Early registration for Fall 2023 study groups ended July 14. Please note that study groups are closed, and some study groups are now full. Study groups are assigned by lottery after early registration closes.
Fall 2023 courses begin the week of Sept. 11 and run through the week of Nov. 27. There will be no courses Sept. 25, Oct. 9 or Nov. 21-23. Fall courses will take place in a variety of modalities. All times refer to the Eastern Time Zone.Joni Mitchell: The Renaissance Woman
MUS1-10-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Julian Moehring
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 11-Nov. 27. No class Sept. 25 or Oct. 9.
WRI1-10-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Linda Wolfson
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 11-Nov. 27. No class Sept. 25 or Oct. 9.
The Beethoven String Quartets: Intimate Voice of a Romantic Hero
MUS5-5a-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Jared Redmond
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Sept. 11-Oct. 23. No class Sept. 25 or Oct. 9.
Up Close and Personal with Three Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists
SCI8-5a-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Georgia Weinstein
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Sept. 11-Oct. 23. No class Sept. 25 or Oct. 9.
Racial (In)visibility: On the Politics and Philosophy of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"
LIT11-5b-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Paul Cato
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Sept. 11-Oct. 23. No class Sept. 25 or Oct. 9.
From Zurich to Paris to New York: The Transatlantic Dada Movement
ART1-5b-Mon1
Study Group Leader: Talia Kwartler
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Oct. 30-Nov. 27
SCI2-10-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Sandy Bornstein
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: Sept. 11-Nov. 27. No class Sept. 25 or Oct. 9.
The Madness of Art: The Short Stories of Henry James
LIT6-10-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Sam Gee
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 11-Nov. 27. No class Sept. 25 or Oct. 9
Faces: Images of Emotions, a Record of Evolution, a Reflection of Culture
SOC2-10-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Diane Markowitz
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: Sept. 11-Nov. 27
The Psychology of Dogs, Cats and Their Owners
SCI6-5a-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Ollie Curme
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Sept. 11-Oct. 23. No class Sept. 25 or Oct. 9
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation
H&G10-5a-Mon2
Study Group Leader: Steve Messinger
Location: 60 Turner Street
5-week course: Sept. 11-Oct. 23. No class Sept. 25 or Oct. 9.
The Transformation of the Jazz Scene, 1956-74
MUS9-5b-Mon
Study Group Leader: Hankus Netsky
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Oct. 30-Nov. 27
Some Like It Hot: A Brief Tour of Thermodynamics
SCI11-5b-Mon2A Language So Familiar and So Foreign: The Distinctive Voice of Contemporary Irish Prose
LIT2-10-Mon3
Study Group Leader: Lois Ambash
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 11-Nov. 27. No class Sept. 25 or Oct. 9
MUS4-10-Mon3
Study Group Leader: Akram Haddad
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 11-Nov. 27. No class Sept. 25 or Oct. 9.
WHODUNIT?: Murder in Scandinavia
LIT4-10-Mon3
Study Group Leader: Marilyn Brooks
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: Sept. 11-Nov. 27. No class Sept. 25 or Oct. 9.
Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet: a Renaissance Dream in the Digital Age
SOC4-10-Mon3
Study Group Leader: Kemal Onur Toker
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 11-Nov. 27. No class Sept. 25 or Oct. 9.
The Wonderful World of Wetlands
SCI7-5a-Mon3
Study Group Leader: Matt Kamm
Location: Course requires travel to selected sites and outdoor meetings.
5-week course: Sept. 11-Oct. 23
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation
H&G13-5b-Mon3Advanced Memoir Writing: Youthful Moments
WRI2-10-Tue1
Study Group Leader: Donna Johns
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept.12-Nov. 14
"Oh Mother, Where Art Thou?:" Stories of Mothers, Sons and Daughters
LIT1-10-Tues1
Study Group Leader: Marlene Hobel
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 12-Nov. 14
American Jewish Holocaust Literature: The Survivor Generation to the Present
LIT7-5a-Tue1
Study Group Leader: Tamar Aizenberg
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Sept.12-Oct. 10
N.C. Wyeth: From Illustrator to Painter
ART7-5a-Tue1
Study Group Leader: Margaret Mukherjee
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Sept.12-Oct. 10
Four Science Fiction Classics: Speculation about Society, the Future, and What it Means to be Human
LIT12-5b-Tue1
Study Group Leader: Naomi Schmidt
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Oct. 17-Nov. 14
Artful Duos: Famous Liaisons in the History of Art
ART3-10-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Suzanne Art
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 12-Nov. 14
Great American Singer-Songwriters
MUS3-10-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Michael Booth
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 12-Nov. 14
SCI3-10-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Carl Lazarus
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 12-Nov. 14
The Rise of China: Politics, the Party & Global Power
H&G4-10-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Scott McKnight
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 12-Nov. 14
Don't be Afraid of Virginia Woolf
LIT3-10-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Diane Proctor
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 12-Nov. 14
Page to Stage: Lorraine Hansberry's " A Raisin in the Sun"
DRA2-5a-Tue2
Study Group Leader: Steven Bloom
Location: 60 Turner Street
5-week course: Sept. 12-Oct. 10
"American Midnight" Democracy under Siege, 1917-20
H&G2-10-Tue3
Study Group Leader: Fred Kobrick
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 12-Nov. 14
Artificial Intelligence: What's the Fuss?
SCI10-5b-Tue3
Study Group Leader: Michael Dettelbach
Location: 60 Turner Street
5-week course: Oct. 17-Nov. 14
So, What Have the Romans Ever Done for U.S.? Pompeii, in the Shadow of Vesuvius
H&G14-5b-Tue3
Study Group Leader: Steve Ostrow
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Oct. 17-Nov. 14
The Political Mind of Abraham Lincoln
H&G15-5b-Tue3Free period for SIGs and Committees
Vincent van Gogh — His Life and Work
ART2-10-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Nancy Alimansky
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: Sept. 13-Nov. 15
H&G5-10-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Steven Sass
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: Sept. 13-Nov. 15
TED Talks: Ideas You Can't Ignore
SOC3-10-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Quinn Rosefsky
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 13-Nov. 15
CE1-10-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Lois Sockol
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 13-Nov. 15
Water Throughout Hi2tOry — Its Uses and Powers
H&G11-5a-Wed2
Study Group Leader: Mark Seliber
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Sept. 13-Oct. 11
The Uncertainties of Werner Heisenberg
SCI9-5b-Wed2Exploring the Universe: A Look at 20th-Century Physics and Cosmology
SCI1-10-Wed3
Study Group Leader: Gary Feldman
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: Sept. 13-Nov. 15
Sensation and Perception: The Doorway to the Brain
SCI4-10-Wed3
Study Group Leader: Kathleen Maigler and Natasha Baas-Thomas
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: Sept. 13-Nov. 15
Introduction to Israeli Society: Vision and Reality
SOC1-10-Wed3
Study Group Leader: Steven Klein
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 13-Nov. 15
H&G1-10-Wed3
Study Group Leader: Marina Cunningham
Location: 60 Turner Street
10-week course: Sept. 13-Nov. 15
Mount Auburn Cemetery in the Fall: Amazing People and Natural Beauty
H&G9-5a-Wed3
Study Group Leader: Helen Abrams
Location: Course requires travel to selected sites and outdoor meetings. Please list this course as one of your preferences only if you are local to the Boston area. You are responsible for providing your own transportation. The three outdoor sessions will each be 2 hours long. This course consists of a combination of site visits and Zoom sessions. Sessions of this course may be postponed due to weather. The SGL will work with the class to schedule make up sessions.
5-week course: Sept. 13-Oct. 11
"Cold Dark Deep and Absolutely Clear": Abiding with Elizabeth Bishop
LIT10-5a-Wed3
Study Group Leader: Julia Mueller
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Sept. 13-Oct. 11
How "a Slave was Made a Man": Frederick Douglass and the Long Road to Freedom
H&G16-5b-Wed3
Study Group Leader: Agnes Malinowska
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Oct. 18-Nov. 15
SOC7-5b-Wed3
Study Group Leader: Sabine von Mering
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Oct. 18-Nov. 15
Life During Wartime: Reading Homer's "Iliad"
LIT5-10-Thu1
Study Group Leader: Joel Christensen
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 14-Nov. 16
Trading with Pariahs: History and Impact of Economic Sanctions
H&G3-10-Thu1
Study Group Leader: Keith A. Preble and Charmaine Willis
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 14-Nov. 16
How to Take and Edit Awesome Photos on your iPhone
ART4-5a-Thu1
Study Group Leader: Ellen Foust
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Sept. 14-Oct. 12
iPhone Photo Editing with Snapseed and Touchretouch Apps
ART5-5b-Thu1Ageism: How We Are Personally Affected by Society's Prejudice toward Older Women
SOC6-5a-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Janice Burres
Location:60 Turner Street
5-week course: Sept. 14-Oct. 12
AI: The Industrial Revolution of the 21st Century
H&G7-5a-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Estherann Grace
Location: 60 Turner Street
5-week course: Sept. 14-Oct. 12
Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro"
MUS6-5a-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Phil Radoff
Location: 60 Turner Street
5-week course: Sept. 14-Oct. 12
Gender, Class and Virtue Politics in Jane Austen's "Emma"
LIT8-5a-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Yiyang Zhuge
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Sept. 14-Oct. 12
Colliding Dreams: The Modern Zionist Movement as Told Through the Eyes of its Inhabitants
H&G12-5b-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Jan Darsa
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Oct. 19-Nov. 16
Encounters with a Hindu Classic: "The Bhagavad Gita" or "Song of the Lord"
REL2-5b-Thu2
Study Group Leader: Bennett Comerford
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Oct. 19-Nov. 16
Political Violence, John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry and the Road to Civil War
H&G8-5b-Thu2CE2-10-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Lois Sockol
Location: Zoom
10-week course: Sept. 14-Nov. 16
Creative Brooklyn: Visual Arts
ART6-5a-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Diane Winkelman
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Sept. 14-Oct. 12
Lights, Camera, Music! The Role of Music in Film
MUS8-5b-Thu3
Study Group Leader: Barbara Jordan
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Oct. 19-Nov. 16
Bach's "St. Matthew's Passion"
MUS7-5b-Fri1
Study Group Leader: Gil Harel
Location: Zoom
5-week course: Oct. 20-Nov. 17
Great Artists in American Roots Music
Classes in the Fall will take place in a variety of modalities. All times refer to the Eastern Time Zone.