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Learning programs for adults age 50 and better
at the University of Pittsburgh
Spring 2021
Course Catalog
It’s Time for You!
REGISTRATION OPENS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2020 • PHONE REGISTRATION OPENS MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2020Spring 2021 Term
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
University of Pittsburgh
TABLE OF CONTENTS DATES AND DEADLINES
Welcome 3 January 7 OLLI Mini-courses begin
Membership and January 18 University Closed (Martin Luther King birthday observance)
Registration 4
January 25 OLLI Session 1 begins
Scholarships 5
February 5 Add/Drop period for University courses ends
Schedule at-a-glance 6, 7
February 26 OLLI Session 1 ends
Courses by topic 8, 9
OLLI Session 1 Courses 10 March 1–12 OLLI Break (No OLLI courses meet)
OLLI Session 2 Courses 18 March 15 OLLI Session 2 begins
Mini-Courses, Events April 16 OLLI Session 2 ends
and Lectures 24, 25
OLLI By the Numbers 26
How to Audit Undergraduate
Courses 27
Instructor Biographies 28
About OLLI
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) is a program in the College of General Studies at the
University of Pittsburgh. Established in 2005, it is supported by the Bernard Osher Foundation
and is one of 123 OLLIs located on college campuses throughout the United States. The National
Resource Center for Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes, located at the Northwestern University,
provides technical assistance to the OLLI programs across the country.
Mission/Purpose
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute aspires to create a dedicated intellectual environment for
older adult students, nurturing a lifelong passion for learning. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
fosters lifelong learning through courses and programs that engage the learner, provide social
interaction, and enrich lives. OLLI’s faculty, which includes University of Pittsburgh professors and
retired faculty, challenge participants to understand the cultural forces of today, to interact socially
and intellectually with one another, and to live empowered lives.WELCOME
to OLLI at Pitt!
If you are age 50 or better and have
a curious mind, join us!
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the
University of Pittsburgh offers learning opportunities
designed specifically for older adult learners.
Reasonable membership fees and generous financial
assistance make OLLI membership possible for anyone
who would like to join us. Upon becoming a member,
you have immediate access to courses, special classes,
lectures, and events.
Currently, OLLI courses meet on Zoom, offering
members the safety and comfort of learning from home.
OLLI members enjoy interacting online with instructors
and other members who share a love of learning.
Our excellent teachers are from the University and
also from the diverse and talent-filled Pittsburgh area.
OLLI at Pitt members want you to know that they are
a welcoming and friendly group. No previous affiliation
with the University of Pittsburgh and no college
experience is needed to become a member. We look
forward to seeing you soon!
It’s Time for YOU!
OLLI.PITT.EDU |3Membership and Registration
An active OLLI membership is required to register for courses
How to Register
Choose your membership Due to current circumstances, members and
Annual Membership – $225 interested individuals should register online at:
(Covers Spring, Summer, and Fall 2021 Terms) https://www.campusce.net/ollipitt/
Term Membership – $125 1. SIGN IN using your username and password— OR—
(Covers Spring 2021 Term) create an account if you do not already have one. Click
2nd Installment Membership – $100 on the Sign In link in the upper right-hand side of the
(for those who purchased a term membership in page. (After putting in your username and password,
Fall 2020, this option adds two additional terms to you will know you are signed in if “Welcome, ” appears after logging in at the upper
left corner of the page under the OLLI logo.)
Space constraints and health safety practices on
Pitt’s campus due to COVID-19 mean that all Spring 2. Proceed to Home Page and the Renew/Become a
2021 courses will take place online through the Member area. ADD a membership to your cart if you
Zoom platform. After Friday, January 22, 2021, are not currently a paid, active member.
there will be no refunds issued for membership
payments unless OLLI cancels the term. 3. Next, proceed to review courses of interest (From
Homepage click on OLLI Session #1, Session #2 or
Membership includes access to unlimited online OLLI Courses by Topic or Audit courses. Locate a
OLLI courses, lectures, special events and groups. desired course and click on “ADD TO CART.” (Note:
Membership includes up to two pre-approved you can review courses by day of week and/or topic
undergraduate courses for auditing. More may on the registration website.)
be purchased at $25/each. (See page 27 for more
information on auditing.). Courses will take place 4. If more courses are desired after you add a course
on the Zoom platform. to your shopping cart, click: “CONTINUE SHOPPING”
Note: All existing paid and up-to-date OLLI to locate additional courses and add to your
memberships will be able to register for all online shopping cart.
courses as well. 5. After all courses have been selected, go to your
shopping cart to complete the check-out process and
pay for your membership, if necessary. Be sure to click
through ALL Screens until completion of the process
and the payment page, if necessary.
NOTE: If you do not see an “Add to Cart” button under
a course, there are three possible reasons. 1) Registration
has not begun yet. 2) You are a paid, current member and
have not signed in. (Check for “Welcome YourFirstName”
in the top left-hand corner of the screen) 3) You are not a
current member or your membership is expired and you
All Spring Term have not added a membership selection to your cart FIRST,
before adding a course.
2021 courses
and lectures will Difficulties?
take place online If there are any difficulties with registrations, please leave
a message on our main phone line: 412-624-7308 or
via the Zoom email us at osher@pitt.edu. Please know that our office is
platform. working remotely and will have to return your phone call.
REGISTER AT: WWW.CAMPUSCE.NET/OLLIPITT/
OLLI.PITT.EDU |4Scholarships
Scholarships for the Osher Lifelong Choose your favorite courses based
Learning Institute (OLLI) are based on the topics, days, and times that
on financial need and are awarded
to people age 50 and older who are interest you!
interested in attending our program.
The scholarships partially offset the Courses are offered for your exploration,
cost of OLLI membership. All OLLI enjoyment, or academic interests.
members pay something toward a Academic – these courses are like
membership, but our awards can undergraduate college courses with the
make OLLI possible for those who instructor lecturing most of the time.
might not otherwise be able to join.
Exploration – more “hands on” oriented
Financial assistance is for one term courses: OR may be an academic topic primarily
and must be applied for each term. taught through interactive group discussion and practice.
A simple application form is used
and must be entirely completed to Enjoyment – most of class is spent with the students discussing the
receive consideration. All scholarship topic, practicing a skill, or the primary purpose is for group sharing
applications for Spring term 2021 and discussion.
must be received by Friday, January
22, 2021.
Awards: Scholarships range from $50
- $100 per term. Notification of your
award and the amount of the award
will be sent within two weeks of receipt
of your application. Please contact
the office to receive a scholarship
application and for more information
by emailing osher@pitt.edu.
Learning is Priceless! Give the Gift of
Please support OLLI at Pitt Learning
Are you are searching
Your donation helps to: for the perfect gift for
your friend, neighbor,
• support hundreds of courses each year relative, mom or dad
in the over 50 crowd?
• attract top notch instructors
A gift certificate for membership
• keep membership fees as low as possible in OLLI at Pitt is a thoughtful and
meaningful gift for someone who
• help those who need financial assistance to
enjoys challenging themselves
join OLLI through the Bobenage-Szczepanski and engaging with peers. Gift
Membership Fund certificates can be for one term
• impact outreach activities in communities or an annual membership. To
and neigborhoods where membership purchase an OLLI membership
is underrepresented gift certificate, send an email to
osher@pitt.edu and include your
Make a gift by donating online at olli.pitt.edu, or phone number. We will call you
by contacting the OLLI office at 412-624-7308. to arrange your purchase. What a
memorable gift it will be!
OLLI.PITT.EDU |3
5OLLI Session 1 • Monday, January 25–Friday, February 26
SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE SPRING 2021
morning
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
10–11:30 a.m. 9–10 a.m. 9–10 a.m. 10–11 a.m. 10–11:30 a.m.
American Sign Language Chair Yoga Gentle Yoga Dance and Be Fit Empower Your Writing with
Sharon Serbin Sally Sherman Jill Clary Roland Ford Poetry: Rhyming Poems
The Fundamentals of Editing & 10–11:30 a.m. 9:30–11:30 a.m. 10–11:30 p.m. Sandra Gould Ford
Revising Fiction and Nonfiction Beginning Level French: Nature as Muse Beginner Spanish History of the First
Essays Communication Strategies Ann Rosenthal Nancy Farber Amendment
Ann Hultberg Cathleen Sendek-Sapp 10–11:30 a.m. Beginner Watercolor John Burt
Fun with Plants in Winter Beyond Rosa Parks: Women in Artificial Organs: Past, Melissa Tai Intermediate Conversational
Doug Oster the Struggle for Civil Rights Present, Future Heroes French: Talking about the
How to Be Smart with Your Joan Gundersen Harvey Borovetz Alan Irvine Past (Tense)
iPhone Experimental Watercolor Local Journalism, Engaged Cathleen Sendek-Sapp
Race Relations and White
Richard Fitzgibbon Melissa Tai Community: Reclaiming Supremacy in America Religions of the Book:
Symbolic Violence and the Jew The Life and Times of Goya Trust in News Ralph Bangs Judaism, Christianity and
in Early Modern Italian Art and Picasso Mila Sanina & PublicSource Islam
The Soviet Union: The Sandra Collins
Andrea Maxwell Jose Juves Climate Change: Global Revolution and First Decade
The Longest Drought Will End Meets Local Charles Hier When Worlds Collide
in Rain: The Literature of Hope Hari Mantripragada Orin James
Abby Mendelson 10:15–11:15 a.m.
Chakra Yoga All Levels
Jill Clary
afternoon
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
1–2:30 p.m. 1–2:30 p.m. 1–2:30 p.m. 1–2:30 p.m.
Advanced Beginner Spanish Advanced Intermediate Aristotle’s Conception of the Advanced Conversational
Farber Conversational French: Good Life Spanish
From Cause to Effect: The Simply Conversation Gregory Strom Nancy Farber
Philosophy of Causation Cathleen Sendek-Sapp A Brief History of Modern August Wilson, Pittsburgher
Annika Froese Marx’s Marxism: An Typography and Playwright: The Aunt
Intro to Astronomy Part 1: Introduction Megan Kappel Ester Plays
The Solar System Javier Vazquez-D’Elia Emily Dickinson Chris Rawson
David Nero The Symphonies of Gustav Cliff Johnson Current Art and Architecture:
Story of Pittsburgh’s Forests Mahler: Part 2 The Struggle for Equality in Challenging Traditions from
Mike “Carya” Cornell Stephen Schultz America: A History of the Fight Here to the Moon
TED Talks (Section 2) for a “More Perfect Union” Erin O’Neill
TED Talks (Section 1)
Kathy Callahan Kathy Callahan Louise Mayo History of Italian Cuisine
Tiny Treasures: Making Artist 3–4:30 p.m. Lorraine Denman
Books Immunology 101: 3–4:30 p.m.
Susan Schneider Understanding Your Immune Women Artists (1400-1700)
3–4:30 p.m. System Saskia Beranek
Cyber Literacy: Understanding Tullia Bruno
the Cybersecurity Landscape Pioneers of Rock and Roll
JoAnne Green Robert Joyce
Latin American Literature of Single-novel Study: Barbara
the 20th Century through its Kingsolver’s “Flight Behavior”
Nobel Prizewinners Nicholas Coles
Camila Pulgar Machado
Masters of Modern
Architecture 3
Jeffrey Swoger
OLLI.PITT.EDU |6OLLI Session 2 • Monday, March 15–Friday, April 16
SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE SPRING 2021
morning
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
10–11:30 a.m. 9–10 a.m. 9–10 a.m. 10–10:50 a.m. 10–11:30 a.m.
American Sign Language Chair Yoga (continued) Gentle Yoga (continued) Dance and Be Fit The Amazon
(continued) 10–11:30 a.m. 9:30–11:30 a.m. (continued) Roberta Mendonça De Carvalho
An Early Start in the Garden Beginning Level French Nature as Muse (continued) 10–11:30 a.m. Intermediate Conversational
Doug Oster (continued) 10–11:30 a.m. Ancient Wisdom, Modern French (continued)
As You Like It: Four Aspects Charlemagne and the Gender and Sexuality in the Health Law and Social Change
of Love Carolingian Empire Archives Melissa Sokulski David DeFazio
Alan Stanford Jared Day Julie Beaulieu Beginner Spanish Muhammad and the Quran
Medieval and Renaissance The End of the Trail and the King and Kubrick: Variations (continued) Aliya Khan
Art in the Neighborhood Beginning: Native American of “The Shining” Beginner Watercolor The Supreme Court Considers
David Brumble Literature J.D. Wright (continued) Slavery & Its Aftermath
Abby Mendelson Leonard Bernstein at 102 Forensic Science: Intro to John Burt
Experimental Watercolor Owen Cantor Criminalistics 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
(continued) Women in the Hebrew Bible: Edward Strimlan Birding 101
Part 2 The Soviet Union: Chris Kubiak
Kimberly Latta The System, WW II and
10:15 – 11:15 a.m. the Collapse
Chakra Yoga All Levels Charles Hier
(continued)
afternoon
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
1–2:30 p.m. 12:30–2 p.m. 1–2:30 p.m. 1–2:30 p.m.
Advanced Beginner Spanish Down These Mean Streets: The American (Minority) Advanced Conversational
(continued) Murder Has No Borders Experience Spanish
iPhone 2 Ken Boas Saima Sitwat Maria Franco de Gomez
Richard Fitzgibbon 1–2:30 p.m. Jews and American Cinema: The British Revival of
Intro to Astronomy Part 2: Advanced Intermediate Part 2 Ancient Ethics
Stars, Galaxies, and the Conversational French Lucy Fischer Ben Schulz
Universe (continued) Making the Most of Micro Cognition and Aging
David Nero Hamilton: The Musical Essays Bruce Goldstein
Latin America Through Andrew Lotz Laurie McMillan Early Pittsburgh
Short Stories Optimizing Health with Mexican Murals Across Alan Irvine
Karen Goldman Plant-Based Eating the Americas Financial Planning for a
Music: What’s in an Sally Lipsky Paula Pardo Gaviria Stress-Free Retirement
Interpretation? 3–4:30 p.m. Philosophy of Action Aaron Leaman
Flavio Chamis Forensic Anthropology Gregory Strom Poem Making 5: Writing,
3–4:30 p.m. Allison Gremba 3–4:30 p.m. Clarity & Mystery, Part 2
Fundamentals of Guastavino Structural Tile Mythology of the Ancient Sheila Kelly
Neuroscience Vaulting in Pittsburgh and Modern World: Gods
Adam Davis Matthew Schleub Marcie Persyn
Topics in Medical Ethics
Mark Wicclair
OLLI.PITT.EDU |3
7Courses by Topic • Spring 2020
Clicking on each course title will take you to its course description in the catalog.
Art History and Architecture History, Classics, & Philosophy
A Brief History of Modern Typography 14 Aristotle’s Conception of the Good Life 14
Current Art and Architecture: Challenging Traditions Beyond Rosa Parks: Women in the Struggle for
from Here to the Moon 16 Civil Rights 11
Guastavino Structural Tile Vaulting in Pittsburgh 20 The British Revival of Ancient Ethics 22
The Life and Times of Goya and Picasso 11 Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire 19
Masters of Modern Architecture 3 13 Early Pittsburgh 23
Medieval and Renaissance Art in the Neighborhood 18 From Cause to Effect: The Philosophy of Causation 10
Mexican Murals Across the Americas 21 Heroes 15
Symbolic Violence and the Jew in Early Modern History of the First Amendment 17
Italian Art 10
History of Italian Cuisine 16
Women Artists (1400-1700) 16
Mythology of the Ancient and Modern World: Gods 21
Philosophy of Action 21
Film, Music & Theater
The Soviet Union: The Revolution and First Decade 16
As You Like It: Four Aspects of Love 18
The Soviet Union: The System, WW II, and the Collapse 22
Jews and American Cinema: Part 2 21
The Struggle for Equality in America: A History of the
Leonard Bernstein at 102 20 Fight for a “More Perfect Union” 14
Music: What’s in An Interpretation? 19 The Supreme Court Considers Slavery & Its Aftermath 23
Pioneers of Rock and Roll 15 When Worlds Collide 17
The Symphonies of Gustav Mahler: Part 2 12
Language Studies
Fitness, Health, & Self-Interests
Advanced Beginner Spanish 10
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Health 22
Advanced Conversational Spanish (Farber) 16
Birding 101 23
Advanced Conversational Spanish (Franco de Gomez) 22
Chair Yoga 11
Advanced Intermediate Conversational French:
Chakra Yoga All Levels 14 Simply Conversation 12
Dance and Be Fit 15 American Sign Language 10
An Early Start in the Garden 18 Beginning Level French: Communication Strategies 11
Fun with Plants in Winter 10 Beginner Spanish 15
Gentle Yoga 13 Intermediate Conversational French: Talking About
the Past (Tense) 17
Optimizing Health with Plant-Based Eating 20
Story of Pittsburgh’s Forests 11
TED Talks (Section 1) 11
TED Talks (Section 2) 12
OLLI.PITT.EDU |8Courses by Topic • Spring 2020 (continued)
Clicking on each course title will take you to its course description in the catalog.
Literature & Creative Writing Religious Studies
As You Like It: Four Aspects of Love 18 Muhammad and the Quran 23
August Wilson, Pittsburgher and Playwright: Religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity
The Aunt Ester Plays 16 and Islam 17
Down These Mean Streets: Murder Has No Borders 19
Science, Technology & Medicine
Emily Dickinson 14
The Amazon 23
Empower Your Writing with Poetry: Rhyming Poems 17
Artificial Organs: Past, Present, Future 13
End of the Trail and the Beginning: Native
American Literature 19 Climate Change: Global Meets Local 13
The Fundamentals of Editing & Revising Fiction and Cognition and Aging 22
Nonfiction Essays 10
Cyber Literacy: Understanding the
King and Kubrick: Variations of “The Shining” 20 Cybersecurity Landscape 12
Latin American Literature of the 20th Century through Forensic Anthropology 20
its Nobel Prizewinners 13
Forensic Science: Intro to Criminalistics 22
Latin America Through Short Stories 18
Fundamentals of Neuroscience 19
The Longest Drought Will End in Rain:
The Literature of Hope 12 How to Be Smart with Your iPhone 10
Making the Most of Micro Essays 21 Immunology 101: Understanding Your
Immune System 14
Poem Making 5: Writing Clarity & Mystery, Part 2 23
Introduction to Astronomy Part 1: The Solar System 11
Single-Novel Study: Barbara Kingsolver’s
“Flight Behavior” 15 Introduction to Astronomy Part 2: Stars, Galaxies,
and the Universe 18
Women in the Hebrew Bible: Part 2 20
iPhone 2 18
Math and Economics Topics in Medical Ethics 22
Financial Planning for A Stress-Free Retirement 23
Visual & Performing Arts
Political, Social Sciences & Society Beginner Watercolor 15
The American (Minority) Experience 21 Experimental Watercolor 11
Gender and Sexuality in the Archives 20 Nature as Muse 13
Hamilton: The Musical 19 Tiny Treasures: Making Artist Books 12
Law and Social Change 23
Local Journalism, Engaged Community:
Reclaiming Trust in News 14
Marx’s Marxism: An Introduction 12
Race Relations and White Supremacy in America 15
OLLI.PITT.EDU |3
9OLLI Course Descriptions
Session 1: Monday, January 25–Friday, February 26
Fun with Plants in Winter Renaissance periods. We will explore
MONDAY Just because it’s cold outside
art from different regions that either
condoned violence or attempted to
doesn’t mean the joy of gardening
10–11:30 a.m. must end. In this course we will
quell unrest through symbolic violence.
discuss indoor bulbs and growing; Academic • Andrea Maxwell
American Sign Language* appropriate outdoor tree and shrub
American Sign Language (ASL) is a pruning for winter; a houseplant 1– 2:30 p.m.
beautiful, expressive language, with primer including indoor herb gardens
its own grammatical order, syntax, and early small seed starting are just Advanced Beginner Spanish*
and culture. ASL is much more than some of the things we can do until Members may take only one level of
hand shapes and hand movements. the weather breaks. Spanish.
Hand shapes, palm orientation, Enjoyment • Doug Oster This 10-week course is for students
movement, body shifts, facial
who have advanced beyond a
expressions and body movement all How to Be Smart with beginning knowledge of Spanish
come together for full expression and Your iPhone and wish to further refine speaking,
communication. This is a 10-week
Many of us have adopted an listening, and reading comprehension
hands-on participation class, literally.
iPhone as our go-to method of skills. Classroom practice focuses on
Participants must be willing to turn
communication. Are you using your the use of complex grammar, syntax,
on their video cameras for instruction
expensive device to make your life and vocabulary.
and class practice to be effective.
The instructor will get you motivated, easier, or is the frustration level rising? Exploration • Nancy Farber
laughing, and very comfortable in Do you need to learn what some
using ASL. of those apps are for? This course From Cause to Effect: The
develops your confidence level to the Philosophy of Causation
Exploration • Sharon Serbin point where you can use your iPhone
Causation is everywhere: Turning
to assist rather than confound daily
The Fundamentals of Editing the key in a car’s ignition causes
activities. For class, each student
& Revising Fiction and the engine to start. Smoking causes
should have an iPhone running the
Nonfiction Essays cancer. But what is this thing called
latest iOS and a data plan or logged
“causation”? In this course we look
The writer and editor Arthur Plotnick into WiFi. Everyone is encouraged to
at philosophers’ attempts to answer
said, “You write to communicate to download and read the user manual
this question, with a focus on the
the hearts and minds of others what’s (free) from Apple.
connection between causation and
burning inside you, and we edit to let Exploration • Richard Fitzgibbon responsibility. If my houseplant dies
the fire show through the smoke.” A
while I’m on holiday, I may hold
common definition of editing is that Symbolic Violence and the Jew responsible my housemate who
it is a stage of the writing process in Early Modern Italian Art failed to water it. But did her failure
in which a writer improves a draft
This class will introduce participants to to water my plant cause the plant to
by correcting errors and making
the ways in which Judaism and anti- die? Can omissions ever be causes?
words and sentences clearer, more
Jewish sentiments were present in Early Could I hold my friend responsible for
precise, and as effective as possible.
Modern Christian Art. The artworks of the plant’s death, even if she did not
A common definition of revision is
Italy (and some Northern European cause it? Through weekly readings
to reconsider arguments, review
works) explored in this course and discussions, we will explore the
evidence, refine purpose, reorganize
emphasize both the good and bad pervasive role causation plays in our
presentation, and revive stale prose.
in humanity—a dichotomy of choices lives, and reflect on the unspoken
Students will learn to apply both skills
and beliefs that lingers to this day. assumptions that inform our thinking
to their writing.
Participants will be invited to discover about causation.
Academic • Ann Hultberg how this art was implicated in a toxic Academic • Annika Froese
blend of theology and violence that
marked Italy during the Medieval and
10 | OLLI.PITT.EDU * LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLEIntroduction to Astronomy, women. Yet women desegregated
Part 1: The Solar System TUESDAY trolley companies; argued key
cases before the Supreme Court;
The universe is unimaginably vast and
wonderful. In this course, we focus on 9–10 a.m. organized sit-ins; were arrested as
freedom riders; worked as community
the solar system: earth and the other
planets that orbit our sun. This course Chair Yoga organizers; and died for the cause. In
this course we will look at some
is Part 1 of a two-part sequence. This gentle form of yoga is practiced
of the earliest women pioneers for
However, the parts can be taken using a chair as a prop/stabilizer
equal rights, and then the many
independently and in either order. In for support during standing
influential roles women (black
Part 1, we start with a discussion of poses or adapted for sitting on a
and white) played in the legal
the nighttime sky. Next, we relate the chair. It is especially beneficial for
struggles, school desegregation,
motion of the earth around the sun people concerned with balance or
demonstrations, freedom riding, and
to the passage of seasons on earth. coordination issues or those who have
political actions that were a part of
Next, we introduce the terrestrial felt they are unable to participate in
the Civil Rights Movement.
planets, followed by the Jovian other yoga experiences. The class
(gas giant) planets and their moons. includes poses for strength training, Academic • Joan Gundersen
Finally, we will discuss the origins of mobility in the joints and more
the solar system, ending the course relaxing poses to help steady the Experimental Watercolor*
by introducing the ongoing search for mind. Opportunities to intensify, with Members may only take one 10-week
life in the universe. modifications to make the poses more art course per term.
Academic • David Nero accessible, will be offered throughout
In this 10-week course, students with
the course so that participants learn
previous watercolor experience will
Story of Pittsburgh’s Forests to adapt to their personal situations
enjoy using household items and
and comfort as well as challenge
No matter where you are in products to produce a variety of
themselves. The course is appropriate
Pittsburgh, you are in a forest. In textural effects. Each class will open
for all levels.
this class, students of all experience with a demonstration using a new
levels will explore, connect to, and Enjoyment • Sally Sherman technique. Students will engage in
discover the Pittsburgh’s forests. We brainstorming possible applications
will uncover our region’s geological 10–11:30 a.m. for the techniques. Everyone will be
history, explore nature, and learn how encouraged to share their work at the
to read the forested landscape. Beginning Level French: end of class.
Communication Strategies*
Enjoyment • Mike “Carya” Cornell Enjoyment • Melissa Tai
In this 10-week course designed
TED Talks (Section 1) for students with little or no prior The Life and Times of Goya
knowledge of French, the focus and Picasso
Members may register for only one will be on mastering phrases and
section of the course. Francisco Goya and Pablo Picasso
set structures that may be useful
lived in very interesting times and
TED (technology, entertainment, and for communicating across a variety
harnessed the dynamic of their
design), a nonprofit organization that of situations. Students will be
respective eras to become two of the
promotes “ideas worth spreading”, encouraged to develop strategies to
greatest masters of Spanish painting.
features talks by some of the world’s try to make themselves understood in
Discussing a handful of their works,
most engaging speakers on a wide instances where language proficiency
this course investigates the personal
variety of subjects. The TED website may be lacking.
and historical forces behind the lives
features more than 2,300 talks on Exploration • Cathleen Sendek-Sapp of these immortals, focusing on how
video. In this class, we will discuss,
their art reflected their times and in
debate, and reflect on a few of these Beyond Rosa Parks: turn influenced our present view of
talks each week. Some talks are Women in the Struggle those events.
informational, some are just plain fun. for Civil Rights
Group members are encouraged to Academic • Jose Juves
select talks that inspire or intrigue Women were some of the earliest
them to kick off the discussion. and most persistent fighters in the
struggle for racial equality, but most
Exploration • Kathy Callahan Americans only recognize the names
of male leaders and one or two
* LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 11The Longest Drought Will and ideological currents that labeled Group members are encouraged to
End in Rain: The Literature themselves “Marxist”, and the select talks that inspire or intrigue
of Hope magnitude of the differences that them to kick off the discussion.
frequently separated their respective Exploration • Kathy Callahan
Recently, a critic wrote, “books are
versions of “Marxism”. Marx,
not supposed to just ‘give hope’ as if
however, famously denied being a Tiny Treasures: Making
they were cheerleaders in print. Books
Marxist himself. This six-week course Artist Books*
should disturb, complicate, and make
is organized around two central
things uncomfortable to push readers This five-week hands-on course will
ideas: 1) that the potential for the
to create their own understanding of explore the many facets of creating
development of “multiple Marxisms”
reality and their own sense of hope.” easy, small, hand-made artist books.
was already present in Marx’s writings;
Nevertheless, we shall try. We shall Through a variety of media (including
and 2) that, as a result, we need to
read some excerpts of excellent, pen, markers, colored pencil, and
revisit those writings to understand
intelligent narratives, fable and fiction, optional at-home computer printing),
those paradoxical and often
memoir and environmentalism, that students will learn to make artist
perplexing developments. This course
give exactly what we need in these books, suitable for drawing, poetry,
offers an introduction to the main
troubled times: hope for ourselves, travel journals, albums, personal
stages and directions of development
our country, and our world. Andrew expression, collections, gifts and
of his thought.
Krivak, “The Bear”; Isabella Tree, more.Guidance on adding hand-
“Wilding: Returning Nature to our Academic • Javier Vazquez-D’Elia lettering and computer-generated
Farm”; David George Haskell, “The text will be offered.
Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in The Symphonies of Gustav
Mahler: Part 2 Enjoyment • Susan Schneider
Nature”; Maya Angelou, “Letter to
My Daughter”; Zora Neale Hurston, This class will be an in-depth historical 3–4:30 p.m.
“Their Eyes Were Watching God”. survey of the Symphonies of Gustav
Academic • Abby Mendelson Mahler. We will concentrate on Cyber Literacy:
the second half of his creative life: Understanding the
1–2:30 p.m. Symphonies #6 - #10. It will trace Cybersecurity Landscape
the composer’s stylistic evolution
This course will focus on current
Advanced Intermediate during this stage and will clarify the
cybersecurity threats, understanding
Conversational French: main characteristics of these pieces.
the entire cybersecurity landscape,
Simply Conversation* The focus of our analysis will be on
the form, harmonic and melodic and how to protect yourself against
This 10-week course is designed cybercrimes. The course will cover
characteristics, and programmatic and
for those who have taken several some technical concepts but the
emotional content of the symphonies.
French courses and are interested course itself is not technical in nature.
in strengthening their speaking Academic • Stephen Schultz Current events will be covered and
abilities and comprehension. Each discussed. Every week we will have a
week’s lesson centers on a selected TED Talks (Section 2)* course discussion or activity.
topic with the goal of building and Members may register for only one Academic • JoAnne Green
recalling useful vocabulary. The class section of the course.
is conducted for the most part in
TED (technology, entertainment, and
French. No text is required.
design), a nonprofit organization that
Exploration • Cathleen Sendek-Sapp promotes “ideas worth spreading”;
features talks by some of the world’s
Marx’s Marxism: An most engaging speakers on a wide
Introduction variety of subjects. The TED website
Karl Marx is among the political features more than 2,300 talks on
thinkers that most powerfully video. In this class, we will discuss,
contributed to shape the political debate, and reflect on a few of these
and ideological dynamics of the talks each week. Some talks are
past century. Among the most informational, some are just plain fun.
perplexing aspects of his influence is
the diversity of political movements
12 | OLLI.PITT.EDU * LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLELatin American Literature of 10–11:30 a.m.
the 20th Century through its WEDNESDAY
Nobel Prizewinners Artificial Organs: Past,
In this course we will study texts by 9–10 a.m. Present, Future
the Chilean Gabriela Mistral (the first This course considers artificial organs
Latin American to receive a Nobel Gentle Yoga and their clinical usage. The basic
Prize in Literature in 1945), Pablo This 10-week course is geared for physiology of three organ systems
Neruda (Chile, 1971), Gabriel García those new to yoga or those who are will be reviewed (heart, lung, blood
Márquez (Colombia, 1982) and interested in a gentle practice. It vessel) and the medical/engineering/
Octavio Paz (Mexico, 1990), exploring includes a combination of meditation, societal considerations for organ
the images these authors create breath work, and flowing movement replacement systems discussed. The
about Latin America, its problems, intended for all abilities. This class plusses and minuses of commercially
culture, history and identity. We offers nurturing, kindness, and available artificial organs will be
will review the Nobel verdicts of compassion for the body, regardless considered leading to discussion as
the Swedish Academy, interviews of a student’s physical abilities, age, to possible improvements of existing
and talks given by each writer, and or experience. You will experiment artificial organs. Emphasis will be
documentaries about them. Lectures with balance, strength, flexibility, and placed on the numerous challenges
and discussion will center on short stillness while practicing mindfulness patients with artificial organs and their
writings in which we can observe the and meditation techniques. families face on a day-to-day basis;
authors’ relationships and dialogue Enjoyment • Jill Clary and how this will impact the future of
with the entity that is Hispanic these technologies.
America, and with the idiosyncrasies 9:30–11:30 a.m. Academic • Harvey Borovetz
of their diverse countries of origin.
We will dedicate a class to each writer Nature as Muse* Climate Change: Global
and a class to the Nobel Prize itself. Meets Local
(We will use bilingual texts as much as Members may only take one 10-week
possible, but all will have an English art course per term. This course explores one of the most
translation.) In this 10-week course, you will pressing problems facing humanity
discover artists who have taken nature – global climate change caused
Academic • Camila Pulgar Machado by anthropogenic greenhouse gas
as their muse and then translate what
you have learned into making your emissions. Topics include—scientific
Masters of Modern evidence behind climate change;
Architecture 3 own artwork. Every style, technique,
and approach from realism to major causes including energy-climate
This six-week course, continues abstraction has drawn on nature in its nexus; regional and global effects;
the survey of modern architects, countless forms--color, shape, texture, technological mitigation (clean energy
which began with the world’s and pattern; earth, air, fire, and water; options, carbon capture, etc.) and
first steel-framed skyscraper in plants, animals, and ecosystems; adaptation solutions (management
Chicago, concludes with a broad molecules and the cosmos. Each of extreme weather events). Pros
look at contemporary architecture. week, we will explore one or and cons of different mitigation
Beginning with Philip Johnson and more artists and art periods, learn strategies will be discussed from a
“Postmodernism” concluding with techniques, and you will make your technological, economic and policy
the Chinese firm of Neri & Hu, we own art. This is not about copying but, standpoints. Climate policies followed
will examine examples from the rather, discovering how art and nature at local, national and global level
kaleidoscope of approaches to can inspire your work. Take a grand are also discussed. The course will
design and the introduction of new romp through art history up to the predominantly be lecture with some
technologies to create buildings present and fuel your creative process! discussion and suggested reading.
that challenge our preconceptions Academic • Hari Mantripragada
and excite our senses. Striking Enjoyment • Ann Rosenthal
photography and video will illustrate
the adventure. Lively discussions will
be strongly encouraged.
Academic • Jeffrey Swoger
* LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 13Local Journalism, Engaged conception of the best way to live The Struggle for Equality in
Community: Reclaiming Trust with a philosophical sophistication America: A History of the
in News and rigor that remains unsurpassed. Fight for a “More Perfect
Where would we be without a free
In this course, we will study this Union”
challenging and exciting text, giving
press? And where will this dire This class will examine the history of
particular attention to Aristotle’s
crisis in journalism take us? How do reform movements in America. The
comprehensive account of the powers
journalists do their jobs and inspire emphasis will be on those efforts
of the human mind in Book VI.
civic engagement? In the age of fake to realize the ideals of “liberty and
news why is fact-based journalism so Academic • Gregory Strom justice for all” and “all men (people)
important? How does it play out on are created equal” and “endowed by
the local level? You will get a chance A Brief History of Modern their creator with certain inalienable
to meet local journalists covering Typography rights including the rights to “life,
environment, local government and Times New Roman. Helvetica. liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
other issues of public importance for Papyrus. Comic Sans. Some may read Academic • Louise Mayo
nonprofit newsroom PublicSource.org. these words and think: “You mean
Learn how you can stay informed, fonts? Who cares about fonts?” But 3–4:30 p.m.
engaged and become a champion for to others, these words open portals
local journalism that seeks accountability to a vast world of design, history, and Immunology 101:
on the most pressing issues of our purpose. In this course, we’ll step Understanding Your Immune
time and serves as a platform for the through those portals to examine System
community’s diverse voices. how typefaces impact our world
Our immune systems are trained at
Academic • Mila Sanina and and influence our perceptions. Each
an early age to recognize foreign
PublicSource journalists week we’ll discuss pivotal moments
invaders, target them specifically
in typographic history, examine how
and eliminate them from our
10:15–11:15 a.m. type has pioneered new movements
bodies. Further, our immune system
in design, and take a deep dive into
remembers these foreign invaders
Chakra Yoga All Levels the life of one specific font. A close
for enhanced responses upon re-
cousin to the previous OLLI course
This 10-week course moves through infection. Given the global pandemic
“The Psychology of Book Covers,”
traditional yoga poses (or asanas) surrounding COVID19, this course
this course offers brain games, fun
that align each individual chakra, will cover the importance of our
exercises, and discussion to better
moving up the spine from the root immune system in fighting foreign
understand our cultural and individual
chakra to the crown chakra. Chakras invaders. We will cover the basics of
relationships with typefaces and
are energy centers located across immunology, how immune responses
appreciate how such a seemingly small
different points on our spinal column. are generated naturally or with
design choice isn’t so small after all.
When energy becomes blocked a vaccine, and some challenges
in a chakra, it triggers physical, Academic • Megan Kappel surrounding effective immune
mental, or emotional imbalances that responses in the context of viral and
manifest in symptoms such as anxiety, Emily Dickinson bacterial infections as well as cancer.
lethargy, or poor digestion. This class Dickinson’s verse penetrates our We will accomplish our learning from
is for the student who likes a fluid, consciousness and sticks like a lecture, interactive discussion and
mindful practice that links alignment, burr. Each poem is a finely-wrought reading, and demonstrations. For
movement and breath. Participants jewel. Her great themes are death, some weeks, reading or assignments
should wear comfortable, loose-fitting immortality, and the beauty of the may be incorporated for fruitful
clothing and have a yoga mat. everyday. The reclusive life of the learning and discussion.
Enjoyment • Jill Clary lady in white will always be a mystery. Academic • Tullia Bruno
Did she suffer from agoraphobia or
1–2:30 p.m. epilepsy? Was her love for her sister-
in-law, Susan Gilbert, homoerotic?
Aristotle’s Conception of the Why did she always wear white and
Good Life stay away from her father’s funeral?
Was she a religious rebel? We will try
Aristotle’s “Ethics” is the crowning
to plumb these mysteries as a clue to
achievement of ancient Greek
her unique verse.
philosophy, a work in which Aristotle
lays out a complex and nuanced Academic • Clifford Johnson
14 | OLLI.PITT.EDU * LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLEPioneers of Rock and Roll Heroes
Elvis Presley may have been the
THURSDAY Throughout history, larger-than-life
King of Rock and Roll, but five major heroes have fought monsters and
artists were seminal in making the 10–11 a.m. villains, sought treasure, defended
music more mainstream for radio and the weak, striven for justice. Or have
younger audiences in the late 1950’s. Dance and Be Fit they? We will examine how the role
Little Richard, Fats Domino, Jerry This 10-week course engages all age of the hero developed in Western
Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and Buddy groups and all ability levels with fun culture from its earliest incarnations
Holly forged the road to assuring the and easy dance and fitness routines. through the Greeks, Medieval legends
world that “rock and roll is here to Learning basic dance and fitness and onto modern day incarnations
stay.” This course will be a chance to moves will help participants take like Batman and Superman. We will
learn about these five pioneers, their more steps toward a healthier lifestyle consider why heroes play such an
musical contribution to Rock and Roll and get you moving. No experience important role in human culture. Alan
and their legacy and inspiration left or special skills are needed. Great will start each week telling some
for generations of musicians to follow. for beginners as well as veteran hero stories.
Academic • Robert Joyce dancers, the course can be adapted Academic • Alan Irvine
to anyone’s unique needs.
Single-Novel Study: Enjoyment • Roland Ford Race Relations and White
Barbara Kingsolver’s “Flight Supremacy in America
Behavior”* 10–11:30 a.m. This course will highlight and expand
In this course, we will read one on key points in the one of the best
important novel, slowly and Beginner Spanish* books ever written on race: “Race
closely, attending to its author’s art Members may take only one level in America”, 2nd edition, 2019,
and vision, its historical context, of Spanish. by sociologists Matthew Desmond
and contemporary significance. This 10-week course is for and Mustafa Emirbayer. “Race in
Kingsolver’s much-praised “Flight beginners and it focuses on Spanish America” takes a new approach. It
Behavior” (2012) was one of the pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, analyzes systems of racial relations
first accounts of climate change in and useful expressions for travel. in each area of social life: political,
U.S. fiction, addressing how science, Participants can expect classroom economic, residential, educational,
religion, politics, media and social practice to include speaking, reading, aesthetic, associational, and intimacy.
class affect our local understanding and listening comprehension. The book shows that throughout
of this global crisis. It tells the story society white supremacy has become
Exploration • Nancy Farber
of a Tennessee farm family coping institutionalized, naturalized, and
with a depressed economy, weird invisible to many people. There
weather patterns, and the anomalous
Beginner Watercolor will be much time in each class for
mass-migration of Monarch butterflies Members may only take one 10-week questions and comments.
to their woods. The course will consist art course per term.
Academic • Ralph Bangs
of lectures and discussion, enhanced Enjoy the beauty, quirks and happy
by author-interviews and video clips surprises watercolor painting can
of relevant events. We will read bring! In this course, a new online
about 100 pages per week of this lesson and demonstration, followed
400-page novel. by discussion, will be presented each
Academic • Nicholas Coles week. Topics will include: washes,
brush work, color, perspective,
composition and much more.
Participants will be encouraged to
submit photos of their own watercolor
works for group discussion, questions,
and suggestions. Individual feedback
from the instructor will be provided to
participants. This course is appropriate
for beginners and those with less than
one-year watercolor experience.
Enjoyment • Melissa Tai
* LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 15The Soviet Union: The August Wilson, Pittsburgher History of Italian Cuisine
Revolution and First Decade and Playwright: The Aunt In this course, students will learn
In this course we will examine the Ester Plays about the history of the Italian
social and political grievances that Reading August Wilson is a pleasure, peninsula through the lens of food,
sparked the Russian revolutions in but he also has never been more agriculture, and cuisine. Italian cuisine
1917. We will explore the impact of culturally relevant. One of the is renowned around the globe, but
the revolutions and the ensuing civil greatest American playwrights, how did it develop and how did it
war that killed as many Russians as Wilson drew on his Pittsburgh years eventually conquer the world? In
all the deaths of all the combatants to create his stirring 10-play cycle - addition to learning about what
of WWI. The government policy mixing comedy, tragedy, melodrama people grew, raised, and consumed,
immediately following the civil war, and deep insight. In this course, we we will also explore representations
the New Economic Policy, was a will read the four plays involving the of food in Italian art and literature,
complex compromise between iconic Aunt Ester, see some video, from banquet scene in frescoes in
the interests of a relatively tiny enjoy some actors and take a Zoom Etruscan tombs to the role of food in
working class and a peasantry which tour of August Wilson’s Hill. The four Boccaccio’s “The Decameron”, to the
constituted 5/6 of the population. plays will be “Two Trains Running,” “Futurist Cookbook” of the 1930s. In
We will study this turbulent and “Gem of the Ocean,” “King Hedley addition, each week we will focus on
interesting eight or nine-year period. II” and “Radio Golf.” (This course is one recipe from the relevant period
Academic • Charles Hier distinct from the course previously that can reasonably cooked at home.
taught in the Spring 2020 term) Academic • Lorraine Denman
1–2:30 p.m. Academic • Christopher Rawson
3–4:30 p.m.
Advanced Conversational Current Art and Architecture:
Spanish* Challenging Traditions from Women Artists (1400-1700)
Members may take only one level of Here to the Moon Recently, significant scholarly
Spanish. In this course, we will examine attention has been paid to women
This is your chance to practice notable contemporary work of working as artists during the
your Spanish skills in a friendly local and international artists Renaissance and Early Modern
atmosphere. The course strengthens and architects, exploring five period, resulting in a number of high
your vocabulary, improves your chronological themes that challenge profile museum exhibitions (some
pronunciation, and gives cultural artistic traditions. We will discover regrettably cancelled in 2020.) Join
background (history, customs, that these works could be enchanting this course to take a closer look at
foods, music) about several Spanish- or a harsh confrontation to accepted women working in the arts during
speaking countries. All effort is rules and practices. The course the Renaissance. Gain a deeper
designed to get you to speak and will begin with recent notable understanding of some artists who
understand Spanish better. examples and focus on our regional may be more familiar and discover
fine art institutions, then each class new artists who are only just
Exploration • Nancy Farber progressively expands to infinite beginning to be better understood.
explorations, literally into space! Academic • Saskia Beranek
Academic • Erin O’Neill
16 | OLLI.PITT.EDU * LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLEIntermediate Conversational When Worlds Collide
FRIDAY French: Talking About the This course examines episodes of
Past (Tense)* cultural collision, moments when
10–11:30 a.m. In this 10-week course, we will be different world views—ideas about
looking at the formation and use of human origins, cultural values
Empower Your Writing with various past tenses in French and and practices, systems of politics,
Poetry: Rhyming Poems* applying them in classroom activities. theories of science—encounter one
In this course, students will learn, Class time also includes working with another. We will study instances
examine, and practice a special few passages from a selected reader. of cultural collision and exchange
of the over sixty types of poems. This course is geared to students to consider some fundamental
Students will practice tools essential who have difficulty in comfortably questions: How are human
to poetry, understanding that these delivering simple sentences in French. knowledge, values, and beliefs
techniques improve all writing. Some prior knowledge of French is shaped? How do they evolve and
Specific forms to be covered include expected. Advanced speaking skills spread? What can we learn about the
clerihew, couplet, triplet, quatrain, are not required. values and belief systems of different
limerick, rap, rendeaux, and sonnet. Exploration • Cathleen Sendek-Sapp cultures when they come into contact
Exploration • Sandra Gould Ford with one another? What can we learn
Religions of the Book: about ourselves by exploring our
History of the First Judaism, Christianity, and encounters with other cultures?
Amendment Islam Academic • Orin James
From a historical point of view, This course is a general introduction
in this course we will carefully to three major “religions of the Book”
survey the explicit protections of (that is, those religious traditions that
the First Amendment to create an claim allegiance to and dependence
understanding of why the framers upon the Bible): Judaism, Christianity
included them and excluded others. and Islam. We focus on key concepts
The course will take an historical germane to each such as religious
view of how public events, the law, gender, social guidelines and
Congress and the federal courts restrictions as well as historical
have shaped the ongoing meaning developments, and contemporary
of the Amendment. issues. Throughout the course, we
Academic • John Burt also examine interactions among
these religious traditions, especially
the movement out from Judaism
into both Christianity and Islam. The
course also serves as a foundation
for further study of Christianity, Islam
and/or Judaism.
Academic • Sandra Collins
* LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 17OLLI Course Descriptions
Session 2: Monday, March 15–Friday, April 16
Medieval and Renaissance Art Introduction to Astronomy
MONDAY in the Neighborhood Part 2: Stars, Galaxies, and
There is a lot of Medieval and the Universe
10–11:30 a.m. Renaissance art in the neighborhood. The focus of this course is on stars,
Pittsburgh’s Frick and Carnegie galaxies, and the universe. We start
American Sign Language museums have a good deal to offer. with a description of our star, the
(Continued from Session 1) Columbus has some interesting sun. Next, we look at the properties
offerings, less than three hours away. of other stars, how stars are born
An Early Start in the Garden And Cleveland’s art museum offers and die, black holes, neutron stars,
Many gardeners wait until after many wonders. We’ll be looking at and white dwarfs. We will examine
Mother’s Day to put in their garden. sculpture and paintings depicting our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and
In this course we will show how scenes from classical mythology, and compare it to other galaxies. Along
to choose the right flowers and we’ll be looking at a lot of Biblical art. the way, we introduce the mystery of
vegetables to extend the season. We’ll be talking about the art not as dark matter. Finally, we investigate
Starting now will mean harvests mere illustrations of mythological and how the observed expansion of the
and blooms when most “normal” Biblical stories, but as interpretations universe leads us to Big Bang theory.
gardeners are just getting started. of the stories. Art from outside We speculate how the universe may
“the neighborhood” -- Veronese, eventually come to an end, and
Enjoyment • Doug Oster Caravaggio, Bosch, etc. -- will aid our whether there could be multiple
understanding. universes.
As You Like It: Four Aspects
of Love Academic • David Brumble Academic • David Nero
“As You Like It” is undoubtedly one 1–2:30 p.m. Latin America Through Short
of Shakespeare’s most enduring and Stories
well-loved comedies. It has been Advanced Beginner Spanish
described, quite simply, as a play This class provides opportunities
(Continued from Session 1) for learners to develop an in-depth
about love. Over four sessions, we
will examine the four ‘aspects of love’ understanding of contemporary
iPhone 2 Latin America through reading and
with which Shakespeare fills the play;
romantic, idyllic, spontaneous, and This course is a follow up to the “How discussing significant works of short
carnal. We will examine the way by to Be Smart with Your iPhone” course narrative in English translation. We
which each of the principal characters for those who have already taken the will examine the literary currents
approaches love, and how they deal first class and want to learn more. of the late 19th and 20th century,
with its consequences. We will also We will continue to explore the iOS Modernismo, the Vanguards, the
examine how Shakespeare uses operating system and various apps so-called “Boom,” “magical realism,”
two clown characters in the play to from Apple and some others that help and postmodern feminism. We will
make a commentary on the nature to make your life more interesting also consider some trends of 21st
of mankind. and fulfilling. We will be hands-on century writing. We examine major
with Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Maps, authors such as Echeverría, Darío,
Academic • Alan Stanford Safari, Podcasts, Camera and Photos, Machado de Assis, Quiroga, Borges,
Music and iTunes, Clock, Reminders, Bombal, Guimarães Rosa, Rulfo,
Messages, and Notes. All participants Cortázar, García Márquez, Ferré,
will need an iPhone running the Valenzuela, and others.
latest iOS, knowledge of their iCloud Academic • Karen Goldman
identity and password, and at least
one active e-mail account. This is not
a beginner course and you should
come knowing and competent in
basic functions of your iPhone.
Exploration • Richard Fitzgibbon
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