A learning community of adults age 50 and better

SUMMER 2019 COURSE CATALOG Registration opens Tuesday, April 9, 2019 Phone registration opens Friday, April 12, 2019

It’s Time For You! Summer 2019 Term Osher Lifelong Learning Institute University of Pittsburgh

TABLE OF CONTENTS DATES AND DEADLINES Schedule at-a-glance 5, 6 May 13 OLLI Session 1 begins

OLLI Session 1 Courses 7 May 27 University closed (Memorial Day) OLLI Session 2 Courses 15 June 14 OLLI Session 1 ends Special Events 21 June 17–26 OLLI break Monday Master Classes 22 (no OLLI classes)

Instructor Biographies 24 June 27 OLLI Session 2 begins

Membership Benefits 28 July 4 University closed (Independence Day) Information and Policies 28 July 5 No OLLI classes Registration Form 29 August 2 OLLI Session 2 ends University Undergraduate Audit Courses 31 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 121 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.

Please explore this catalog and discover the exciting courses being offered this summer. There’s something for everyone! Amazing OLLI membership benefits await you. We look forward to seeing you at Pitt!

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 summer 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 Beginner Spanish (134T) s IMPORTANT Exploration – more “hands-on” oriented This 10-week course is for COURSE NUMBER courses; OR may be an academic topic DESCRIPTION beginners and it focuses on When completing a primarily taught through interactive group Spanish pronunciation, vocabulary, paper registration form discussion and practice. grammar, and useful expressions for (page 29), use the travel. Classroom practice includes unique course number Enjoyment – the majority of class is spent speaking, reading, and listening with the students discussing the topic, to identify each course comprehension. Members may only practicing a skill, or the primary purpose is for you are registering for. register for one level of Spanish. group sharing and discussion. s Exploration

4 | OLLI.PITT.EDU OLLI Session 1 • Monday, May 13–Friday, June 14 SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE SUMMER 2019 morning MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 10 a.m.–12:20 p.m. 9:30–11:50 a.m. 9:30– 11:50 a.m. 10–10:50 a.m. 10–11:50 a.m. The Evolution of Open Art Studio Time (105T) # Pictoral Composition T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 1: Aging and Public Health (146) the Vampire (101) 10–10:50 a.m. through Collage (120T) # The Eight Methods of Stephen Albert Marc Wisnosky Get Strong, Get Fit, Ann Rosenthal T’ai Chi (132) Intermediate Conversational Stan Swartz Healthy Eating: Trends Get Moving (106T) 10–11:00 a.m. French: Hypothetically and Issues (102) Lucinda Dyjak Chakra Yoga All Levels (121T) 10 – 11:30 a.m. Speaking (147T) Judith Dodd T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 3 (107) Jill Clary From the Heart of Mr. Rogers’ Cathleen Sendek-Sapp A People’s History of the Stan Swartz 10–11:50 a.m. Neighborhood (133) # The Evolving Rhetoric of the United States: From First The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Ron Symons and Melissa Hiller Imperial Republic (148) 10–11:50 a.m. Nicolaes Tulp Contact through the Advanced Beginner and the Dutch 10–11:50 a.m. Javier Vazquez D’Elia American Civil War (103) Spanish (108T) Golden Age (122) Beginner Spanish (134T) A Virtual Tour of Pittsburgh’s Luke Peterson Nancy Farber Jeff Aziz Nancy Farber Golden Triangle (149) The Road Movie: Beginning French: Five Steps to Becoming a Beginning–Intermediate Howard Voigt Adventure, Rebellion, Everyday Vocabulary (109T) More Logical Thinker (123) Watercolor (135T) # Walking the Millionaire and Social Change (104) Cathleen Sendek-Sapp Joe Givvin Melissa Tai Rows (150) # John Taylor Climbing Your Family Tree: Paul and the Christians (124) Found Treasures: Jay Steele Beginning Geneology (110) Rebecca DeNova Yiddish Women Writers Marilyn Holt Pittsburgh and Urban Tell Their Stories (136) Lois Rubin Health Care Ethics for Development (125) Patients and Families (111) Alan Irvine From Africa to the Carrie Stott 11–noon American Civil War (137) Alaina Roberts Islam and Conflict in Global Ageless Yoga™–Vinyasa Contexts Section 1 (112) Flow Asanas to Music (126T) Taking and Editing Photos Luke Peterson Cathy Reifer with Your iPhone (138) Rich Fitzgibbon Scriptures of the World: Fully Living Life (113) 11–11:50 a.m. Joel Mlecko T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 2: Introduction to the T’ai Chi 11–11:50 a.m. Form (139) Get Strong, Get Fit, Stan Swartz Get Aerobicized (114T) Lucinda Dyjak afternoon MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 1 p.m. 1–2:50 p.m. 1–2:50 p.m. 1–2:50 p.m. 12:30–3:20 p.m. Monday Master Classes Advanced Intermediate Ethics: Fundamental Theories Advanced Conversational A Quintet Of Neglected Each Monday afternoon, Conversational French: and Contemporary Issues (127) Spanish (140) Gems (151) OLLI will offer a class on a Simply Conversation (115T) Bill Pamerleau Franco De Gomez Ed Blank special topic by an expert in Cathleen Sendak-Sapp The Poems of Robert The Basics of Using Your 1–2:50 p.m. their field. Members can Authoritarian Regimes (116) Frost (128) Android Phone (141) Experimental Drawing (153) register for one Monday Andrew Lotz David Walton Dave Matta Michael Walter up to all nine of the Master Topics in Gender, Sexuality, Time to Play: Intro to Dealing with Disaster— The Last Taboo—Dying In Classes. See pages 22-23 and Women’s Studies (117) Improv (129) Six Archetypal Works of America (152) for details. Julie Beaulieu Kristy Nolen Nonfiction(142) Barbara Ivanko 1–3:20 p.m. Writing as a Wisdom Abby Mendelson The Films of Alfred Project (130) Hear All About It: Eyewitness Hitchcock (118) Carol Gammon Reports on 200 Years of Julie Nakama 1–3:30 p.m. Pittsburgh History (143) 1:30–3:20 p.m. Film Musical (131) Len Barcousky Tour de France (119) # Dana Och History and Analysis of Mike Gonze the Nationality Rooms Section 1 (144) Michael Walter 1:30–3:30 p.m. Craft Brewing Chemistry, Process, and, Design (145) Robert Parker

# course held off campus: see course description for location OLLI.PITT.EDU | 5 OLLI Session 2 • Thursday, June 27–Friday, August 2 SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE SUMMER 2019 morning MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 10 –11:50 a.m. 9:30–11:50 a.m. 9:30 – 11:50 a.m. 9:30–11:50 a.m. 9:30 a.m.–noon Antietam Campaign (201) Open Art Studio Time Pictorial Composition through International Vegetarian New Hollywood–U.S. Cinema David Albert (continued) # Collage (continued) # Cooking (219) # in the 1970s (230) Mapping Our Differences– 10–10:50 a.m. Ann Rosenthal Dona Albert John Taylor Understanding Dimensions Get Strong, Get Fit, 10–11:00 a.m. 10–11:50 a.m. 10–11:50 a.m. of Culture through Cultural Get Moving (continued) Chakra Yoga All Levels Beginner Spanish (continued) Intermediate Conversational Comparison (202) Lucinda Dyjak (continued) Nancy Farber French: Hypothetically Hillary Koller 10–11:50 a.m. Jill Clary Beginner–Intermediate Speaking (continued) New Perspectives on the Advanced Beginner Spanish 10–11:50 a.m. Watercolor (continued) # Cathleen Sendek-Sapp Brain (203) (continued) Approaching the Quran: Melissa Tai Introduction to Global Betsy Peitz Nancy Farber An Overview (211) Butterflies! Get To Contemporary Art (231) A People’s History of the Beginning French: Everyday Aliyah Khan Know Them and What Nicole Scalissi United States: World War II Vocabulary (continued) A Change of Focus: They Need (220) # The Restless Giant of the Through the American War on Cathleen Sendek-Sapp Emergence of the Modern Gabi Hughes South: Brazil 1964–2018 (232) Terror (204) Islam and Conflict in Global Democratic Party (212) Dante and Art (221) Javier Vazquez D’Elia Luke Peterson Contexts Section 2 (205) Miles Richards David Brumble Walking the Outskirts Luke Peterson Cognition and Aging (213) Modern European Novels of Downtown (233) # Julius Caesar (206) Bruce Goldstein Book Club (222) Jay Steele Andrew Korzeniewski Unpacking Pop: Shannon Reed Modern and Contemporary Exploring Warhol’s Artistic Mozart’s Da Ponte Operas: Art from Latin America (207) Expression (214) # Le Nozze Di Figaro, Don Paulina Pardo Gaviria Sarah La Rue Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte (223) 11–11:50 a.m. 11:00 a.m.–noon Robert Croan Get Strong, Get Fit, Ageless Yoga™–Vinyasa Flow Get Aerobicized (continued) Asanas to Music (continued) Lucinda Dyjak Cathy Reifer afternoon MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 1 p.m. 1–2:50 p.m. 1–2:50 p.m. 1–2:50 p.m. 12:30–3:20 p.m. Monday Master Classes Advanced Intermediate Baseball’s Golden Age Advanced Conversational Five More Neglected Each Monday afternoon, Conversational French: Simply Icons (215) Spanish (224) Gems (234) OLLI will offer a class on a Conversation (continued) Steven Russell Nancy Farber Ed Blank special topic by an expert in Cathleen Sendak-Sapp History and Analysis of Contemporary American 1–2:50 p.m. their field. Members can Medical Marijuana in the Nationality Rooms Poetry (225) Experimental Drawing register for one Monday Pennsylvania (208) Section 2 (216) Jen Ashburn (continued) up to all nine of the Master Michael Paladini Michael Walter Paul Simon’s World (226) Michael Walter Classes. See pages 22-23 Russian Jewry: 1772–2000: The History of Minorities in Peter King How To Edit Your Own for details. The Transformation of a America (217) Shattering the Rules: Material (235) Traditional Community (209) Louise Mayo Five Great Modernist British Harriet Franklin Alex Orbach 1:30–3:20 p.m. Novels (227) Weimer Culture through Secret Pittsburgh (218) # Abby Mendelson Cinema (210) Jessica FitzPatrick What Archetypes Rule Jaclyn Kurash Your Life? (228) Elizabeth Rodenz

6 | OLLI.PITT.EDU # course held off campus: see course description for location OLLI Course Descriptions Session 1: Monday, May 13–Friday, June 14

wheat, gluten, nuts, and peanut The Road Movie: MONDAY butter cannot be accommodated. Adventure, Rebellion, and Avoidance of seafood, shellfish, eggs, Social Change (104) Monday classes will run for 4 weeks soy, and dairy can be arranged upon The road movie has proven to be an and will not meet on May 27, request. Memorial Day. exceptionally durable genre. Directors There is a $20 materials fee that is have frequently taken it up in order payable to the instructor at the first to say something about national 10 a.m.–12:20 p.m. class. There is no prorating for identity, or to wax philosophical classes missed. about questions of place and destiny, The Evolution of the Exploration • Judith Dodd, MS, RDN, LDN among others. In this class, we will Vampire (101) examine the road film across several decades of U.S. cinema, examining This course examines the evolution of A People’s History of how its style and symbolism have the vampire from mindless revenant the United States: From changed over time and how it has to sinister aristocrat to the modern First Contact through the (103) helped to articulate the concerns of a self-aware, “humane” vampire. We American Civil War* variety of historical moments. will explore such questions as: Why This course is repeated from the do vampires capture the imagination, Spring 2019 term Academic • John Taylor especially of Anglophone readers This course covers the history of and viewers? What qualities does the political, economic, social, and vampire incarnate? Which historical cultural history of the United Monday Master Classes events or customs have triggered States from the era of permanent See pages 22-23 for details about particular enthusiasm for depicting European contact and settlement these special afternoon programs. the undead? How do historical in North America through to the contexts shape vampire narratives? middle to late 19th century. Course How has the depiction of the material in lectures will proceed in vampire evolved over centuries? Our a chronological order and will, like TUESDAY discussions will address these and the required text for the class, focus related issues as we discuss historical primarily on elements of American 9:30–11:50 a.m. accounts, stories, films, and other history that have been marginalized related media. or are otherwise not usually part of Open Art Studio Time* (105T) academic discussions of the history of Academic • Marc Wisnosky, PhD OLLI artists are welcome to bring the United States. Perspectives to be embraced in this course include, but their work to the art room to work Healthy Eating: Trends and side by side or together on their Issues* (102) are not limited to, the role of women in American history, the fate of first various art projects. Nutrition is in the news but separating nations peoples in North America, A course fee of $50 is assessed to cover fact from fiction is becoming more the life of slaves and race relations room rental for the summer term. difficult, thanks to social media and in the United States, poor Americans This is a 10-week activity and there nutrition quasi-experts. Sodium, and economic inequality in the United is no prorating for missed weeks. sugar, fat, carb, and supplement States, and the American empire and Members may also enroll in this battles; debates on “natural” and its impact on the world. Students with activity in addition to one 10-week “local” and “superfoods;” and an interest in the unfolding political, art course. plant-based diets are all news. This social, and economic history of this Meets at Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth class will help participants to sort country, and the global consequences Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 through the current food and nutrition that that development portends are environment. Food demonstrations encouraged to enroll. Enjoyment and tastings are a part of the course. Participants will be tasting Academic • Luke Peterson, PhD so food allergies or intolerances to

*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 7 10–10:50 a.m. Climbing Your Family Tree: Islam and Conflict in Global Beginning Genealogy* (110) Contexts Section 1 (112) Get Strong, Get Fit, Get This 4-week course provides an This course will investigate political, Moving* (106T) introduction to the process involved social, and ideological conflict Strength, flexibility, balance, and bone in searching for family roots. involving international political actors density will be addressed by use of Beginning with information gathering (both states and non-states) claiming handheld weights, resistance bands, from family tradition and oral history motivation by, or inclusion within, the body weight, and gravity. All levels interviews, the methodology of contemporary tradition of political of participants are welcome. Wear recording, organizing, and storing Islam. Lecture topics within this comfortable, nonrestrictive clothing. your family history is reviewed. course will take a global approach: Members may only register for one of Resources discussed include analyzing political, social, and/or the Get Strong, Get Fit courses. census schedules, vital records and sectarian conflict in North America, Enjoyment • Lucinda Dyjak courthouse resources, church and Europe, and the Middle East (to cemetery records, and immigration include ongoing international efforts T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 3* (107) and naturalization. to interdict against the expansion of Exploration • Marilyn Holt the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq The first section of the T’ai Chi form and Syria). is a complete exercise in itself. This course is designed for students who Health Care Ethics for Academic • Luke Peterson, PhD have completed T’ai Chi Ch’uan Patients and Families (111) Level 2 a minimum of two times. This course will introduce students Scripture of the World: Fully Members may only register for one to the complex world of health care. Living Life (113) T’ai Chi course. It will discuss health care ethics and Are you living in a vital, satisfying way? Enjoyment • Stan Swartz provide an overview of some of Do you know that scriptures of the the challenging issues that people world speak in a practical, entertaining 10–11:50 a.m. face when they become patients manner about living life in the here or caregivers who are helping their and now? We explore scriptures East Advanced Beginner loved ones through medical issues, and West and some of their basic Spanish* (108T) as well as the role morality plays in insights on fully living life. These deciding how to handle each unique important and influential scriptural This is a 10-week course for students medical situation. The class will begin references come from Hinduism, who have advanced beyond a with basics, such as medical decision Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, beginning knowledge of Spanish making and advance directives, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. and wish to further refine speaking, then students will suggest specific Academic • Joel Mlecko, PhD listening, and reading comprehension topics they wish to discuss during the skills. Classroom practice focuses on later weeks of the term; possibilities 11–11:50 a.m. the use of complex grammar, syntax, include hospice care, genetics, or and vocabulary. human enhancement. Get Strong, Get Fit, Get Exploration • Nancy Farber Academic • Carrie Stott, PhD Aerobicized* (114T) Beginning French: Everyday A combination class with low-impact Vocabulary* (109T) aerobics plus strength training to enhance cardiovascular stamina, In each class of this 10-week course, strength, flexibility, balance, bone you learn French vocabulary words density, and coordination. Wear pertaining to a selected facet of ev- comfortable, nonrestrictive clothing. eryday life. By combining these words Members may only register for one with simple grammatical structures, of the Get Strong, Get Fit courses. you begin to use what you are learn- ing conversationally. This course is for This is a 9-week course; no class those with little or no prior knowledge on 5/21 of French. Enjoyment • Lucinda Dyjak Exploration • Cathleen Sendek-Sapp

8 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE 1–2:50 p.m. discussions about a range of topics including the history of gender WEDNESDAY Advanced Intermediate and sexuality, medical/therapeutic Conversational French: approaches to gender and sexuality, 9:30–11:50 a.m. Simply Conversation* (115T) gender and the family, global perspectives on gender and sexuality, This course is designed for those Pictorial Composition and gender in the news today. who have already taken several through Collage* (120T) French courses and are interested Academic • Julie Beaulieu, PhD Members may only register for one in strengthening their speaking 10-week art course abilities and comprehension. Each 1–3:20 p.m. Pictorial composition is the arrange- week’s lesson centers on a selected ment of visual elements to create a topic or everyday situation with the The Films of Alfred Hitchcock unified whole. An artwork may be goal of building and recalling useful (118) well executed but will fall short if the vocabulary. Strategies for expressing Are you still haunted by the shower composition is weak. In this course, yourself in French when words are scene in Psycho or compelled by the students will learn time-honored lacking also are explored. The class mystery of Rear Window? Then join us compositional techniques through is conducted for the most part in for this course on the films of Alfred the medium of collage, which allows French. Hitchcock. We will begin with his early students to try different arrangements Exploration • Cathleen Sendak-Sapp work in Britain and move through his before committing to a final result. filmmaking and television career in Each weekly exercise will highlight a Authoritarian Regimes (116) the United States. We will consider compositional approach and one or Hitchcock’s films historically and more collage techniques. We also will This class will consider four thematically with a focus on recurring study and analyze the compositions of authoritarian regimes, and think themes that appear throughout the selected masterworks. about the lessons they give for director’s body of work. Along the understanding the United States. This 10-week course meets at way, we will pay special attention to The course will cover an overview Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth Avenue, the stylistic markers that have come of Russia, China, Myanmar, and Pittsburgh, PA 15213 to define a Hitchcock film for many Saudi Arabia. With each, the Exploration • Ann Rosenthal critics and fans alike. course will consider the ways that authoritarian approaches to political Academic • Julie Nakama, PhD 10–11:00 a.m. organization can be very different, yet fundamentally the same. This class 1:30–3:20 p.m. Chakra Yoga All Levels* (121T) builds upon some of the questions Members may only register for one raised in the Spring 2019 session Tour de France* (119) of the yoga courses. class on totalitarian systems, but all No bicycles required! Join this class for This 10-week course course moves students are welcome and no prior a journey through the parts of France. through traditional yoga poses (or knowledge is required. We are visiting Alsace, Bordeaux, and asanas) that align each individual Academic • Andrew Lotz, PhD Rhône Valley. Each week students will chakra moving up the spine from learn about the geography and their the root chakra to the crown chakra. Topics in Gender, Sexuality, unique microclimates. Please join us Chakras are energy centers located and Women’s Studies (GSWS) for a lecture and tasting. Bread and across different points on our spi- (117) cheese will be served. nal column. When energy becomes Topics in GSWS will introduce This is a 3-week course with an blocked in a chakra, it triggers physi- participants to the interdisciplinary additional course fee of $30, with cal, mental, or emotional imbalances field of gender, sexuality, and no prorating, payable with registration. that manifest in symptoms such as anxiety, lethargy, or poor digestion. women’s studies. Our meetings will Meets at Dreadnought Wines, 3401 This class is for the student who likes a be both lecture and discussion based. Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15201 Class will begin with an introduction fluid, mindful practice that links align- Enjoyment • Mike Gonze to key terms and concepts. From ment, movement, and breath. Partici- here, we will take a deeper look at pants should wear comfortable, loose gender and sexuality via a set of fitting clothing and bring a yoga mat. readings and/or films. Participants Enjoyment • Jill Clary should anticipate lively lectures and

*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 9 10–11:50 a.m. Paul and the Christians (124) sequences using the breath to connect the mind body and spirit. What did it mean to be a “follower Yoga Vinyasa Flow taps into our inner The Anatomy Lesson of of the Christ” in the Roman Empire quiet power through the balancing Dr. Nicolaes Tulp and the in the first century? This course of strength building poses, detoxing Dutch Golden Age (122) undertakes a close reading of the twists, balance sequences, core This course will use Rembrandt letters of Paul the Apostle (as our building, spinal alignment, inversions van Rijn’s painting, The Anatomy primary evidence), drawing upon and hip openers, which allows us to Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, as a critical methods of analysis in modern get out of heads and into our bodies. point of departure to explore the New Testament and historical Participants should wear comfortable, Dutch Golden Age in art, letters, interpretation. Paul often is described loose fitting clothing and bring a science, medicine, and commerce. as the true “founder” of the religion yoga mat. Historical figures discussed will of Christianity, and we will explore include philosopher René Descartes, the way in which his writings came Exploration • Cathy Reifer artist Johannes Vermeer, physician to influence the later Church. We and naturalist Herman Boerhaave, also survey the cultural context of his 1–2:50 p.m. and rebel aristocrat William of communities and the ways in which Orange. From the rise of middle- this culture may have contributed to Ethics: Fundamental Theories class domestic art to the frenzied Paul’s thinking, specifically in relation and Contemporary Issues (127) economic bubble of the Tulip Mania, to “salvation,” women, and the role This course combines lectures on from philosophy to piracy, from of the early Christians as citizens of the major ethical theories in the coffee to cannabis, we will discover the Empire. history of Western philosophy with a tiny nation that in many senses Academic • Rebecca Denova, PhD discussions of how those methods invented modernity and launched the can be used to address contemporary European enlightenment. Pittsburgh and Urban issues. The goal of the class is not to Academic • Jeff Aziz, PhD Development (125) proclaim some settled position on ethical topics but to give participants In the last couple of years, Pittsburgh intellectual tools that will allow them Five Steps to Becoming a has grappled with issues like to think deeply and critically on More Logical Thinker (123) the gentrification of East Liberty ethical matters. Specific issues may “Logic is our mind’s instrument for and other neighborhoods, the range from capital punishment to getting at the truth,” said Aristotle, Amazon HQ2 competition, the climate change. the father of logic. This class will help tension between large and small you by introducing or refreshing your communities, and the ever looming Academic • William Pamerleau, PhD mind with the basics of logic. We will reality of urban sprawl. What underlies start with the art of defining reasoning these issues? What do you need to The Poems of and then move on to the task of know to understand the debates and Robert Frost (128) exploring reasoning. We will check proposals? How do cities function, This course will focus on Robert Frost, the mechanics of our reasoning first, grow, and thrive? What factors shape one of the greatest of American poets then examine claims about truth, and Pittsburgh’s present and future? and certainly its most popular and end with a look at the common pesky This 4-week course begins on 5/22. widely read. Frost also is frequently mistakes that plague our thinking. misread, and many times readers Academic • Alan Irvine, PhD Academic • Joseph Givvin, PhD overlook his streak of dark irony and 11:00 a.m.–noon fatalism. In the course, we will focus on his poems, reading and discussing Ageless Yoga™–Vinyasa a dozen or so each week. Flow Asanas To Music Exploration • David Walton (Advanced Beginners)* (126T) Members may only register for one of the yoga courses. This class is a moving meditation with an emphasis of traditional yoga asanas and poses in connecting

10 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE Time to Play: Intro to 10–11:50 a.m. Improv* (129) THURSDAY Say YES to laughter and fun! Through Beginner Spanish* (134T) discussion, performance exercises 10–10:50 a.m. This 10-week course is for and improv games, students are beginners and it focuses on introduced to the building blocks T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 1: Spanish pronunciation, vocabulary, of improv in a supportive, playful The Eight Methods of grammar, and useful expressions for environment. Don’t be shy! Absolutely T’ai Chi* (132) travel. Classroom practice includes no stage experience is needed, just The Eight Methods of T’ai Chi are speaking, reading, and listening your creativity and sense of humor. simpler movements designed to comprehension. Members may only Please come in comfortable clothes, introduce students to the T’ai Chi register for one level of Spanish. ready to move. principles and movements. Once Exploration • Nancy Farber Enjoyment • Kristy Nolen students have a good foundation in the basics, they can proceed to Beginning–Intermediate Writing as a Wisdom T’ai Chi 2 and eventually T’ai Chi 3. Watercolor* (135T) Project* (130) Members may take only one T’ai Members may only register for one Chi course. Combining meditation in the 10-week art course. Zen tradition with the practice of Enjoyment • Stan Swartz Enjoy the beauty, quirks, and happy imaginative writing, this course surprises watercolor can bring! A invites intimate and creative study 10–11:30 a.m. new lesson and demonstration is of the mind. Engaging playfully with presented each week. In addition language, we write together from From the Heart of Mr. to watercolor techniques, we will prompts, read aloud, listen, and Rogers’ Neighborhood (133) cover composition, color theory, and respond to one another’s words. In this course, we will explore the perspective. Students will work at Our writings and responses are impact of Fred Rogers’ legacy on their own pace with guidance when explorations, and our conversations our lives in 2019. While this course needed. Intermediate participants are based in imaginative insight rather was planned long before the Oct. 27 are welcome to work on their own than craft or critique. Appropriate for shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue, with individualized feedback and participants at any level of writing we now take Mr. Rogers’ legacy instruction. experience. Meditation guidance to heart in a deeper way. The This 10-week course meets at offered as needed. exploration will include Fred’s own Rodef Shalom, 4905 Fifth Avenue, Exploration • Catherine Gammon writings and texts about him. We Pittsburgh, PA 15213 will be in conversation with those Exploration • Melissa Tai 1–3:30 p.m. committed to living out his legacy in their professional, academic, and Film Musical (131) personal pursuits. We might even watch a little TV. This course is being We will consider the film musical taught in conjunction with a photo across the decades. Though it is exhibit of the American Jewish often seen as the vehicle through Museum of the JCC, launched from which sound in film became Fred Rogers’ invitation, “Won’t You dominant, the genre also plays a Be My Neighbor?” role in the dominance of American media on the international stage. This 4-week course begins on 5/23 It also serves as a place to think and meets at the Jewish Community about various social issues and our Center, 5738 Forbes Avenue, imagination of romance. We will look Pittsburgh, PA 15217 at a collection of musical films from Exploration • Ron Symons and various subgenres and eras, such Melissa Hiller as pre-Code Hollywood, classical Hollywood, and a modern musical. Academic • Dana Och, PhD

*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 11 Found Treasures: Yiddish all those accumulated pictures. We Basics of Using Your Women Writers Tell Their will explore the various apps that Android Phone* (141) come with your iPhone as well as Stories* (136) This course will assist students with investigate some additional resources We’re all familiar with Fiddler on their Android phones. Many folks not provided by Apple. Please note: the Roof (based on Tevye and His underuse their phones and may not This course is appropriate for those Daughters by Sholem Aleichem) and know how to use even some of the who routinely take photos with their its memorable portrayal of Tevye’s five basic functions. All participants will iPhones, have used their iPhones for daughters. But this portrayal comes need a smartphone with the latest several years, and feel comfortable from the viewpoint of a male writer. Android operating system installed. and knowledgeable navigating What additional insights might a Students also should be able to their device. This course is not an woman writer who lived in that time connect to Pitt’s Wi-Fi. This course introduction to using your iPhone. and place provide? Until recently, we will attempt to answer the questions didn’t know because, although there Enjoyment • Richard Fitzgibbon that Android phone users have, were actually many Yiddish women while giving them the confidence to writers (300), women’s works were 11–11:50 a.m. use those phones every day in ways unappreciated, overlooked, and lost. that are intended to make their lives In this course, we will focus on several T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 2: easier. Introduction to the T’ai Chi writings and what can be learned Enjoyment • David Matta from these works. Form* (139) 4-week course beginning on 5/23 The T’ai Chi form is a complex series Dealing with Disaster– of movements, more challenging Exploration • Lois Rubin, PhD Six Archetypal Works of than the Eight Methods. This course Nonfiction(142) is designed for students who have From Africa to the American Sounding uncharted waters, people completed Level 1: The Eight Civil War (137) scurry to cope with such horrific Methods of T’ai Chi a minimum of events as plagues, shipwrecks, nuclear This course examines African two times. T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 1 is a wars, floods, and assassinations–all American history from its inception prerequisite to this course. with the Transatlantic Slave Trade to with wildly varying results. While such Enjoyment • Stan Swartz its transformation during the Civil War. disasters, and their aftermaths, make for horrible living, they often make for Through lecture and discussion, we 1–2:50 p.m. will address the following topics: the great stories. Often they engender African and Native American captivity entire new ways of constructing Advanced Conversational practices that served as the precursors narratives on how to report and re-live Spanish* (140) to African chattel slavery; the origins such previously unthinkable times. We Members may take only one level of and rationale behind the creation will examine a half-dozen absolute Spanish of the social category of race; the classics, all of which set new standards differences between African chattel This course will focus on using in writing and reporting. slavery in the French, Spanish, and Spanish in reading, conversation, and Exploration • Abby Mendelson, PhD British colonies, and in southern and discussion of various short pieces northern United States; methods of of literature about folk legends Hear All About It: Eyewitness resistance used by African American and short stories of Latin America. Reports on 200 Years of women and men; and the ways in Weekly readings will form the basis Pittsburgh History (143) of the class content for practice in which African Americans played a part For The Pittsburgh Gazette, George speaking, listening, and reading in in the abolitionist movement. Washington’s inauguration was a a supportive environment. The class Academic • Alaina Roberts, PhD breaking news story. And Abraham will be conducted in Spanish, as will Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg was discussion; therefore, participants Taking and Editing Photos covered the day it happened by a should have a significant knowledge with Your iPhone* (138) Gazette reporter. “Hear All About of Spanish. For a few years, many of us have been It” looks at how these and other Exploration • Maria Franco De Gomez taking a lot of digital photos with our historic—and sometimes forgotten— iPhones. Now might be a great time events and people were covered the to take a closer look at becoming a next day in Pittsburgh’s newspapers. better photographer and editor of Exploration • Len Barcousky

12 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE History and Analysis of direction for it. The course combines the Nationality Rooms– FRIDAY historical analysis and theoretical Section 1* (144) discussion, and assumes no previous 10–11:50 a.m. knowledge of the topic. The Nationality Rooms at the University of Pittsburgh will be Academic • Javier Vazquez D’Elia, PhD Aging and Public Health (146) presented with insights into how they came to be, their decoration, This course asks how we can improve A Virtual Tour of Pittsburgh’s and the unique creative and health span: time lived with optimal Golden Triangle (149) intellectual characteristics of each health and function as we approach Through photos of the exteriors room. Emphasis will be placed on old age. Some issues we consider and interiors of our most significant their individuality and also on how include defining aging, separating downtown buildings, we will trace they share commonalities. chronological and biological their origins and examine their age, assessing population aging, Academic • Michael Walter architecture. These “tours” will determining whether disability or include a discussion of the historical 1:30–3:30 p.m. disablement is a reasonable model and cultural context of each building of aging, how human aging differs and place, and how the four major Craft Brewing Chemistry, from that of other animals, and some sections of downtown have been Process, and Design (145) bioethical issues associated with the developed and redeveloped. care of the very old. In what sense The craft brewing industry continues is chronologic age a good or bad 4-week course to expand, while macrobreweries indicator of aging? Enjoyment • Howard Voigt consolidate. This course will explore Academic • Steven Albert, PhD the world of craft brewing, focusing Walking the Millionaire on the transformation of raw materials Intermediate Conversational Rows* (150) into the finished consumable product: French: Hypothetically This course will give the students beer! Along the way, students can Speaking* (147T) a unique perspective of the past, expect to encounter engineering present, and future of the Millionaire principles, reaction chemistry, This course explores some of the Rows of Pittsburgh. These were fermentation, and creative design verb tenses not covered in the past established in the late 1800s and that will allow them to be more and present tense classes, and then early 1900s by industrialist giants knowledgeable craft beer consumers applies them in various classroom like Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay and brewery enthusiasts. It is the intent activities. Class time also includes Frick, Henry J. Heinz, George of this class to serve two 6-oz pours of working with passages from a Westinghouse, Alexander M. Byers, beer per class day to each student, as selected secondary text. This course Benjamin Franklin Jones, and others. a means to explore a limited cross- is geared to students who are not We will explore in each of the five section of the many styles of beer yet comfortably delivering simple weeks the three primary millionaire available. Government-issue photo sentences in French. Some prior rows and a glimpse of the area of ID is required each class day. knowledge of French is expected. Advanced speaking skills are not their summer homes, and where There is an additional $30 fee for required. some of these people and families are this course payable to the instructor buried. Highlighted in each walking on the first day of the class with This course begins on 5/24. tour will be the history, architecture, no prorating. Exploration • Cathleen Sendek-Sapp and hidden gems of these points of This course will be held in Benedum interest. It’s a fun way to exercise! Hall, 3700 O’Hara Street, Pittsburgh, The Evolving Rhetoric of the Participants meet at various locations PA 15213 Imperial Republic (148) in the Pittsburgh area each week. Exploration • Robert Parker, PhD This course aims to review and Each session involves one to two analyze the intellectual foundations miles of walking. of the succession of strategies and Enjoyment • Jay Steele discourses that shaped and justified American foreign policy between 1898 and 2011. It does not attempt to systematically analyze the evolution of foreign policy itself, but the main ideas and arguments that provided

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A Quintet of Neglected The Last Taboo–Dying In Experimental Drawing* (153T) Gems (151) America (152) Members may only register for one 10 In this course, students will watch Over the past 50 years, there has week art course. In the Heat of the Night with been a grass roots drive to change The drawing class will explore detective Sidney Poitier and sheriff the conditions under which we die different dry media that can help Rod Steiger; The Man Who Wasn’t in the United States. This offering with expressing one’s inner vision. There, a smoldering murder drama explores the history; evolution; and Drawing objects and ideas around with Billy Bob Thornton and Frances current state of attitudes, conditions, and within us can be enhanced by McDormand; The Whisperers with and treatment for people facing the exploring different dry media and Edith Evans cast against type as a end of life. We also will cover our own different attitudes to mark making. dowager grappling with poverty, confusion and difficulty with death Pencil, chalk, and Shrinky Dink plastic dementia, and crime; Woody Allen’s and the challenges that physicians are a few tools we will use to create Love & Death, a spoof of War and face as they treat the terminally ill. If our imagery. Peace with Diane Keaton and Allen, you are a health care consumer or a 10-week course and Paddy Chayefsky’s The Catered mortal being, this offering will inform Exploration • Michael Walter Affair, as Bette Davis wrestles control and inspire you, and dispel myths of daughter Debbie Reynolds’ about the mysterious process of wedding. dying in America. Enjoyment • Ed Blank Academic • Barbara Ivanko

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for a long time. With advances MONDAY in magnetic resonance imaging Monday Master Classes and DNA technology a lot of new See pages 22-23 for details about 10–11:50 a.m. information on the brain is becoming these special afternoon programs. available. After a brief explanation The Antietam Campaign (201) of terminology, this course will look Some historians consider the at some of the new ideas on brain TUESDAY Antietam campaign to be the structure and function. Topics will include: brain evolution, functional pivotal campaign of the Civil War. 9:30–11:50 a.m. They believe that with its defeat, mapping and neural networks, the role of neuroglia cells, neural stem the South lost any hope of gaining Open Art Studio Time its independence. Regardless, cells, and some ideas on facial (continued from Session 1) Antietam was the bloodiest single recognition and spatial orientation. day in American military history, a day Academic • Betsy Peitz, PhD 10–10:50 a.m. which produced 23,000 combined casualties. This course examines this A People’s History of the Get Strong, Get Fit, critical campaign and its aftermath. United States: World War II Get Moving Academic • David Albert through the American War (continued from Session 1) on Terror* (204) Mapping Our Differences– This course is repeated from the 10–11:50 a.m. Understanding Dimensions spring 2019 term. of Culture through Cultural This course covers the history of Beginning French: Everyday Comparison (202) political, economic, social, and Vocabulary As the world becomes more cultural history of the United States (continued from Session 1) globally connected, exposure to from the mid-20th century to the cultural differences is increasing, early 21st century. It will focus Advanced Beginner Spanish necessitating a deeper understanding primarily on elements of American (continued from Session 1) of elements of culture that can history that have been marginalized cause misunderstandings but also or are otherwise not usually part of Islam and Conflict in Global opportunities for strengthening cross- academic discussions of the history Contexts Section 2 (205) cultural connections. This course will of the United States. Approaching This course is repeated from explore cross-cultural dimensions of this course of study from these Session 1. communication, power dynamics, vantage points seeks to shed new This course will investigate political, and a futuristic outlook through two light on historical episodes that are social, and ideological conflict models of cultural comparison, as well frequently obscured in the popular involving international political actors as current events and case studies. and academic retelling of the (both states and nonstates) claiming Participants should be prepared to be development of this country. Course motivation by, or inclusion within, the active participants in this discussion- topics also will include analyses of contemporary tradition of political based course aimed at developing the ramifications of American foreign Islam. Lecture topics within this cross-cultural competency. policy decisions and interventions course will take a global approach, and their colossal impact throughout Exploration • Hillary Koller analyzing political, social, and/or history, such as the period of U.S. sectarian conflict in North America, New Perspectives on the military involvement in Southeast Europe, and the Middle East (to Asia and ongoing American military Brain (203) include ongoing international efforts involvement in the Middle East. to interdict against the expansion of Since the brain plays such a central Academic • Luke Peterson, PhD the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq role in controlling the body, it and Syria. has been a subject of research Academic • Luke Peterson, PhD

*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 15 Julius Caesar (206) 1–2:50 p.m. Weimer Culture through The most powerful of Romans, Julius Cinema (210) Caesar, continues to fascinate us Advanced Intermediate The Weimar Republic (1918–33) is today, but who was he really? This Conversational French: one of the most exciting periods in course will investigate the character Simply Conversation Germany’s cultural history. Expressions of Julius Caesar as presented in (continued from Session 1) like “the Golden Twenties” bear a number of works ranging from witness to the dramatic changes in Caesar’s own writings and ancient Medical Marijuana in modern lifestyles and attitudes, and biographies (Suetonius; Plutarch) to Pennsylvania (208) the artistic innovations introduced Shakespeare’s famous 1599 play to The cannabis plant will be reviewed by movements like Expressionism, multiple 20th-century interpretations for its industrial, medicinal, and Dadaism, and New Objectivity. (Shaw; Wilder; White), with our final recreational properties. The While the Weimar era was a time of class being devoted to how the pharmacology of THC and CBD will exuberant cultural production, it also notion of Caesar endures in 21st- be reviewed, and the neuro-chemical, witnessed great political upheaval century society and politics. physiological, and behavioral effects and economic instability. The purpose Academic • Andrew Korzeniewski, PhD will be discussed. The impact of of this course is twofold: to provide cannabis use will be discussed an introduction to early German Modern and Contemporary through statistical and observed data, cinema and to learn to interpret Art from Latin America (207) and the current legal and economic these films as reflections of a Weimar status of the drug will be reviewed Culture of crisis and transition. While This course explores the history of art to assess the effects of marijuana examining films like Lang’s Metropolis produced in Latin America throughout use medically, socially, legally, and and Sternberg’s The Blue Angel, we the 20th century, revolving around five economically. will discover celebratory images of movements that have been pivotal the New Woman and technological to the continent’s artistic production: Academic • Michael Palladini, RPh, MBA, CAC advancements, as well as sinister muralism, surrealism, artists in Paris, visions of deadly robots, femmes periodicals, and ephemeral art. The fatales, sex workers, and serial killers, course will emphasize the mobility Russian Jewry: 1772–2000: The Transformation of a as expressions of cultural anxieties of ideas and individuals that have about the dangers of progress. informed Latin American history and Traditional Community (209) aesthetic references. We will examine This survey will introduce students Academic • Jaclyn Kurash, PhD how these exchanges occurred to the Jews living in those lands and why they were fundamental for governed first by the Tsars from 1772 the consolidation of what is today through 1917 and then by the Soviets recognized as Latin American art. from 1917 through the dissolution of Each week will be devoted to a the Soviet Union. We will pay close specific artistic current and to a attention to the manner in which this selection of artworks and artists, such traditional community responded as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Lygia both to those specific policies as Clark, Joaquín Torres García, and well as to the broader, political, Doris Salcedo. social, and economic currents in both Academic • Paulina Pardo Gaviria contexts. We will highlight the impact that the Jews of Russia have had on 11–11:50 a.m. both Jewish and general historical developments in this time period. Get Strong, Get Fit, Academic • Alex Orbach, PhD Get Aerobicized (continued from Session 1)

16 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE embraced a progressive political practice: collecting, collaborating, WEDNESDAY agenda. Amid the Great Depression reproducing, documenting, and the liberal New Deal coalition under experimenting. The studio portion 9:30–11:50 a.m. Franklin D. Roosevelt permanently will consist of experimenting with that party. Northern African several of Warhol’s techniques, Pictorial Composition Americans, a major urban voting bloc, including stamping, blotted line, through Collage influenced National Democrats to and silkscreen printing. Create a (continued from Session 1) support civil rights reforms. By 1970, culminating portrait of your own the majority of the white southerners choosing in the style of Warhol! 10–11:00 a.m. had transferred their loyalty to the This course will meet at The Andy Republicans. Grover Cleveland Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky Chakra Yoga All Levels certainly would be surprised that his Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. (continued from Session 1) party ultimately nominated the first black president, Barak Obama. Exploration • Sarah La Rue 10–11:50 a.m. Academic • Miles Richards, PhD 11:00 a.m.–noon Approaching the Quran: Cognition and Aging (213) Ageless Yoga–Vinyasa Flow An Overview (211) Do you feel as if your memory isn’t Asanas to Music (Advanced This course will look at Islam’s holy what it once was? How about your Beginners) book, the Quran, including a quick ability to pay attention to what’s (continued from Session 1) review of its historical context, happening on the road while Prophet Muhammad’s mission and you’re driving? Negative changes 1–2:50 p.m. life and their relationship to the in memory, attention, and other Quran, and its importance for Muslims cognitive functions do occur as we Baseball’s Golden Age today. We also will examine the six age, but the amount of change Icons (215) major themes of the Quran that offer differs for different people and, Icons of our national pastime during a template for the soul’s journey most important of all, we can the Golden Age of baseball shine through life. You will walk out of the optimize our cognitive functioning as bright today as the did then. course knowing what the Quran does by engaging in critical lifestyle Garbo-like “Joltin” Joe DiMaggio and does not say about many issues. activities related to diet, exercise, captured the American ideal of Academic • Aliyah Khan meditation, mindfulness, sleep, and style and perfection on and off the social activities. We will, therefore, be field. Ted “the Kid” Williams was A Change of Focus: discussing both what happens to our not only the greatest hitter in the Emergence of the Modern cognitive functioning as we age and game but a war hero. A small-town Democratic Party (212) what we can do about it. representative figure of the Norman This course will trace historically the This is a 4 week course that begins on Rockwell illustration, Stan Musial American Democratic Party’s political 7/10. shunned the limelight while claiming evolution from Grover Cleveland to Academic • Bruce Goldstein, PhD almost every contemporary existing Barak Obama. Today, few historians National League record. The lives of regard Grover Cleveland as a notable Unpacking Pop: this baseball trio will be illuminated president, but he was a major Exploring Warhol’s Artistic through the presentation of books, presence within America in the final Expression* (214) films, and magazines that illustrate decades of the 19th century. With their stamp on American sports. Explore Andy Warhol’s life and art the Democrats’ main power base in through gallery discussions and Academic • Steven Russell the American South, this ensured a hands-on studio projects! Participants conservative prospective on most will tour The Andy Warhol Museum’s issues, notably white supremacy. permanent collection and delve By 1900, the Democrats also had deep into Warhol’s unique approach acquired influence with white ethnic to art making, examining the artist’s voters within various northern work in an array of media and styles industrial cities. Within a decade, across his career. The course will under Woodrow Wilson, they had focus on five areas of Warhol’s artistic

*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 17 History and Analysis of readers to spaces. At the end of the understand how they interact with the Nationality Rooms course, participants will have the their environment, and participate Section 2* (216) opportunity to contribute to a public in butterfly-related Citizen Science This course is repeated from guide to Secret Pittsburgh. projects. Through our Native Plant Session 1. This course will meet in varied Center, we will learn about plants that support both adults and caterpillars, The Nationality Rooms at the locations throughout the Pittsburgh and some of the basics of meadow University of Pittsburgh will be area. Outdoor walking and touring is ecology. And finally, we will gain presented with insights into how required of participants. practical conservation experience they came to be, their decoration, Academic • Jessica FitzPatrick, PhD with planting and weeding the and the unique creative and OSHER-designed butterfly garden intellectual characteristics of each in our meadow. room. Emphasis will be placed on THURSDAY their individuality and also on how This course will be held at they share commonalities. 9:30 a.m.–11:50 a.m. Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve, 614 Dorseyville Road., Pittsburgh, PA Academic • Michael Walter International Vegetarian 15238 The History of Minorities in Cooking* (219) Exploration • Gabi Hughes and America (217) Vegetarian or not, learn how to Roxanne Swan America, with much justification, incorporate delicious and satisfying Dante and Art (221) sees itself as a very diverse nation meatless dishes into your international that has welcomed “your huddled recipe repertoire. The best part will This course will delve into Dante’s masses yearning to breathe free.” be sampling the recipes from Italy, Divine Comedy, supported by works To what extent is the history of India, Greece, and more. This is not of medieval art that will allow for minorities a history of acceptance a hands-on class-—you get to relax, better understanding of Dante’s and tolerance? We will examine this watch the meal being prepared, and meanings. In each class, key passages question by examining the history then ENJOY it! from the Divine Comedy will be read of the following minority groups in A $25 fee is payable to the instructor and explained. These key passages America: Native Americans, African at the first class. There is no prorating and some plot summary will enable Americans, the Irish, the Italians, the for classes missed. the class to work its way through the Jews and Eastern Europeans, and the whole of Dante’s magnificent poem. This course will meet at the Hispanics. In each case we will see All along the way, the class will view Wilkins School Community Center, how each group has been greeted and talk about Medieval works of art 7604 Charleston Avenue, Pittsburgh, and treated in America and to what that will deepen its understanding of PA 15218 extent each was able to achieve the Dante’s meanings. (Outside reading “American Dream.” Enjoyment • Dona Albert of the Divine Comedy will not be necessary—although it would, of Academic • Louise Mayo, PhD 10–11:50 a.m. course, add to the experience). 1:30–3:20 p.m. Academic • David Brumble, PhD Beginner Spanish (continued from Session 1) Secret Pittsburgh* (218) Modern European Novels Book Club (222) Have you uncovered the war history Beginner–Intermediate of a local park? Considered the Watercolor Join writer Shannon Reed to read transformational power of theater? (continued from Session 1) and discuss three major modern Tried to ‘read’ the social histories told European novels over the course of by a cemetery? Pittsburgh has a rich Butterflies! Get To Know three weeks. Together, we’ll discuss cultural history, from labor disputes Them and What They Need* Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, to a vibrant arts scene. It’s also a city (220) the first book in her famous quartet with secrets. We’ll leave the classroom about life in Naples in the 1950s for Butterflies can guide us toward a to explore Pittsburgh’s most unusual two young girls. We’ll also read J.K. closer relationship with nature. In sites and locales, learn about the Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy, a look this course at Beechwood Farms city’s history and the literature it at life in suburban modern England, Nature Reserve, we will learn how has inspired, and consider the way and Herman Koch’s The Dinner, which to identify local butterfly species, guidebooks introduce and orient has been called the Gone Girl of the

18 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE Netherlands. Each book is a widely- cultural background (history, customs, Shattering the Rules: Five available page-turner and has lots to foods, music) about several Spanish Great Modernist British teach us about the cultural differences speaking countries. All effort is Novels (227) between America and Europe. designed to get you to speak and Modernism, an artistic movement understand Spanish better. This is a 4-week course. that swept through the arts; literature, Exploration • Shannon Reed Exploration • Nancy Farber music, painting, sculpture, and dance; a century ago, calls all in Mozart’s Da Ponte Operas: Contemporary American doubt. Profoundly shocking and Le Nozze Di Figaro, Don Poetry (225) entirely revealing of human emotion Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte (223) How has poetry changed? What and motivation, it shattered both artistic conventions and social Mozart’s three operas composed to happened to rhyme? What mores. The safe, reliable narrations librettos by the Italian poet Lorenzo distinguishes poetry from prose? of masters like Dickens and Eliot Da Ponte from 1786-90, stand among We’ll explore these questions and were suddenly replaced by a the pinnacles of opera creation, more through poetry published in the previously unimaginable frankness equaled perhaps, only by Wagner’s last 30 years, with forays into earlier in the exposition of human needs, Ring of the Nibelung nearly a century works for comparison. Each class will an entirely unseen freshness and later. Each of Da Ponte’s librettos begin with a few poems, followed freedom in prose, and a marked reads as a great play on its own, while by a short multimedia lecture, and break in narrative technique, Mozart’s music is pure genius from discussion on why we might like or plotting, and reliability. The rules had first note to last. Yet the combination dislike specific poems. Most work is suddenly changed, and everything is greater than each individual done in-class, although participants was in play. Like Naturalism and the element: the words give shape to the are encouraged to read for pleasure Enlightenment before it, we still feel music, while the music tells us subtle and will be asked to choose poems Modernism’s reverberations—its things about the action and characters for discussion. Optional take-home power—today. that cannot be gleaned from the writing prompts also will be provided words alone. This course will explore for participants who want to start or Academic • Abby Mendelson, PhD each opera in detail, with emphasis deepen a writing practice. on the relationship between words Exploration • Jen Ashburn What Archetypes Rule and music, and the delineation of Your Life? (228) each character as a living, believable Paul Simon’s World (226) “Until you make the Unconscious human being. Illustrations will be on Songwriter Paul Simon, now 77, Conscious, it will direct your life, and DVD, and class members are asked to started harmonizing with Art you will call it fate,” said C.G. Jung. read the synopsis (or, preferably, the Garfunkel when they were school In Jungian psychology, archetypes full text) of each opera in advance of kids in Queens. As Tom and Jerry, are inherited, universal themes that the class in which it is to be discussed. they recorded a minor hit, “Hey, run unconsciously through all human (Note -This is not the same course as Schoolgirl.” Simon would go on to life, and contribute to the major The Operas of Mozart and his Rivals, produce an extraordinary body of differences between men and women. which was offered in Summer 2016.) work, with and without Garfunkel. What is meaningful in one person may not have any meaning to another. The Academic • Robert Croan, PhD From “Bridge over Troubled Water” to “Graceland” and beyond, Simon more complicated the person, the 1–2:50 p.m. experimented with diverse musical more likely there are many archetypes styles colored by “world music” and residing within. This course will Advanced Conversational wrote literate, affecting, wide-ranging reveal archetypes that remain in the collective unconscious until we make Spanish (224) lyrics. Through recordings, discussion, and examples played on guitar, “Paul them conscious. Understanding how This is your chance to practice Simon’s World” looks at Simon’s myth connects to archetypes and the your Spanish skills in a friendly triumphs, disappointments, and relationship to your own personal atmosphere. The course strengthens controversies. psychology, you will discover the your vocabulary, improves your gifts that have served you well and Exploration • Peter King pronunciation, and teaches you the tendencies that have caused you problems along the way. Exploration • Elizabeth Rodenz, PhD

*LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE OLLI.PITT.EDU | 19 the major themes in contemporary art 12:30–3:20 p.m. FRIDAY and the skills helpful in approaching art from any era. No previous Five More Neglected 9:30 a.m.–noon knowledge of art is necessary! Gems (234) Academic • Nicole Scalissi New Hollywood-U.S. Cinema In this course, we will watch A Child Is Waiting with Burt Lancaster and in the 1970s (230) The Restless Giant of the Judy Garland in conflict over autistic In this course we will examine the South: Brazil 1964-2018 (232) children; Woody Allen’s Crimes and many ways in which the 1970s were A well-known saying states that Misdemeanors, exploring romantic a critical decade in the evolution of “Brazil is the country of the future and criminal strife with Martin Landau, U.S. cinema, focusing on what film ... and will always be.” This course Anjelica Huston, and Alan Alda; historians have called the “New tries to provide some conceptual and Topkapi, the supreme heist comedy- Hollywood” period. During this time, historical tools to better understand thriller, with Melina Mercouri and young and ambitious directors such the mystery of the recurrent Peter Ustinov; The Ladykillers, the as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin frustration of Brazilians’ attempts quintessential British crime comedy Scorsese, and Terrence Malick to consolidate a developed and with Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers, were given unprecedented creative democratic society. Its focus is on the and Lilies of the Field, for which freedom by studios and used this last 50 years and requires no previous Sidney Poitier won an Oscar as an license to incorporate new and knowledge of the history of the itinerant handyman struggling to foreign techniques and technologies country. please five German immigrant nuns. whose influence left an indelible mark Enjoyment • Ed Blank on American movies. We will examine Academic • Javier Vazquez D’Elia, PhD how film style changed dramatically 1–2:50 p.m. during this decade, and also how it Walking the Outskirts of Downtown* (233) was responsive to social and political Experimental Drawing developments in a rapidly changing This course will give the students (continued from Session 1) nation. a unique perspective of the past, Academic • John Taylor present, and future of the outskirts of How to Edit Your Own Downtown Pittsburgh. During each Material* (235) 10–11:50 a.m. of the five weeks, we will explore the following neighborhoods: the South This course introduces a process that Intermediate Conversational Side, the Strip District, Lawrenceville, participants can learn easily. They will French: Hypothetically Uptown, and Mount Washington. focus on general strategies and then Speaking Highlighted in each walking tour specific editing skills that they can apply immediately to their written (continued from Session 1) will be the history, architecture, and hidden gems of these unique materials. Participants are encouraged Introduction to Global neighborhoods and how these to bring their own materials to each session, if they choose. They will Contemporary Art (231) neighborhoods are rapidly changing the landscape of the Pittsburgh and learn several new editing skills in each This survey of international art since Allegheny County regions. It’s a fun session and apply them to in-class the 1970s uses themes to navigate way to exercise! exercises. Then they can apply the how art remains at the core of the editing skills to their own materials. human experience in our increasingly Participants will meet at various Exploration • Harriet Franklin, PhD digitized world. Through lecture locations in the Pittsburgh area each and voluntary interactive discussion, week. Each session involves one–two students see a wide range of objects, miles of walking. images, and experiences—such as Enjoyment • Jay Steele smashing Neolithic vases, a 175- lb. pile of candies, and one very expensive dead shark—and will learn the art historical skills of close-looking and asking questions of artworks. Participants will gain knowledge of

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EVENTS Additional events, day trips, and travel Wednesday, May 1 • 10 a.m.–noon opportunities will be Preparing For, Adjusting To, and Thriving in Retirement– planned after this Personal and Financial Retirement Strategies! catalog is published. Whether currently in retirement or contemplating future retirement, good Please check the OLLI planning is critical for successfully navigating this stage of life. Join us for this presentation on getting the most out of your finances as you prepare for retire- website for updates. ment or to evaluate your current choices moving forward. Speaker to be announced. Free for members and guests, everyone must register.

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Monday, June 17 • 10 a.m.–noon Visit to the National Aviary and Tour of Avian Hospital There is a $30 fee. The tour begins with a lecture introducing you to the varied health care programs for rare and endangered birds. Dr. Pilar Fish will describe the custom-made care for the tiny finch to the giant condor. Learn about the new advancements made at the aviary in neonatal care, geriatric care, surgery, and preventative medicine. You will learn how the veterinary staff treat the birds with specialized medicines and bandages. A private tour of the Teaching www.olli.pitt.edu Hospital is next with close-up introductions to the birds. Meet many special patients and hear about how they are recovering. Lastly, a final treat will be to meet the amazing birds that live in the geriatric care program. Learn how medical innovations in Pittsburgh are helping birds around the world. Following the tour, you will be able tour the aviary exhibits on your own and observe some of the daily feedings. Dr. Pilar Fish graduated from the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine in 1994. After graduation, Fish completed five years of advanced training to specialize in zoo medicine with internship and residency programs at the University of Prince Edward Island, Kansas State University, Oklahoma City Zoo, and Oklahoma State University. Fish has trained and worked in 20 zoos and four wildlife centers, as well as in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Ecuador. In 2003, she joined the National Aviary as director of veterinary medicine, responsible for the health care of more than 500 birds, including 150 different species.

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Monday, June 3 • 1–2:30 p.m. One Vision, Many Vehicles: Welcome Back Picnic! Storytelling in Comics and Poetry Yona Harvey Monday, May 13 • 12:45–3 p.m. (Lunch 12:30–1:30 p.m.) What do poetry and comics have in Join us as we kick off the summer term with our annual picnic lunch common? More than you might think. and an intriguing speaker. There is a nonrefundable fee of $7 for Whether moving from panel to panel, or members and $25 for guests. Please register by Friday, May 3. stanza to stanza, wide-ranging research interests and formal constraints help Democrazy: The Psychology of Democracy create verses and scripts. Join Yona Danny Oppenheimer, PhD Harvey for a casul conversation about how the Asia-Africa Conference of the Have you ever wondered how a government “of the people, by the people, 1950s, women’s empowerment, and and for the people” can still function when “the people” are so obviously much more have influenced her comics incompetent? We live in a world where the average voter can’t find Afghanistan and poetry making. on a map and where a candidate’s physical appearance can drive electoral outcomes more than reasoned debate. In that environment, it is easy to develop Yona Harvey is the author of the poetry a belief that our democracy is hopeless. And yet the citizens of democracies collection, Hemming the Water, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award from are healthier, wealthier, safer, freer, and more educated than citizens of other Claremont Graduate University. Her work countries. How can the outcomes of democracies be so good when the inputs has been published and anthologized in are so bad? This talk will explore both sides of this paradox of democracy: the many publications including A Poet’s Craft: frightening ignorance and irrationality of the voters and the reassuring evidence A Comprehensive Guide to Making and that despite that, democracies interact with human psychology to create Sharing Your Poetry and The Force of What’s stronger and more effective societies. Possible: Accessibility and the Avant- Garde. She contributed to Marvel’s World Danny Oppenheimer, PhD is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, with joint of Wakanda anthology and co-wrote with appointments in psychology and decision sciences, who studies human judgment, Ta-Nehisi Coates Marvel’s Black Panther & decision making, metacognition, learning and causal reasoning. Oppenheimer applies The Crew. his findings to a diverse array of domains, such as charitable giving, consumer behavior, education, electoral outcomes, and how to trick students into buying him ice cream. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and books including Democracy Monday, June 10 • 1–2:30 p.m. Despite Itself: Why a System that Shouldn’t Work at All Works So Well and Psychology: What is the European Union and The Comic Book Introduction. Why Should We Care? Alberta M. Sbragia, PhD The European Union (EU) is a unique Rebecca Denova, PhD, is a senior lecturer Monday, May 20 • 1–2:30 p.m. economic and political union of in the Early History of Christianity in the Who Killed Jesus? The Historical University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich nation states created after the horrors Origins of Anti-Semitism School of Arts and Sciences, Department of World War II with the hope that such an organization would secure Rebecca Denova, PhD of Religious Studies, and regularly teaches courses on the history of early Christianity, a lasting peace among its initial six What evolves into modern Anti- ancient religions in the Mediterranean member states. After the withdrawal Semitism begins in the story of the trial world, and various topics related to ancient of the United Kingdom, the EU has and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. popular religion and society. She has 27 members. The EU’s institutions This is first related in the gospel of Mark traveled widely, focusing on ancient sites in include the European Central Bank (our first gospel) and then retold in Italy, Israel, and Egypt. Denova is frequent which oversees the Euro, the European reviewer of books on religion for the Forum the other gospels. However, that story Parliament, the European Court of contains many historical problems which section of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, as well as periodic op-eds on religious issues. Justice which is in some respects the will be highlighted in the lecture. We rough equivalent of our Supreme will begin with the fact that the gospel Court, and the European Council writers were not eyewitnesses to the life which determines the general political and death of Jesus. At the same time, direction and priorities of the EU. their telling of this story reflects issues Problems associated with migration that were problematic in their own within the EU are now particularly communities at the time of their writing. sensitive, while relations with the United

22 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE States, which have traditionally been Monday, July 8 • 1–2:50 p.m. Germany, during the momentous changes close, have become more complicated in that region. In 2009, he was invited Who Is That? to contribute to the volume, The Berlin under the Trump presidency. Ironically, (They Made History) the difficulties the United Kingdom Wall: 20 Years Later, published by the U.S. faced as it moved to Brexit in March Louise Mayo, PhD Department of State. 2019, illuminated how intertwined and This lecture will be a quick and interdependent the economies of the surprising survey of amazing leaders Monday, July 22 • 1–2:50 p.m. EU’s nation-states have become. who impacted history even though most Advancing Technology for Alberta M. Sbragia, PhD, is a world- people have probably never heard of People with Disabilities: renowned scholar of European integration them. Not surprisingly most of them are Come Learn About HERL and one of the founders of EU Studies women or minorities. Everyone knows (Human Engineering Research in the United States. Sbragia has long about Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Laboratories) been recognized as a scholar, teacher, Cady Stanton (hopefully). But who got Rory A. Cooper, PhD and mentor internationally and within the women the right to inherit property and University. In 2005, the European Union gain control of their own children? Who As a young soldier serving in Europe, named Sbragia the Jean Monnet Chair ad Rory Cooper was hit by a truck and personam in recognition of her contributions were the Civil Rights leaders who paved severely injured resulting in, among to teaching and research on the EU. In the way for Rosa Parks and Martin 2013, EUSA conferred its Award for Lifetime Luther King? Who made it possible other things, spinal cord injuries that left Achievement in European Studies on her. for George Washington to escape him partially paralyzed. With support That same year, Spragia was awarded the from New York with his army and fight from the Veterans Administration, Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring another day? These are just a few such he went on to earn BS, MEng, and at Pitt. More recently, she has focused her questions that will be answered. PhD degrees in engineering. As an attention on comparative regionalism, individual now using a wheelchair, exploring the impact of the European Louise Mayo, PhD, is professor emerita at the County College of Morris, New Jersey, he was appalled by the deplorable project on other regions, like Latin America technology available to him and others and Asia and inspiring a new generation and has more than 30 years of college teaching experience in American history and and at the hostile world for wheelchair of scholars. American government. She is the author of users. Cooper decided to dedicate James K. Polk: The Dark Horse President, his life and engineering knowledge Monday, July 1 • 1–2:30 p.m. among other books. to rectify the situation. He created Making Sense of the Food and the Human Engineering Research Nutrition Environment Monday, July 15 • 1–2:50 p.m. Laboratories (HERL) and was part of the The Night the Wall Came Down team to create the Center for Assistive Judith Dodd Technology (CAT). HERL has become a Some may remember the Ralph Ronald H. Linden, PhD global leader in robotics, smart devices, Edwards radio game show “Truth or On the night of November 9, 1989, and advanced research and design Consequences.” Although the focus the East German regime unexpectedly that have improved rehabilitation and was on entertainment, the title and the opened the Berlin Wall, a hated symbol transformed the lives of people with theme are similar to what our society is of the division of all of Europe during disabilities and older adults and their now exposed to through traditional and the Cold War. On that night, Ron Linden families. CAT has grown to become social media and a rapidly changing was on duty at Radio Free Europe on the world’s largest outpatient food environment. The end result can (RFE), a venerable Cold War institution community-based providers of assistive be confusion as well as a health or broadcasting uncensored information technology—translating the research environmental cost rather than truth and to communist East Europe. Now retired and delivering the products from HERL entertainment. This lecture will explore from Pitt, Linden was, at the time, to benefit the thousands of clients seen at least ten trends or issues related to director of research at RFE and living each year. health, nutrition, diets and food with a with his family in Munich, Germany. The Rory A. Cooper, PhD, is FISA & Paralyzed focus on evidence-based information fall of the wall symbolized a process of Veterans of America Professor and and review some resources to find largely nonviolent revolution that spread Distinguished Professor at the University of answers that consumers can trust. throughout Central and East Europe, Pittsburgh. Cooper is founder and director Judy Dodd, MS, RDN, LDN, is a registered leading to the end of dictatorships in of the Human Engineering Research dietitian and assistant professor in sports the region and, ultimately, the fall of Laboratories. He is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and medicine and nutrition with a wealth the Soviet Union. In this talk, professor of experience teaching, speaking and Uniformed Services University and was Linden will blend analysis of these awarded Honorary Professor at Hong Kong consulting. Community food and nutrition remarkable developments with his education is her specialty area. She Polytechnic University and Xi’an Jiatong personal reflections on having a front is a consultant to Giant Eagle and an University. Cooper is a U.S. Army veteran active volunteer for the American Heart row seat for the end of communism and who, after is injuries, won a bronze medal in Association, the Academy of Nutrition and the reunification of Europe. the 1988 Paralympic Games. Dietetics, and Let’s Move Pittsburgh. Ronald H. Linden, PhD, recently retired as professor of political science at the Monday, July 29 • 1–2:50 p.m. University of Pittsburgh where he served as director of the European Studies Center and Check the OLLI website for information director of the Center for Russian and East about the final Monday Master Class of European Studies. Linden was director of the term. www.olli.pitt.edu research for Radio Free Europe in Munich,

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David Albert* has been a student Ed Blank* has spent 39 years as a Judith Dodd*, MS, RDN, LDN, is of the Civil War for 50 years. He co- professional critic, columnist, and a registered dietitian and assistant taught the Civil War elective at the interviewer with 25 years at The professor in sports medicine and U.S. Air Force’s Air Command and Pittsburgh Press and 14 years at nutrition with a wealth of experience Staff College and was a Civil War The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He teaching, speaking and consulting. docent for 12 years at the Alabama has spoken to hundreds of local For more than 20 years, she has Department of Archives and History. organizations and countless high been a regular contributor to the school and college classes. publication Senior News. Dona Albert* has been cooking since she was a child and a vegetarian David Brumble*, PhD is an emeritus Lucinda Dyjak* is certified by the cook for 30 years. She wanted to eat Professor of English at the University American Council on Exercise and more compassionately, but it all still of Pittsburgh and recipient of both of was recently named to their Hall of needed to taste great. Pitt’s most prestigious teaching prizes. Fame. She has a specialty certification Two of his five books are on Medieval in older adult fitness and has been Steven Albert, PhD is Chair of and Renaissance art and literature, teaching fitness classes for more than the Department of Behavioral and he has also published articles on 30 years. and Community Health Sciences, the Bible. Graduate School of Public Health. Nancy Farber* MA taught Spanish He holds the Phillip Hallen Chair of Julie Beaulieu, PhD is a Lecturer for in the Pittsburgh Public Schools for Community Health and Social Justice the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s more than 25 years. at the University of Pittsburgh. Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research and Richard Fitzgibbon* is a former Jen Ashburn, MFA is an author teaching interests include the history teacher with 35 years of experience in and writer whose work is published of sexuality, global LGBTQ studies, the Riverview School District, and was in numerous venues, including The transgender studies, eighteenth- technical coordinator for the district Writer’s Almanac, The MacGuffin century British literature, queer theory, for 10 years before he retired. Since and Whiskey Island. She has taught feminist theory, and affect theory. retirement, he is a frequent volunteer creative writing at the Allegheny at Computer Reach where he County Jail and in community Jill Clary* has been practicing yoga assists in refurbishing and recycling workshops through Chatham since 2003; has completed a 200- computers. University’s Words Without Walls hour yoga teacher training program program. and is registered with Yoga Alliance. Jessica FitzPatrick, PhD received Her classes are a blend of different her doctorate in Cultural and Jeff Aziz*, PhD is a faculty member yoga styles but all focus on a slow Critical Studies in Literature from in the English Literature program at flow with longer holds. the University of Pittsburgh. She is a the University of Pittsburgh whose Visiting Lecturer in Literature in the interests extend from Renaissance Robert Croan*, PhD is a senior editor English Department, teaching courses drama to Christian iconography to the (former classical music critic) of the such as Secret Pittsburgh, Women history of medicine. He is a faculty Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and retired and Literature, Science Fiction, and fellow of Pitt’s University Honors professor at Duquesne University. He Narrative and Technology. College, and an affiliated member is a correspondent for Opera News of the Jewish Studies and Medical and a past president of the Music Maria Franco De Gomez*, MA is a Humanities faculties. Critics Association of North America. retired instructor of Spanish at Penn State New Kensington where she Len Barcousky* is retired from the Rebecca Denova*, PhD is a served as the Spanish coordinator. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In his 45- senior lecturer in the Early History Her career as a faculty member year career, he was a reporter and of Christianity in the University of includes a substantial record of editor at several newspapers and the Pittsburgh and regularly teaches academic service, solid scholarly author of three books on Pittsburgh courses on the history of early activity, and a very strong evidence history that look at how famous and Christianity, ancient religions in the of outstanding teaching. not-so-famous events were covered in Mediterranean world, and various local newspapers the next day. topics related to ancient popular religion and society.

24 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *INSTRUCTOR HAS TAUGHT OLLI COURSE PREVIOUSLY Harriet Franklin, PhD received her Marilyn Holt*, MLS, is Library well as other major performance doctorate in English from Carnegie- Services Manager of the Pennsylvania appearances. Mellon University. She taught writing Department of the Carnegie Library at the University of Pittsburgh at the of Pittsburgh and serves on the Hillary Koller is the Internship Katz School of Business and also at Board of Directors of the Western Manager of International Programs at several other Pittsburgh area colleges PA Genealogical Society. She has the University of Pittsburgh, College and universities. assisted genealogical patrons and of Business Administration. She presented numerous programs and also instructs semester and summer Catherine Gammon* is a fiction courses on genealogy for 35 years. courses for students participating in writer and Soto Zen priest. Author of international programs, which are the novels Sorrow (Braddock Avenue, Gabi Hughes* is an environmental focused on cultural competency and 2013) and Isabel Out of the Rain educator with Audubon Society of professional skill development. (Mercury House, 1991), Gammon Western Pennsylvania. She has 15 served on Pitt’s MFA faculty before years of experience facilitating natural Andrew Korzeniewski, PhD is a beginning residential Zen training history and ecology programs for Visiting Lecturer in Classics at the in 2001. people of all ages both indoors and University of Pittsburgh. His doctorate in the field. degree is in Latin Literature and he Joseph Givvin*, PhD has returned teaches undergraduate Roman History. to live in the Pittsburgh area after 33 Alan Irvine*, PhD has his doctorate years of teaching at Mount Mercy in Sociology from the University Jaclyn Kurash, PhD has been University, Iowa and where he is of Pittsburgh where he taught teaching university level German Professor Emeritus. His teaching Urban Sociology for many years. language, literature, and culture in centers on thoughtful, logical He currently teaches Principles of the United States, Germany and conversations. Sociology at California University. Austria for 15 years. She specializes in images of working women during the Bruce Goldstein*, PhD taught Barbara Ivanko is a Certified Hospice Weimar Republic (1918-1933). in the psychology department and Palliative Care Administrator and at the University of Pittsburgh most recently, President of Family Sarah La Rue* is an Artist Educator from 1969-2010 and is an adjunct Hospice in Pittsburgh. As a consultant, at The Andy Warhol Museum and a faculty member in the psychology she has provided guidance to teaching artist at HATCH Art Studio. department at the University of hospices all over the US to help them Her personal art practice is in fiber Arizona. He received the Chancellor’s increase access to care and improve arts, with her work appearing in the Distinguished Teaching Award from quality of care. 2014 film The Fault in Our Stars. the University of Pittsburgh. Aliyah Khan*, MS received her Andrew Lotz*, PhD is lecturer and Mike Gonze* is president of Master’s degree in Public Policy and academic advisor in the University of Dreadnought Imports, LTD, the 35+ Management from the Heinz School Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School year old wine and spirit importing at Carnegie Mellon University. She is of Arts and Sciences, Department of company representing boutique actively involved at her mosque and Political Science. wines and spirits from around the the Monroeville Community Center of world. He has studied wine in the Greater Pittsburgh, where she leads an David Matta* MEd is a former United States and abroad and Aesthetic Committee and Book Club. high school English teacher and is certified by the French Wine an educational researcher at the Academy and the Wine Academy Peter King*, MM received University of Pittsburgh. He is the of Spain. his Master’s degree in guitar acting tech support representative performance, is a recording and for his mother and father because Melissa Hiller* is Director of the performing musician, guitar teacher he is naturally good with technology, American Jewish Museum of the and music lecturer. He was featured including Android phones. Jewish Community Center of Greater with the Mendelssohn Choir in Pittsburgh. She is committed to using the world premiere of the Steve art and subsequent conversations to Hackman-Bob Dylan oratorio “The strengthen the fabric of community. Times They Are A’Changin” as

*INSTRUCTOR HAS TAUGHT OLLI COURSE PREVIOUSLY OLLI.PITT.EDU | 25 OLLI INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHIES (Listed alphabetically by last name)

Louise Mayo*, PhD is professor cinema, horror, and television as well Betsy Peitz*, PhD is professor emerita emerita at the County College of as edited a book on transnational of biology at California State University, Morris, New Jersey, with over 30 horror films. Los Angeles. She taught biology years of college teaching experience majors and nonmajors at all levels, in American history and American Alex Orbach*, PhD is professor freshman through graduate students. government. She is the author of emeritus in the University of James K. Polk: The Dark Horse Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School Luke Peterson*, PhD earned President, among other books. of Arts and Sciences, Department of his doctorate at the University Religious Studies, where he served of Cambridge (King’s College) Abby Mendelson*, PhD has been as director of the Jewish Studies in the Department of Middle a writer, editor, and educator for program for over 10 years. Eastern Studies investigating the nearly 50 years. He has published Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He has both fiction and nonfiction works on a Michael Palladini, RPh, MBA, CAC been a professor at the University of variety of topics and has taught both has over 25 years’ experience in Pittsburgh since 2014. writing and literature at universities pharmacy and addiction treatment. and colleges throughout the He has developed and instructed in Shannon Reed* MFA is a Visiting Pittsburgh area. pharmacy technician programs, also Lecturer in the creative writing having involvement in numerous program at Pitt, where she earned Joel Mlecko*, PhD is professor committees to address prescription her MFA in Fiction in 2015. She emeritus of the Indiana University drug abuse and community relations frequently contributes to The New of Pennsylvania Religious Studies to improve treatment. Yorker, Real Simple, McSweeney’s Department. As a Commonwealth Internet Tendency, and many other Speaker, he spoke throughout William Pamerleau, PhD has been publications, and is at work on her Pennsylvania on its religious diversity teaching philosophy at the University first book. as well as teaching for Elderhostel/ of Pittsburgh at Greensburg since Road Scholar and Chautauqua 1994, earning the Chancellor’s Cathy Reifer* began practicing Institution. Distinguished Teaching Award in Vinyasa Flow Power Yoga in 2006. 2015. He is the author of Existentialist She has completed Level I and II, 200 Julie Nakama*, PhD is a Visiting Cinema and numerous works in the hours, in yoga teacher training. Lecturer in the Film and Media areas of existentialism, ethics, social Studies Program within the philosophy, and the philosophy of film. Miles Richards*, PhD taught history Department of English at the at universities and colleges in South University of Pittsburgh. Her research Robert Parker, PhD is the Robert Carolina. He has published numerous interests include American film history, v.d. Luft Professor and Vice Chair articles and monographs on United industry and production studies, for Graduate Education in the States history. gender studies, costume history, and Department of Chemical and material culture studies. Petroleum Engineering at the Alaina Roberts, PhD will be an University of Pittsburgh. When he Assistant Professor in the History Kristy Nolen* has taught and is not working with his graduate department of the University of performed comedy in Chicago, Los students and collaborators addressing Pittsburgh (Fall 2019). She received her Angeles, and Amsterdam and is research questions on the biomedical PhD in History from Indiana University co-founder of the Arcade Comedy interface, he develops educational in 2017, with special emphasis on Theater in Pittsburgh where she programs and classwork focused on the African Diaspora and on Native develops curriculum and teaches craft brewing. American and Indigenous Studies. improvisational comedy to all ages and levels. Paulina Pardo Gaviria is a PhD Elizabeth Rodenz*, PhD has studied candidate in Pitt’s History of Art the work of Swiss psychologist Carl Dana Och*, PhD is Lecturer II in Film and Architecture department. Jung for over thirty years. Initially Studies and English at the University She specializes in modern and drawn to his work on personality type of Pittsburgh, where she teaches contemporary art history from Latin during her doctoral studies, she has a variety of genre classes. She has America and, more specifically, in taught a variety of Jungian courses in published various articles on Irish contemporary art from Brazil. Maine and Pittsburgh, making Jung’s work accessible and relatable.

26 | OLLI.PITT.EDU *INSTRUCTOR HAS TAUGHT OLLI COURSE PREVIOUSLY Ann Rosenthal* has more than 30 Carrie Stott, PhD teaches biomedical Javier Vazquez D’Elia*, PhD has years of experience as an artist, ethics courses at Duquesne and his doctorate degree in political educator, and writer. Her work has Chatham Universities. She is a science from the University of been shown locally at the Andy consulting ethicist for UPMC Mercy; a Pittsburgh. He is currently a Warhol Museum, the Mattress Factory, faculty member at the Consortium of researcher at the University Center and SPACE, and has been featured Ethics Professionals; and volunteers as for International Studies and has in exhibitions across the U.S. and a congressional ambassador for the taught at several higher education internationally. Alzheimer’s Association. settings in the Pittsburgh area.

Lois Rubin*, DA (Carnegie-Mellon Roxanne Swan* is an Environmental Howard Voigt* conducts tours of University) is Associate Professor Botanist and Horticulturist with downtown Pittsburgh’s landmark Emerita of English at Penn State the Audubon Society of Western architecture and its related history New Kensington where she taught Pennsylvania. As Coordinator of the under the auspices of the Pittsburgh composition and literature for more Audubon Center for Native Plants, her History and Landmark Foundation. than 30 years. During her career, mission is to propagate plants for the Before retirement in 2009, he she published numerous articles on landscape and promote awareness of practiced law for forty years. composition research and women’s the importance of native plants. literature. Michael Walter*, MFA is the Ron Symons* is senior director of Nationality Rooms tour coordinator Steve Russell* is an educator, Jewish life at the Jewish Community at the University of Pittsburgh. working from teacher to principal to Center of Pittsburgh. He was ordained Additionally, he has his masters of superintendent of schools. He is a as Rabbi by the Hebrew Union Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania historian of political, Hollywood, and College-Jewish Institute of Religion Academy of Art and is an exhibiting sports culture and a consultant to and also holds master’s degrees in artist and art instructor. ESPN Sports Century, Turner Classic Hebrew literature and educational Movies, Peter Jones Productions, administration and supervision. David Walton*, MFA is retired from and Hofstra University’s presidential the University of Pittsburgh where conferences. Stanley Swartz* has been studying he taught a variety of literature and and teaching T’ai Chi Ch’uan in writing courses over the last 20 Nicole Scalissi is a doctoral candidate the United States and abroad since years. He is a regular book reviewer in the History of Art & Architecture 1973. He teaches beginning through for several national newspapers, a at the University of Pittsburgh. Her advanced level classes and has taught recipient of a National Endowment for research focuses on issues of identity, classes specifically for older adults the Arts fellowship in literature, and equity, and violence in American though several local programs. the author of two collections of short contemporary art. stories and a novel. Melissa Tai* is an adult taught Cathleen Sendek-Sapp*, MFA, artist, having studied under many Marc Wisnosky, PhD has taught has her Master’s degree in French accomplished artists. For professional Russian culture classes at the language and literature. She has endeavors, she chooses watercolor University of Pittsburgh for several taught French at the University of and loves to take advantage of the years. His research interests are in Pittsburgh as a teaching fellow and flow and freedom of wet into wet, and Russian culture, Russian and American part-time instructor as well as for can be found teaching at a number education, and Orthodox Christianity. noncredit lifelong learning. of Pittsburgh area art centers and programs. Jay Steele* has taught for more than 30 years at the Community John Taylor is a PhD student in College of Allegheny County (CCAC) the Film & Media Studies program in the health and physical education at the University of Pittsburgh whose program. He developed and created dissertation research is deeply historical walking tours, combining embedded in the changing nature his love of Pittsburgh history and of U.S. cinema during the 1970s. architecture with his passion for Additionally, he has taught Film & exercise. Media Studies courses at the University.

*INSTRUCTOR HAS TAUGHT OLLI COURSE PREVIOUSLY OLLI.PITT.EDU | 27 MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS INFORMATION AND POLICIES

As a member of OLLI, you will receive all of these valuable benefits and privileges: OLLI Course Registration • Register for as many OLLI courses as you wish. Registration for an OLLI course is permit- • Audit two undergraduate courses per term. ted until its start date, space permitting. • Meet other adults who share your interests. Courses are filled on a first come, first serve • Receive an OLLI ID card basis. Members may only register for one course during any one time period. Cours- • Receive substantial discounts on cultural activities es may be cancelled due to low enroll- • Meet other interesting and like-minded adults ment. Members are encouraged to register early. You will be notified if a course is full and you are placed on the waiting list.

DON’T MISS THESE ADDITIONAL BENEFITS! Course Withdrawal Are you using your OLLI photo identification card to get all its benefits? Members are encouraged to withdraw With your photo ID, you can: from courses for which they are registered but find they are unable to attend. Email • Access the Hillman Library services. (You may borrow books for 14 days or call the OLLI office if there is a need to with one renewal.) withdraw. • Buy textbooks tax free and most popular books at a 10 percent discount at The University Store on Fifth Course Attendance • Through the PittArts program, attend performances of Pittsburgh’s major arts Members are urged to attend all courses organizations at greatly reduced prices. and activities for which they are enrolled. • Purchase student rate tickets for the University of Pittsburgh Stages Do not: productions. • Register for more courses or events than • Ride the University of Pittsburgh campus shuttles, which serve campus you plan to attend. • Attend a course, class, or event for locations and the Oakland area. which you are not registered and have With your Pitt User ID through OLLI, you can access the University of Pittsburgh’s: not received a confirmation. • Wi-Fi network Confirmation and Course Location • Library’s online journals and many databases from your home computer Confirmation of your courses for the term • CourseWeb for Audit courses through OLLI will be emailed. Before the term begins, a mailed confirmation will be sent which Members are responsible for adhering to all University regulations, maintaining includes the most up to date locations, any their username and password, and troubleshooting minor issues on their own. texts or special materials. If you do not get confirmation of a course, email the office to be sure you are enrolled and permitted to attend. MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS AND FEES Textbooks and Materials • Annual Membership $225 (three consecutive terms) Confirmations will include any texts or • Annual Membership Installment Plan materials required by the course instructor. – first installment(pay now) $125 Texts may be purchased at The University – second installment $100 Store on Fifth, 4000 Fifth Avenue, in a OR special section for OLLI. Texts for audit courses are shelved by department, • Term membership (all membership benefits, catalog number, and class number. but just for the summer 2019 term) $125 AND Accessibility • Additional fees as per course selections Those who require disability accommoda- tions must call the OLLI office (412-624- Partial scholarships are available. Contact the office for an application. 7912) two weeks in advance of the start of a course and inform us of your need.

MEMBERSHIP PARTICIPATION REFUND POLICY OLLI courses and programs are open to anyone 50 and better. Participants have The OLLI Membership Fee is generally the responsibility to select programs appropriate to their abilities and interests. nonrefundable. A refund request will only Participants are responsible for being in sufficient good health to undertake the be honored if it is requested before courses activity safely and for bringing the appropriate clothing/supplies as advised. begin, and if no benefits have been used. OLLI reserves the right to limit participation in OLLI and undergraduate audit Audit Course Fees will be refunded if the courses at the sole discretion of the director. Examples of limitations would be to request is received during the add/drop limit the number of language courses a member is allowed to take to one level per period only. language, not permit a member to take an audit course due to previous issues, or Day Trip and Special Event Fees will be restrict participation in a course for any reason. refunded if requested by the registration deadline. Withdrawals after that date will be MEMBERSHIP WAIVER subject to a 50% cancellation fee. No refunds will be issued if withdrawal occurs within An OLLI at Pitt membership waiver must be signed each time a membership is three business days of the trip/special event. purchased, before participation in any courses or program activities, and is a condition of membership. Membership in Osher is nontransferable.

28 | OLLI.PITT.EDU OSHER LIFELING LEARNING INSTITUTE (OLLI) SUMMER 2019 REGISTRATION FORM Please fill out the appropriate sections below, and a separate form for each registrant.

A. REQUIRED PERSONAL INFORMATION C. MEMBERSHIP SELECTION

Check (one) desired membership: FIRST NAME:______MIDDLE INITIAL: Annual (SUMMER/FALL/SPRING 2019)...... $225 LAST NAME: First Installment/Single Term (SUMMER 2019)...... $125 EMAIL: Second Installment (SUMMER/FALL 2019)...... $100 (Note: Second Installment requires previous purchase of First I do not have an email address Installment in the term that most recently ended) I AM A: New Member (complete Section B) COMPLETE PAYMENT INFORMATION IN SECTION D Partial scholarships are available: Application provided on request Renewing Member

Paid Member (skip Section C) D. ADDITIONAL FEES & PAYMENT INFORMATION PHONE NUMBER: Check desired additional fees: Audit course(s) after those included in membership: My address has changed (fill in new address in section B) $25 per course x_____= $_____ Picnic ($7) and/or Picnic Guest ($25)...... x_____= $_____ B. ADDITIONAL PERSONAL INFORMATION Art Studio Time...... $50 PREFERRED NAME (Optional): Tour De France Wine Course...... $30 Aviary Tour...... $30 MAILING ADDRESS: Donation for...... OLLI PROGRAM = $_____ ...... BOBENAGE/SZCZEPANSKI FUND = $_____

BIRTH DATE:______/______/ MEMBERSHIP & ADDITIONAL FEE TOTAL = $______PAYMENT TYPE: Check/Money Order, #______EMERGENCY CONTACT NAME: Visa/Mastercard

EMERGENCY CONTACT PHONE: Card #______OLLI AT PITT MEMBERS ARE REQUIRED TO SIGN THE Exp. Date ______/______CVV ______MEMBERSHIP WAIVER AND CODE OF CONDUCT ONCE A YEAR. IF PURCHASING AN ANNUAL OR FIRST BILLING ADDRESS: INSTALLMENT, FILL OUT THE BACK OF THIS FORM. Same as Mailing Address E. COURSE REGISTRATION Complete the following schedule to register for courses by entering the desired COURSE ID (or CLASS # for audits) in the appropriate slot.* Prospective auditors must fill out ALL of the information required or the audit request will not be reviewed. No limit to Master Class Monday selections.

MONDAYS TUESDAYS WEDNESDAYS THURSDAYS FRIDAYS Session 1 AM # Session 1 AM # Session 1 AM # Session 1 AM # Session 1 AM #

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TRIPS & EVENTS: AUDIT COURSE 1 AUDIT COURSE 2 TITLE:______TITLE:______DEPARTMENT:______DEPARTMENT:______CATALOG #:______CLASS #:______CATALOG #:______CLASS #:______DAY(S) & TIMES:______BLDG & RM:______DAY(S) & TIMES:______BLDG & RM:______INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION SIGNATURE (if applicable):______SIGNATURE (if applicable):______OSHER LIFELING LEARNING INSTITUTE (OLLI) MEMBERSHIP WAIVER In consideration that as a member of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute I am permitted to participate in various activities including off campus courses, courses involving exercise, movement, physical exertion or food/cooking, bus excursions, trips and/or tours (the “Activities”) provided or sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (the “University”), through OSHER Lifelong Learning Institute, I agree to the terms and conditions set forth below (this “Agreement”).

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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.

*Registrations are entered in the order in which they were received. If a course is filled, members will be placed on the waiting list, and notified individually if admitted. 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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