Learning programs for adults age 50 and better at the University of Pittsburgh

FALL 2019 COURSE CATALOG It’s Time for You!

REGISTRATION OPENS WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2019 • PHONE REGISTRATION OPENS MONDAY, JULY 29, 2019 Fall 2019 Term Osher Lifelong Learning Institute University of Pittsburgh

TABLE OF CONTENTS DATES AND DEADLINES Schedule at-a-glance 5, 6 August 26 OLLI Session 1 begins

OLLI Session 1 Courses 9 September 2 University closed (Labor Day) OLLI Session 2 Courses 17 September 6 Fall term add/drop period Special Events 23 for Pitt courses ends

Instructor Biographies 24 September 28 OLLI Session 1 ends (except Monday courses Membership Benefits 28 which will end on October 7)

Information and Policies 28 September 30– OLLI break October 11 (no OLLI classes) Registration Form 29 October 14 OLLI Session 2 begins Guidelines for Auditing University Courses 31 November 16 OLLI Session 2 ends

See audit section for additional dates.

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) is a program in the College of General Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. OLLI offers stimulating courses designed to fuel your passion for learning, help you develop new interests, and keep your mind engaged!

OLLI members enjoy the intellectual stimulation of a learning community of adults, as well as opportunities for interaction with college students. Special lectures, tours, and trips provide additional opportunities for learning, enjoyment, and meeting others with similar interests.

No previous affiliaton to the University of Pittsburgh and no college experience is needed to become a member. There is something in OLLI at Pitt for everyone. We look forward to seeing you on campus soon.

It’s Time for You!

OLLI.PITT.EDU | 3 Registration and Member Benefits An active OLLI membership is required to register for courses

4 EASY WAYS TO REGISTER Choose your membership • Annual Membership (three consecutive terms) $225 • Annual Membership Installment Plan – first installment(pay now) $125 – second installment $100 (due the term following first installment) OR ONLINE PHONE • Term membership (all membership benefits, at web address 412-624-7308 but just for the fall 2019 term) $125 below AND • Additional fees as per course selections Partial scholarships are available, contact the office. Enjoy member benefits • Register for as many OLLI courses as you wish IN PERSON MAIL • Access OLLI socials, special events, and tours at OLLI office to OLLI office • Discounted price for many cultural events address below address below

• Receive a Pitt photo ID and olliregistration.pitt.edu/ - ride campus shuttles wconnect/ace/home.htm - receive discounts at the University Store on Fifth - purchase tickets at the student rate for OLLI at Pitt University of Pittsburgh stage productions 1436 Wesley W. Posvar Hall - access the Pitt Wi-Fi network 230 S. Bouquet Street Pittsburgh, PA 15260 See a complete list of OLLI member benefits on page 28. Office hours: 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m.

A GUIDE TO COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Choose your favorite courses based on the topics, days, and times that interest you!

Courses are offered for your exploration, DAY THURSDAY enjoyment, or academic interests. Academic – these courses are like TIME 10–11:50 a.m. undergraduate college courses with the

instructor lecturing the majority of the time. COURSE TITLE The First Amendment (A-25) s IMPORTANT COURSE NUMBER Exploration – more “hands on” oriented There are six rights protected in DESCRIPTION the First—and most important— When completing a courses: OR may be an academic topic paper registration form primarily taught through interactive group Amendment in our Bill of Rights: discussion and practice. no establishment of religion (by (page 29), use the the government), free exercise of unique course number Enjoyment – the majority of class is spent religion, freedom of speech, freedom to identify each course with the students discussing the topic, of the press, the right to peaceably you are registering for. practicing a skill, or the primary purpose is for assemble, and the right to...

group sharing and discussion. s Academic

4 | OLLI.PITT.EDU OLLI Fall 2019 PRINT Catalog Corrections & Additions

Please see below for corrections, changes, and or additions to the printed, mailed catalogs

CORRECTION Session 1: Monday, 1 – 2:50 p.m.

Advanced Beginner Spanish (correct course description)

This is a course for students who have advanced beyond a beginning knowledge of Spanish and wish to further refine speaking, listening, and reading comprehension skills. Classroom practice focuses on the use of complex grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. 10 week course. (Note: The description in the print catalogs is incorrect.)

Session 1: Friday, 10 - 11:50 a.m.

Make Your Own Greeting Cards

ADD - There is a $45 fee payable to the instructor the first day of class, no prorating. (Note: the fee is left out of the print catalog)

COURSE ADDED Session 1: Tuesday, 1 – 2:50 p.m.

Italian Bel Canto: The Operas of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti (A-44)

Literally “beautiful singing,” bel canto defines Italian operas of the early 19th century, where singing dominated the drama and memorable melodies were written to show off the human voice as the most beautiful of all instruments. This course will investigate the elements of singing and the ways these composers made the great singers of their day vehicles for dramatic truth. There is no required text, but students are asked to read a synopsis (or full libretto) of each italicized opera in advance of the session in which it will be covered. Also recommended is: Charles Osborne: The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini (Amadeus Press). DVD and CD recordings of individual works will be recommended in class.

Academic · Robert Croan OLLI Session 1 • Monday, August 26–Saturday, September 28 SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE FALL 2019 morning MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

9:30–11:50 a.m. 10–10:50 a.m. 9:30–11:50 a.m. 10–10:50 a.m. 10–11:50 a.m. Vegetarian Celebration Get Strong, Get Fit, Printmaking Without T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 1 (T–13) Intermediate Conversational Cooking (A–01) # Get Moving (T–03) a Press (T–09) # Stan Swartz French: Speaking in the Present Dona Albert Lucinda Dyjak Ann Rosenthal 10–11:50 a.m. Tense (T–16) Cathleen Sendek-Sapp 10–11:50 a.m. T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 3 (T–04) 10–11 a.m. Beginner Spanish (T–14) Coping with Stress for Stan Swartz Chakra Yoga All Levels (T–10) Nancy Farber Law and Social Change (A–37) Mental and Physical Health 10–11:50 a.m. Jill Clary The Many Impacts of David DeFazio and Longevity (A–02) Beginning Level French 10–11:50 a.m. Fracking (A–29) Make Your Own Greeting Bruce Rabin for Travelers (T–05) Minerals of the Carnegie Max Harleman Cards (T–17) # Dreams at Midsummer (A–03) Cathleen Sendek-Sapp Museum of Natural History Understanding and Practicing Sue Schneider Alan Stanford The Epic of Gilgamesh: (A–19) # Innovative Thinking (A–30) Our Hearts Are in the Trim, Harlan Clare When Charities Do an Ancient and Modern Gemma Jiang 1865–1920 (A–38) Bad Things (A–04) Story (A–11) Climate Change Update: Watercolor for Beginners/ John Burt Penina Lieber Melissa Eppihimer Science to Ethical Intermediates (T–12) # The Vietnam War: Experimental Responsibility (A–20) Melissa Tai Part 1 (A–39) The Writing Circle: Bob Mitchell Write Now! (A–05) Watercolor (T–02) # 11–11:50 a.m. Robert Rodrigues Mimi Botkin Melissa Tai A History of 1960s T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 2 (T–15) John Milton’s Popular Music (A–21) Stan Swartz Paradise Lost David Crippen (A–12) 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Kimberly Latta 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Rural Social Inequality: On The Wings of Song: We Come with the Dust and Collectivization in a Russian The Evolution of the Go with the Wind: The Great Region (A–31) Requiem (A–13) Depression (A–22) Charles Hier Jeffrey Swoger Abby Mendelson 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Wittgenstein’s Philosophical TM Investigations (A–14) Ageless Yoga –Vinyasa Flow Gregory Strom Asanas to Music (T–11) Cathy Reifer 11–11:50 a.m. Get Strong, Get Fit, Get Aerobicized (T–06) Lucinda Dyjak afternoon MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 1–2:50 p.m. 12:30–2:20 p.m. 1–2:50 p.m. 1–2:50 p.m. 12:30–2:20 p.m. Advanced Beginner The Irish in America (A–15) The Art of Investing: Hands On Advanced Conversational Stonehenge to Hubble (A–40) Rachel Oppenheimer Spanish (T–01) with the Stock Market (A–23) Spanish (A–32) David Nero Nancy Farber 1–2:50 p.m. Aaron Leaman Maria Franco de Gomez 12:30–3:20 p.m. Advanced Intermediate Fairy Tales and Describing an Almond African American Music: Disorder in the Court (A–41) Conversational French: Simply Archetypes (A–06) Blossom: Palestinian Our National Treasure (A–33) Ed Blank Conversation (T–07) Cathleen Elizabeth Rodenz Literature and Film (A–24) Jean Snyder Sendek-Sapp 1–2:50 p.m. Kenneth Boas Music and the Jewish Global and U.S. Women’s The Architecture of Antoni The History of Pittsburgh (A–42) (A–07) (A–25) (A–34) Dan Holland Heritage Rhetoric (A–16) Weiming The First Amendment Gaudí Judith Dorian Gorman Rob Beckwith Matthew Schlueb Pastel Potpourri A Plague of Their Own (A–08) The Music of Bach (A–26) Modern Short Fiction (T–18) # Sherry Bloom COURSE ADDED: Stephen Schultz (A–35) Kathleen Gilbert Italian Bel Canto: The Michael Helfand Populism and Fascism (A–09) Operas of Rossini, Bellini, Such Friends: The Literary Walking Allegheny County 3.0 Javier Vazquez-D’Elia and Donizetti (A-44) 1920s in Dublin, London, 1:35 –3:50 p.m. (Section 1) (A–43) # Stronger than Hate: Building Robert Croan Paris, and New York (A–27) Cinema and the Body Jay Steele Inclusive Communities (A–10) Kathleen Dixon-Donnelly (A–36) Saima Sitwat Poem Making 3: Writing 1:15–3 p.m. Lucy Fischer Toward Healing (A–17) Sheila The Magic Behind the SATURDAY Kelly Opera (A–28) # 10–11 a.m. Singing in a Chorus Class (T–08) Marilyn Egan Zumba Gold® (T–19) Connie Rapp Lisa Sobek 1:30–3:20 p.m. Back Road Wine Tour of Italy (A–18) # Mike Gonze # course held off campus: see course description for location OLLI.PITT.EDU | 5 OLLI Session 2 • Monday, October 14–Saturday, November 16 SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE FALL 2019 morning MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 10–11:50 a.m. 10–10:50 a.m. 9:30–11:50 a.m. 10–10:50 a.m. 10–11:50 a.m. Death in the Name of Get Strong, Get Fit, Printmaking Without T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 1 The Branding of God: Martyrs and Get Moving (continued) a Press # (continued) (continued) Tutankhamun (B–33) Martyrdom (B–01) T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 3 10–11 a.m. 10–11:30 a.m. Tim Ziaukas Rebecca Denova (continued) Chakra Yoga All Levels Our Social Fabric–Stronger How Does “Alexa” Work? (B–34) Frank Lloyd Wright: 10–11:50 a.m. (continued) than Steel (B–25) # Cristina Bahm His Work and Impact (B–02) Beginning Level French 10–11:50 a.m. Melissa Hiller and Ron Symons Intermediate Conversational John Dalles for Travelers (continued) French Literature in 10–11:50 a.m. French: Speaking in the Robert Kennedy and Elder Law (B–10) Translation (B–17) Beginner Spanish Present Tense (continued) His Times (B–03) Carol Sikov-Gross Rebecca Taksel (continued) Make Your Own Greeting Cards Stephen Russell Experimental Watercolor # Native American Art: Tradition Watercolor for Beginners/ (continued) 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (continued) and Innovation (B–18) Intermediates # (continued) The Vietnam War: Part 2 (B–35) The Problem of Hamlet (B–04) Rae Di Cicco 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Robert Rodrigues Rebecca Carpenter Infrastructure: How Do We Dig Our Way Out of The Great War and the Americans We! this Crisis? (B–11) Beginning of the Modern American Music for Kent Harries World (B–19) Orchestra (B–26) Louise Mayo Jno Hunt Women in Politics (B–12) Best American Short Stories Susan Hansen 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Mid-century Sin, 2019 (B–27) 11–11:50 a.m. Mid-century Despair (B–20) Adam Reger Get Strong, Get Fit, Get Abby Mendelson Aerobicized (continued) 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Ageless YogaTM–Vinyasa TED Talks (B–13) Flow Asanas to Music Kathy Callahan (continued) afternoon MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 1–2:50 p.m. 1–2:50 p.m. 1–2:50 p.m. 1–2:50 p.m. 12:30–3:20 p.m. Advanced Beginner Advanced Intermediate Anti-Semitism: Expressions Advanced Conversational Five Classic Comedies (B–36) Spanish (continued) Conversational French: Simply and Analyses (B–21) Spanish (B–28) Ed Blank Introduction to Writing Conversation (continued) Alexander Orbach Nancy Farber Fiction (B–05) Louisa May Alcott: The Beatles: from The White Debating Migration (B–29) 1–2:50 p.m. Kathleen George Not Just for Kids (B–14) Album through Let It Be (B–22) Roger Rouse Genomics and the Future Clifford Johnson Stephen Schultz of Health Care: A Precision What You Should Know about The Federal Courts: Medicine Primer (B–37) Your DNA (B–06) Pittsburgh’s East End: Creole Arts and Culture: Unraveling the Mystery (B–30) Phil Empey and Anna Estop from Streetcar Suburb to from New Orleans to the Bob Fagan Mylynda Massart 1–3:50 p.m. Urban Neighborhood (B–15) Caribbean (B–23) Identifying, Managing, Great Low-budget Small Robert Jucha Julianne Maher and Protecting, and Preserving Your Pastel Potpourri# Independent Films (B–07) The Presidency of Gerdine Ulysse Online Digital Assets (B–31) (continued) David Shifren Abraham Lincoln (B–16) Reading Shakespeare: King Jerry Fitzgibbon and Walking Allegheny County 1:30–3:20 p.m. Miles Richards Henry IV, Part One (B–24) Richard Fitzgibbon David Walton 3.0# (Section 2) (B–38) Discovering Nature through Singing in Chorus Class 1:15–3:05 p.m. Jay Steele Journaling (B–08) # (continued) Composers in Exile: Music Michael Cornell in Adversity (B–32) # 2–3:50 p.m. Michael Hammer SATURDAY History of Medieval and Renaissance Science (B–09) 10–11 a.m. Adam Davis Zumba Gold® (continued)

6 | OLLI.PITT.EDU # course held off campus: see course description for location Courses by Topic • Fall 2019

Fitness, Health, and Self-Interest The Vietnam War: Part 2 22 Ageless Yoga™—Vinyasa Flow Asanas Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations 11 to Music 13 The Art of Investing: Hands on with the Language Studies Stock Market 13 Advanced Beginner Spanish 9 Back Road Wine Tour of Italy 12 Chakra Yoga All Levels 12 Advanced Conversational Spanish (Franco de Gomez) 14 Coping with Stress for Mental and Physical Health and Longevity 9 Advanced Conversational Spanish (Farber) 21 Get Strong, Get Fit, Get Aerobicized 11 Advanced Intermediate Conversational French: Simply Conversation 11 Get Strong, Get Fit, Get Moving 10 Beginner Spanish 14 T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 1 14 T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 2 14 Beginning Level French for Travelers 10 T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 3 10 Intermediate Conversational French: Speaking in the Present Tense 15 TED Talks 19 Vegetarian Celebration Cooking 9 Literature and Creative Writing Walking Allegheny County 3.0 (Section 1) 16 Best American Short Stories 2019 21 Walking Allegheny County 3.0 (Section 2) 22 Describing an Almond Blossom: Palestinian Zumba Gold® 16 Literature and Film 13

Discovering Nature through Journaling 18 History, Classics, and Philosophy Dreams at Midsummer 9 The Architecture of Antoni Gaudí 15 The Branding of Tutankhamun 22 The Epic of Gilgamesh: an Ancient and Modern Story 10 Frank Lloyd Wright—His Work and Impact 17 Fairy Tales and Archetypes 9 The Great War and the Beginning of the Modern World 20 French Literature in Translation 19

History of Medieval and Renaissance Science 18 Introduction to Writing Fiction 17 The History of Pittsburgh 16 John Milton’s Paradise Lost 11 The Irish in America 11 Louisa May Alcott: Not Just for Kids 19 Our Hearts Are in the Trim, 1865-1920 15 Mid-century Sin, Mid-century Despair 20 Pittsburgh’s East End: from Streetcar Suburb to Urban Neighborhood 19 Modern Short Fiction 15 The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln 19 A Plague of Their Own 10 Robert Kennedy and His Times 17 Poem Making 3: Writing Toward Healing 11 Rural Social Inequality: Collectivization in a Russian Region 14 The Problem of Hamlet 17

Stonehenge to Hubble 16 Reading Shakespeare: King Henry IV, Part One 20 The Vietnam War: Part 1 16

*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 7 Such Friends: The Literary 1920s in Dublin, Our Social Fabric: Stronger than Steel 20 London, Paris, and New York 13 Populism and Fascism 10 We Come with the Dust and Go with the Wind: The Great Depression 13 Stronger than Hate: Building Inclusive Communities 10 The Writing Circle: Write Now! 9 When Charities Do Bad Things 9

Music and Film Women in Politics 18

African American Music: Our National Treasure 15 Religious Studies Americans We! American Music for Orchestra 21 Death in the Name of God: Martyrs The Beatles: from The White Album through and Martyrdom 17 Let It Be 20

Cinema and the Body 15 Science, Technology, and Medicine

Composers in Exile: Music in Adversity 21 Minerals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 12

Disorder in the Court 16 Climate Change Update: Science to Ethical Responsibility 12 Five Classic Comedies 22 Genomics and the Future of Health Care: Great Low-budget Small Independent Films 18 A Precision Medicine Primer 22

A History of 1960s Popular Music 12 How Does “Alexa” Work? 22

The Magic Behind the Opera 13 Identifying, Managing, Protecting, and Preserving Your Online Digital Assets 21 Music and the Jewish Heritage 10 Infrastructure: How Do We Dig Our Way Out The Music of Bach 13 of this Crisis? 18

On the Wings of Song: the Evolution of The Many Impacts of Fracking 14 the Requiem 11 Understanding and Practicing Singing in Chorus Class 12 Innovative Thinking 14

What You Should Know about Your DNA 17 Political, Social Sciences, and Society

Anti-Semitism: Expressions and Analyses 20 Visual and Performing Arts Creole Arts and Culture: from New Orleans Experimental Watercolor 10 to the Caribbean 20 Make Your Own Greeting Cards 15 Debating Migration 21 Native American Art: Tradition and Innovation 19 Elder Law 18 Pastel Potpourri 16 The Federal Courts: Unraveling the Mystery 21 Printmaking Without a Press 12 The First Amendment 13 Watercolor for Beginners/Intermediates 14 Global and U.S. Women’s Rhetoric 11

Law and Social Change 15

8 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI Course Descriptions Session 1: Monday, August 26–Saturday, September 28

Dreams at Midsummer (A-03) feedback. Being given a short time to MONDAY write encourages us to forget the idea Over a period of five classes, we will that first drafts must be perfect; it also examine the structure of the play A Monday courses will not meet on shows us how much we have to say. Midsummer’s Night’s Dream. We will September 2 or 30, and will end The instructor won’t so much teach as consider Shakespeare’s intention in on October 7. react to participants’ writings and the division of the play into three offer revision suggestions. 9:30–11:50 a.m. character groupings: the aristocrats, the Rude Mechanicals, and the Enjoyment • Mimi Botkin world of Fairie. We will look at the Vegetarian Celebration 1–2:50 p.m. Cooking* (A-01) complexities of the interrelationships and the effects of interference in Advanced Beginner Spanish* In this course, we will learn to cook a worlds not our own. We will also (T-01) variety of celebration foods. Weekly examine the games that lovers play, Members may only register for one recipes will address foods for events games that Shakespeare seemed level of Spanish. such as: Summer Picnics, Come for to understand so well, and that he This is a course for students who have Cocktails (hors d’oeuvres), Holiday played with in so many other of his advanced beyond a beginning knowledge of Brunch, Super Bowl Party, and Mezze plays, both comedic and tragic. with Friends (Mediterranean small Spanish and wish to further refine speaking, Academic • Alan Stanford dishes as a meal). As always, the listening, and reading comprehension skills. best part is sampling the recipes. Classroom practice focuses on the use of When Charities Do Bad No cooking required— you can relax, complex grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. 10 Things (A-04) watch the meal being prepared, and week course. then enjoy it! Charitable organizations are an (Note: the description in the printed catalogs is important part of our society, and they A $25 fee is payable to the instructor incorrect.) are held to a high standard of conduct. at the first class. There is no prorating Exploration • Nancy Farber When they go astray, they betray the for classes missed. public’s trust and violate their own Fairy Tales and Archetypes Meets at the Wilkins School fiduciary duties. We will discuss current (A-06) Community Center, 7604 Charleston high profile scandals, including: Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15218 The Trump Foundation, The Clinton Fairy tales, possibly the oldest form of Enjoyment • Dona Albert Foundation, the Key Worldwide literature, seem to be innocent Foundation (Varsity Blues), and the stories. Yet they contain profound 10–11:50 a.m. Fumo Foundation (Philadelphia). lessons for those who would dive In each case we will ask: What went deep into their waters of meaning. Coping with Stress for Mental wrong? Could it have been avoided? Sometimes there is a physical and Physical Health and What lessons can be learned from struggle against evil and sometimes a Longevity (A-02) this scandal? contest of wits, sometimes a demonstration of strength or magic, This 4-week course will provide Academic • Penina Lieber and sometimes withdrawal or flight. students with a proven and effective Above all, the innermost self, which is stress-coping program for improving The Writing Circle: Write beyond the struggle between the and maintaining their health, based Now!* (A-05) opposites, can be revealed. Through on research that began in 1986. This This course offers writers the the exploration of several fairy tales, program started with 14 healthy opportunity to explore new you will identify some of the individuals in their 70s and 80s who approaches to putting words on archetypal themes and inherent met weekly for 16 months, and it has the page in a friendly audience archetypes that reside in the been refined by input from thousands atmosphere. We’ll all write together, collective unconscious. of participants since 2001. guided by a prompt, share what Academic • Elizabeth Rodenz Academic • Bruce Rabin we’ve written, and offer constructive

*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 9 Music and the Jewish Heritage explore the diversity and originality of 10–11:50 a.m. (A-07) contemporary populism. This course will explore interactions Academic • Javier Vazquez-D’Elia Beginning Level French for between communities tolerant to Travelers* (T-05) Jewish culture as well as those that Stronger than Hate: Building This 10-week course is designed are overtly anti-Semitic, beginning Inclusive Communities (A-10) for students with little or no prior with Salamone Rossi in 16th century Every individual counts in a world that knowledge of French to help them Mantua. Discussion will shed light on is increasingly polarized, yet yearning acquire some basic knowledge of leading composers from the Baroque for peace and reconciliation. How the language. Emphasis is on how to the present day and will consider do we look past our differences and to pronounce the French they may conversion, the salon, cabaret, the find common ground? How do we visually encounter during their travels. Third Reich, music in concentration become agents of social change in our Students also have a chance to camps, the flight of refugees to Holly- communities and neighborhoods? This practice mastering useful phrases and wood, blossoming of musical life on course explores implicit and explicit language structures (numbers, days of Broadway and in Israel, as well as the biases inherent to our society and week, etc.) to help them communicate influence of Klezmer music. Video and effective tools for overcoming them. in travel situations. musical examples enrich the program. Through simulation, dialogue, and Exploration • Cathleen Sendek-Sapp Academic • Judith Dorian learning from those who are leading the Pittsburgh region by building one The Epic of Gilgamesh: an A Plague of Their Own (A-08) bridge at a time, we hope to create Ancient and Modern Story many more individuals who can serve Rather than using a medical (A-11) as instruments of change. perspective, we will look at the life- The Epic of Gilgamesh tells the story threatening experience of deadly Exploration • Saima Sitwat of a legendary Mesopotamian king epidemics by seeing what novelists, who discovers that his only hope poets, and playwrights have to say. for immortality is to ensure that his Each disease (and each era) has its deeds are remembered. Our class own story to tell, and we’ll consider TUESDAY will explore this essential piece of their stories from the earliest literature world literature in its Mesopotamian to the Black Death to the zombie 10–10:50 a.m. historical and cultural context as well apocalypse. Drawing on the Bible, as its significance in the modern Boccaccio’s Decameron, Defoe’s Get Strong, Get Fit, Get world. As we do this, we will consider Journal of a Plague Year, Katherine Moving* (T-03) ancient images of Gilgamesh; Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Members may only register for one compare them to the biblical flood Jonathan Larson’s Rent, and others, of the Get Strong, Get Fit courses. story; and experience modern art, we’ll examine what writers tell us Strength, flexibility, balance, and literature, and music that responds about humanity when normal life is bone density will be addressed to the epic’s universal themes of upended for a time or forever. in this 10-week course by use of friendship and love, heroism and fear, Academic • Sherry Bloom handheld weights, resistance bands, and life and death. body weight, and gravity. All levels Academic • Melissa Eppihimer Populism and Fascism (A-09) of participants are welcome. Wear comfortable, non-restrictive clothing. Are Populism and Fascism twins, Experimental Watercolor* (T-02) cousins, or do they just have some Enjoyment • Lucinda Dyjak Members may only register for family resemblance? These days, one 10-week art course. Previous citizens, politicians, and academics T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 3* (T-04) watercolor experience is required. share the perplexity produced Members may only register for one In this course, students with previous by the multiplication of a new T’ai Chi course. watercolor experience will use tools, breed of political movements and The first section of the T’ai Chi form is techniques, and alternate surfaces parties that have been generically a complete exercise in itself. This 10- to explore watercolor in new ways. characterized as “populist.” Critics week course is designed for students Students will achieve new textures observe that such labeling masks who have completed T’ai Chi Ch’uan and finishes in their work. Upon important differences. Mixing history Level 2 a minimum of two times. seeing the demonstration the class and conceptual discussion, we will will discuss how the effect could be Enjoyment • Stan Swartz

10 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE utilized in a painting. Then students Wittgenstein’s Philosophical 1–2:50 p.m. will work independently with advice or Investigations (A-14) instruction from the teacher as needed. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Advanced Intermediate This 10-week course meets at Investigations is an indispensable work Conversational French: Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth Avenue, of Western philosophy, but it is taught Simply Conversation* (T-07) Pittsburgh, PA 15213. less often than it deserves because This 10-week course is designed Exploration • Melissa Tai of the formidable difficulty involved for those who have taken several in understanding Wittgenstein’s French courses and are interested John Milton’s Paradise Lost philosophical methods and aims. This in strengthening their speaking (A-12) should not be an obstacle to the study abilities and comprehension. Each of a book whose greatness commands week’s lesson centers on a selected Paradise Lost remains the greatest our attention even if it does not topic with the goal of building and work of literature to celebrate married grant us immediate understanding. recalling useful vocabulary. The class love. Adam and Eve are literally made In this course, we will attempt to give is conducted for the most part in for one another, yet their sensuous, the Philosophical Investigations the French. No text is required. sacred partnership is challenged as attention it deserves. they both are drawn into a cosmic Exploration • Cathleen Sendek-Sapp battle between God and his brightest Academic • Gregory Strom angel, Lucifer. We will not have time Global and U.S. Women’s to read the entire poem, but will focus 11–11:50 a.m. Rhetoric (A-16) on significant, dramatic parts while Through discussions of readings, learning some basic principles of epic Get Strong, Get Fit, Get watching a documentary, enacting a poetry and appreciating the way that Aerobicized* (T-06) Broadway play, reading poetry, and Milton’s gorgeous style reiterates Members may only register for one of listening to guest speakers, students and emphasizes the narrative. This the Get Strong, Get Fit courses. are informed how U.S. and global will involve learning how to read the This is a 10-week course with low- women use rhetoric (various types of poem aloud. impact aerobics plus strength training writings and speeches) to advance Exploration • Kimberly Latta to enhance cardiovascular stamina, their agenda, rights, and status. strength, flexibility, balance, bone Academic • Weiming Gorman On The Wings of Song: The density, and coordination. Wear Evolution of the Requiem (A-13) comfortable, nonrestrictive clothing. Poem Making 3: Writing The Requiem is a Mass for the dead in Enjoyment • Lucinda Dyjak Toward Healing* (A-17) the Catholic liturgy. More than 2,000 Writing a poem can be a powerful such masses have been set to music 12:30–2:20 p.m. tool for introducing ourselves to from before Mozart to Brahms and on ourselves. Making poems that explore to Stravinsky. In the 18th century, the The Irish in America (A-15) trauma, loss, and grief can open, Requiem began moving out of the This lecture-based course will examine clarify, and astound us, and lead us church and onto the concert stage. the history of the Irish diaspora in toward healing the hurt parts of the Texts began to morph away from the America. We will study the origins self. We will balance emotionally strict Catholic Mass and the genre and evolution of Irish immigration challenging writing by creating poems become more varied, even omitting to the United States as well as the about rituals, activities, experiences, text altogether. On purely musical creation of a distinct Irish American and relationships that sustain and terms, the compositions span the culture. Emphasis will be placed on nurture us. Past Poem Making entire spectrum of musical expression the connections that remain between classes are not a prerequisite. from anguish to quiet solitude to Irish Americans and Ireland as well Students will write in each class and heaven-shaking splendor. Far from as the factors that separate these be invited to share their writing in a being universally morose, much of communities. This course will move positive, non-judgmental atmosphere. this music can be uplifting, thrilling, from the U.S. colonial period to the Students will receive writing prompts and, most importantly, life-affirming. present day, covering issues such for each of the 29 days of Session Academic • Jeffrey Swoger as religion, racism, nativism, labor, 1. Novice poets are welcome. politics, nationalism, international Bring passion, eagerness and a relations, and identity formation. In commitment to write! addition to lecture we will do short Exploration • Sheila Kelly in-class readings and discussion. Academic • Rachel Oppenheimer

*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 11 Singing in a Chorus Class (T-08) first five weeks, the focus will be historical tour of the Hillman Hall of relief techniques, from stamps to Minerals and Wertz Hall of Gems. Whether you have choral experience complex designs. In the second five or are just finding your singing voice, Meets at the Carnegie Museum of weeks, students will explore gel experience the joy of singing. The Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, plate monoprinting techniques using goals of this course are to relax, have Pittsburgh, PA 15213 stencils and masks, layering paint, fun, and learn while singing two- and and transferring images. Students will Exploration • Harlan Clare three-part harmony. The class sings also combine both techniques. The traditional choral favorites as well as resulting prints can be displayed as is Climate Change Update: arrangements of Broadway songs. No or used in a collage. Science to Ethical prior experience is necessary, just the Responsibility (A-20) desire to participate. This 10-week course meets at Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth Avenue, The 2018 special report by the This course runs for 10 weeks. Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Enjoyment • Connie Rapp Change calls for prompt climate Exploration • Ann Rosenthal action. Using that report and other 1:30–3:20 p.m. sources, we will examine what 10–11 a.m. science tells us about climate change Back Road Wine Tour of causes and potential solutions. We Chakra Yoga All Levels* (T-10) Italy* (A-18) will discuss questions such as: Why This 10-week course moves through do carbon dioxide and methane Join us as we discover some of traditional yoga poses (or asanas) emissions play such a big role? What the lesser-visited areas of Italian that align each individual chakra, are climate models, how accurate are wine. We will be enjoying wines moving up the spine from the root they, and what do their predictions from throughout the country. Each chakra to the crown chakra. Chakras mean in human terms? How do we week students will learn about are energy centers located across produce so much greenhouse gas– the geography and their unique different points on our spinal column. nearly 20 tons a year per American? microclimates. Please join us for a When energy becomes blocked What practical steps should our lecture and tasting. Bread and in a chakra, it triggers physical, society be taking? What are some cheese will be served. mental, or emotional imbalances that actions that each of us can take to This is a 3-week course with an manifest in symptoms such as anxiety, make a difference? additional course fee of $30, with no lethargy, or poor digestion. This class Academic • Bob Mitchell prorating, payable with registration. is for the student who likes a fluid, Meets at Dreadnought Wines, 3401 mindful practice that links alignment, A History of 1960s Popular Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15201 movement and breath. Participants Music (A-21) Enjoyment • Mike Gonze should wear comfortable, loose fitting clothing and bring a yoga mat. This weekly tutorial series will explore how the sociology and politics of the Enjoyment • Jill Clary revolutionary 1960s decade shaped WEDNESDAY popular music, and how music may 10–11:50 a.m. have altered history. Guest lecturers with expertise in various subjects 9:30–11:50 a.m. Minerals of the Carnegie are included. At the conclusion of Museum of Natural History* the tutorial, students may expect Printmaking Without a Press* (A-19) to understand how historical and (T-09) Minerals are used in all aspects of our political events of the ’60s generated Members may only register for one daily living. We eat them, rub them changes in the character and flavor 10-week art course. on our skin, use them in our electronic of the music and why it contributed Most fine art printmaking requires devices, and make products from to the evolution of music into the a press, but in this 10-week course, them. Participants will learn how we next decade. students will print by hand. Though use minerals every day and how they Academic • David Crippen traditional printmaking emphasizes affect us. This course will explain the producing editions (a set of identical connection between radiation and prints), in this class students will Pittsburgh, past and present, as well improvise with color and pattern as how we use radiation in changing to produce stunning results. In the minerals. The instructor will give a

12 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. of investing but you do NOT need to will have an intimate knowledge be an expert. Here’s your big chance of some of his greatest music and We Come with the Dust and to finally put your (fake) money where be able to identify Bach’s melodic, Go with the Wind: The Great your adult education is and see how harmonic, contrapuntal, and Depression (A-22) you fare against the trading pros. structural vocabulary. Well, buddy, can you spare a dime? Exploration • Aaron Leaman Academic • Stephen Schultz American writers rose to the occasion, lyricists to the labor stage, the affected, Describing an Almond Such Friends: The Literary the afflicted, the African-Americans. Blossom: Palestinian 1920s in Dublin, London, Everyone felt the pinch—and struck Literature and Film (A-24) Paris, and New York (A-27) back. John Steinbeck, Cannery Row; This course will consist of close We will travel back to the 1920s, Clifford Odets, Paradise Lost; Woody reading and discussion of Palestinian exploring the heyday of WB Yeats’ Guthrie, Dust Bowl Ballads; Horace stories, memoirs, poems, and films and Lady Augusta Gregory’s Abbey McCoy, They Shoot Horses, Don’t that are a pleasure and an education: Theatre in Dublin, Ireland; Virginia They; Richard Wright, Native Son will personal, vivid, original, sometimes and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press be referenced. witty, always accomplished, and in London, England; the publication Academic • Abby Mendelson always honest. They are a testimonial of James Joyce’s Ulysses by Sylvia to the human spirit, and to the Beach’s bookstore, Shakespeare & 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. growing contribution of Palestine Co., in Paris, France; the founding of to literature. We will, with the Harold Ross’s The New Yorker, and Ageless YogaTM–Vinyasa Flow authors, probe the past through the rise of editor Maxwell Perkins Asanas to Music* (T-11) unconventional memories, but also at Scribner’s company in New York, share their deep interest in imagining, N.Y. We will look at the relationships This 9-week class is a moving in the words of Mischa Hiller, “a among the creative people who were meditation with an emphasis on Palestine that reflects who we are now behind these legendary ventures and traditional yoga asanas and poses and who we hope to become.” their “such friends.” in connecting sequences using the breath to connect the mind body and Academic • Kenneth Boas Academic • Kathleen Dixon-Donnelly spirit. Yoga Vinyasa Flow taps into our inner quiet power through the The First Amendment (A-25) 1:15–3 p.m. balancing of strength building poses, There are six rights protected in detoxing twists, balance sequences, the First—and most important— The Magic Behind the Opera core building, spinal alignment, Amendment in our Bill of Rights: (A-28) inversions, and hip openers, which no establishment of religion (by Have you ever wondered how special allows us to get out of heads and into the government), free exercise of effects are created on the opera stage? our bodies. Participants should wear religion, freedom of speech, freedom How do stagehands manage fire, a comfortable, loose fitting clothing of the press, the right to peaceably flying character, and falling snow? and bring a yoga mat. assemble, and the right to petition the Why do wardrobe staff use magnets in Enjoyment • Cathy Reifer government for redress of grievances. costumes? How are opera wigs made This course will teach each of these from human hair? After introductions 1–2:50 p.m. rights in their British and colonial of operas from the 2019–20 Pittsburgh violations, constitutional origins, case Opera season, including Don Giovanni, The Art of Investing: Hands on law interpretations, and in the news Florencia en el Amazonas, Carmen, with the Stock Market (A-23) today. That review will reveal that the and Norma, this course will explore law is not immutable, or even always the production elements that create Everyone has watched the stock right! Participation is encouraged. the magic of theater. A significant market go up and down, but if you’ve musical selection from each opera will ever wondered why (or how), this Academic • Rob Beckwith be examined, and the instructor will is the class for you. We will discuss be joined by staff members and opera market metrics and trends, study The Music of Bach (A-26) artists who will share their specific areas methods for selecting and ranking This class will be a 4-week of expertise about opera. investment options, and utilize an retrospective of Bach’s life and online service to create our own works, covering all major aspects of This 4-week course meets at (simulated) portfolios and trade in his instrumental and vocal music. Pittsburgh Opera, 2425 Liberty Ave, real time as the class continues. This At the end of this course, students Pittsburgh, PA 15222 class assumes some basic knowledge Enjoyment • Marilyn Egan

*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 13 Understanding and Practicing is designed for students who have THURSDAY Innovative Thinking (A-30) completed Level 1: The Eight Methods of T’ai Chi a minimum of In the knowledge era, individuals and two times. This is a 9-week course. 10–10:50 a.m. organizations have to process large quantities of information and face Enjoyment • Stan Swartz T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 1* (T-13) constant disruptive changes. Linear Members may take only one T’ai Chi thinking is no longer enough for such 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. course. context. Linear thinking is defined The Eight Methods of T’ai Chi are as a mental model where cause and Rural Social Inequality: simpler movements designed to effect between two elements has Collectivization in a Russian introduce students to the T’ai Chi constant proportion and so can be Region (A-31) principles and movements. Once drawn with a straight line on a graph. Collectivization in Russia is usually students have a good foundation in Linear thinking leads to inability to presented as peasants being forcibly the basics, they can proceed to T’ai identify leverage points for effective herded into collective farms where Chi 2 and eventually T’ai Chi 3. This change efforts. This course introduces they did not want to be, resulting is a 9-week course. principles of five major nonlinear in millions dying from violence and Enjoyment • Stan Swartz thinking methods, brings them to hunger. The reality is much less life with real life applications, and bloody, but more complex and much 10–11:50 a.m. encourages students to apply the more interesting. The story turns principles in their own practices. much more upon the rural party not Beginner Spanish* (T-14) Academic • Gemma Jiang wanting or not being able to carry out Members may only register for one the practices that party leaders were level of Spanish. Watercolor for Beginners/ developing to attract peasants into collective farming. The party had to This is a 10-week course for Intermediates* (T-12) largely bypass its rural party apparatus beginners and it focuses on Spanish Members may only register for one and rely on youth and poor peasant pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, 10-week art course. activists to accomplish collectivization and useful expressions for travel. Enjoy the beauty, quirks, and happy in the region we study. Classroom practice includes speaking, surprises watercolor can bring. A new reading, and listening comprehension. lesson and demonstration is presented Academic • Charles Hier Exploration • Nancy Farber each week. In addition to watercolor techniques we will cover composition, 1–2:50 p.m. The Many Impacts of Fracking color theory, and perspective. Each Advanced Conversational (A-29) class starts with a demonstration and discussion. Then students will work at Spanish* (A-32) Over the last decade, there has their own pace with guidance when Members may only register for one been a boom in unconventional oil needed. Intermediate participants level of Spanish. and gas development, which is the are welcome to work on their own, The course’s main focus is Spanish production of oil and gas trapped in with individualized feedback and reading and conversation as well as low-porous media (e.g. shale rock) instruction. group discussions based on short using a technique known as hydraulic stories from young Latin American fracturing (fracking). The technique This 10-week course will meet at writers such as Samantha Schweldin, has led to economic benefits in the Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth Avenue, Valeria Luiselli, Carlos Manuel Álvarez, U.S., such as growth in private wealth Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Marina Torres, and Claudio Pita Ruíz. and public revenues and reduced Exploration • Melissa Tai The weekly readings will form the CO2 emissions. Concerns have been basis for the class content. The class raised with the technique, many of 11–11:50 a.m. and discussions will be conducted which are related to environmental, in Spanish; therefore, participants health, and safety risks. In this course, T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 2* (T-15) should have a significant knowledge we will discuss both the benefits Members may only register for one of Spanish. and costs created by the industry, T’ai Chi course. Exploration • Maria Franco de Gomez and explore links to issues such as The T’ai Chi form is a complex series economic growth and climate change. of movements, more challenging Academic • Max Harleman than the Eight Methods. This course

14 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE African American Music: Our suggest some open-ended questions, an outcome of social change. In National Treasure (A-33) and facilitate the full class discussions. this course, directed social change because of legal change, or social The music of African Americans Academic • Michael Helfand engineering, is also examined, and has profoundly influenced nearly the mutual ongoing interactions every genre of music in the United 1:35 –3:50 p.m. between legal and social change States and the world. Beginning are investigated. Classical and with the music created by enslaved Cinema and the Body (A-36) contemporary theories related to Americans, African American creators The course will explore the human these areas will be introduced. and performers have overcome and body as represented in film. We will continue to overcome persistent and begin by considering two silent films, Academic • David DeFazio overwhelming obstacles to enrich and proceed to the modern era—also the music now available to us in discussing theories of the body. Many Make Your Own Greeting many formats, in live performance, class sessions will consider how the Cards* (T-17) and in audio and visual recordings of body is figured in various film genres Members may take only one 10-week every kind. such as the musical, the melodrama, art course Academic • Jean Snyder and the comedy. Moreover, we will In this hands-on course, you will consider certain important cinematic learn several techniques for making The Architecture of Antoni themes (e.g. the aging body on your own greeting cards for a variety Gaudí (A-34) screen, and societal pressures on of occasions (birthdays, invitations, female body image.) thanks, anniversaries, encouragement, This course traces the arc of Antoni and more). Using collage, watercolor, Gaudí’s life and architectural work, Academic • Lucy Fischer hand-lettering, simple origami, and beginning with influences from the more, explore options for creating Gothic era and the Catalan culture your own special cards: one-of-a-kind centered on Barcelona. His seminal or in multiples. buildings at the turn of the 20th FRIDAY century will be analyzed, examining A fee of $45 is payable to the instructor on schematic strategies, theoretic 10–11:50 a.m. the first day of class, no prorating. postulates, and material executions, This 10-week course will meet at contextualized in his collaborations Intermediate Conversational Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth Avenue, with artisans and poets. Gaudí set French: Speaking in the Pittsburgh, PA 15213. out to restore humanity through a Present Tense* (T-16) Exploration • Sue Schneider living architecture of expressionistic In this 10-week course, French forms derived from nature’s flora and grammar is given a conversational Our Hearts Are in the Trim, fauna, constructed with equilibrated spin. Participants study groups of 1865–1920 (A-38) structures reacting to weight and regular and irregular present tense space, while anticipating the verbs and then are encouraged to After the Civil War, some anti-slavery parametric architecture of today. use them in classroom activities. activists wanted to rest. However, others had been involved in multiple Academic • Matthew Schlueb Class time also includes working with passages from a selected reader. This social movements and felt it necessary to continue the struggle, dealing with Modern Short Fiction (A-35) course is geared toward students who have difficulty in comfortably unresolved issues. This course focuses For this class we’ll be reading and delivering simple sentences in French. on five movements, primarily in discussing examples of various Some prior knowledge of French is Pennsylvania, while placing the modern and contemporary forms by expected. Advanced speaking skills Commonwealth in the national scene, American masters of short fiction: are not required. taking special notice of the Ernest Hemingway, Grace Paley, Alice abolitionists, their children, and Munro, and Bharati Mukherjee. Most Exploration • Cathleen Sendek-Sapp young disciples of the next class time will be for small group and generation whose hearts were in the full class discussions to allow readers Law and Social Change (A-37) trim to continue the struggle for to develop, explain, and share their This course investigates the reform. views of the stories. The instructor interrelationships between change Academic • John Burt will offer brief introductory materials, in society and change in legal rules. Legal change is studied as

*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 15 The Vietnam War: Part 1 (A-39) questionable assault by a barkeep; Walking Allegheny County Primal Fear, with Richard Gere For an entire generation of Americans 3.0 (Section 1)* (A-43) defending stammering, timid Edward and Vietnamese, the Vietnam War This course is taught by a tour guide Norton, accused of killing a clergyman; was the defining event of their lives, with more than 20 years experience, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, as World War I, the Great Depression and will give the students a unique with Richard Burton and Claire Bloom or World War II was for earlier perspective of the past, present, and trapped in Communist East Berlin; generations. In spite of the specter future of these five diverse areas of Doubt, with Father Philip Seymour of September 11 and the conflicts in Allegheny County. Each of the five Hoffman troubled by prickly Sister the Middle East, policymakers still weeks, we will explore the following: Meryl Streep; also The Courtroom deal with the “lessons of Vietnam.” Dormont, Carnegie, Emsworth, (from I Love Lucy) and Disorder in the Individuals who experienced Vietnam Edgeworth, and Woodland Road. In Court (definitiveThree Stooges). (with still deal with the subliminal aspects each walking tour, we will highlight English captions) of it. The purpose of this course the history, architecture, and hidden is to examine the significance of Enjoyment • Ed Blank gems of these unique and rapidly the Vietnam Era carefully, and, in changing landscapes in Allegheny particular, the Vietnam War in the 1–2:50 p.m. County. It is a fun way to exercise! context of the recent history of the This course meets at various outdoor United States. Part 1 will cover pre- The History of Pittsburgh (A-42) locations in the community. Each class war through 1967. This course explores the development involves several miles of walking. Academic • Robert Rodrigues of Pittsburgh’s life and landscape Enjoyment • Jay Steele from origins as a Native American 12:30–2:20 p.m. hunting ground, its frontier origins in the 18th century, rise of industry, its Stonehenge to Hubble (A-40) Renaissance of the mid-20th century, SATURDAY after-effects of de-industrialization, This course provides a historical and community revitalization. The perspective of our place in the 10–11 a.m. city and its region are addressed universe. We start with a description as a case study in American social ® of the nighttime sky, both as Zumba Gold (T-19) history and urbanization. Pittsburgh viewed by the ancients, and in The Zumba Gold® fitness program is offers the opportunity to examine the terms of a contemporary practical a 10-week course designed to meet transformation from a commercial understanding. Next, we will follow the anatomical, physiological, and city to an industrial metropolis with the evolution of beliefs in Earth’s psychological needs of adults 50 the attendant social, political, labor, place in the cosmos, beginning with and better. Like the traditional Latin- and environmental issues which the ancient Greeks, up through the inspired Zumba workout, the Zumba characterize American urban life. Renaissance and the birth of modern Gold® workout incorporates many astronomy. The remainder of the Academic • Dan Holland of the dance and fitness routines set course applies a historical context to Latin and international rhythms to the major discoveries of modern Pastel Potpourri* (T-18) but is performed at a lower intensity. astronomy: the search for life, the fate Members may take only one 10-week Participants have a good time while of the Sun and other stars, and the art course increasing their physical fitness. Zumba discovery that our universe began Create beautiful, colorful landscapes, Gold® is the complete package. 14 billion years ago and has been still life, and portraits. Experiment with Enjoyment • Lisa Sobek expanding ever since. watercolor and pastel, wet mediums Academic • David Nero and pastel, using a variety of colored and sanded papers. Atmospheric 12:30–3:20 p.m. and linear perspective, proportions of the face and composition will be Disorder in the Court (A-41) practiced in a stress-free environment. All levels of experience are welcome. Students will view four movies that Basic drawing skills a benefit. build to heated confrontations, plus two comedy shorts: Anatomy This 10-week course will meet at of a Murder, with Jimmy Stewart Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth Avenue, defending Army husband Ben Pittsburgh PA 15213 Gazzara after wife Lee Remick’s Exploration • Kathleen Gilbert

16 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI Course Descriptions Session 2: Monday, October 14–Friday, November 16

Robert Kennedy and His Introduction to Writing MONDAY Times (B-03) Fiction (B-05) As a U.S. government investigative If you have been writing or always 10–11:50 a.m. counsel, presidential campaign wanted to write, this course will help manager, attorney general of the you with certain basics: how to craft Death in the Name of God: United States, New York senator, and exciting dialogue, how to describe a Martyrs and Martyrdom (B-01) 1968 presidential candidate, Robert F. place or a person, how to engage in This course will examine the origins Kennedy’s unique experiences in his a summary of action that you do not of the concept of martyrdom, or the brief 42 years on Earth still resonate need to detail, how to (this is crucial) willingness to die for one’s religious with Americans. Fifty years after his use place and setting, how to (crucial beliefs in the Western Tradition assassination, he is remembered also) conceive of plot. The basic goal (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). among the astute in American will be to write a short story. Many First drawn from the experiences of politics. This class will explore through stories take years to write, so this the Maccabees in their revolt against interactive discussion and rare film might be a first and second draft Greece, the identical concept was clips RFK’s life in his existential pursuit or if you are lucky it might be very absorbed by Christians and Muslims of a just America. advanced. The same skills are useful and continues into the modern world. Academic • Stephen Russell in longer works. At the same time, the other side of Exploration • Kathleen George the coin rests in the willingness to also 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. kill “in the name of god,” focusing What You Should Know on “the other” as the source of evil The Problem of Hamlet (B-04) About Your DNA (B-06) (women, non-Christians, non-Muslims, The problem of Hamlet is, in part, This course will explore hot topics dissenters (heretics), racial and ethnic what has sustained this play in the in basic science and genetic minorities, the LGBTQ communities, public’s interest. Do we favor Hamlet? technology—from DNA editing to the and immigrants). Paradoxically, both Do we blame Hamlet? Do we fear him new cancer CAR-T immunotherapy sides claim the reward of martyrdom, or are we for him? And what about to the day-to-day DNA testing which is being instantly transported the kingdom, a character unto itself? in the clinical laboratory. Invited into the presence of god. The enigma of Hamlet and how we speakers will bring to the class Academic • Rebecca Denova justify our responses to him will be case presentations involving DNA the core of this class. But ironically, sequencing, prenatal diagnosis using Frank Lloyd Wright: His Work to do so is to look at everyone and cell-free fetal DNA circulating in the and Impact (B-02) everything around him perhaps even maternal blood, and expanded carrier During this four-week course, we will more closely than at Hamlet himself. screening for pregnant couples. move chronologically through the life This Danish world of an olden time Consuming personal genomics of Frank Lloyd Wright and discuss his is a microcosm of what is tragic has raised awareness that almost changing styles and techniques. We as maybe only Shakespeare could everyone has clinically relevant will begin with a general introduction articulate it with the timeless effect mutations. Direct-to-consumer testing to the architect, then explore the that this play has enjoyed. will be discussed as well. early years of his life and career. Academic • Rebecca Carpenter Academic • Anna Estop Next, we will examine Wright’s shift into Prairie style houses and his 1–2:50 p.m. resurgence in the 1930s. We will end by discussing his development of the Advanced Beginner Spanish Usonian style and delving into untold (continued from Session 1) secrets of Wright’s practice. Academic • John Dalles

*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 17 1–3:50 p.m. Revolution in Renaissance Europe, Infrastructure: How Do We and the changes in society as the Dig Our Way Out of this Great Low-budget Small Western world gradually shifted to Crisis? (B-11) a paradigm dominated by empirical Independent Films (B-07) There is little doubt of the state of knowledge rather than spiritual “Indies”—films without big-budget the nation’s physical infrastructure. authority. actors, directors, writers, or other This course will focus on identifying attached production elements—have Academic • Adam Davis the extent and interactions of nonetheless featured some of the our infrastructure, the deleterious most engaging, affecting, poignant, forces acting upon it, and the delightful films to be found. Come means and resources necessary see how raw talent can shine through TUESDAY to keep it operational. Starting even when a movie’s budget is with transportation infrastructure modest—or even miniscule! 10–10:50 a.m. (roads and bridges), the course will Academic • David Shifren explore other areas including our Get Strong, Get Fit, Get buried infrastructure and electricity, 1:30–3:20 p.m. Moving water/wastewater, and commerce- (continued from Session 1) supporting infrastructure. Current Discovering Nature through events will drive the case studies T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 3 Journaling* (B-08) introduced; this course will never be (continued from Session 1) too far away from politics. At its heart, nature journaling is about observing the world around us. This 10–11:50 a.m. Academic • Kent Harries course is all about learning to truly Women in Politics (B-12) see, hear, and experience nature, Beginning Level French for and to record these observations. Travelers This class will explore the changing This class maintains a supportive (continued from Session 1) roles of women in American politics atmosphere for people of all skill since 1776, when all men were levels. You do not need to be a Elder Law (B-10) created equal. The 1848 Declaration professional artist or a writer to keep of Sentiments proclaimed that “All Individuals can face a variety of a nature journal; all you need is a men and women are created equal,” legal issues as they grow older. It is notebook and pencil. Walking up to a and initiated the long struggle for important to be prepared for life’s mile on uneven terrain is required. women’s suffrage. Since women eventualities. This course covers gained the vote in 1920, they have Meets at the Frick Environmental estate planning, which includes a been active in grassroots organizing, Center, 2005 Beechwood Boulevard, discussion of wills, various types interest groups, party politics, and Pittsburgh, PA 15217 of trusts, durable financial powers elective office. But the Equal Rights of attorney, health care powers of Exploration • Michael Cornell Amendment failed, and many social attorney and living wills, as well as an and legal barriers have hindered full explanation of the process of probate 2–3:50 p.m. equality. We will consider the reasons and estate administration. We also why women are still a minority in discuss long-term care planning History of Medieval and Congress and most state legislatures, and asset protection planning to Renaissance Science (B-09) and have yet to win the presidency. help individuals and their families This course will examine the if long-term care is needed as well Academic • Susan Hansen development of Western science as a discussion of health insurance and medicine in the period following coverage for long-term care. 11–11:50 a.m. the collapse of the Roman Empire, leading up to the Renaissance Academic • Carol Sikov-Gross Get Strong, Get Fit, Get in Europe. We will examine the Aerobicized Experimental Watercolor transmission of classical scientific and (continued from Session 1) medical knowledge from Europe to (continued from Session 1) the Middle East and back, the growth of the modern university system in the Middle Ages and its connection to the expansion of scientific knowledge, the reasons for the so-called Scientific

18 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Pittsburgh’s East End: From Streetcar Suburb to Urban WEDNESDAY TED Talks (B-13) Neighborhood (B-15) TED (technology, entertainment, and The residential patterns of Pittsburgh, 9:30–11:50 a.m. design), a nonprofit organization that like all American cities in the 19th Printmaking Without a Press promotes “ideas worth spreading,” century, expanded along the lines of (continued from Session 1) features talks by some of the world’s urban transportation. The railroad, most engaging speakers on a wide supplemented by dozens of streetcar 10–11 a.m. variety of subjects. The TED website lines, made it possible for the city’s Chakra Yoga All Levels growing middle and upper classes to features more than 2,300 talks on (continued from Session 1) video. In this class, we will view, spread eastward from the downtown. discuss, debate, and reflect on a few Historians have identified these as 10–11:50 a.m. of these talks each week. Some talks streetcar suburbs. This course will are informational or just plain fun. look closely at the development French Literature in Group members are encouraged to of the East End through its rich Translation (B-17) select talks that inspire or intrigue architectural heritage of houses, With no knowledge of French them to kick off the discussion. churches, schools, and commercial required, this course is for anyone Enjoyment • Kathy Callahan buildings, follow the East End’s who loves words, reading, and the change into urban neighborhoods, arts. We will sample tidbits of French 1–2:50 p.m. and conclude with how the East End literature from the 17th through the is perceived today. 20th century, making (or renewing) Advanced Intermediate Academic • Robert Jucha acquaintance with great characters Conversational French: from Racine’s tragic Phaedra and Simply Conversation The Presidency of Abraham Beaumarchais’s revolutionary Figaro (continued from Session 1) Lincoln (B-16) through the young dreamer Marcel in Proust’s epic novel. Throughout, Abraham Lincoln is generally we will examine what we mean by Louisa May Alcott: Not Just regarded as the greatest president translation, both within our own for Kids (B-14) in United States history. Through his language and in different translators’ Thinking of Louisa May Alcott various political leadership skills, he approaches to the same French texts. as a “children’s” author had ensured that the Federal Union held We will also explore how artists in the unintended consequence together during the Civil War. This different genres translate each other’s of marginalizing an important course will follow Lincoln’s career, work into music, painting, and film. woman writer. Now, scholars have beginning as a state legislator within discovered dozens of her stories the Illinois General Assembly to Academic • Rebecca Taksel “dealing with mad, vengeful, and a leading Whig Party partisan, to manipulative women engaged in the first Republican elected to the Native American Art: Tradition adulterous, bigamous, and incestuous presidency. In addition, we will study and Innovation (B-18) relationships.” Her mother, Abigail, how his four years in office were the This course introduces the arts of was a far more dynamic character most momentous in American history. Native North America, exploring than the pious “Marmee” of Little Academic • Miles Richards both historic (pre- and post-contact) Women. Louisa May’s relationship precedents as well as contemporary art with her eccentric father, Bronson Singing in Chorus Class forms. Course lectures complement the Alcott, was complex but crucial. We (continued from Session 1) Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s will read Little Women as an insightful collection of native art by focusing analysis of family dynamics, and then on the four regions on display in the selections from her letters, journals, Hall of American Indians: The East, and other stories as they reveal her Plains, Northwest, and Southwest. By involvement with burning social issues examining the socio-cultural contexts that have not lost their urgency today. and contemporary concerns of Exploration • Clifford Johnson individual sovereign nations in addition to aesthetics, students will gain a well-rounded appreciation of North America’s many native cultures. Academic • Rae Di Cicco

*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 19 The Great War and the We will move from antiquity through Reading Shakespeare: King Beginning of the Modern the 20th century, as we discern both Henry IV, Part One (B-24) the elements of continuity in the World (B-19) King Henry IV, Part One was one of targeting of Jews, as well as the This course will examine the world Shakespeare’s early stage successes specific social, political, and cultural before the Great War, the causes of and an innovative drama for its changes within a particular context the war, the trauma of the war itself, time, mixing high drama and low that generated hostile expressions and poetry and literature arising from comedy, blank verse and prose. We acts directed at contemporary Jewry. the war, America’s role and, perhaps will read the play from beginning most significantly, the results and Academic • Alexander Orbach to end, with members of the class consequences of the war. Many reading individual roles and pausing scholars believe that World War I The Beatles: From The White frequently to analyze and discuss. created the modern world order. Album through Let It Be (B-22) Our emphasis is on how to read We will utilize film and some literary The Beatles are the most famous and understand—and appreciate— examples as well as lectures in this rock group in history. The reasons for Shakespeare’s art and method. class. The course will start on October this are musical as well as cultural, Exploration • David Walton 23 and will end on November 20. and we will look at the two elements Academic • Louise Mayo simultaneously. Their late period songs from 1968–70 will be studied, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. with analysis of the musical and lyrical THURSDAY Mid-century Sin, Mid-century content and structural elements. What Despair (B-20) musical styles do the songs address? 10–10:50 a.m. What were their musical influences? Europe as she falls apart. Like a In what ways did their music change T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 1 diseased medieval court, rotting over the years? Why were the Beatles (continued from Session 1) out from within, our writers witness so popular and influential? an exhausted Europe collapsing This course will run for 4 weeks. 10–11:30 a.m. of its own weight: lust, venality, identity confusion, endless conflict. Academic • Stephen Schultz Our Social Fabric: Stronger This course will cover Thomas than Steel (B-25) Mann, Death in Venice; Christopher Creole Arts and Culture: Isherwood, Berlin Stories; Bertolt from New Orleans to the Rich Lord said, “The strongest hands Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Caribbean (B-23) on Pittsburgh’s steering wheel are [...] nonprofit institutions.” In this course, Children; Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea; What is Creole? Food? People? our conversations begin with a moral and Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Language? Music? Taught by two premise, explore human need, and Also Rises. Creole specialists, this course will celebrate the work of dedicated answer these questions and others Academic • Abby Mendelson neighbors who are changing our about the history of Creole. You will community. We will uncover the learn to speak a little Haitian Creole 11:15–12:15 p.m. motivation and power of four in this course. You will also learn why organizations that are navigating our TM in New Orleans you can buy Creole Ageless Yoga – Vinyasa neighbors down the moral path to a tomatoes and Creole horses and Flow Asanas to Music more complete, beloved community. enjoy Creole cuisine but you will not (continued from Session 1) Based on the American Jewish learn to speak Creole, and about Museum’s “Each and Every,” we will the conflict in St. Barth between 1–2:50 p.m. explore ‘a day in the life’ of 412 Food French Creole and Patois, and in Haiti Rescue, BikePGH, the Kelly Strayhorn between Creole and French. Anti-Semitism: Expressions Theater, and the Pittsburgh Glass (B-21) and Analyses Academic • Julianne Maher and Center. Gerdine Ulysse Our goal will be to determine if Sessions will be held at these various ideological breakpoints can be organizations as well as the Jewish discerned so as to claim that each Community Center. of these moments stand as self- contained entities or whether a Exploration • Melissa Hiller and common thread links one to another. Ron Symons

20 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE 10–11:50 a.m. 1–2:50 p.m. Identifying, Managing, Protecting, and Preserving Beginner Spanish Advanced Conversational Your Online Digital Assets (continued from Session 1) Spanish* (B-28) (B-31) Members may take only one level of We are all part of the information age Watercolor for Beginners/ Spanish. these days, like it or not. We have Intermediate This is your chance to practice multiple identities on the Internet that (continued from Session 1) your Spanish skills in a friendly already create problems for us now, atmosphere. The course strengthens so just think what will happen to our 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. your vocabulary, improves your survivors after we are gone. There pronunciation, and gives cultural are steps we can take now to make Americans We! American background (history, customs, our everyday lives easier that will also Music for Orchestra (B-26) foods, music) about several Spanish- help those who survive us. What is American about orchestral speaking countries. All effort is Academic • Gerald Fitzgibbon and music? What makes it different from designed to get you to speak and Richard Fitzgibbon music by composers from other understand Spanish better. countries? We discuss the lives and Exploration • Nancy Farber 1:15–3:05 p.m. the important influences on the musical style of American composers Debating Migration (B-29) Composers in Exile: Music in from the late 19th century through the Adversity (B-32) 20th century and listen to their music Migration is a focus of considerable Hear a series of lecture recitals to attempt to answer these questions. controversy in the United States and around the world. In this course, focusing on composers who have had Academic • Jno Hunt we will examine the debates and to make music in the midst of difficult struggles concerning refugees, circumstances: fleeing or dealing with Best American Short Stories unauthorized migrants, and people oppressive governments, censorship, 2019 (B-27) who move within the boundaries of discrimination, or simply isolation. Using the most recent Best American a single country, including people Frequently the music itself bears no Short Stories 2019 anthology as displaced by rural development and apparent imprint of the travails of our textbook (will be released in gentrification in big cities. We will its composer, and an examination October), we will read and discuss explore contending views about of diaries and letters as well as the some of today’s best short fiction, existing patterns and trends, how historical events of his or her life written by both famous and up-and- the people immediately involved can be most revealing. Included in coming writers. Each week we will experience them, what shapes these this course is the music of Chopin, discuss a handful of stories, looking patterns and experiences, and how Gottschalk, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, at these selections in the context best to address current concerns. Haydn, Scarlatti, Rachmaninoff, and of the contemporary literary world, Academic • Roger Rouse others. considering specific authors’ bodies Meets at the Third Presbyterian of work and learning more about the The Federal Courts: Church, 5701 Fifth Avenue, literary magazines where these stories Unraveling the Mystery (B-30) Pittsburgh, PA 15232 first appeared. This class will provide Academic • Michael Hammer a crash course on the state of the This course will unravel the mystery contemporary American short story. of the federal courts. It will include a history of how this wonderful Academic • Adam Reger “experiment” evolved to what it is today, what kinds of cases come before the courts, a sample of historical cases, how the courts are structured, and who, besides judges, works there. Guest speakers from the local federal court may be invited to address the group, and a visit to the Federal Court for the Western District of Pa. will be arranged. Academic • Bob Fagan

*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 21 The Vietnam War: Part 2 (B-35) work well for some people or even FRIDAY Vietnam became both a pawn and a cause unexpected side effects? Are symbol of superpower politics. As the there ways science might be able 10–11:50 a.m. United States and the Soviet Union/ to help predict this? Come learn all China changed, so did the rationales about these topics and how local The Branding of Tutankhamun for continued involvement in the war and national research programs are (B-33) from containment of communism leading the way to change the future of health. On Nov. 3, 2022, the world will to the pursuit of credibility. The mark the 100th anniversary of the causes of the communist insurgency Academic • Phil Empey and greatest archaeological find of all in Vietnam were similarly complex Mylynda Massart time: Howard Carter’s discovery and changing. The use of powerful of the nearly undisturbed tomb of new technology by one side and of Pastel Potpourri Tutankhamun, the 13th pharaoh of guerrilla tactics by the other raised (continued from Session 1) Egypt’s celebrated 18th dynasty. serious ethical questions. Finally, the While this course contextualizes both conflict coincided with and added to Walking Allegheny County Tutankhamen and Carter in their the domestic turmoil in the United 3.0 (Section 2)* (B-38) respective times, this course focuses States and, in Vietnam, led to the This course is repeated from on why and how, over the past displacement of huge numbers of Session 1. people and strained the social fabric. century, this once-obscure king, who This course is taught by a tour guide Part 2 covers 1968 through 1975. died a physically disabled teenager in with more than 20 years experience, the shadow of a notorious father, has Academic • Robert Rodrigues and will give the students a unique become the greatest celebrity of the perspective of the past, present, and ancient world. 12:30–3:20 p.m. future of these five diverse areas of Academic • Tim Ziaukas Allegheny County. Each of the five Five Classic Comedies (B-36) weeks, we will explore the following: How Does “Alexa” Work? Mel Brooks sends up a quartet of Dormont, Carnegie, Emsworth, (B-34) film genres: The Producers, with Zero Edgeworth, and Woodland Road. In each walking tour, we will highlight In today’s world, more and more Mostel and Gene Wilder producing the history, architecture, and hidden forms of artificial intelligence (AI) the most offensive musical ever; gems of these unique and rapidly are entering our lives. Devices like Blazing Saddles, with Wilder and changing landscapes in Allegheny Alexa and other voice activated Cleavon Little reinventing westerns; County. It is a fun way to exercise! systems are built on a form of AI Young Frankenstein, with Wilder and This course meets at various outdoor called natural language processing. Marty Feldman unleashing quirky locations in the community. Each In this course, we will learn about the monster Peter Boyle, and High class involves several miles of walking. basic principles of natural language Anxiety, Brooks’ spoof of several processing from the concepts behind Hitchcock thrillers. Also, we’ll screen Enjoyment • Jay Steele it to the technical implementation. Bullets Over Broadway, Woody Allen’s The course will focus on language satire of neurotic theater folks and recognition and information retrieval underworld investors. (With English as well as the future of natural captions.) SATURDAY language processing. Enjoyment • Ed Blank 10–11 a.m. Academic • Cristina Bahm 1–2:50 p.m. Zumba Gold® Intermediate Conversational French: Speaking in the Genomics and the Future (continued from Session 1) Present Tense of Health Care: A Precision (continued from Session 1) Medicine Primer (B-37) Did you ever want to know what Make Your Own Greeting precision medicine is all about? How Cards does our genetics impact our health? (continued from Session 1) What is the association between our DNA and our environment? Why do some medications not

22 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE Special Events, Trips, and Tours Registration is required for all events. Events open to guests will be marked as such. All guests must be registered. Details at olli.pitt.edu.

EVENTS Garage for $10 and must be purchased before September 15. Last day to withdraw and receive a full refund is Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 10 a.m.–noon September 10. Everyday Law for Seniors Join us on tours of two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s beautiful homes. Fallingwater was built in the late ‘30s over a 30- Lawrence A. Frolik, JD, LLM, John E. Murray Faculty foot waterfall. You will have time to have lunch on your Scholar, Professor Emeritus of Law, University of Pittsburgh own at the café and visit the gallery. Next, we will visit School of Law, is one of the founders of the field of Kentuck Knob, a Usonian style home once owned by the elder law. He will discuss the wide range of legal rights Hagan Ice Cream family. You also will have time to explore and benefits that all seniors and their loved ones should the remarkable sculpture collection in the landscape consider, whether they are looking ahead or responding to surrounding the house placed by its current owner. a crisis. Topics may include estate planning, guardianships, Following the home tours, we will stop at Sand Hill Berries Medicare, Medicaid, long-term care insurance, social for pie and ice cream. Accompanying us on the trip will security, and veterans’ benefits. be Dr. John Dalles who will speak about Wright and the homes on the bus trip. (See Dalles bio on page 24.) TRIPS AND TOURS Please note: There is considerable walking involved. Walking shoes are a must. There is a ¼-mile walk to Thursday, August 22, 2019, 10 a.m.–noon Fallingwater, but a van is accessible. Fallingwater is a multi- Kelso Museum of Near Eastern Archaeology storied house with more than 100 steps during the tour. Visitors must be able to walk and stand during most of the Tour | Members only, free hour-long tour. The Kelso Museum of Near Eastern Archaeology has its roots in a program of archaeological field work in the Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 10–11:30 a.m. Near East that began in 1924 and focuses on the lands Behind-the-Scenes Zoo Experience of the Bible: modern day Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan. Its exhibits highlight daily life in ancient times Fee: $15 for members only; nonrefundable. In lieu of a including landscape and settlement patterns, architecture, refund, cancellations will receive a ticket for a future zoo agriculture, technologies, crafts, trade, religious admission good through April 2020 observance, and memory and writing systems. Our tour Join us at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium as we will include a slide show and pottery dating exercise. explore three behind-the-scenes areas and learn from the Transportation is on your own. dedicated and knowledgeable staff. Get up close and The museum is located at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, personal with some of the animals and get an insider’s 616 N. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206 glimpse of what it takes to care for and protect the zoo’s inhabitants. Afterwards, spend time on your own at the zoo Thursday, October 3, 2019, 10 a.m. OR 11 a.m. until closing. This tour involves considerable walking and it WISER Tour runs rain or shine. Transportation is on your own. The Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education Monday, November 25, 2019, 10 a.m.–noon and Research (WISER) is a leading medical simulation A Tour of Heinz Chapel center that trains health care professionals each year to increase patient safety and enhance medical education. A gift from Henry John Heinz, the founder of the H.J. Heinz Meet SimMan, a patient simulator that looks and responds Company, Heinz Chapel was dedicated in 1938 and ever like a real person. You also will view simulation theaters since then, it has been a focal point of the University. Learn that can be configured to nearly any scene, from operating about its architecture, beautiful stained glass windows, and rooms to outdoor disaster scenes. Select only one time to the magnificent pipe organ. attend. Space is limited. Meets at 230 McKee Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 May 2–10, 2020 Amsterdam, the Dutch Golden Age, Friday, October 4, 2019, 7:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m. and the Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob This entirely custom “Learn and Travel” trip Fee: $95 for members and non-members, includes was designed with our OLLI members in mind! motorcoach and tours of both homes (lunch is on your Visit olli.pitt.edu for all the details. own). Discount parking is available at Soldiers and Sailors

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Dona Albert* has been cooking since Kathy Callahan* retired from Adam W. Davis*, MA, is a she was a child and a vegetarian cook management consulting to Fortune paleoanthropologist and evolutionary for 29 years; she wanted to eat more 200 companies, specializing in biologist teaching at Community College compassionately, but it all still needed executive and leadership development of Allegheny County. He has worked to taste great! She loves to cook and has and performance improvement. An on early human archaeological sites in taught a number of vegetarian cooking experienced facilitator and trainer, Spain, and is the former president of the classes for OLLI at Pitt. she is inspired to share the TED Talks Southern Association for the History of discussion group experience with OLLI Medicine and Science. Cristina Bahm* , PhD, is an assistant at Pitt members. professor in information systems David J. DeFazio* is a private attorney technology at La Roche University. She Rebecca Carpenter*, PhD, has been whose practice focuses on litigation and earned her PhD in 2016 at the University an educator for almost 40 years, has spanned the legal spectrum from of Pittsburgh School of Computing teaching English in both public and death penalty cases to routine family and Information with a focus on spatial private high schools, college, and law trials. DeFazio has been an adjunct cognition, and her research areas include graduate school. In addition, she instructor at Pitt since 1987. machine learning and geo-spatial data taught English in Duquesne University’s Rebecca Denova* as well as spatial cognition. School of Leadership and Professional , PhD, is a senior Advancement for 25 years, and recently lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh Rob Beckwith , PhD, JD, studied retired from the Greater Pittsburgh and regularly teaches courses on the American history and worked as an Literacy Council. history of early Christianity, ancient appellate lawyer, including pro bono religions in the Mediterranean world, and (free) for the ACLU. Harlan Clare* is employed by the various topics related to ancient popular Carnegie Museum of Natural History as religion and society. Ed Blank* has spent 39 years as a a docent. He has trained other docents Rae Di Cicco professional critic, columnist, and about the mineral collection at the is a PhD candidate in interviewer with 25 years at The museum. He has taught minerals and the Department of History of Art Pittsburgh Press and 14 years at geology for the University of Pittsburgh and Architecture at the University The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He Osher program for eight years. He is a of Pittsburgh, specializing in central has spoken to hundreds of local retired science teacher. European modern art. She has taught organizations and countless high school courses in modernism and world art at and college classes. Jill Clary* has been practicing yoga Pitt, given invited lectures at the Carnegie since 2003, has completed a 200-hour Museums and the Belvedere in Vienna, Sherry Bloom* received her MA in yoga teacher training program, and Austria, and curated exhibitions in Seattle, British and American literature from is registered with Yoga Alliance. Her Wash., Pittsburgh, and Vienna. Ohio University with post-graduate classes are a blend of different yoga Kathleen Dixon Donnelly work in comparative literature at Ohio styles but all focus on a slow flow with , PhD, University and Kent State University. longer holds. conducted research on the relationships She is a lifelong lover of literature, and among artists and writers in early 20th has a 40-year career as the manager of Michael Cornell* has spent decades century salons in Dublin City University. independent bookstores, and currently exploring Frick Park as a child and as She recently retired from teaching at Calvary Bookstore. a professional naturalist. Mike began Birmingham (UK) City University Business working at the Frick Environmental School and School of Media to move Kenneth Boas* , PhD, was formerly an Center in 2005, and began working home to Pittsburgh. instructor in the University of Pittsburgh full-time for the Pittsburgh Parks Judith Dorian* Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Conservancy in 2014. , PhD, wrote Program Sciences, Department of English. Notes for the Pittsburgh Symphony David Crippen*, MD, FCCM, is Orchestra, and teaches piano privately. Mimi Botkin* has 37 years of teaching professor emeritus of the University of In addition to several articles in music writing and language arts. She has led Pittsburgh Medical Center, Departments journals, she published A Tiny Little Door, writing groups for writers of all ages and of Critical Care Medicine, Emergency a collection of children’s poetry, and has as a fellow of the Western Pennsylvania Medicine, and Neurologic Surgery. He narrated poetry at Mellon Institute, the Writing Project, she led workshops in has extensive lecturing experience of Bedford Springs Festival and with the the teaching of writing for teachers. more than 30 years on a wide variety of Edgewood Symphony Orchestra. She has published poetry, prose, and mostly medical subjects for multinational Lucinda Dyjak* professional narrative research and is a meetings, and he has played guitar in an is certified by the founding member of Crossing Limits, a active rock band for the past 11 years. American Council on Exercise and was multicultural writing and performance recently named to its Hall of Fame. She initiative. John Dalles holds a Bachelor of Science has a specialty certification in older adult Degree from Penn State University fitness and has been teaching fitness John Burt* is a retired history teacher and worked as an architect before classes for more than 30 years. and lawyer, and he served as a featured becoming a Presbyterian minister. He Marilyn Michalka Egan* speaker in Safe Harbor, a public has maintained a lively interest in Frank , PhD, is the television award-winning documentary Lloyd Wright and associated architects Pittsburgh Opera director of education. on the underground railroad in Western from the Prairie School years. Currently She enjoys opening new doors to opera Pennsylvania. Since 1986, he has he serves as the Interim Senior Pastor for students of all ages. lectured on the history of American at the Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Phil Empey, PharmD, PhD, and Mylynda reform movements, especially the Pittsburgh. abolitionist movement, and conducted Massart work together on the national tours connected with underground All of Us Precision Medicine Research railroad activities. Program as well as the local Pitt+Me

24 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *INSTRUCTOR HAS TAUGHT OLLI COURSE PREVIOUSLY Biobank. They are currently working Maria Franco de Gomez*, MA, is a Environment Blog, and is a returned U.S. on a joint project to launch a primary retired instructor of Spanish at Penn Peace Corps volunteer. care precision medicine clinic. Empey State Greater Allegheny where she Kent A. Harries runs the Pitt Pharmacogenomics Center served as Spanish coordinator. Her , PhD, has 25 years of Excellence. career as a faculty member includes a experience in all manner of projects substantial record of academic service, associated with engineering civil Melissa Eppihimer , PhD, has been solid scholarly activity, and very strong infrastructure renewal, and has taught all teaching about ancient Mesopotamia in evidence of outstanding teaching. but one course in a structural engineering Pittsburgh for 10 years. Her published undergraduate and MSc curriculum. research focuses on Mesopotamian art Kathleen George, PhD, MFA, is a He received his doctorate from McGill and its modern rediscovery, including a theatre arts professor and a fiction writer. University, is a professional engineer, recent book on Akkadian art. She has taught at Pitt for 43 years, and is a fellow of multiple professional during which she directed plays and institutes. Anna Estop* , MD, is a board-certified published fiction. laboratory geneticist who has led Dan Holland, PhD, MA, is a genetics laboratories at West Penn Kathy Gilbert* is currently an art Pittsburgh native, founded the Young Hospital and Allegheny General Hospital instructor at Boyce Campus of Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh. She has taught at the Community College of Allegheny and has held positions at both regional Autonomous University of Barcelona, County, and is a member of Associated and national community development Spain, the Graduate School of Public Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Society organizations. He also has a bachelor Health at the University of Pittsburgh, of Artists, Pittsburgh Pastel Artist of arts degree in history and a master and the Drexel School of Medicine, and League, and Penn Art Association. of public management from Carnegie has published extensively in research She is a graduate of Indiana University Mellon University. and clinical genetics. of Pennsylvania with a degree in art Michael Helfand education. , PhD, is a retired English Bob Fagan served as an educator professor at Pitt, where he earned two for government managers and Mike Gonze* is president of teaching awards (Apples for the Teacher) executives for 34 years, first at the U.S. Dreadnought Imports, LTD, the more for his short story courses. He also taught Department of Labor, and then at the than 35-year-old wine and spirit abroad for five years in Asian countries Federal Judicial Center, in Washington, importing company representing (as an exchange scholar and Fulbright D.C. Since his retirement as a senior boutique wines and spirits from around lecturer) and in England. educator, Bob has continued to conduct the world. He has studied wine in the Chuck Hier* numerous programs dealing with court United States and abroad and is certified , PhD, has taught courses at related topics including juror utilization, by the French Wine Academy and the the University of Pittsburgh, the University case management, strategic planning, Wine Academy of Spain. of Akron, and other universities, including court outreach, and a wide range of classes on Soviet Russia, modern-era Weiming Denise Gorman effective management and supervisory , PhD, Europe, and 20th-century world history. received her degree in rhetoric from the skills at the request of the courts. Melissa Hiller* University of Pittsburgh in 2007. She has , Director of the American Nancy Farber*, MA, taught Spanish in been teaching communication courses Jewish Museum of the Jewish Community the Pittsburgh Public Schools for more at the university level since then. Center of Greater Pittsburgh, is than 25 years. committed to using art and subsequent Michael Hammer*, DMA, MA, is an conversations to strengthen the fabric of Lucy Fischer*, PhD, is a distinguished organist at Third Presbyterian Church, community. professor emerita of English and film and a composer, blogger, and teacher Jno (John) L. Hunt* studies at the University of Pittsburgh, who earned his degrees from the , PhD in musicology, where she received the Provost’s Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins also has a Bachelor of Music degree Excellence in Mentorship Award University and graduated from the in performance on the clarinet from and the Chancellor’s Distinguished Cleveland Institute of Music. He has won the University of North Texas. He was Research Award. She is the author of several piano competitions, appeared a professor at St. Olaf College and at many books on film, held a curatorial with orchestras and in concert halls Carnegie Mellon University and, most position at the Museum of Modern around the world, and toured with recently, he was adjunct professor of Art, and received fellowships from the soloists and choirs. music history at Chatham University. National Endowment for the Arts and Susan B. Hansen* Gemma Jiang, PhD, received her PhD for the Humanities. , PhD, received her degree in political science from in educational leadership from Clemson Jerry Fitzgibbon is retired from The PA Stanford University in 1972. She has University. She has worked on NSF grants House of Representatives as a Microsoft- taught Women in Politics courses applying nonlinear thinking to affect certified desktop support technician since the 1970s at Stanford and at the changes, and has taught master’s level in the Information Technologies universities of Illinois, Michigan, and classes on diverse topics. department. He maintains websites with Pittsburgh, and has been professor Clifford R. Johnson*, PhD, received WordPress CMS and manages contact emerita at Pitt since 2012. his doctorate in English and American emailing for nonprofits. Max Harleman is a PhD student at Literature from the University of Virginia. Richard Fitzgibbon* is a former teacher Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and His major publication deals with the 18th- with 35 years experience in the Riverview International Affairs (GSPIA), where his century English novel, and he taught at School District, and was the technical research focuses on the governance of the University of Pittsburgh; the University coordinator for the district for 10 years energy projects and their associated of Kassel, Germany; and Concord before he retired. Since retirement, he is economic and environmental impacts on University in West Virginia. He recently a frequent volunteer at Computer Reach local communities. He holds a Master retired after more than 25 years as a where he assists in refurbishing and of Public Administration from GSPIA, certified financial planner. recycling computers. is the editor of GSPIA’s Energy and the

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Robert Jucha*, PhD, received his Precision Medicine Clinic. Dr. Massart is Connie Rapp* iholds bachelor’s and doctorate in American Studies from a practicing family medicine physician. master’s degrees from the University of George Washington University in 1981. Michigan and the Juilliard School. Upon Louise Mayo* He retired from a 26-year career in , PhD, is professor emerita arriving in Pittsburgh she taught piano college publishing, including as an at the County College of Morris, New at the Carnegie Mellon preparatory editor, in 2011. Since then he has led Jersey, with more than 30 years of division and at Duquesne University. She tours as a docent for the Pittsburgh college teaching experience in American was an active chamber musician. She History and Landmarks Foundation, history and American government. She has conducted junior high school choral including tours he created on both is the author of James K. Polk: The Dark groups and participates in singing major Oakland and Shadyside. Horse President, among other books. choral works each summer. Abby Mendelson* Sheila Kelly*, MA, is a retired , PhD, has been a Adam Reger*, MFA in fiction writing, psychotherapist who writes poems and writer, editor, and educator for nearly has taught writing at the University of plays. She leads workshops in libraries, 50 years. He has published both fiction Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Center for community centers, and art galleries and and nonfiction works on a variety of the Arts and has published a number of believes generative writing in groups can topics and has taught both writing and short stories. be a source of healing, connection with literature at universities and colleges Cathy Reifer* others and growth in craft. throughout the Pittsburgh area. began practicing Vinyasa Flow Power Yoga in 2006. She has Bob Mitchell* Kimberly Latta, PhD, MA, is an , PhD, MS, received his completed Level I and II, 200 hours, in independent scholar of literatures in BS in physics from Pitt, and a MS yoga teacher training. English. She was assistant professor of in physics and a PhD in electrical Miles Richards* early modern literatures in English at the engineering from Carnegie Mellon , PhD, taught history University of Pittsburgh from 2001 to University. Since retiring in 2014, he has at universities and colleges in South 2010, and at Saint Louis University from taught Osher courses about climate Carolina. He has published numerous 1998 to 2001. She has published articles change at Carnegie Mellon University articles and monographs on United in peer-reviewed journals on literature, and Pitt, and he is active in making States history. community presentations on behalf gender, economics, and religion in 17th- Elizabeth Rodenz*, PhD, has her and 18th-century England and America. of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, which promotes legislation to reduce doctorate degree from the University of Aaron Leaman* is a chartered financial greenhouse emissions. Pittsburgh and has conducted hundreds analyst (CFA®) and the chief investment of workshops and classes using the work David Nero officer of Signature Financial Planning, , PhD, is a lecturer in the of Carl Jung. She was president of the where he manages more than $450 Department of Physics and Astronomy Maine Jung Center and has written a million in assets for institutions, at the University of Pittsburgh. He is book on personality types based on the municipalities, and high-net worth always on the lookout for ways to use work of Carl Jung. technology to improve education in investors. He has made numerous Robert M. Rodrigues large-enrollment classes. , MA, MEd, was a media appearances to discuss markets high school teacher of advanced studies and investing, and won national public Rachel Oppenheimer, PhD, received for 48 years and an adjunct assistant speaking awards as a member of his her BA in history and music from professor of history for 26 years in 20th- intercollegiate debate team. Kenyon College, and her MA and century history and the Vietnam Era, Penina Lieber is a practicing lawyer PhD in history from Carnegie Mellon receiving national, statewide, and local specializing in nonprofit and tax-exempt University. Her research compares the awards. He has delivered presentations law, and teaches courses in nonprofit Irish Republican Army and Black Panther at national conferences for 25 years and law at both Pitt and Duquesne law Party’s experiences in prison, and she attended conferences in Vietnam Era schools. Lieber is a summa cum laude has taught numerous courses on one or history nationally. more aspects of Irish history. graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Ann Rosenthal* has more than 30 years a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard Alexander Orbach*, PhD, is professor experience as an artist, educator, and University, and has a master’s degree emeritus in the University of Pittsburgh writer. Her work has been shown locally at in English literature. She also is a Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and the Andy Warhol Museum, the Mattress member of the University of Pittsburgh Sciences, Department of Religious Factory, and SPACE, and has been Law Review. Studies, where he served as director of featured in exhibitions across the United Julianne Maher*, PhD, spent more the Jewish Studies program for more States and internationally. than 10 years. than 20 years researching the language Roger Rouse, PhD, MA, received his varieties of St. Barth and has received Bruce Rabin*, PhD, MD, retired from graduate degrees in anthropology from grants to do so from the National UPMC and University of Pittsburgh Stanford University and his BA in modern Science Foundation. Her book, The in 2017, where he was a professor history from Oxford University. He has Survival of People and Languages, was of pathology and psychiatry at the taught since 1985 at Stanford, Michigan, published by Brill in 2013. University of Pittsburgh Medical School U. of California, Carnegie Mellon, and, Mylynda Massart, MD, PhD, and Phil and medical director of the University most recently, Pitt, including courses Empey work together on the National of Pittsburgh Medical Center Healthy on migration between Latin American All of Us Precision Medicine Research Lifestyle Program. With an academic and the U.S. and on the relationship Program as well as the local Pitt+Me career of 45 years, his research has between migration and contemporary Biobank. They are currently working on yielded more than 300 publications, and globalization. a joint project to launch a Primary Care he has trained more than 50 scientists.

26 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *INSTRUCTOR HAS TAUGHT OLLI COURSE PREVIOUSLY Steve Russell* is an educator: from Saima Sitwat* is a freelance writer Jeffery Swoger* enjoys teaching a variety teacher to principal to superintendent and outreach specialist based in the of courses centered on the arts: music, of schools. He is a historian of politics, Pittsburgh area, and she has served as architecture, film, and design. He teaches Hollywood, and sports culture and a the president of the Muslim Association for OLLI at Pitt as well as the Carnegie consultant to ESPN Sports Century, of Greater Pittsburgh (MAP)—the first Mellon University Osher program, where Turner Classic Movies, Peter Jones female president to serve any mosque in he is also a board member and sits on the Productions, and Hofstra University’s the Pittsburgh area in that role. She has curriculum committee. presidential conferences. been a board member of the Council on Rabbi Ron Symons* American Islamic Relations Pittsburgh serves as senior Matthew Schlueb* is a licensed Chapter and represents the Muslim director of Jewish Life of the JCC of architect practicing architecture for more community of Pittsburgh on various Greater Pittsburgh. With Melissa Hiller, than two decades. His designs have advisory boards and interfaith networks. he guides the Center for Loving Kindness been awarded locally and nationally by and Civic Engagement in order to juried competitions, receiving praise Jean E. Snyder, PhD, taught English redefine neighbor from a geographic term internationally in both print publications and music in Oregon, Kenya, Indiana, to a moral concept. and television media. Zambia, and Pennsylvania. After earning Melissa Tai* her PhD in ethnomusicology at the is an adult-taught artist, Sue Schneider* is an experienced University of Pittsburgh, she taught having studied under many accomplished calligrapher and artist, exhibiting and intro to music and world music at artists; she loves watercolor for the flow teaching in Western Pennsylvania for Carlow College, CCAC-Northside, and and freedom of wet into wet technique. many years. Her life-long love of letters Washington and Jefferson College, and She can be found teaching at a number has led her to create handmade artist Intro to Music, History of Music, World of Pittsburgh area art centers and books, innovative greeting cards, and Music, American Music, and Music of programs. expressive artworks. Broadway at Edinboro University of Rebecca Taksel is a retired teacher of Stephen Schultz*, called “among the Pennsylvania. French, English, and world literature. most flawless artists on the baroque Lisa Sobek* has been teaching Zumba She taught for many years at Point Park flute” by the San Jose Mercury News, for more than 10 years and is certified in University, where she devised courses in is solo and coprincipal flutist with the not only Zumba Gold® but also in Aqua writing, mythology, and literature; her Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Zumba and Zumba Basics. Not only core belief about teaching literature is Chorale. Currently, he is a teaching does she teach Zumba, but in her other that great writing always awakens the professor in music history and flute professional career she is a geriatric care creativity of its readers. at Carnegie Mellon University and manager and has been in the field of Gerdine Ulysse is a PhD candidate director of the Carnegie Mellon Baroque geriatrics for more than 30 years. Orchestra, as well as a featured faculty in Second Language Acquisition at member of the Jeanne Baxtresser Alan Stanford*, Artistic and Executive Carnegie Mellon University, where she International Flute Master Class at Director of PICT Classic Theatre, has is an instructor of French. Gerdine also Carnegie Mellon University and at the a 50-year career as a director and teaches Haitian Creole at The University of International Baroque Institute at Longy actor. A leading expert in the works Pittsburgh. School of Music. of Shakespeare, Wilde, Dickens, and Javier Vazquez D’Elia*, PhD, has his Beckett, Mr. Stanford has adapted Cathleen Sendek-Sapp* doctorate degree in political science from , MFA, has her several works for the stage. master’s degree in French language and the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently literature. She has taught French at the Jay Steele* is an adjunct health a researcher at the University Center for University of Pittsburgh as a teaching physical education instructor since International Studies and has taught at fellow and part-time instructor as well as 1985 at CCAC-Allegheny Campus. He several higher education settings in the for noncredit lifelong learning. is also a certified American Council on Pittsburgh area. Exercise personal trainer, group exercise David Walton* David Shifren*, MFA, has his master’s , MFA, has his master’s instructor, health coach, and a Yogafit degree in fiction. He is retired from degree in fiction writing and teaches certified instructor. in the graduate writing program at the University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Seton Hill University. He is a former Gregory Strom*, PhD, studied Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, film reviewer forThe Film Journal philosophy at the University of Chicago Department of English, where he taught and screener for CBS/Fox Video and and at the University of Pittsburgh, a variety of literature and writing courses a recipient of a 2006 Pennsylvania and has pursued a career teaching over the last 20 years. He is a regular book State Council on the Arts grant in philosophy since then at the University reviewer for several national newspapers, screenwriting. of Sydney and at Pitt. Most of his a recipient of a National Endowment for philosophical attention is focused on the Arts fellowship in literature, and the Carol Sikov Gross* , Esquire, a partner questions about how best to live, act, author of two collections of short stories in the Pittsburgh law firm of Sikov and relate to ethical value. and a novel. and Love, P.A., is a certified elder law Tim Ziaukas attorney, and was the founding chair Stanley Swartz* has been studying and , MA, MFA, professor of the Elder Law Committee of the teaching T’ai Chi Ch’uan in the United emeritus of public relations at The Allegheny County Bar Association. She States and abroad since 1973. He University of Pittsburgh holds a certificate is a member of the National Academy teaches beginning through advanced in Egyptology from the University of of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA), the level classes and has taught classes Manchester in the United Kingdom. Pennsylvania Association of Elder Law specifically for older adults though Attorneys (PAELA) and the American several local programs. College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). Carol writes for the Pittsburgh Legal Journal and speaks for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.

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OSHER LIFELING LEARNING INSTITUTE (OLLI) AT PITT CODE OF CONDUCT I understand that OLLI members are required to respect the University learning environment and that member behavior must contribute to a safe, civil community. I understand that conduct expected of OLLI members includes mutual respect, personal integrity, civil discourse, tolerance and respect of diverse opinions. Violations to OLLI’s code of conduct may include, but are not limited to, denigrating other’s views or opinions, threatening or aggressive behaviors, offensive or abusive language, disruptive classroom conduct, sexual harassment or discrimination and monopolizing discussions. Additionally, as an OLLI member, I agree to follow the rules and procedures of the OLLI program and that it is my obligation to review and understand them. In the event an issue arises which violates OLLI rules, procedures, or compromises the OLLI code of conduct, I understand that OLLI administration and/or other University administrators have the authority to remove a member from the class and/or the program.

By initialing here:______, I certify that I have read, understand, and agree to comply with all rules and regulations of the OLLI program at the University of Pittsburgh. How to Audit Undergraduate Courses

One membership benefit of OLLI at Pitt is the ability to Registering to Audit Non-preapproved Courses audit preapproved undergraduate courses. To “audit” a Auditing is ONLY allowed when there is space available course means that the student does not receive a grade in “lecture-type” undergraduate classes. “Lecture type” nor credits and generally does not participate in exams or classes are those in which students can observe the homework. Each term OLLI arranges for hundreds of delivered lecture of material by the professor. Auditing undergraduate Pitt courses to be preapproved for is NOT permitted in: computer science, film production, members to audit. Auditors are guests in the course for physical education, studio arts, laboratory courses, which they register and participation can be limited or creative writing, honors college courses, or performance restricted by the professor or department. courses. Auditing also is NOT permitted in law or medical school classes, online, or hybrid online courses. Audit Course Registration Procedures 1. You may audit an undergraduate course not on the • View Upcoming Classes: View full course descriptions preapproved list by securing special written online at: registrar.pitt.edu/courseclass.html permission from the instructor PRIOR to attending the beginning of the course. • Register to Audit Preapproved Courses A complete 2. Contact the professor by email prior to the start list of preapproved audit courses is located on our of the course (locate contact information here: website and a printed copy is available in the OLLI http://find.pitt.edu/). lounge. No member may attend and/or audit a course 3. Complete the audit section on the paper for which they are not registered. registration form, including all required information and attach an email response from the instructor • Online Registration Process for Preapproved Audit Courses granting permission to audit. (Note: DO NOT attend classes prior to being 1. Log in at https://www.olliregistration.pitt.edu/ registered and submitting the evidence of written wconnect/ace/home.htm permission from the instructor.) 2. If you need to pay your membership, choose which membership option. All non-preapproved audit registrations must be 3. Click “Browse Audit Courses.” done with paper registration and mailed or dropped 4. Click the department to see its list of preapproved off at the OLLI office. courses. 5. Select your course of interest, review it and, if Conduct Expectations for Course Auditors desired, click “Enroll Yourself.” 1. Never attend a course or a class for which you are 6. If you wish to add more audit courses, click not officially registered. “Save to Cart and Add More Courses.” 2. Introduce yourself as an OLLI student to the 7. When finished, click “Proceed to Checkout.” instructor. Seek permission from them if you wish On the next screen, click on “Complete to verbally participate in the course, do written Registration.” Transaction confirmation will appear assignments, or exams. Respect their response. on the screen and you will receive an email 3. Arrive on time to class and stay for the entire class. confirmation. 4. If the instructor permits your verbal participation, do not monopolize discussion. • In Person or Mailed Registration Process 5. Do not eat or drink in the class. 1. Complete all information on the catalog 6. If issues arise, notify the OLLI office immediately. registration form including Course Title, 7. Pay attention to dates and deadlines pertaining to department, Catalog Number (NBR), Class undergraduate courses and the University academic Number (NBR), Day/time, and Building/Room. calendar. 2. Submit your registration form in the OLLI 8. Formally drop the course if you find out it is no office or by U.S. Mail. longer of interest.

NOTE: Auditing is a privilege, not a right. OLLI reserves the right to remove any member from an audit course for any reason. For more information on auditing a course, go to the member area of the OLLI website at olli.pitt.edu

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