Learning programs for adults age 50 and better at the University of Pittsburgh
Summer 2021 Course Catalog It’s Time for You!
REGISTRATION OPENS MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2021 • PHONE REGISTRATION OPENS MONDAY, APRIL 5, 2021 Summer 2021 Term Osher Lifelong Learning Institute University of Pittsburgh
TABLE OF CONTENTS DATES AND DEADLINES
Welcome 3 May 17 OLLI Session 1 begins
Membership and May 31 Memorial Day, no classes Registration 4 June 21 OLLI Monday Session 1 courses end Scholarships 5 June 26 OLLI Session 2 begins Schedule at-a-glance 6, 7 July 5 Independence Day (celebrated), no classes Courses by topic 8, 9
OLLI Session 1 Courses 10 August 2 Session 2 courses end
OLLI Session 2 Courses 18
Monday Master Classes 24, 25
Special Events 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 | 3 Membership 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 Summer, Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Terms) https://www.campusce.net/ollipitt/
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OLLI.PITT.EDU | 4 Scholarships 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 Summer term 2021 and discussion. must be received by Monday, May 10, 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 [email protected].
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OLLI.PITT.EDU | 35 OLLI Session 1 • Monday, May 17–Monday, June 21 SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE SUMMER 2021 morning MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 9–10 a.m. 10–11:30 a.m. 9–10 a.m. 10–11 a.m. 10–11:30 a.m. Better Balance! Steady Beginning Level French: Gentle Yoga Dance and Be Fit The Age of the Crusades: Part 1 and Strong Present Tense Verbs Jill Clary Roland Ford Jared Day Cathleen Sendek-Sapp Diane Markovitz 9:30–11:30 a.m. 10–11:30 p.m. Empower Writing with Poetry, 10–11:30 a.m. Consider the Bee Visual Journaling: Collage, Beginner Spanish Part 2: Non-Rhyming Poems Creative Nonfiction: Share Your Jeff Aziz Printmaking, Bookmaking, Maria Franco de Gomez Sandra Gould Ford Message to Transform Lives Coping with Stress for & More Beginner Watercolor Intermediate Conversational Ann Hultberg Mental and Physical Health Ann Rosenthal Melissa Tai French: Hypothetically Speaking Gardens of the World: Ideas and Longevity 10–11:30 a.m. The Rhythm of the Cosmos Cathleen Sendek-Sapp Bruce Rabin for Your Garden Contemporary India Elizabeth Burnette Prehistoric Life and Earth History Doug Oster Experimental Watercolor Lipika Mazumdar Urban Dream, Urban Stephen Lindberg Melissa Tai The Internet Revolution: Study Group on Anti-Black Nightmare: New York City Supreme Court Sampler An Improbable History Racism Abby Mendelson John Burt Richard Wilson Ralph Bangs What Style Is It? A Survey Nutrition and Food: Back to Who Killed Jesus? The Origins of Domestic Architectural Basics of Anti-Semitism in Ancient Styles with a Focus on Judith Dodd Christianity Pittsburgh Houses 11 a.m.–12 noon Rebecca Denova Robert Jucha Chair Yoga 10:15–11:15 a.m. Writing a Legacy Letter Sally Sherman Chakra Yoga All Levels Jay Sherwin Jill Clary afternoon MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 1–2:30 p.m. 1–2:30 p.m. 1–2:30 p.m. 1–2:30 p.m. 10–11:30 a.m. Monday Master Classes Advanced Intermediate Conver- Advanced Beginner Spanish Advanced Conversational Moments in Time Each Monday afternoon, OLLI sational French: Maria Franco de Gomez Spanish Germaine Watkins will offer a Master Class on a Simply Conversation Existentialism Maria Franco de Gomez special topic from an expert in Cathleen Sendek-Sapp William Pamerleau Art Looting and Destruction: their field. Members may At Home with Your Apple How to Awaken Your Inner Historical Context register for one, all, or just a Macintosh Computer Valerie Grash few of the Master Classes. Fiction Writer Richard Fitzgibbon Laurie McMillan Democracy: A Moving Target Javier Vázquez-D’Elía 3–4:30 p.m. Creative Writing: The Roaring ‘20s Great Symphonies of the Developing Characters Julia Hudson-Richards Ongoing Evolution of the 20th Century Martha Rogus American World Music Genre War and Pieces- How Music Stephen Schultz Jazz, Part II Descartes’s “Meditations” Reacts to War and Conflict Christopher Dean Sullivan TED Talks (Section 1) Gregory Strom Owen Cantor Kathy Callahan Understanding the Stock Forward to the Past Social 3–4:30 p.m. and Political Impact of 60’s Market Alexander the Great and the Aaron Leaman Popular Music Hellenistic World David Crippen Taylor Coughlan 3–4:30 p.m. TED Talks (Section 2) Isabel Allende and Pablo Kathy Callahan Neruda: The Spanish Civil War, The Detective Story from 3–4:30 p.m. Exodus, Exile, and Friendship Victorian Solutions to Coup, Putsch, Rebellion, Camila Pulgar Machado Modern Searches or Riot Michael Hefland Andrew Lotz Single-novel Study: Thomas Bell, “Out of This Furnace” Nicholas Coles
OLLI.PITT.EDU | 6 OLLI Session 2 • Saturday, June 26–Tuesday, August 3 SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE SUMMER 2021 morning MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 10–11:30 a.m. 10–11:30 a.m. 9–10 a.m. 10–10:50 a.m. 10–11:30 a.m. History of Medicine and Beginning Level French: Gentle Yoga (continued) Dance and Be Fit (continued) The Age of the Crusades: Part 2 Healthcare Present Tense Verbs 9:30–11:30 a.m. 10–11:30 a.m. Jared Day Orin James (continued) Visual Journaling: Collage, Beginner Spanish Agitators: Women Abolitionists (In)Sanity of the Species: Experimental Watercolor Printmaking, Bookmaking, (continued) John Burt Reading Octavia Butler’s (continued) & More (continued) Beginner Watercolor Bible as Literature: Joshua “Kindred” and “Dawn” Money, Power, and 10–11:30 a.m. (continued) and Judges Kimberly Latta Climate Change Dante’s Purgatorio Journey: Mapping Our Differences: David Brumble Pittsburgh Shattered Glass Alan Irvine The Burden of Sin Toward a Understanding Dimensions Intermediate Conversational Anne Madarasz The Science and Mystery Heaven of Freedom of Culture through Cultural French: Hypothetically Social Media from a Research of Shadows Paolo Montemaggi Comparison Speaking (continued) Perspective Bruce Goldstein Domes in World Architecture Hillary Koller Cristina Bahm Women in World Religions Paul Tellers Music Enrichment for 11–12 noon Sandra Collins A History of Modern Health and Wellness Chair Yoga (continued) Economic Globalization Raymond Uy William Van Lear The Scramble for Africa or History of Photography: How African Countries Got 1900-1945 Their Shapes Christine Lorenz Jon Grogan 10:15–11:15 a.m. A World Awash in Blood: Chakra Yoga All Levels Great Vietnam War Novels (continued) Abby Mendelson afternoon MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 1–2:30 p.m. 1–2:30 p.m. 1–2:30 p.m. 1–2:30 p.m. 9–10 a.m. Monday Master Class Lectures Advanced Intermediate Advanced Beginner Spanish Advanced Conversational Zumba Gold Each Monday afternoon, OLLI Conversational French: Simply (continued) Spanish Lisa Sobek will offer a Master Class on a Conversation Art of Global Catholic Missions (continued) special topic from an expert in (continued) Rachel Miller Art Looting and Destruction, their field. Members may Archetypal Astrology: The Plan- Bret Hart, Mark Twain, and Contemporary Issues register for one, all, or just a ets as Aspects of Ourselves Valerie Grash few of the Master Classes. the Evolution of a Distinctive Lilan Laishley American Voice and Style Best American Short Nevermore, The Great Tradition David Walton Stories 2020 of Supernatural Poetry Social Responsibility and Ethics Adam Reger Brett Rutherford in American Sports Poetry and Prose in the Spinoza’s Ethics Ray Jones Pandemic Gregory Strom “Such Friends”: The Literary Sasha Reese Taking and Editing Photos with 1920s in Dublin, London, Paris, Poverty in Western Your iPhone and New York City Civilization: A Historical Rich Fitzgibbon Kathleen Dixon-Donnelly Overview Since the The Trump Years and Recent The Spanish Republic and Civil Middle Ages Events in the Light of History War, 1931-1939 Javier Vázquez-D’Elía Louise Mayo Julia Hudson-Richards 3–4:30 p.m. 3–4:30 p.m. Classic Hindu Texts: The Contemporary European Film: Rāmāyaṇa and the Bhaga- 1980s–present vad-Gītā Lucy Fisher Daniel Heifetz Mythology of the Ancient Found Poetry: Discovering the and Modern World- Heroines Extraordinary in the Everyday and Heroes Erik Schuckers Marcie Persyn
OLLI.PITT.EDU | 37 Courses by Topic • Summer 2021 Clicking on each course title will take you to its course description in the catalog.
Art History and Architecture History, Classics, & Philosophy Art Looting and Destruction, Contemporary Issues 22 The Age of the Crusades: Part 1 16
Art Looting and Destruction: Historical Context 16 The Age of the Crusades: Part 2 23
Art of Global Catholic Missions 21 Agitators: Women Abolitionists 23 Domes in World Architecture 20 Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World 14 History of Photography, 1900-1945 20 Descartes’s “Meditations” 12 What Style Is It? A Survey of Domestic Architectural Existentialism 14 Styles with a Focus on Pittsburgh Houses 15 History of Medicine and Healthcare 18 Film, Music & Theater Mythology of the Ancient and Modern World: Heroines and Heroes 21 Contemporary European Film: 1980s–present 21 Pittsburgh Shattered Glass 18 Forward to the Past Social and Political Impact of 60’s Popular Music 12 Poverty in Western Civilization: A Historical Overview Since the Middle Ages 23 Great Symphonies of the 20th Century 11 The Roaring ‘20s 14 Ongoing Evolution of the American World Music Genre Jazz, Part II 16 The Scramble for Africa or How African Countries Got Their Shapes 22 War and Pieces: How Music Reacts to War and Conflict 14 The Spanish Republic and Civil War, 1931-1939 21 Fitness, Health, & Self-Interests Spinoza’s Ethics 19
Archetypal Astrology: The Planets as Aspects “Such Friends”: The Literary 1920s in Dublin, London, of Ourselves 19 Paris and New York City 21 Better Balance! Steady and Strong 10 Supreme Court Sampler 17 Chair Yoga 10 Language Studies Chakra Yoga All Levels 14 Beginning Level French: Present Tense Verbs 11 Coping with Stress for Mental and Physical Health and Longevity 11 Advanced Intermediate Conversational French: Simply Conversation 12 Dance and Be Fit 15 Advanced Beginner Spanish 14 Gardens of the World: Ideas for Your Garden 10 Beginner Spanish 15 Gentle Yoga 13 Advanced Conversational Spanish 16 Music Enrichment for Health and Wellness 22 Intermediate Conversational French: Nutrition and Food: Back to Basics 10 Hypothetically Speaking 17 TED Talks (Section 1) 11 TED Talks (Section 2) 12 Zumba Gold 23
OLLI.PITT.EDU | 8 Courses by Topic • Summer 2021 (continued) Clicking on each course title will take you to its course description in the catalog.
Literature & Creative Writing Political, Social Sciences & Society A World Awash in Blood: Great Vietnam War Novels 22 Contemporary India 13 Best American Short Stories 2020 22 Coup, Putsch, Rebellion, or Riot 12 Bible as Literature: Joshua and Judges 23 Democracy: A Moving Target 16
Bret Hart, Mark Twain, and the Evolution of a Mapping Our Differences: Understanding Dimensions Distinctive American Voice and Style 21 of Culture through Cultural Comparison 22 Consider the Bee 11 Money, Power, and Climate Change 18 Creative Nonfiction: Share Your Message to Social Responsibility and Ethics in American Sports 21 Transform Lives 10 Study Group on Anti-Black Racism 13 Creative Writing: Developing Characters 12 The Trump Years and Recent Events in the Dante’s Purgatorio Journey: The Burden of Sin Light of History 19 Toward a Heaven of Freedom 20 The Detective Story from Victorian Solutions to Religious Studies Modern Searches 16 Classic Hindu Texts: The Rāmāyaṇa and the Empower Writing with Poetry, Part 2: Bhagavad-Gītā 20 Non-Rhyming Poems 17 Who Killed Jesus? The Origins of Anti-Semitism in Found Poetry: Discovering the Extraordinary in Ancient Christianity 13 the Everyday 20 Women in World Religions 19 How to Awaken Your Inner Fiction Writer 14 (In)Sanity of the Species: Reading Octavia Butler’s Science, Technology & Medicine “Kindred” and “Dawn” 18 At Home with Your Apple Macintosh Computer 12 Isabel Allende and Pablo Neruda: The Spanish Civil War, Exodus, Exile, and Friendship 14 The Internet Revolution: An Improbable History 10 Prehistoric Life and Earth History 17 Nevermore, The Great Tradition of Supernatural Poetry 19 The Rhythm of the Cosmos 15
Poetry and Prose in the Pandemic 22 The Science and Mystery of Shadows 19 Single-novel Study: Thomas Bell, “Out of This Furnace” 13 Social Media from a Research Perspective 18 Urban Dream, Urban Nightmare: New York City 15 Taking and Editing Photos with Your iPhone 19 Writing a Legacy Letter 15 Visual & Performing Arts Math and Economics Beginner Watercolor 15 A History of Modern Economic Globalization 20 Experimental Watercolor 11 Understanding the Stock Market 16 Moments in Time 17
Visual Journaling: Collage, Printmaking, Bookmaking, & More 13
OLLI.PITT.EDU | 39 OLLI Course Descriptions Session 1: Monday, May 17–Monday, June 21, 2021
Gardens of the World: Nutrition and Food: MONDAY Ideas for Your Garden Back to Basics Let’s explore gardens from all over The Pandemic, new dietary 9–10 a.m. the world. This course is more than guidelines, a focus on the the “travelogue”. The incredible environment—these are just some Better Balance! Steady landscapes of England, France, Italy, of the changes that may require and Strong Holland and more offer many ideas adjustments in our food lives. New Are you looking for an exercise to use in the home garden. You don’t food access and options, along program designed to improve your have to have a grand estate to have a with changing health needs, add to everyday life? This course, led by wonderful garden on a smaller scale. the confusion. Nutrition needs are a Physical Therapist, will focus on Enjoyment • Doug Oster personal, and one size does not fit balance and core strengthening all. There are more questions than exercises. Come join the fun and The Internet Revolution: answers since nutrition, health and learn a program designed to improve An Improbable History food needs that work for you may your posture and daily function while not work for your partner or relative. also decreasing your risk of falls The Internet as we know it was a But there are some nutrition basics and injury. No special equipment surprise, even to its many inventors. that have stood the test of time. This needed, and most of the exercises This course traces its evolution from course will focus on evidence-based are completed standing. No part of its origins in the Cold War of the and personalized guidance. 1950s to its explosive growth after the program involves getting up and Academic • Judith Dodd down from the floor. This program is privatization in the 1990s. We will examine why IBM and AT&T thought suitable for beginners yet appropriate 11 a.m.–12 noon for those with more exercise the key technologies of the internet were unworkable; how the 1960s experience as it can be adapted to Chair Yoga fit individual needs. counterculture fostered the growth of the personal computer; why Bill Gates This gentle form of yoga is practiced Enjoyment • Diane Markovitz vastly underestimated its importance using a chair as a prop/stabilizer as late as 1995; and why attempts for support during standing 10–11:30 a.m. by governments and international poses or adapted for sitting on a regulatory agencies to dictate chair. It is especially beneficial for Creative Nonfiction: standards for the Internet failed. people concerned with balance or Share Your Message to Academic • Richard Wilson coordination issues or those who have Transform Lives felt they are unable to participate in This course focuses on the writing of other yoga experiences. The class creative nonfiction. Techniques and includes poses for strength training, skills of the various forms of creative mobility in the joints and more nonfiction, such as the personal relaxing poses to help steady the essay, memoir, and flash nonfiction mind. Opportunities to intensify, with are examined in class and practiced modifications to make the poses more in student writing. Students will accessible, will be offered throughout learn and practice strategies for the course so that participants learn brainstorming, drafting, critiquing, to adapt to their personal situations and revising their work. and comfort as well as challenge Enjoyment • Ann Hultberg themselves. The course is appropriate for all levels. Enjoyment • Sally Sherman
10 | OLLI.PITT.EDU 1–2:30 p.m. Coping with Stress for TUESDAY Mental and Physical Health Monday Master Classes and Longevity (see pages 24-25) 10–11:30 a.m. This four-week course is a journey Beginning Level French: that will teach you how to change 3–4:30 p.m. Present Tense Verbs* the way your brain responds to This 10-week course is designed for both acute and chronic stress. High Great Symphonies of the levels of chronic stress can alter the 20th Century students with little prior knowledge of French. We will look at the quality of both mental and physical This new class will cover the mechanics of verb conjugations and health and longevity. The journey development of the symphony as the how to use them to create simple will provide education so that you major genre of classical orchestral conversationally-based present tense understand why stress can alter both music. From its roots in the 18th sentences. The scope of this class mental and physical health and will century, through major innovations in will be kept at a very basic level. teach you how to reduce the effect the 19th century, we will concentrate Vocabulary and support structures will of stress on your mental and physical on symphonic masterpieces of the be introduced as necessary. health and longevity. The journey is 20th century. The focus will be on intended for healthy individuals who Exploration • Cathleen Sendek-Sapp specific musical characteristics of will benefit from increased stress- the countries and regions where coping skills and, also, for individuals Consider the Bee the composers lived. We will cover with diseases where stress coping the instrumentation and harmonic This course will be exploration in can promote an enhanced sense of and melodic characteristics of each literature, art, and philosophy of the well-being and possibly influence the symphony. Most importantly, we ages-long collaboration between course of disease. will dive into the programmatic and humans and bees. Bees are found Exploration • Bruce Rabin emotional content of the music everywhere in human thought. created by these masters. There are political bees, sexy bees, Experimental Watercolor* lawyer bees, and holy bees (Judaism, Academic • Stephen Schultz Christianity, and Mormonism have In this 10-week course, students with previous watercolor experience will TED Talks (Section 1)* all claimed to have the bees on their team). We will explore how bees have enjoy using household items and Members may register for only one held up a mirror to human foibles products to produce a variety of section of the course. and human society in works including textural effects. Each class will open TED (technology, entertainment, and Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida”, with a demonstration using a new design), a nonprofit organization that Dickens’ “Our Mutual Friend”, A.S. technique. Students will engage in promotes “ideas worth spreading”; Byatt’s “Angels and Insects”, Bernard brainstorming possible applications features talks by some of the world’s Mandeville’s “The Fable of the Bees,” for the techniques. Everyone will be most engaging speakers on a wide Denis Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner: encouraged to share their work at variety of subjects. The TED website 2049”, and Lucas Cranach’s “Cupid the end of class. features more than 2,300 talks on Complaining to Venus”. Along Enjoyment • Melissa Tai video. In this class, we will discuss, the way, we will learn quite a bit debate, and reflect on a few of these about the natural history of bees, talks each week. Some talks are about beekeeping, and the way in informational, some are just plain fun. which bees have become a sort of Group members are encouraged to indicator species for environmental select talks that inspire or intrigue degradation and climate change. them to kick off the discussion. This is intended as an interdisciplinary Exploration • Kathy Callahan science/arts/humanities course and welcomes students of many interests. Academic • Jeff Aziz
*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 11 James Baldwin: Living in Fire better understand your computer so The subject matter will be explored you will be more productive. We will through lectures, Powerpoint This course will read fictional and explore the intricacies of the Finder presentations and selected YouTube non- fictional works by Baldwin, and and many of the current Apple videos with discussion. A handout will the newest biography of Baldwin. applications. be provided each week outlining the The readings and discussions will material for the day. celebrate the personal and political Enjoyment • Richard Fitzgibbon life of the great African-American Enjoyment • David Crippen writer who changed the face of Creative Writing: Developing WesternCANCELLED politics and culture. Baldwin Characters* TED Talks (Section 2)* was a lifelong anti-imperialist, black Characters drive the stories in books, Members may register for only one queer advocate, chronicler of the movies, and TV. Through weekly section of the course. Civil Rights Movement. The class will discussions and writing, in this course TED (technology, entertainment, and explore how Baldwin’s life and work we will discuss the physical, social, design), a nonprofit organization that channel the long history of African and psyche that characters possess, promotes “ideas worth spreading”; American freedom struggles and how then apply that to our own creative features talks by some of the world’s Baldwin has become a symbol of the writing during class. Students can most engaging speakers on a wide global Black Lives Matter movement. share their own unique characters variety of subjects. The TED website Academic • Ken Boas with each other in class, if willing. features more than 2,300 talks on Exploration • Martha Rogus video. In this class, we will discuss, 1–2:30 p.m. debate, and reflect on a few of these Descartes’s “Meditations” talks each week. Some talks are Advanced Intermediate More than any other text, Descartes’s informational, some are just plain fun. Conversational French: Group members are encouraged to Simply Conversation* “Meditations” marks a decisive turning point in the history of select talks that inspire or intrigue This 10-week course is designed philosophy. In less than 100 pages, them to kick off the discussion. for those who have taken several Descartes set a new agenda for Exploration • Kathy Callahan French courses and are interested philosophical inquiry, based on in strengthening their speaking radical doubt and focused on deep 3–4:30 p.m. abilities and comprehension. Each and troubling questions about week’s lesson centers on a selected how it is possible for us to know Coup, Putsch, Rebellion, topic with the goal of building and anything and how the mind can be or Riot recalling useful vocabulary. The class connected to the body. In this course This course explores the political is conducted for the most part in we will study the “Meditations” in context and history of attempts to French. No text is required. its entirety with a keen sensitivity to adjust electoral and governmental Exploration • Cathleen Sendek-Sapp the way in which Descartes’s thinking transition outcomes via force. It will continues to shape human self- examine the differences between At Home with Your Apple understanding. different types of circumventing Macintosh Computer Academic • Greg Strom established transition rules in political This course will take advantage of regimes and ask questions about Zoom to enable you to learn more Forward to the Past: Social where we draw lines (and who gets about your Mac computer. Previously and Political Impact of 60’s to draw those lines). A variety of OLLI offered a course for Apple Popular Music historical cases from across the world laptops because members had to This course will explore how the and through history will be explored bring their own computer to campus. sociology and politics of the and compared, to hopefully build a Now, with the availability of Zoom revolutionary 1960’s decade shaped good foundation of understanding we can serve a wider audience of popular music, and how music may of just how this unruly side of Mac users. This course will cover the have altered history. Guest lecturers governmental transitions might operating systems currently being with expertise in various subjects be understood. used by Macs that are 8 years old or are included. Attendees will follow Academic • Andrew Lotz newer. (roughly OS X 10.13 through the evolution of 1960’s music as a MacOS Big Sur 11) The object of unique art form and a social force. the sessions will be to enable you to
12 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE Single-novel Study: Thomas 9:30–11:30 a.m. Study Group on Anti-Black Bell, “Out of This Furnace” Racism We will read one important novel, Visual Journaling: Collage, This course is inspired by the newly slowly and closely, attending to its Printmaking, Bookmaking, required Pitt undergraduate course, author’s art and vision, historical & More* Anti-black Racism, developed after context, and contemporary This 10-week course is designed as last year’s police killings of George significance. Published in 1941, a summer “art retreat” in which you Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others “Out of This Furnace” is a family will make your own journals and fill that called national attention to the saga spanning fifty years of steel- them with the colors, shapes, lines, continued devaluation of Black lives town history in the Mon Valley. It and patterns of your inner and outer in the U.S. Using videos of short follows three generations of Slovak- worlds. We will take inspiration from lectures and materials prepared by Americans from arrival in the 1880s, art and artist visits, and explore a Pitt faculty and local activists, we through the Homestead strike and the wide range of media, techniques, and will discuss and examine racism, Great Depression, to the unionization visual approaches. Collage will include inequality, social difference, and of the mills in the New Deal era. both found and handmade paper. related topics in order to gain insight Along the way it addresses immigrant Printmaking techniques will include into the Black experience and cultural life, the hazards of steelmaking, race a range of monotype techniques, expression, and everyday strategies and gender relations, labor strife – including gel printing, trace for anti-racism. Participants will be and the strength of the human spirit monotype, and dark field monotype; asked to view at least one video in response to these conditions. stamps and relief prints; and drypoint. on a topic before class each week. Braddock-born Bell writes with an You will make sewn and folded books, Class time will be spent discussing insider’s matter-of-factness, gentle including accordion, pamphlet, and each week’s themes and topics. This irony and great tenderness. The class stab binding, plus repurpose found course is most appropriate for those will include lectures and discussion, books. All experience levels welcome. who wish to discuss/reflect on these enhanced by songs, photos, and More experienced students can topics and grow anti-racism strategies video clips of relevant events. choose to focus on and develop a in their lives. Exploration • Nicholas Coles specific project. Exploration • Ralph Bangs Exploration • Ann Rosenthal Who Killed Jesus? The 10–11:30 a.m. Origins of Anti-Semitism in WEDNESDAY Ancient Christianity Contemporary India Anti-Semitism (a modern term), 9–10 a.m. The significance of India is remains a tragic expression of characteristically downplayed, religious and cultural intolerance. Gentle Yoga possibly because of its inherent Where and when did this begin? This 10-week course is geared for complexities. It is the largest This course examines the origins those new to yoga or those who are democracy, economically vibrant, of Christian-Jewish relations in the interested in a gentle practice. It and full of seeming paradoxes. In ancient world in three areas: the story includes a combination of meditation, this course we will explore the many of the trial and crucifixion of Jesus in breath work, and flowing movement successes and challenges in today’s the gospels; the letters of Paul; and intended for all abilities. This class India, primarily through how western the writings of the Church Fathers offers nurturing, kindness, and media (news and popular sources) against the Jews in the second compassion for the body, regardless portray this ancient and varied land century. Each of these areas has an of a student’s physical abilities, age, and its peoples. Each week will focus historical and social context that will or experience. You will experiment on a topic which will allow us to help to explain the ways in which with balance, strength, flexibility, and consider the social, cultural, political, the early Christians articulated their stillness while practicing mindfulness and religious backgrounds leading to position in relation to Judaism. and meditation techniques. a better understanding of what India Academic • Rebecca Denova Enjoyment • Jill Clary has come to mean both internally and externally in the contemporary world. Academic • Lipika Mazumdar
*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 13 10:15–11:15 a.m. nature of freedom, responsibility, bad this phenomenon with music as a faith, authenticity, and the absurd. A commentary on history and current Chakra Yoga All Levels common theme running through all events from Mozart and Beethoven, our discussions will be how we find to Woodstock. This 10-week course moves through meaning in life given the realities of traditional yoga poses (or asanas) Exploration • Owen Cantor contemporary culture. that align each individual chakra, moving up the spine from the root Academic • William Pamerleau 3–4:30 p.m. chakra to the crown chakra. Chakras are energy centers located across How to Awaken Your Inner Alexander the Great and the different points on our spinal column. Fiction Writer* Hellenistic World When energy becomes blocked Your inner fiction writer will blossom Alexander the Great died young in a chakra, it triggers physical, in this course which will embolden it but left the world forever changed. mental, or emotional imbalances that through stimulating writing exercises, This course follows Alexander from manifest in symptoms such as anxiety, fresh ways to practice story-making, the courts of Macedonia to the lethargy, or poor digestion. This class methods to grow your fictional worlds steppes of Afghanistan and explores is for the student who likes a fluid, and characters, and a community the profound cultural changes and mindful practice that links alignment, of writers to share and highlight the political developments that define movement and breath. Participants gems of your work. We will focus this period of kingdoms and empires should wear comfortable, loose fitting on writing short fiction pieces that we call the Hellenistic Age. Together, clothing and have a yoga mat. jump off the page! No experience we will explore questions and issues Enjoyment • Jill Clary necessary. Let your imagination soar! related to ethnic identity, cultural Exploration • Laurie McMillan and intellectual exchange, empire 1–2:30 p.m. building, globalization, and artistic The Roaring ‘20s experimentation. Advanced Beginner Spanish* A century ago, the world began to Academic • Taylor Coughlan Members may take only one level of emerge from a devastating war and Spanish per term. a pandemic of historic proportions. Isabel Allende and Pablo Neruda: The Spanish Civil This 10-week course is for students The decade that followed became famous for flappers and cultural War, Exodus, Exile, and who have advanced beyond a Friendship beginning knowledge of Spanish revolution, but also political revolution and wish to further refine speaking, and polarization. How will our We will read Isabel Allende’s novel, listening, and reading comprehension ‘20s compare? “A Long Petal of the Sea” (2019), skills. Classroom practice focuses on Academic • Julia Hudson-Richards in which she tells us the story of a the use of complex grammar, syntax, couple, Víctor and Roser, in exile and vocabulary. War and Pieces: How Music due to the Spanish Civil War. They travel to Chile on the SS Winnipeg Exploration • Maria Franco de Gomez Reacts to War and Conflict (1939) along with 2,000 Spanish In this four-week course, seasoned Existentialism refugees from Franco’s fascism. with humor, emotion, and discovery, Because this exodus was arranged Existentialism was a movement and presented as interconnected by the poet-diplomat Neruda, the that defined philosophy in much building blocks, we will examine Winnipeg is known as Neruda’s “Boat of the twentieth century, but it the relationship of music to the of Hope.” Each week we will read had a wide influence on art and art and imagery of warfare and three chapters, following Victor and culture well outside of academia. conflict. Throughout the history of Roser’s trajectory as they go into exile While less known today, it is no less classical and contemporary music, again after Pinochet’s coup, this time relevant as a way of grappling with composers have reacted to conflict to Venezuela. There Víctor meets some of life’s biggest questions. by crystalizing emotions for their Isabel Allende, also exiled in Caracas This course focuses primarily on audience in the language of music. and working as a journalist. A strong the philosophical tradition that From musical bomb blasts to silly friendship is born. Audio-visual constitutes existentialism, which calvary charges, great composers, materials will be used to recreate examines the nature of human life enmeshed in their own world, react historical references. from the perspective of the concrete to the topical news of the day—often Exploration • Camila Pulgar Machado individual. We will examine the with ethereal results. We will examine
14 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE The Rhythm of the Cosmos present. The course introduces THURSDAY each major style by viewing national We exist in this universe, but the prototypes but then concentrates on ongoing events in space are beyond local examples found in Pittsburgh 10–11 a.m. our human scales of time and size. and southwestern Pennsylvania. What are the natural rhythms of the Architectural styles are also a useful Dance and Be Fit cosmos and how can we put them tool to help understand social and This 10-week course engages all age in a coherent perspective? Einstein cultural history from different periods groups and all ability levels with fun said, “The most beautiful thing we and this too will be emphasized in and easy dance and fitness routines. can experience is the mysterious.” In the course. Learning basic dance and fitness this course we will investigate origins, moves will help participants take such as simple hydrogen forming the Academic • Robert Jucha more steps toward a healthier lifestyle basis of all structure; slow transitions, and get you moving. No experience such as gas cloud to star to black Writing a Legacy Letter or special skills are needed. Great hole; the scale and consequences This four-session course is designed for beginners as well as veteran of collisions and expansion; to introduce the concept of “legacy dancers, the course can be adapted dynamic events such as quasars and letters” and to encourage participants to anyone’s unique needs. supernovae; and “empty” space, to craft their own legacy document. Enjoyment • Roland Ford which is full of the unknown, and A legacy letter (also called an “ethical hazardous to humans. will”) is a written document that Beginner Spanish* Academic • Elizabeth Burnette allows people to share their life Members may take only one level of lessons, express their values and Spanish. Urban Dream, Urban transmit their blessings to future Nightmare: New York City generations. A legacy letter is shorter This 10-week course is for beginners than a memoir, typically just a few Perhaps both. New York City, America’s and it focuses on Spanish pronunciation, pages. Writing one is a rewarding great metropolis, was never more than vocabulary, grammar, and useful experience that creates an enduring a dream. Delightful, dirty, constantly expressions for travel. Participants can gift for children, grandchildren, and reinventing itself, its environs, expect classroom practice to include other loved ones. The course includes purpose, morés—is it paradise or speaking, reading, and listening discussion and brief writing exercises perdition? We’ll read some excerpts comprehension. to help participants examine their life and come to our own conclusions. Exploration • Maria Franco de Gomez histories, explore their values, and Jeremiah Moss, “Vanishing New capture important insights. It offers York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul”; Beginner Watercolor advice, encouragement, and a model Olivia Laing, “The Lonely City”; Jane structure to help participants draft Enjoy the beauty, quirks and happy Jacobs, “The Death and Life of Great and complete their own legacy letter. surprises watercolor painting can American Cities”, “Vital Little Plans”; bring! In this course, a new online Robert Caro, “The Power Broker: Exploration • Jay Sherwin lesson and demonstration, followed Robert Moses and the Fall of New by discussion, will be presented York”; Roberta Gratz, “The Battle each week. Topics to be covered will for Gotham”. include washes, brush work, color, Academic • Abby Mendelson perspective, composition and much more. Participants will be encouraged What Style Is It? A Survey to submit photos of their own of Domestic Architectural watercolor works for group discussion, Styles with a Focus on questions, and suggestions. Individual Pittsburgh Houses feedback from the instructor will be provided to participants. This Have you ever walked past an old course is appropriate for beginners house and wondered what style is it? and those with less than one-year This course helps provide the answers watercolor experience. to this question by describing the features which identify American Enjoyment • Melissa Tai domestic architecture beginning with the Colonial period up to the
*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 15 1–2:50 p.m. an unfinished journey in pursuit of care?), and even delve into the weird a moving target. We explore what and fascinating world of behavioral Advanced Conversational makes democracy possible, as well as finance, to better understand Spanish* the sources of its frequent fragility and sometimes why we all make bad permanent need for renewal. Special decisions with our money. Members may take only one level attention will be paid to the analysis of Spanish. Academic • Aaron Leaman and discussion of the challenges The main goal of this 10-week course and transformations experienced by 3–4:30 p.m. is Spanish reading and conversation. American democracy throughout the Group discussions based on short last decade. The Detective Story from stories written by Hispanic writers Academic • Javier Vázquez-D’Elía Victorian Solutions to will be the methodology for the class. Modern Searches Weekly reading assignments will Ongoing Evolution of the provide the content of the course. Early stories by Poe and Doyle American World Music Genre present clear morality and rational Class discussions will be conducted Jazz, Part II in Spanish, so participants are solutions. More modern and post- expected to have a significant This experiential course will focus modern stories by Dashiel Hammett, knowledge of Spanish. on participants’ listening skills the Swedish couple, Maj Sjowall and appreciation for the Jazz and Per Wahloo and George V. Exploration • Maria Franco de Gomez genre art form, specifically in the Higgins produce more morally and Art Looting and Destruction: eras of the Big Band, Jazz, R&B, socially complex visions and more Historical Context Funk, Fusion, Blues and other problematic “solutions.” While offerings that have taken the art the focus will be on the texts, their Looting and destruction have of free expression and innovation characters, and their meanings, we long been a devastating aspect of to such a level of inner reflection. will also look at the historical contexts cultural strife. The desire to possess We will discover how the aspects of the writers and their stories. plundered objects of intrinsic or of everyday sounds in this music Academic • Michael Hefland artistic value has, in fact, reshaped conjures images, not just as complete cultures, as have the actions of those songs, but through nuanced voice who acting upon ideological beliefs and instrument inflections as well. undertake iconoclasm as a method Music recordings, demonstrations, FRIDAY of intimidation and force, whether for guided listening, personal reflection political or religious purposes. With and discussions on artists and time 10–11:30 a.m. specific examples, we’ll examine the periods will be presented with the issues surrounding image defacement goal of participants deepening their The Age of the Crusades: from ancient times to the present, appreciation for the Jazz music art Part 1 and thoroughly dissect looting as form and its basic elements while part of both traditional warfare and developing the skills to become This course will examine one of the modern extremism. better listeners. most iconic set of conflicts commonly associated with the Middle Ages: Academic • Valerie Grash Enjoyment • Christopher Dean The Crusades. For over 200 years, Sullivan Democracy: A Moving Target Christians and Muslims battled for control of the Holy Land, showcasing The course goes back and forth Understanding the some very memorable people of the between theory and history, Stock Market age. This course, Part 1, will focus combining the analysis of concrete Everyone has watched the stock on the First Crusade; Saladin and the processes of democratization market go up and down, but if you’ve Second Crusade, along with Henry II, having taken place at different ever wondered “why,” then this is Eleanor of Aquitaine and the points throughout the last two the class for you. We will discuss Angevin Empire. centuries, with the discussion of market metrics and trends, study Academic • Jared Day concepts and hypotheses aiming to the basics of both fundamental and explain the dynamics leading to the technical investment analysis (What emergence of democratic regimes. is a P/E Ratio and why should I Democratization is presented as
16 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE Empower Writing with Prehistoric Life and Poetry, Part 2: Non-Rhyming Earth History SATURDAY Poems The history of life on the Earth is In this course, students will learn, preserved within the rock layers as 10–11:30 a.m. examine, and practice a special few fossils. How has life on Earth changed of the over sixty types of poems. over the last 4.5 billion years? This Moments in Time Students will practice tools essential course will present a summary Learn the creative side of digital to poetry, understanding that these of Earth history and the amazing photography! This course will techniques improve all writing. organisms that have inhabited our concentrate on shutter speed. Specific forms to be covered include planet. From the first primitive In photography, shutter speed or acrostic, blank verse, cinquain, multicellular animals and hard- exposure time is the length of time free verse, haiku and palindrome. shelled trilobites; through the age of when the film or digital sensor inside It is not necessary to have taken dinosaurs, mammals, and the ice age the camera is exposed to light, also Part 1. All are welcome. we’ll explore the fascinating science when a camera’s shutter is open when Exploration • Sandra Gould Ford of Paleontology. Geological and taking a photograph. After learning biological principles for interpreting and reviewing the dynamics in class, Intermediate Conversational ancient life are introduced and participants will go out between French: Hypothetically examined. The Earth’s geologic each class and use their skills to Speaking timescale, methods of absolute and capture meaningful moments in time. relative age dating techniques as well Participants will be asked to share This 10-week course explores some as invertebrate and vertebrate fossils their work in class, if they chose, as we of the verb tenses not covered in the will be included. discuss the impact of shutter speed. Past and Present Tense classes, and then applies them in various classroom Academic • Stephen Lindberg Exploration • Germaine Watkins activities. Class time also includes working with passages from a selected Supreme Court Sampler secondary text. This course is geared to The third of the three branches of students who are not yet comfortably federal government created by the delivering simple sentences in French. Constitution is the Supreme Court. Some prior knowledge of French is Its decisions touch multiple aspects of expected. Advanced speaking skills American life. This sampler considers are not required. five significant cases. The course is a Exploration • Cathleen Sendek-Sapp history course which focuses on the persons involved, political issues, cultural context, and consequences rather than a legal course providing material for lawyers. These particular cases have the potential to arouse student interest in the manner of a page-turning novel or a well-crafted documentary. Academic • John Burt
*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 17 OLLI Course Descriptions Session 2: Saturday, June 26–Tuesday, August 3, 2021
explains how the deadly economy of 11 a.m.–12 noon MONDAY slavery has continued in the United States through the rise of the modern Chair Yoga 10–11:30 a.m. prison system and the persistence of (continued from Session 1) white supremacist ideology. History of Medicine Academic • Kimberly Latta 1–2:30 p.m. and Healthcare This course navigates the Pittsburgh Shattered Glass Monday Master Classes (see pages 24-25) development of medicine and The Pittsburgh region became healthcare systems in the western a center for production of glass, society. We will examine the but also for innovations in its conceptualization and understanding manufacture, design, and marketing. TUESDAY of health, disease, and treatment This four-week course tells that story, starting with early ideas in Ancient unraveling the complex 200 plus-year 10–11:30 a.m. Greece and trace how these ideas history of Western Pennsylvania’s were modified or strengthened first industry. This course will blend with the emergence of theoretical, Beginning Level French: illustrated lectures that include both Present Tense Verbs scientific, and technological advances an examination of historical context (continued from Session 1) over time. Lastly, we explore the and glass objects, as well as class inescapable influence of political and discussion to engage students in Experimental Watercolor cultural influence in how these entities how to look at, not through, the glass (continued from Session 1) were used to establish the current in their lives and hopefully see and healthcare systems, with emphasis understand it in a new way. one the American healthcare system. Money, Power, and Enjoyment • Anne Madarasz Climate Change Academic • Orin James Social Media from a Climate change and related (In)Sanity of the Species: Research Perspective environmental issues look like issues Reading Octavia Butler’s of technology and science. That “Kindred” and “Dawn” In this course we will take a “high- technology, however, is shaped by level” overview of various social economic and political systems, Octavia Butler’s greatness as a media platforms. The course will which, in turn, are rooted in industrial writer has only recently received the also include topics such as persona civilization founded upon the cheap attention she deserves as a great building using social media data, power made possible by burning American novelist. In this course, we machine learning in social media fossil fuels. We will examine all these will consider her most well-known research, and current “future of aspects of climate change and fossil works, “Kindred” (1979), in which a social media” speculations. Although fuel use to gain an understanding of modern African-American woman the scope of this course does not this most critical issue of our time. is periodically and involuntarily sent include a “how-to” use social media Academic • Alan Irvine back in time to live the life of an guide, knowing more about its enslaved American ancestor; and various platforms may aid in its use. “Dawn”, in which an African-American After completion of this course the woman is selected by aliens to lead student will be able to discuss current a new species on earth thousands social media trends from a research of years after humans rendered it perspective. uninhabitable. We will consider these Academic • Cristina Bahm novels in relation to Ava Du Vernay’s vital documentary, “13th”, which
18 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE The Science and Mystery Archetypal Astrology: Spinoza’s Ethics of Shadows The Planets as Aspects Spinoza notoriously follows up the Shadows happen when light is of Ourselves proof the existence of God with which blocked by an opaque object. But Learn the symbolic language of he begins his Ethics with a proof shadows also cast a vast net across Astrology through understanding that nothing other than God exists, culture, from Plato, to Buddha, to Carl the archetypes of the sun, moon, and outraged readers starting in his Jung, to stories about people who and planets. This class is lecture own time have interpreted this as a lose their shadows. Shadows are also illustrated with images and includes veiled assertion of atheism: if Spinoza personal. Your shadow follows you guided exercises to stimulate insight maintains that the only thing that around, mimics your behavior, and and personal growth. We begin exists is this world, how can he really can transport your image across large with an explanation of archetypes be a theist, even if he calls this world distances. Shadows are scientific, from the philosophy of Plato and “God”? In this course we will study helping you perceive shapes and the psychology of Carl Jung, who this difficult work in order to see how textures, and creating astronomical used astrology to better understand Spinoza uses this basically pantheist phenomena like eclipses. Shadows his patients. We will discuss the idea to underwrite a powerful are artistic, becoming dramatic horoscope and its purpose as a conception of the right sort of life players in paintings, photography, psychological blueprint. We then for a human being, a line of thought puppetry, and film. The goal of this examine each planet in myth, symbol, that proved decisive for subsequent six-week course is to enhance your and guided imagery to gain a deeper philosophical movements such as appreciation of the science, mystery, understanding of this planetary cast Hegelianism. and artistry of shadows. of characters and how they represent Academic • Greg Strom Academic • Bruce Goldstein basic attributes of ourselves. Enjoyment • Lilan Laishley Taking and Editing Photos Women in World Religions with Your iPhone This course considers the role of Nevermore, The Great For a few years, many of us have been women within five major world Tradition of Supernatural taking a lot of digital photos with our religions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Poetry iPhones. Now might be a great time Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. For many readers, supernatural to take a closer look at becoming a Often, these faiths elevate the status poetry means little more than Edgar better photographer and editor of of men while sanctioning women, Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” The Gothic all those accumulated pictures. We even going so far as to determine strain in English poetry began much will explore the various apps that how pious women might become earlier in 1801, when the scandalous come with your iPhone as well as “like men.” Yet, women are essential “Monk” Lewis published an anthology investigate some additional resources for efficacious rituals or religious of supernatural ballads and poems not provided by Apple. Please note: identity despite marginalization. This titled “Tales of Wonder”. This course This course is appropriate for those course offers an anthropological will use Lewis’s landmark anthology who routinely take photos with their approach which includes considering as a taking-off point to explore the iPhones, have used their iPhones for cultural norms which deny women roots of Gothic poetry in British, several years, and feel comfortable religious leadership roles or, under Scottish, German, and Norse ballads and knowledgeable navigating the guise of religious fundamentalism, and poems. Skeletons on horseback, their device. This course is not an demand violence against women to endangered damsels, angry ghosts, introduction to using your iPhone. ensure group purity and integrity. monsters, and seductive fairies will Exploration • Rich Fitzgibbon Academic • Sandra Collins abound as we read together the creepy verses of Scott, Shelley, Byron, The Trump Years and Recent 1–2:30 p.m. Poe, Lovecraft, and many others Events in the Light of History working in this dark tradition. Not all supernatural poems are serious, and This course will consider the events Advanced Intermediate of the last four years in our country Conversational French: we will see that satire and antiquarian curiosity are equally in play, especially in the light of historical precedents Simply Conversation and illustrations, as well as current (continued from Session 1) in the more modern poets of the New York Gothic school. events. Ruminations will include consideration of world history and Academic • Brett Rutherford American examples. Academic • Louise Mayo
*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 19 3–4:30 p.m. A History of Modern WEDNESDAY Economic Globalization Classic Hindu Texts: – – The course will be a history of modern The Ramayana. and the 9–10 a.m. - - globalization that covers the rise and Bhagavad-Gita fall of nations, changes in government This course explores two key texts Gentle Yoga policy, and evolution in institutions. in Hindu traditions, including their (continued from Session 1) The course will address economic historical contexts and subsequent cycles, crises, and performance in the – – 9:30–11:30 a.m. legacies. The Ramayana. is an epic context of evolving eras or stages poem recounting the journey of an of capitalism. No outside readings exiled prince as he tries to rescue Visual Journaling: Collage, are required but participants are his wife who has been abducted by Printmaking, Bookmaking, encouraged to take notes so that the a demon. The protagonists strive & More course content can be considered for to adhere to dharma (sacred duty), (continued from Session 1) an end of class discussion about 21st sometimes to tragic consequences. century economic policy. - - 10–11:30 a.m. The Bhagavad-Gita presents a Academic • William Van Lear philosophical dialog between a heroic warrior despairing at a looming battle Dante’s Purgatorio Journey: The Burden of Sin Toward a History of Photography: and his divine charioteer, who exhorts 1900-1945 him to practice yoga (discipline) Heaven of Freedom This course will look at the ways that by regarding the ephemeral world For mankind, immorality is a constant. photography changed the world in dispassionately, understanding the To create a righteous, empathic the first half of the 20th century, when universe’s unchanging essence, and society, to change to a new way of photography became an essential cultivating devotion. life, we must challenge corruption. part of everyday life. We’ll start Academic • Daniel Heifetz Using “Purgatorio” as a guide, we will explore how Dante understands the with a look at popular snapshots, postcards, and illustrated magazines, Found Poetry: Discovering process of personal transformation. His goal is how best build a better and see how the hand-held camera the Extraordinary in the opened the doors to photojournalism Everyday* world: Faith, Atonement and Love produce a final freedom of mind and and street photography. The Found poetry is a literary collage. of heart. unique achievements of the FSA The poet starts with existing text, and Photographic Project during the adds to, subtracts from, or rearranges Academic • Paolo Montemaggi Great Depression merit a close it to produce something new and look. The use of photography for art unexpected. The process relies on the Domes in World Architecture purposes in this period encompasses powers of juxtaposition, randomness, This course will explore domed avant-garde movements in Europe, and compression to supercharge structures through history, from the surrealism, and the classic sharp-focus language. In this course, we’ll ancient world to the present. Each of images we know and love today. experiment with a number of “pure” the lectures will present two or more Academic • Christine Lorenz found poetry techniques like erasure domes, looking into not only their and cut-up and explore adjacent structure and construction, but also 10:15–11:15 a.m. techniques like catalog poems and who built them and why. The zoom forms like the golden shovel to create lectures will be richly illustrated with Chakra Yoga All Levels unique, expressive writing that reveals photos and diagrams. Comparisons (continued from Session 1) the magic in everyday text. of the 10+ structures will be made Exploration • Erik Schuckers regarding size (plan and volume) and construction methodology. All the domed structures in the course are extant (except one) so lectures will include current photography and current uses. Academic • Paul Tellers
20 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE 1–2:30 p.m. such interesting opportunities and an analysis of the legacy of the war in challenges for individuals, teams, Spain and in the modern world. Advanced Beginner Spanish leagues, and society. In this course, Academic • Julia Hudson-Richards (continued from Session 1) we will review some of the interesting areas in which sports generates 3–4:30 p.m. Art of Global Catholic fascinating debate in a range of Missions matters in leadership, ethics, and Contemporary European broader society. The course will This course will examine how early Film: 1980s-Present include lecture and discussion, and modern Catholic missionaries used art students will be asked to submit short This course will survey contemporary globally as a tool of persuasion and answers on topics of interest from European cinema from the late conversion. Lectures will be organized the sports world to generate our 1980s through the present, selected around case studies, beginning with class topics. from such countries as France, the art that emerged from Portuguese Germany, Scotland, Great Britain, efforts to evangelize the Kingdom Academic • Ray Jones Spain, Italy, etc. It will interrogate of Kongo. We will then shift focus notions of national cinema in the age to Asia, studying the role of art and “Such Friends”: The Literary of globalism and transnationalism architecture in the conversion of 1920s in Dublin, London, and consider issues of economic inhabitants of the Estado da Índia, the Paris, and New York City co-production and the circulation of Portuguese colonial state in the Indian We will travel back to the 1920s, movie talent and personnel. Class Ocean. Other topics will include the exploring the heyday of WB Yeats’ sessions will be organized largely role of Jesuit missionaries and the arts and Lady Augusta Gregory’s Abbey in terms of chronology, but also in at the Mughal and Qing courts, and Theatre in Dublin and Virginia and relation to various important social the architecture of South American Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press issues that the films raise, which mission reductions. Finally, we will in London; the Americans who may include colonialism, revolution, conclude by examining how the flocked to the Left Bank of Paris immigration, race, metropolitanism, global missions were envisioned and and publication of James Joyce’s gender, surveillance, etc. Beyond such imagined in the European imagination “Ulysses” by Sylvia Beach’s bookstore, themes, notions of cinematic style through paintings and prints. Shakespeare & Co.; the founding of and genre will also be examined. Academic • Rachel Miller Harold Ross’s “The New Yorker” with Academic • Lucy Fisher the help of his friends who lunched at Bret Hart, Mark Twain, and the Algonquin Hotel, and the rise of Mythology of the Ancient the Evolution of a Distinctive editor Maxwell Perkins at Scribner’s and Modern World: Heroines American Voice and Style company in New York. The course will and Heroes focus on the relationships and history The frontier tale was a dead end among the creative people who were From all over the world, similar for Bret Hart but a gateway for behind these legendary ventures and themes, motifs, and subjects form Mark Twain and for the evolution their “such friends.” the legends of heroic figures who ally of a distinctive voice in American with, war against, or lose out to the literature. Readings in this course will Academic • Kathleen Dixon-Donnelly gods. This course will examine the include several of Hart’s better-known archetypes of folk heroes, demigods, short stories, Twain’s “Jumping Frog The Spanish Republic and and epic journeys that make up the Tale”, and a sampling of Twain’s other Civil War: 1931-1939 heroic age of myth. We will explore short fiction. Ninety years ago, the people of Spain together a diverse range of myths Academic • David Walton voted to form a brand-new Republic from the ancient world, studying that represented a new Spain. Five genre, the art of retelling, and the Social Responsibility and years later, a military coup began repurposing of legends. Our aims will Ethics in American Sports a destructive Civil War that killed be: 1) to form habits of active reading hundreds of thousands and set the and critical discourse; 2) to analyze As we consider the ideas of stage for the outbreak of World recurrent mythological motifs; 3) to leadership and ethics, we can look War II. This course will look at the interpret and respond to primary texts toward American sports. Sports- Republic and the “Black Biennium,” among peers. related topics, such as college the war itself, and will finish up with and professional sports, generate Academic • Marcie Persyn
*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 21 The Scramble for Africa or the defacement of art, the act of THURSDAY How African Countries Got biblioclasm, the restitution for Their Shapes and repatriation of stolen art, and the ongoing push to reexamine 10–11 a.m. Most of Africa was generally unknown controversial public monuments. to the rest of the world until the Dance and Be Fit 1870s. Then, an ambitious and Academic • Valerie Grash (continued from Session 1) ruthless king from a minor European country started a rush for glory and Best American Short 10–11:30 a.m. riches that years later would be Stories 2020 known infamously as the “Scramble Beginner Spanish Using the most recent “Best American for Africa.” The result was a carving Short Stories” anthology as our (continued from Session 1) up of the great continent first into textbook in this four-week course, we colonies and later nation states that Beginner Watercolor will read and discuss some of today’s generally ignored the cultures and best short fiction, written by both (continued from Session 1) histories of the indigenous peoples famous and up-and-coming writers. that lived there. This course will Each week we will discuss two stories, Mapping Our Differences: examine the roots and legacy of the Understanding Dimensions looking at these selections in the Scramble, specifically how the map of context of the contemporary literary of Culture through Cultural Africa evolved into the configuration Comparison world, considering specific authors’ we recognize today. bodies of work and learning more As the world becomes more Academic • Jon Grogan about the literary magazines where globally connected, exposure to these stories first appeared. This class cultural differences is increasing, A World Awash in Blood: will provide a crash course on the necessitating a deeper understanding Great Vietnam War Novels state of the contemporary American of elements of culture that can short story. cause misunderstandings but also Some of the world’s greatest Academic • Adam Reger opportunities for strengthening cross novelists went to Vietnam, either as cultural connections. This course will soldiers or reporters, and lived to Poetry and Prose in explore cross-cultural dimensions of tell us the truth. Here are harrowing the Pandemic* communication, power dynamics, accounts framed our understanding and a futuristic outlook through two of life lived there—and here. We’ll Although our world has seen a models of cultural comparison, as well explore Graham Greene, “The Quiet pandemic before, there is very little as current events and case studies. American”; Ward Just, “A Dangerous documentation of what life was like Friend”; Robert Stone, “Dog during that time. Our world has Academic • Hillary Koller Soldiers”; Tim O’Brien, “Going After changed in many ways. This gives us Cacciato/The Things They Carried”; an opportunity to document our lived Music Enrichment for Health and Larry Heinemann, “Close and Wellness experiences for future generations. Quarters/Paco’s Story”. How has your life changed? What This course will present music Academic • Abby Mendelson have you seen and experienced designed to enrich the mind, body, during this time? What has given you and spirit. Music will range from 1–2:30 p.m. hope and inspiration? This course sound healing and classical music, will focus on telling our pandemic to popular songs and enduring Advanced Conversational experiences through different styles standards that warm hearts and Spanish of contemporary poetry. evoke nostalgia. In this course, sound (continued from Session 1) Exploration • Sasha Reese healing techniques, live performance demonstrations, and recorded Art Looting and Destruction: examples will be presented. There will Contemporary Issues also be information about therapeutic songwriting strategies that can Destructive acts against art and be practiced at home. The course architecture instill deep emotions in promises to be both informational individuals and in society, from fear and entertaining. to outrage. This course will explore the complex issues found in the Enjoyment • Raymond Uy targeted destruction of architecture,
22 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE Poverty in Western Lion-Hearted and the Third Crusade; as literature—and sometimes we’ll Civilization: An Historical King John and the Magna Carta; The look at some artists’ interpretations Overview Since the Fourth Crusade; and the collapse of the stories—but be forewarned: Middle Ages of the Byzantine Empire. It is not artists have not paid a lot of attention necessary to take Part 1 to benefit to these books. This course will provide a long-term from the course. overview of the historical evolution Academic • David Brumble of the predominant perceptions of Academic • Jared Day the poor in Western societies. It Intermediate Conversational will identify connections between Agitators: Women French: Hypothetically changes in that perception and Abolitionists Speaking parallel transformations experienced Abolition, the antebellum campaign (continued from Session 1) by the respective societies and against slavery, constitutes one of the ideological representations. Finally, earliest and most significant civil rights we will attempt to understand the struggles in American history. In the SATURDAY consequences that those changing movement, some men opposed the intellectual representations have participation of women while others produced in terms of social responses minimized it. Yet, without women, 9–10 a.m. oriented towards the alleviation significant parts of the work would ® of poverty. not have been accomplished. These Zumba Gold Academic • Javier Vázquez-D’Elía women, Black and white, struggled The Zumba Gold® fitness program is for justice for themselves and their a 10-week course designed to meet sex as the late Dr. Blanche Glassman the anatomical, physiological, and Hersh argued in her pioneering 1978 psychological needs of adults 50 FRIDAY book, “The Slavery of Sex: Feminist and better. Like the traditional Latin Abolitionists in America”. inspired Zumba workout, the Zumba ® 10–11:30 a.m. Academic • John Burt Gold workout incorporates many of the dance and fitness routines set The Age of the Crusades: Bible as Literature: Joshua to Latin and international rhythms Part 2 and Judges but is performed at a lower intensity. Participants have a good time while This course will examine one of the The books of Joshua and Judges increasing their physical fitness. most iconic set of conflicts commonly contain some of the most memorable associated with the Middle Ages: stories in the Bible, e.g., the story Enjoyment • Lisa Sobek The Crusades. For over 200 years, of the tumbling walls of Jericho, the Christians and Muslims battled for stories of Samson, and the stories control of the Holy Land, showcasing of Gideon - and there are many some very memorable people of the other wonderful, but less well known age. In Part 2 of the Crusades, we stories, such as the story of Ehud and will cover Frederick Barbarossa and the large Canaanite king Eglon. We’ll the Holy Roman Empire; Richard the be talking about Joshua and Judges
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Amazing Antique Skyscrapers himself. Some of the most glittering figures of the era were Speaker: Mark Houser changed forever by the time they spent in the city, from Joe May 17, 2021 • 1–2:15 p.m. Louis and Satchel Paige to Duke Ellington and Lena Horne. Inspired by Pittsburgh’s elegant early Mark Whitaker is the author of the critically acclaimed high-rises, Mark Houser spent two years memoir, “My Long Trip Home,” and is the former managing traveling across the country and beyond editor of CNN Worldwide. He was previously the Washington searching for the best examples for his bureau chief for NBC News and a reporter and editor at new book, “MultiStories: 55 Antique “Newsweek,” where he rose to become the first African- Skyscrapers & the Business Tycoons Who American leader of a national newsweekly. Built Them”. He will show photos of venerable facades and dazzling lobbies from Boston to San Francisco, Milwaukee When Elephants Fly: a Zoom Presentation to Miami—even Vancouver and Liverpool. He will also from the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium share stories about the turn-of-the-century executives who Speaker: Heather Terrell commissioned the first skyscrapers, including surprising June 7, 2021 • 1–2:15 p.m. details of how they created their companies and amassed How does the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG their fortunes. Aquarium acquire their animals? Have you ever wondered how an elephant travels Mark Houser is a frequent contributor to “Pittsburgh Magazine” and gives Downtown rooftop tours for Doors from one zoo to another? Or a lion, shark, Open Pittsburgh. Houser is director of news and information or fish? Join Pittsburgh Zoo Registrar, at Robert Morris University and a former newspaper reporter Heather Terrell on a photographic journey, and editor. detailing the ins and outs of zoo animal transport, breeding loans and other insider information. Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance Heather Terrell is the registrar at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium. She manages the animal’s records, facilitates Speaker: Mark Whitaker the acquisition and disposition of the animal collection, May 24, 2021 • 1–2:30 p.m. and obtains the zoo’s animal permits. She functions as the Join us as distinguished journalist Mark Institutional Representative to Species 360 and is the Deputy Whitaker discusses his book, “Smoketown: Chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at the Pittsburgh Zoo. The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance,” which tells the story of Pittsburgh’s contributions to the culture The Power of Mercy: Spirited Stories of of our country from the black community Sisters of Mercy during the 1920s to 1950s. The city Speaker: James Kelly, PhD published the most widely read black newspaper in the country, urging black June 14, 2021 • 1-2:15 p.m. voters to switch from the Republican The Sisters of Mercy have played a major role in the to the Democratic Party and then rallying black support education, healthcare, and human service systems around for World War II. Pittsburgh fielded two of the greatest the world. Beginning with the arrival of seven women baseball teams of the Negro Leagues and introduced in Pittsburgh in 1843, from Dublin, Ireland, the Sisters Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Pittsburgh was founded hospitals, schools, and universities in the city and the childhood home of jazz pioneers Billy Strayhorn, Billy across the United States. This presentation gives voice Eckstine, Earl Hines, Mary Lou Williams, and Erroll Garner; to Sisters in Pittsburgh and London who embodied their Hall of Fame slugger Josh Gibson—and August Wilson
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24 | OLLI.PITT.EDU historic mission to serve the poor, particularly women and for 35 years and was awarded the Senior Faculty Award for children. It draws from interviews and historic documents Excellence in Research in her College. She has published as part of an oral history project that aims to inform and numerous articles on gender and racial differentials in the inspire people who may share the commitment of the labor market, and the effects of living in single-parent families Sisters of Mercy to create a more just and merciful world. on children’s education and co-authored a book on the economics of child support payments (Yale University Press). James M. Kelly, PhD, LSW is Professor Emeritus, Carlow University. In elementary school he was taught by Sisters of July 12, 2021 • 1–2:30 p.m. Mercy, but never dreamed that they would one day feature To be announced in his doctoral dissertation that focused on the role of the charitable mission of the Sisters of Mercy in the management of non-profit hospitals. The Evolving Landscape of Cancer and Cancer Treatment: Where We’ve Been; Where We’re Going; and How We Get There Performing Life Speaker: Lan Coffman, MD, PhD Speaker: Anne Martindale Williams July 19, 2021 • 1–2:30 p.m. June 21, 2021 • 1–2:15 p.m. This talk will focus on the current standard of care for Anne Martindale Williams will share cancer prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment. We will her life’s journey as principal cellist of focus on new understanding of how cancer forms, who the Pittsburgh Symphony. Some of her is at risk, and strategies to prevent cancer development. topics will include the rigorous audition Topics will include new and emerging treatment options process, her experiences with five music including personalized medicine and immunotherapy. We directors, and the symphony’s highly will also review the importance of ongoing research to acclaimed international tours. Please join improve the lives of people effected by cancer. us for a behind-the-scenes look at the Lan Coffman, MD, PhD is a physician scientist who actively fascinating life of a musician. sees patients as a medical oncologist specializing in the Anne Martindale Williams has enjoyed a successful career as treatment of women with gynecologic cancers. She received principal cellist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since her MD and PhD from Wake Forest University School 1979. She has often been featured as soloist in Pittsburgh and of Medicine and performed her Hematology/Oncology on tour in New York at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. fellowship at the University of Michigan prior to joining the She holds the position of Artist-Lecturer at CMU. Ms. Williams University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor with a dual is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. appointment in the divisions of Hematology/Oncology and Her Tecchler cello was made in Rome in 1701. Gynecologic Oncology.
Household Economic Well-Being Under Black-White Disparities in Living Conditions COVID-19 in the U.S. in Pittsburgh Speaker: Andrea H. Beller, PhD Speaker: Ralph Bangs, PhD June 28, 2021 • 1–2:30 p.m. July 26, 2021 • 1–2:30 p.m. The economic downturn stemming from the pandemic This lecture will discuss trends in black-white racial hurt the economic well-being of a large segment of disparities in the Pittsburgh area, including causes and U.S. households. This lecture will cover layoffs and solutions. Disparities in jobs, income, poverty, housing, unemployment (which resulted in a “She-session”); the wealth, health, education, and criminal justice will be decline and recovery in consumer spending in high-income covered. Esther Bush, CEO of the Pittsburgh Urban neighborhoods; and the impact of reduced access to League, will speak briefly about the importance of these childcare and in-person school on the work and careers data and what needs to be done. of mothers and on “learning loss” in low-income young Ralph Bangs, PhD taught race for many years at the University children. It touches on policies implemented to deal with of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and in study abroad the crisis and draws on the extensive research and surveys programs. He was associate director of the Center on Race by economists throughout the year, especially by the and Social Problems at Pitt. His most recent book is “Race Federal Reserve Board and the Harvard economist Raj Chetty. and Social Problems: Restructuring Inequality”. He received Racial Justice and Race Leadership Awards. Andrea Beller, PhD is Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where she taught Family Economics to undergraduate and graduate students
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Workshop: Get Acquainted with Introduction to LGBTQ Topics Your Apple Watch Speaker: Julie Beaulieu, PhD Speaker: Richard Fitzgibbon Friday, May 21, 2021 1–2:15 p.m. Wednesday, May 5, 2021 • 10 a.m.–12 noon This talk introduces participants to Your Apple Watch is more than just a LGBTQ topics, including a description timepiece. We will discover some of the and definition of the different letters and aspects of the Watch that you might not be identities included in LGBTQ, a short aware of, as well as the basic functions beyond history of LGBTQ topics in the U.S., a time. Things we can explore: Watch Faces, discussion of structural oppression and Notifications, Settings, Exercise, Sleep, Health, the impact it has on LGBTQ people, Emergency, Walkie-Talkie, and other apps that and a discussion of the present, including we might have time to check out. We will also advice for being an ally to the community. The talk will also look at resources available to you that will enable you to include a question and answer period. continue your exploration after the class is over. Julie Beaulieu, PhD is a Lecturer in the University of Requirements: an Apple Watch running Watch OS6, and Pittsburgh’s Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program an iPhone paired with that watch. Enrollment is limited. where she earned her PhD in Literature with a certificate in GSWS. She teaches courses in gender and sexuality studies. Richard Fitzgibbon is a former teacher with 35 years of Dr. Beaulieu is currently working on a grant for the LGBTQ experience in the Riverview School District and was technical Archival Education Project, helping make archives more coordinator for the district for 10 years before he retired. Since accessible to researchers and community members. retirement, he is a frequent volunteer at Computer Reach where he assists in refurbishing and recycling computers. The 1892 Labor Battle of Homestead Wines from the Cote du Rhone: Easy Sippers Speaker: Jerry Fitzgibbon for Everyday Tuesday, August 17, 2021, 10–11:30 a.m. Speakers: Mike Gonze and Deb Mortillaro After 129 years, the Homestead Strike of Tuesday, May 11, 2021 • 1–2:15 p.m. 1892 retains its capacity to shock. It was a defining event which revealed in the The perfect wine for a Tuesday night and starkest terms the respective strength of pizza or Thursday night and a stew. Cote du labor and management in America in the Rhones are easy to sip on and enjoy. Blends 1890s. The crushing defeat of the workers of Syrah, Mourvèdre and Grenache these meant that there would be no recognized wines are copied all over the world. We’ll trade unionism and collective bargaining in talk about each of these varieties and what steel and other heavy industries until the 1930s. they bring to the blend and what it is about This discussion deals with the strike, what led up to it, the southern Rhone that works so well. and its effects. Mike Gonze, owner of Dreadnought Wines, has been Jerry Fitzgibbon studying wine for 35 years and has traveled the globe working is a volunteer with Rivers of Steel Heritage in vineyards and studying by sipping throughout his visits with and leads docent tours of the Bost Building (the labor winemakers. Mike is WSET (Wine and Spirit Education Trust) headquarters in 1892) and the Pump House (site of the Battle). certified through level 3 in wine and level 2 in spirits. He is a member of the Battle of Homestead Foundation and was employed at the Homestead Works from 1968 until 1986 Deb Mortillaro graduated from the Culinary Institute when the mill closed. of America and worked as a private chef before joining Dreadnought Wines. She, too, has studied wines and has WSET certifications through level 3 in wine, level 2 in spirits and level 3 in Sake.
26 | OLLI.PITT.EDU How to Audit Undergraduate Courses
writing, honors college courses, or performance courses. SUMMER 2021 TERM – OLLI members are only permitted to register Auditing also is NOT permitted in law or medical school for courses that will be conducted online. Courses meeting “in person” classes, graduate classes or hybrid online courses. on Pitt’s campus are reserved for degree seeking students ONLY and OLLI members are not permitted to register for these courses. The rule that audit requests for non-preapproved courses Members should not register to audit courses this term unless they must be submitted in hard copy form has been suspended have average/moderate to advanced skill level in computer usage as Pitt for the Summer 2021 term. Instead, after obtaining email undergraduate courses require significantly more skills than do taking permission from the course’s instructor or head of the OLLI online courses. department, forward it to [email protected]. It must include One membership benefit of OLLI at Pitt is the ability to audit the following information so that we can register you for preapproved undergraduate courses. To “audit” a course means that the correct course: the student does not receive a grade nor credits and generally does not participate in exams or homework. Each term OLLI arranges for • Course title hundreds of undergraduate Pitt courses to be preapproved for members • Course Number (5 digits) to audit. Auditors are guests in the course for which they register, and • Catalog number (4 digits) participation can be limited or restricted by the professor or department. • Instructor name Members may audit two courses per term as a benefit of membership. Additional courses audited are charged $25 per course. This information can be found on Pitt’s registrar course listing search: https://psmobile.pitt.edu/app/catalog/ classSearch Audit Course Registration Procedures REQUESTS THAT DO NOT INCLUDE THE ABOVE FOUR • View Upcoming Classes: View full course descriptions ELEMENTS REQURED WILL NOT BE PROCESSED. online at: https://psmobile.pitt.edu/app/catalog/ classSearch Please be aware: Pitt is adjusting a lot of courses, events and plans due to changing conditions on campus, so there Register to Audit Preapproved Courses may be many changes since the original course listing was A complete list of preapproved audit courses will be made, and in the future. The most accurate and updated located on our website. No member may attend and/or information will always be found on the class listing for audit a course for which they are not registered. Pitt, so double-check that they are still being held on Pitt’s registrar course listing search: Online Registration Process for Preapproved https://psmobile.pitt.edu/app/catalog/classSearch Audit Courses 1. SIGN in with your username/password at: Conduct Expectations for Course Auditors www.campusce.net/ollipitt 1. Never attend a course or a class for which you are not (if you do not do this, you will not be able to add officially registered. courses to your shopping cart) 2. Introduce yourself as an OLLI student to the instructor. 2. If you need to pay your membership, from home page Seek permission from them if you wish to verbally click on “Become a Member” and add a membership participate in the course, do written assignments, or to your cart. exams. Respect their response. 3. From home page, click on “Audit Courses” 3. Arrive on time to class and stay for the entire class. 4. Click the department to see its list of preapproved 4. If the instructor permits your verbal participation, courses do not monopolize discussion. 5. Select your course of interest, and if desired, click on 5. If issues arise, notify the OLLI office immediately. “Add to Cart” 6. Pay attention to dates and deadlines pertaining to 6. If you wish to add more audit courses continue undergraduate courses and the University academic exploring and adding to your cart. calendar. 7. When finished, from your shopping cart click on 7. Formally drop the course if you find out it is no longer “Check out” button and proceed through all screens of interest. to payment processing. Registering to Audit Non-Preapproved Courses Auditing is ONLY allowed when there is space available NOTE: Auditing is a privilege, not a right. OLLI in “lecture type” undergraduate classes. “Lecture type” reserves the right to remove any member from an classes are those in which students can observe the audit course for any reason. For more information delivered lecture of material by the professor. Auditing on auditing a course, go to the member area of the is NOT permitted in: computer science, film production, OLLI website at: olli.pitt.edu physical education, studio arts, laboratory courses, creative
OLLI.PITT.EDU | 27 OLLI INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHIES (Listed alphabetically by last name)
Jeff Aziz*, PhD is a faculty member Elizabeth Burnette* attended Cornell Nicholas Coles*, PhD, is Associate in the English Literature program at University for a BS in Engineering Professor Emeritus of English at the the University of Pittsburgh whose Physics, then worked at NASA’s Jet University of Pittsburgh where he interests extend from Renaissance Propulsion Laboratory with Space teaches and writes about working- drama to Christian iconography to the Shuttle experiments. She taught at class culture, environmental literature, history of medicine. He is a faculty a community college, raised three and detective fiction. His books fellow of Pitt’s University Honors children, and taught science at a include the anthologies “Working College, and an affiliated member Montessori school. In December Classics: Poems of Industrial Life” of the Jewish Studies and Medical 2019, she was awarded a master’s co-edited with Peter Oresick. Coles Humanities faculties. degree in Astrophysics from University is a member the Pittsburgh-based of Pittsburgh. Elizabeth is inspired to acoustic band Smokestack Lightning. Cristina Bahm*, PhD is an assistant share knowledge of the universe. professor in Information Systems Sandra Collins*, PhD focuses on Technology at La Roche University. John Burt* is a retired history teacher women in the Old Testament at the She earned her PhD in 2016 from and lawyer, and he served as a University of Pittsburgh. She has also the University of Pittsburgh’s School featured speaker in “Safe Harbor,” taught for Carnegie Mellon University, of Computing and Information with a public television award-winning Duquesne University and currently the a focus on spatial cognition, and documentary on the underground Byzantine Catholic Seminary as well as her research areas include machine railroad in Western Pennsylvania. Since online for the Graduate Theological learning and geo-spatial data as well 1986, he has lectured on the history Union in Berkeley, CA. as spatial cognition. of American reform movements, especially the abolitionist movement Taylor Coughlan, PhD is a Visiting Ralph Bangs*, PhD, MPA, taught and conducted tours connected with Assistant Professor of Classics at the race at University of Pittsburgh and underground railroad activities. University of Pittsburgh. An expert Carnegie Mellon University and in in the literature and culture of the study abroad and was associate Kathy Callahan* retired from Hellenistic world, he has taught a director of the Center on Race and management consulting to Fortune wide variety of courses on the Social Problems at the University of 200 companies, specializing in ancient Mediterranean world at Pittsburgh. His most recent book executive and leadership development the university level. is “Race and Social Problems: and performance improvement. An Restructuring Inequality.” He has experienced facilitator and trainer, David Crippen*, MD, FCCM, is received Racial Justice and Race she is inspired to share the TED Talks professor emeritus of the University Leadership Awards. discussion group experience with OLLI of Pittsburgh Medical Center, at Pitt’s members. Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Ken Boas*, PhD was formerly an Emergency Medicine and Neurologic instructor in the University of Pittsburgh Owen Cantor*, DMD was founder Surgery. He has extensive lecturing Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and and music director of the Summerfest experience of more than 30 years on a Sciences, Department of English. Chamber Music Festival, which wide variety of mostly medical subjects presented 14 summers of great for multinational meetings, and he has David Brumble*, PhD is an emeritus chamber works in Fox Chapel, and played guitar in an active rock band for Professor of English at the University for 10 summers, he was a participant the past 11 years. of Pittsburgh and recipient of both of and trustee at the Chamber Music Pitt’s most prestigious teaching prizes. and Composers Forum at Bennington, Jared Day*, PhD taught American Two of his five books are on Medieval Vermont. He has served as a board history at Carnegie Mellon University and Renaissance art and literature, member and advisor to many in Pittsburgh for sixteen years. His and he has also published articles on Pittsburgh musical organizations. areas of specialization are U.S. the Bible. political, urban, and cultural history Jill Clary* has been practicing yoga as well as world history from the late since 2003, has completed a 200-hour eighteenth century to the present. He yoga teacher training program, and is the author of several books along is registered with Yoga Alliance. Her with numerous other popular and classes are a blend of different yoga peer-reviewed articles. styles but all focus on a slow flow with longer holds.
28 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *Instructor has previously taught OLLI courses. Rebecca Denova*, PhD was a senior groups, community centers, Daniel Heifetz, PhD is a lecturer in the senior lecturer in the early history corporations, and special needs Religious Studies Department at the of Christianity at the University of populations. Award winning Ford University of Pittsburgh. His research Pittsburgh and regularly teaches teaches dance and fitness courses and teaching focuses on South Asian courses on the history of early and presentations throughout the religions in relation to colonialism, Christianity, ancient religions in the Pittsburgh region. globalization, science, and health. Mediterranean world, and various topics related to ancient popular Bruce Goldstein*, PhD has taught Michael Helfand*, PhD is a retired religion and society. a wide variety of OLLI courses. He University of Pittsburgh English is an emeritus faculty member of professor, where he earned two Kathleen Dixon-Donnelly*, PhD the psychology department at The teaching awards (Apples for the conducted research on the University of Pittsburgh and has won Teacher) for his short story courses. relationships among artists and writers the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence He also taught abroad for five years in in early 20th century salons in Dublin in Undergraduate Teaching. Asian countries (as an exchange scholar City University. She recently retired and Fulbright lecturer) and in England. from teaching at Birmingham (UK) City Maria Franco de Gomez*, MA, is a University Business School and School retired instructor of Spanish at Penn Julia Hudson-Richards*, PhD earned of Media to move home to Pittsburgh. State New Kensington where she her doctorate in Modern European served as Spanish coordinator. Her History from the University of Arizona Judith Dodd* is a registered career as a faculty member includes a in 2008, where she researched the dietitian and was Assistant Professor substantial record of academic service, emergence of the Spanish citrus in Dietetics and Nutrition at the solid scholarly activity, and very strong industry. Her expertise is in the University of Pittsburgh. Along with evidence of outstanding teaching. histories of food, the environment, teaching OSHER, she has a nutrition and gender. education and communication Sandra Gould Ford* is an author background in speaking, writing, and and educator who presents arts Ann Hultberg* taught high school television, not only as the former experiences to encourage, refresh, English for 34 years and has been an Giant Eagle Nutrition spokesperson, enrich creative thinking, and inspire. adjunct composition instructor at the but also in community outreach. She holds an MFA in creative writing University of Pittsburgh at Bradford from the University of Pittsburgh and since 2006. Her undergraduate degree Lucy Fischer*, PhD is a distinguished belongs to the Author’s Guild and from IUP is in English Education with a professor, emerita of English and Film Science Fiction Writers of America. minor in Educational Psychology and Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Sandra established a writing program her graduate degree in Education is where she received the Provost’s at a mega-jail and published an from St. Bonaventure University. Excellence in Mentorship Award international literary journal. and the Chancellor’s Distinguished Alan Irvine*, PhD is a professional Research Award. She is the author of Valerie Grash, PhD is Associate storyteller with a life-long fascination many books on film, held a curatorial Professor of Fine Arts at the University with the Arthurian tales. His CD, “The position at the Museum of Modern of Pittsburgh-Johnstown where she Red Dragon: Tales of King Arthur,” Art, and received fellowships from the has taught Art History for over 20 won a Storytelling World Honors National Endowment for the Arts and years. Winner of the 2007 President’s award. He has his doctorate degree in for the Humanities. Award for Teaching Excellence, her Sociology and taught many courses at broad and varied interests include the several area universities. Richard Fitzgibbon* is a former impact of cross-cultural interactions in teacher with 35 years of experience in art and architecture, as well as issues Orin James*, MS is an Assistant the Riverview School District and was surrounding the looting and targeted Professor of Biology in the division technical coordinator for the district destruction of art and structures. of Health and Biological Sciences at for 10 years before he retired. Since the University of Pittsburgh-Bradford, retirement, he is a frequent volunteer Jon Grogan*, PhD earned an MA where he has taught for the past at Computer Reach where he assists in in history from the University of San seven years. In addition to biology, he refurbishing and recycling computers. Diego and PhD in history from Loyola teaches hybrid courses that include University. He served 21 years in discussions of social philosophy, Roland Ford* is a certified personal the U.S. Marine Corps, retiring at determinism, colonialism, race, sex fitness trainer, group exercise the rank of Major. He has taught at and gender to individuals of all ages. instructor, certified dance instructor, Robert Morris University in addition choreographer, and marathon runner. to working for several museums and He has developed a dance and historical associations. fitness curricula for schools, churches,
OLLI.PITT.EDU | 29 Ray Jones*, PhD is a professor in Aaron Leaman* is a Chartered Louise Mayo*, PhD is professor the Katz School of Business at the Financial Analyst (CFA®) and the emerita at the County College of University of Pittsburgh who has a Chief Investment Officer of Signature Morris, New Jersey, with over 30 deep personal interest in genealogy Financial Planning, where he manages years of college teaching experience and genetic genealogy along with over $450 million in assets for in American history and American nearly three decades of published institutions, municipalities and high- government. She is the author of historical and social science research net worth investors. He has made “James K. Polk: The Dark Horse on a variety of topics and a focus on numerous media appearances to President,” among other books. experience-based learning in teaching discuss markets and investing, and leadership, ethics and management. won national public speaking awards Lipika Mazumdar, PhD is an as a member of his intercollegiate anthropologist at the University of Robert Jucha*, PhD received his debate team. Pittsburgh, Greensburg campus. doctorate in American Studies from She is a native of Kolkata, India, and George Washington University in Stephen Lindberg has been teaching conducted her research on religion 1981. He retired from a 26-year career since 1978 and has been an adjunct and politics in the Central Himalayan in college publishing, including as an professor in the Geology-Energy and region of the country. editor, in 2011. Since then he has led Earth Resources department at The tours as a docent for the Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown Laurie McMillan* has been writing History and Landmarks Foundation, since 1997. At Pitt-Johnstown he and teaching all genres for years and is including tours he created on both teaches Principles of Astronomy, finishing an MFA in fiction. She was the Oakland and Shadyside. Prehistoric Life, Earthquakes and co-founder of the Pittsburgh Writers Volcanoes, Meteorology and Geologic Studio and Pittsburgh Memoir Project. Hillary Koller* is the Internship Field Methods. She leads therapeutic writing circles. Manager of International Programs at the University of Pittsburgh, College Christine Lorenz* is an artist who Abby Mendelson*, PhD has been a of Business Administration. She has taught the history of art and writer, editor, and educator for nearly also instructs semester and summer photography in Pittsburgh universities 50 years. He has published both courses for students participating in since 2002. She earned her MFA from fiction and nonfiction works on a international programs, which are the University of California, Santa variety of topics and has taught both focused on cultural competency and Barbara, and a dual BA in English and writing and literature at universities professional skill development. Photography from Ohio State University. and colleges throughout the Pittsburgh area. Lilan Laishley*, PhD received her Andrew Lotz*, PhD is lecturer and degree in Religious Studies from academic advisor in the University of Rachel Miller*, PhD is an assistant the University of Pittsburgh and has Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School professor of art history at California expertise in symbols and rituals in of Arts and Sciences, Department of State University, Sacramento. She diverse belief systems. A researcher Political Science. received her PhD from the University of labyrinths and astrology, she is the of Pittsburgh in 2016 and taught author of “Religious Diversity on the Anne Madarasz* is director of the Osher courses for several years while Labyrinth: Rituals that Engage a Sacred curatorial division, chief historian, and living in Pittsburgh. At CSUS, she Cosmos,” and has taught religion at director of the Western Pennsylvania teaches courses on ancient, medieval, Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University. Sports Museum at the Heinz History Renaissance, and Baroque topics and Center. Awarded a Richards Fellowship her research focuses on the art used by Kimberly Latta*, PhD is an for research from the Corning Museum Jesuits on Catholic missions globally. independent scholar of literatures in of Glass, Anne lectures and writes English. She was assistant professor frequently on the subject of Pittsburgh Paolo Montemaggi*, MD graduated of early modern literatures in English glass, regional industry, and the history from Medical School of Catholic at the University of Pittsburgh from of Pittsburgh sports. University in Rome and board certified 2001 to 2010, and at Saint Louis in Italy both in Radiology and Nuclear University from 1998 to 2001. She has Diane Markovitz is a licensed Medicine has been Professor of published articles in peer-reviewed physical therapist with a degree Radiation Oncology at Italian and journals literature, gender, economics, from Marquette University’s School U.S. Universities, teaching classes at and religion in 17th- and 18th-century of Physical Therapy. She loves undergrad and grad level. He has England and America. developing and teaching group served as invited lecturer to several exercise classes as it provides her USA primary institutions, has been with a way to use her physical therapy editor of seminal books in his field, experience to reach more people. as presenter of many papers.
30 | OLLI.PITT.EDU Doug Oster* is the home and garden Sasha Reese* has been teaching Stephen Schultz* called “among the editor for the “Tribune-Review” and writing for to children and adults for most flawless artists on the Baroque “Everybody Gardens” and co-host over ten years. She has an MEd in flute” by the “San Jose Mercury News” of The Organic Gardener’s Radio English Education from the University and “flute extraordinaire” by the “New Program, a weekly show on KDKA. of Pittsburgh, and a doctorate in Jersey Star-Ledger”, plays solo and He received the 2009 Outstanding Curriculum and Instruction from IUP. Principal flute with the Philharmonia Documentary Emmy for “Gardens of She is a participant in the Madwomen Baroque Orchestra and Musica Pennsylvania,” written and produced in the Attic at Carlow University and a Angelica and performs with other for WQED. His gardening books writing instructor for the Young Writers leading Early music groups such as include “Tomatoes Garlic Basil” Institute at Pitt. She is a published Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Wiener published in 2010. author in Pennsylvania English and the Akademie, Chatham Baroque and Madwomen Anthology. at the Carmel Bach Festival. As solo, William Pamerleau*, PhD has chamber, and orchestral player, Schultz been teaching philosophy at the Adam Reger*, MFA in fiction writing, appears on over sixty recordings. University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg has taught writing at the University of since 1994, earning the Chancellor’s Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Center Cathleen Sendek-Sapp*, MFA has her Distinguished Teaching Award in for the Arts and has published a master’s degree in French language 2015. He is the author of Existentialist number of short stories. and literature. She has taught French Cinema and numerous works in the at the University of Pittsburgh as areas of existentialism, ethics, social Martha Rogus has taught a teaching fellow and part-time philosophy, and the philosophy of film. composition at the University of instructor as well as for noncredit Pittsburgh, Bradford campus since lifelong learning. Marcie Persyn*, PhD completed 2018, and at Gannon University since her doctorate at the University 2011. She completed several feature Sally Sherman*, PhD, is a faculty of Pennsylvania and is Assistant length screenplays, film treatments, member and yoga researcher at Instructor in the Department of web series outlines, and earned an the University of Pittsburgh in the Classics at the University of Pittsburgh. MA in English and BS in Education. Department of Health and Human There, she endeavors to teach classics Development. She is a certified yoga to all, but ancient mythology is one of Ann Rosenthal* has more than 30 instructor and has led yoga trainings her favorite courses to teach because years of experience as an artist, across the globe. the impact of mythology shapes educator, and writer. Her work has our lives every day as these stories been shown locally at the Andy Jay Sherwin has practiced law, continue to withstand the test of time. Warhol Museum, the Mattress Factory, given away money for five different and SPACE, and has been featured charitable foundations and served as Camila Pulgar Machado*, PhD in exhibitions across the U.S. and a hospital chaplain. In 2019, he has her doctoral degree in Cultural internationally. created the Life Reflections Project Studies from the Central University to educate people about legacy of Venezuela in Caracas, where she Brett Rutherford, MA, was a part- letters, ethical wills, and other was a Professor of Latin American time instructor in Gender and legacy documents. Jay has extensive Literature for twenty years. She Women’s Studies at the University of experience facilitating online adult researched and taught about the Rhode Island. He is a poet, novelist, learning programs and he has taught ways Hispanic American literature and small-press publisher. this course at programs nationwide. has been integrated into the western literary tradition. Erik Schuckers is a Best of the Net Lisa Sobek* has been teaching and Pushcart Prize nominated writer Zumba for over 10 years and is Bruce Rabin*, MD has spent over whose work has appeared in Chelsea certified in not only Zumba Gold® four decades both at the University Station, Impossible Archetype, PANK, but also in Aqua Zumba and Zumba of Pittsburgh and as Medical Assaracus, Not Just Another Pretty Basics. Not only does she teach Director of the Division of Clinical Face (Beautiful Dreamer Press), and Zumba, in her other professional Immunopathology and the Healthy more. He has a special interest in career she is a geriatric care manager Lifestyle Program for UPMC doing combining words and images through and has been in the field of geriatrics research and creating programs in the collage, Instagram, and zines. for more than 30 years. science of coping with stress. He and colleagues have conducted research and published numerous papers explaining how stress affects health.
*Instructor has previously taught OLLI courses. OLLI.PITT.EDU | 31 Gregory Strom*, PhD studied Raymond Uy is an author, performer, Germaine Watkins* has a love of philosophy at the University of conductor, and award-winning music photography that started as a young Chicago (BA, 2002) and the University educator. He holds a Doctor of child. He began developing his skills of Pittsburgh (PhD, 2011), and has Musical Arts Degree from Boston at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild been teaching philosophy at the University (2018), a Master of Music during high school and continues to University of Pittsburgh since 2004, degree from the Eastman School educate and inspire students through with a brief stint (2011-2013) at the of Music (2003), and a Bachelor of the art of photography. University of Sydney. Most of his Music degree from Westminster Choir philosophical energies are spent College (2001). Richard Wilson* is a retired Internet thinking about how to live a good life software executive and sociologist. and do the right thing. William Van Lear, PhD received his After teaching at the University of doctorate in economics from the Pittsburgh, he helped to establish Christopher Dean Sullivan* has University of Pittsburgh. He was a the Operations Research department worked at Jazz Workshop Inc. since tenured professor of economics at at US Airways and later led software 1975 as music clinician, coordinator, Belmont Abbey College, his teaching development efforts there and with instructor, and consultant. He is the specialized in macroeconomics, Sabre and Oracle. He served as recipient of various New York state arts political economy, corporate President and CEO of CombineNet, awards, as well as the recipient of the governance, behavior, and finance, a Pittsburgh-based Internet software NYS Orange County Council of the and international financial economics. company until its acquisition in Arts “Champion for the Arts” Award. 2013 and now is a Board Director Sullivan is a performing bassist who Javier Vazquez-D’Elia*, PhD has of Keelvar, an Irish internet software has opened for or played with many a PhD in political science from the company. His 40-year professional Jazz greats in Pittsburgh and beyond. University of Pittsburgh. He is currently career has been closely tied to the a researcher at the University Center development of the Internet and its Melissa Tai* enjoys sharing her love for International Studies. Throughout uses in business and other fields. of art at many venues in Pittsburgh. the last 10 years, he has taught at Pitt, She strives to create a warm and California University of Pennsylvania, supportive environment for students Penn State, and the Indiana University to learn and experiment. of Pennsylvania.
Paul Tellers* is a Licensed Architect. David Walton*, MFA is retired He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Pittsburgh from the University of Detroit. Most of Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, his career was as University Architect at Department of English, where he Carnegie Mellon. He continued campus taught a variety of literature and planning as an Associate at WTW writing courses over the last 20 Architects. He is currently a Project years. He is a regular book reviewer Manager for the Pittsburgh Cultural for several national newspapers, a Trust’s proposed downtown cinema. recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in literature, and the author of two collections of short stories and a novel. College of General Studies 1400 Wesley W. Posvar Hall 230 South Bouquet Street Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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