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Spring 2012 Course Schedule

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Tuesday

BOLLI Study Groups Spring 2012

9:00 a.m. -10:25 a.m.

Rel4-S12 Art and the Bible: Genesis

(1st 5 weeks)

Carol Shedd

Soc1-S12 Laughter: The Best of All Medicines

Bob Pill and Neil Bernstein

Soc2-S12 Utopias, Real and Imagined

Tamara Chernow and Naomi Schmidt

Hum1-S12 Three Masterpieces: from Drama to Film and Opera

Peter Schmidt

Sc1-S12 Going Native: Native Plants for the Gardener and the Rambler

(2nd 5 weeks)

Al Levin  

10:40 a.m. –12:05 p.m.

 

H&G1-S12 The Experience of War

Marc Schwarz

Rel1-S12 Beginning Buddhism: What Might it Mean for Us?

Alorie Parkhill

Lit2-S12 Smile, Chuckle, Laugh? Grimace?  Humor in Drama

Elaine Reisman

Lit3-S12 Great Writers Writing About Sports

David Moskowitz

Lunch and Learn 12:05 p.m.-1:35 p.m.

1:45 p.m. –3:10 p.m.

H&G3-S12 On the Docket: What's going on in the Supreme Court NOW?

(1st 5 weeks)

Robert Cohen

H&G2-S12 You Are There: Participate in the Framing of the U.S. Constitution

Stephen  Messinger

Lit1-S12 Journeys through anguish: selected memoirs

Sophie Freud

Hum2-S12 The Iliad and Related Myth

Len Aberbach

SGL1-S12 Learn & Lead: How to Become a Study Group Leader

Myrna Cohen

(Held at Old South Street)

H&G4-S12 The Path to Hiroshima

(2nd 5 weeks)

Ed Goldberg

3:20 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

 

Wr1-S12 The Fourth Genre—Creative Nonfiction: Forms and Strategies for Creative Writing

Faye Snider

Mu1-S12 Wagner’s Siegfried, A Guided Tour

Phil Radoff

Soc3-S12 Justice: What’s The Right Thing To Do?

Ed Selig

Rel5-S12 Stories Our Ancestors Told About Their Ancestors:  What’s Going On Here? VII

David L. Kline

Wednesday

BOLLI Study Groups Spring 2012

Yoga 8:30-9:30 a.m.

9:00 a.m. -10:25 a.m.

Mu2-S12 And the Melody Lingers On: Getting the Most out ofListening to Music! (1st 5 weeks)

Leni Bloomenthal

Art1-S12 Photography : Creating Better Photos

Arthur Sharenow

Rel2-S12 A Journey into the Hassidic World

Michael Milman

Lit4-S12 Life, Love and Death in Small Towns: Three Dramatizations (2nd 5 weeks)

Verne Vance

10:40 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.

 

H&G5-S12 Zionism and the Struggle For a Jewish Homeland

(1st 5 weeks)

Herbert Belkin

Lit10-S12 The Human Predicament in an Age of Anxieties

Lois Ziegelman

Art2-S12 The Private Lives of the Impressionists and Their Art

Nancy Alimansky

Wr2-S12 Memoir Writing

Marlyn Katz Levenson

Rel3-S12 Sabbath, Faith and Rest

(2nd 5 weeks)

Sarah Lieberman

Lunch and Learn 12:05 p.m.-1:35 p.m.

1:45 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.

 

Hum3-S12 Our New England Gems: Five Fascinating Museums

(1st 5 weeks)

Shelly Glazier

Lit5-S12 American-Jewish Fiction Since 1945

Michael Kaufman

Sc3-S12 Memory: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Maurie Stiefel

H&G6-S12 Changing the Regimes of Others: The U.S. from 1890 to1910

Ron Levy

Sc2-The Ecology of Ecosystems: Why Does it Matter?

(2nd 5 weeks)

Barbara Keller

3:20 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

 

Lit6-S12 More of Our Favorite Short Stories

Harriet and Richard Kahn

Lit7-S12 The Sonnet: Why?

Miriam Goldman

H&G7a-S12  Key Issues in the 2012 Presidential Election

Harriet Starrett

 

 

Thursday

BOLLI Study Groups Spring 2012

9:00 a.m. -10:25 a.m.

Sc4-S12 Our Place in the Universe

Martin Idelson

H&G8-S12 Origins of the Bill of Rights: Asserting Your Rights to Stay Out of Jail and Other Ttrouble

Peter and Barbara Benfield

Film1-S12 Jews in French Film

Judy Pinnolis

10:40 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.

 

Soc4-S12 21st Century Retirement Risks: Understanding their Impact

(1st 5 weeks)

Ellen Feinsand

Hum4-S12 TED Talks

Peter Kastner

Lit8-S12 Fiction with a Math Chaser

Joel Kamer

H&G7b-S12  Key Issues in the 2012 Presidential Election

Harriet Starrett

Sc5-S12 Building Green:  The Goal and the Reality

(2nd 5 weeks)

Mitch Fischman and Eileen Mitchell

Lunch and Learn 12:05 p.m.-1:35 p.m.

1:45 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.

 

Mu3-S12 Tanglewood 2012:  A Small Sampler

(1st 5 weeks)

Arthur M. Finstein

Lit9-S12 Rebels and Reactionaries: Poems of the 20th Century

Jan Schreiber

Wr3-S12 Writing Toward Home: Memoirs with a Focus

Marjorie Roemer

CE1-S12 Current Events: Developments in Local, National, and World Affairs

Lois Sockol

Sc6-S12 ­­­­­Individualized Medicine: How Your Genes Drive Your Health

(2nd 5 weeks)

Allan Kleinman

3:20 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

 

Dr1-S12 Scene-iors: Staging Another Play

Becky Meyers

3:20 p.m.- 4:45 p.m.   The New Yorker Discussion Group