click this link to view the class 2 recording.) Class 3 - October 22, 2020 (Click here to view this recording.) Class 4 - October 29, 2020 Class 5 - November 5, 2020 Class 6 - November 12, 2020 This is the way the world ends... (Spring 2022) Course Info Class 1 - Feb. 2 Class 2 - Feb 9 Class 3 - Feb 16 Class 4 - February 23 Class 5 - March 2 Class 6 - March 9 Unveiling the Cosmos (Fall 2021) Course Info Session 1 - October 6 Session 2 - October 13 Session 3 - October 20 Session 4 - October 27 Session 5 - November 3 Session 6 - November 10 Unveiling the Cosmos (Spring 2021) Course Info Class 1 - February 4 Class 2 - February 11 Class 3 - February 18 Class 4 - February 25 Class 5 - March 4 Class 6 - March 11 Vienna: Medicine, Psychology and Art at the Turn of the 20th Century (Fall 2021) Course Description Class 1 - April 7 Class 2 - April 14 Class 3 - April 21 Class 4 - April 28