Early registration for Spring 2025 study groups will take place January 13 - January 31. Study groups are assigned by lottery after early registration closes.
Spring 2025 courses will begin the week of March 10 and run through the week of May 19 with a break the week of April 14. 5b courses will begin the week of April 21.
H&G11-10-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Scott McKnight
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 10 - May 19 (No Class April 14)
H&G1-5a-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Tamar Aizenberg
Location: Zoom
5-week course: March 10 - April 7
Reconsidering the Language of the Readymade in Dada and Surrealism
ART6-5b-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Talia Kwartler
Location: Zoom
5-week course: April 21 - May 19
Text, Email, or Call?: McLuhan’s Messages in a New Media World
SOC2-5b-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Yi He
Location: Zoom
5-week course: April 21 - May 19
Picasso and His Muses: The Man and His Art
ART10-5b-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Carol Salus
Location: Zoom
5-week course: April 21 - May 19
Whodunit?: A Study in Sidekicks
LIT2-10-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Marilyn Brooks
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: March 10 - May 19 (No Class April 14)
Exploring Indigenous Art in North America - The Past and the Present
ART8-10-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Margaret Mukherjee
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 10 - May 19 (No Class April 14)
From the Beats to the Hippies: An Evolution
LIT11-10-Mon2
Study Group Leader: David Moskowitz
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 10 - May 19 (No Class April 14)
Justice: What is the Right Thing to Do?
SOC7-10-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Jerry Wald
Location: 60 Turner St.
10-week course: March 10 - May 19 (No Class April 14)
Mid-Century New York City: as seen through the New Yorker stories of Joseph Mitchell
LIT5-5a-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Ollie Curme
Location: Zoom
5-week course: March 10 - April 7
American History in Film - Second Edition
FILM4-5b-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Laurence Paluzzi
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: April 21 - May 19
Women's Roles Are Changing for the Better. Men Are Being Left Behind.
SOC4-5b-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Linda Shapiro
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: April 21 - May 19
Hands-on AI Exploration (for Life-long Learners)
SCI4-5b-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Agi Sardi
Location: Zoom
5-week course: April 21 - May 19
Ban This Book: Burned, Bowdlerized, Censored, and Silenced in America
LIT1-10-Mon3
Study Group Leader: Lois Ambash
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 10 - May 19 (No Class April 14)
The Discreet Shame of Social Class in Annie Ernaux's A Man's Place and A Woman's Story
LIT7-5a-Mon3
Study Group Leader: Hollie Harder
Location: Zoom
5-week course: March 10 - April 7
Code Breaker: The story of Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna
SCI3-5b-Mon3
Study Group Leader: Mark Jurman
Location: Zoom
5-week course: April 21 - May 19
H&G7-10-Tue1
Study Group Leader: Athanasios Grammenos
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 11 - May 20 (No Class April 15)
Old Crimes: Stories of Jill McCorkle
LIT8-10-Tue1
Study Group Leader: Marlene Hobel
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 11 - May 20 (No Class April 15)
How Can Understanding the Past Help Save our Future?
H&G17-10-Tue1
Study Group Leader: Stephen Ortega
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 11 - May 20 (No Class April 15)
Flash Memoir: Moments From Your Life
WRI1-5a-Tue1
Study Group Leader: Donna Johns
Location: Zoom
5-week course: March 11 - April 8
Frank Lloyd Wright: Flawed Genius
ART7-5b-Tue1
Study Group Leader: Carl Lazarus
Location: Zoom
5-week course: April 22 - May 20
City Visions: Venice, Paris, and New York as Seen through the Eyes of the Artists
ART2-10-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Suzanne Art
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 11 - May 20 (No Class April 15)
MUS2-10-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Akram Haddad
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 11 - May 20 (No Class April 15)
The Native Peoples’ Version of American History: A New Narrative.
H&G14-10-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Quinn Rosefsky
Location: 60 Turner St
10-week course: March 11 - May 20 (No Class April 15)
H&G15-10-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Steven Sass
Location: 60 Turner St
10-week course: March 11 - May 20 (No Class April 15)
America in 2025 - Forces Shaping our Society and Politics
H&G16-10-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Saul Schapiro
Location: 60 Turner St
10-week course: March 11 - May 20 (No Class April 15)
H&G6-10-Tue3
Study Group Leader: Rick Gander
Location: 60 Turner St.
10-week course: March 11 - May 20 (No Class April 15)
Hollywood’s Classical Score: Hearing Our Way Through Hollywood’s Golden Era of Filmmaking
MUS4-10-Tue3
Study Group Leader: James Heazlewood-Dale
Location: 60 Turner St.
10-week course: March 11 - May 20 (No Class April 15)
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Dueling Narratives
H&G10-10-Tue3
Study Group Leader: Steve Klein
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 11 - May 20 (No Class April 15)
The Politics of the Common Good: From Confucius & Plato to OpenAI & Xi Jinping
SOC5-10-Tue3
Study Group Leader: Kemal Onur Toker
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 11 - May 20 (No Class April 15)
Sunk: Terror and survival on the High Seas
LIT9-5a-Tue3
Study Group Leader: Fred Kobrick
Location: Zoom
5-week course: March 11 - April 8
So, What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us? Pompeii, in the Shadow of Vesuvius
H&G13-5a-Tue3
Study Group Leader: Steve Ostrow
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: March 11 - April 8
American Families in the 21st Century
SOC3-5b-Tue3
Study Group Leader: Nancy Marshall
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: April 22 - May 20
Israel’s Crisis of Democracy: Past, present and future
H&G9-10-Wed1
Study Group Leader: Steve Klein
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 12 - May 21 (No Class April 16)
Hopes and Hazards of the Bourgeois Society as Seen Through Stendhal’s The Red and The Black
LIT14-10-Wed1
Study Group Leader: Yiyang Zhuge
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 12 - May 21 (No Class April 16)
Redlining and Blockbusting of Jews and Blacks in Boston
H&G3-5a-Wed1
Study Group Leader: Lewis Finfer
Location: Zoom
5-week course: March 12 - April 9
Hate and Disinformation on Social Media
SOC6-5a-Wed1
Study Group Leader: Sabine von Mering
Location: Zoom
5-week course: March 12 - April 9
Arshile Gorky: Evolution of the Modern Avant-Gardist
ART11-10-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Robert Solomon
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: March 12 - May 21 (No Class April 16)
Shakespeare and His Circle: Poetry and Society in Elizabethan England
LIT12-10-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Jan Schreiber
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: March 12 - May 21 (No Class April 16)
CE1-10-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Lois Sockol
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 12 - May 21 (No Class April 16)
Eugene O'Neill at Sea On Page and Screen
DRA1-5a-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Steve Bloom
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: March 12 - April 9
The British Are Coming...Celebrate the 250th Anniversary!!!
H&G2-5a-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Sandy Bornstein
Location: Zoom
5-week course: March 12 - April 9
Music, Art, and Literature of the Russian Silver Age
H&G8-5b-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Olivia Kennison
Location: Zoom
5-week course: April 23 - May 21
The Golem: Creation Stories from Kabbalah to AI
FILM3-5b-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Henry Morris
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: April 23 - May 21
Free period for SIGs and Committees
Representations of Female Defiance: Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
LIT13-10-Thu1
Study Group Leader: Iana Seerung
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 13 - May 22 (No Class April 17)
Applying Chatbots to Understand Literature, History, Science, and Current Events
SCI2-5a-Thu1
Study Group Leader: John Day
Location: Zoom
5-week course: March 13 - April 10
ART4-5a-Thu1
Study Group Leader: Ellen Foust
Location: Zoom
5-week course: March 13 - April 10
How to Edit Your iPhone Photos with Snapseed and Other Cool Apps!
ART5-5b-Thu1
Study Group Leader: Ellen Foust
Location: Zoom
5-week course: April 24 - May 22
What Makes a Cult Classic? Camp Films and Gay Fans
FILM1-5b-Thu1
Study Group Leader: Tyler Clark
Location: Zoom
5-week course: April 24 - May 22
ART1-10-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Nancy Alimansky
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: March 13 - May 22 (No Class April 17)
From Sympathy to Empathy: The Novels of Lisa Genova
SOC1-10-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Janice Burres
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: March 13 - May 22 (No Class April 17)
WRI2-10-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Linda Wolfson
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 13 - May 22 (No Class April 17)
The Cold War in Color: A Study of Race and Racism in Five American Films
FILM2-5a-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Ashley Dun
Location: Zoom
5-week course: March 13 - April 10
H&G4-5a-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Joshua Frank
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: March 13 - April 10
20th & 21st Century Jewish American Artists
ART12-5a-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Diane Winkelman
Location: Zoom
5-week course: March 13 - April 10
A Novel Time: Philip Roth's The Plot Against America and the Terror of Our Time
H&G5-5b-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Joshua Frank
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: April 24 - May 22
From Analog to Digital: An Interactive History of Computing
SCI5-5b-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Danielle Wallner
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: April 24 - May 22
What Makes Sondheim Great (Act II)
DRA2-5b-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Gail Leondor-Wright
Location: Zoom
5-week course: April 24 - May 22
CE2-10-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Lois Sockol
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 13 - May 22 (No Class April 17)
LIT3-10-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Vincent Canzoneri
Location: 60 Turner St.
10-week course: March 13 - May 22 (No Class April 17)
Goethe's Faust: Knowledge, Striving, Bliss
LIT6-10-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Simon Friedland
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 13 - May 22 (No Class April 17)
Liberty and Slavery - The Paradox of the Founding Fathers
H&G12-10-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Steve Messinger
Location: Zoom
10-week course: March 13 - May 22 (No Class April 17)
MUS5-10-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Amir Milstein
Location: Zoom
5-week course: March 13 - May 22 (No Class April 17)
ART9-10-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Carole Simon Pugliese
Location: 60 Turner St.
10-week course: March 13 - May 22 (No Class April 17)
Moving Right Along: How and Why Things Move the Way They Do
SCI1-5b-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Jerry Baum
Location: 60 Turner St.
5-week course: April 24 - May 22
Reading King Lear: The Intrigue of Madness in Shakespeare
LIT10-5b-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Avi Mendelson
Location: Zoom
5-week course: April 24 - May 22
Music and Nationalism in the Romantic Period
MUS3-5a-Fri1
Study Group Leader: Gil Harel
Location: Zoom
5-week course: March 14 - April 11
The Art of American Roots Music
Classes take place in a variety of modalities. All times refer to the Eastern Time Zone.