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SUMMER 2018 COURSE CATALOG Registration Opens Tuesday, April 10, 2018 Phone Registration Opens Friday, April 13, 2018 OLLI at PITT A learning community of adults 50 and better SUMMER 2018 COURSE CATALOG Registration opens Tuesday, April 10, 2018 Phone registration opens Friday, April 13, 2018 LEARN • GROW • THRIVE NEW MEMBERS WELCOME • NO WAITING LIST • NO COLLEGE EXPERIENCE REQUIRED GREAT VALUE • AFFORDABLE • LOOK INSIDE FOR NEW EXCITING COURSES! Welcome to the Summer 2018 Term of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Table of Contents SCHEDULE-AT-A-GLANCE ...................................3 Your Choice Mondays ............................................21 OLLI COURSES cover a wide variety of topics and Events .....................................................................23 are taught by current and retired faculty and community Tours Around Town ................................................24 experts. Courses usually meet once a week. Day and Overnight Trips .........................................24 Travel with OLLI in 2018 .........................................25 Listing by Subject .....................................................4 Session 1 ..................................................................6 OLLI INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHIES ....................26 Session 2 ................................................................14 MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS AND POLICIES Classes at Mt. Lebanon Public Library ..................19 .........31 UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE AUDIT COURSES REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND POLICIES ......................................................32 Audit Information and Procedures .........................20 REGISTRATION FORM ................................... 33-34 OLLI SPECIAL EVENTS are conducted throughout the term and include lectures, tours, and day trips INSTRUCTIONS TO REGISTER FOR (additional fees may apply). Some events are open MEMBERSHIP AND COURSES to nonmembers. USING ONLINE REGISTRATION ..........................35 Summer Term 2018 Dates and Deadlines Important dates for OLLI (see audit section for additional dates): April 18 ......................Summer Open House, June 17-23 .................OLLI Break Week 10 a.m.–12 p.m. June 25 ......................Session 2 OLLI Classes Begin May 14 .......................Session 1 OLLI Classes Begin July 4 .........................Independence Day May 28 �����������������������Memorial Day (University Closed) (University Closed) July 28 .......................Session 2 Ends June 16 ......................Session 1 Ends Have questions? Go to our Web site ....cgs.pitt.edu/osher E-mail [email protected] Call ............................412-624-7308 2 cgs.pitt.edu/osher Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Summer Term 2018, OLLI Courses by Session SESSION 1: May 14–June 16 instructor names listed in parentheses MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 10–10:50 a.m. 10 a.m.–12:20 p.m. 9:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m. 10–11 a.m. 10–11:50 a.m. Global Climate and Climate T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 1 (Swartz) Bury My Heart on the Great (E. Perry) Chakra Yoga Flow (All Levels) Change Robot Revolution: (Clary) 10–11:50 a.m. Plains and Beyond: Native From Automata to Artificial American Experience Hollywood Genre Films and (Aziz) Advanced Conversational (Mendelson) (Nakama) Intelligence 10–11:50 a.m. Costume in the 1960s Spanish (Farber) 10–10:50 a.m. Nuclear Politics: North Korea Contemporary Islam: History, Oscar Wilde—An Irish Satirist and the United States (Lotz) An Intellectual History of the Practice, and Politics (Peterson) (Stanford) Get Strong, Get Fit, Self from the Enlightenment to Get Moving! (Dyjak) The Theory and Techniques of (Hier) Harry Potter: The Middle 1–2:50 p.m. the Twentieth Century (Anastasiou) (Swartz) Interviewing and Interrogation Years Adv. Beginner Spanish (Farber) T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 3 (Kerpchar) Immigration: History and Issues (Irvine) Intermediate Conversational 10–11:50 a.m. 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. French: Hypothetically Adman: Warhol Before Pop# The Presidential Speeches of Speaking (Sendek-Sapp) YOUR CHOICE MONDAYS (La Rue) Ageless Yoga™ (Russell) (Adv. Beginners) (Reifer) John F. Kennedy Sign up for as many as you want. Walking Downtown— (Steele) All must register to attend. Beginning French: Speaking 1–2:50 p.m. Women Abstract Section 1# in Present Tense (Sendek-Sapp) Expressionist Artists (Weisfield) See page 21 for additional details. Jane Austen and Carl Jung— 12:30–3:20 p.m. (Rodenz) 10 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Introduction to Basic a Dynamic Duo Five Classic Foreign Structure Drawing (Stoeckle) (Hertz) Quiet Fire—The Music of Italian for Travelers 2 Language Films (Blank) (King) The Lewis and Clark James Taylor 11–11:50 a.m. 1–2:50 p.m. Expedition (J. P. Hughes) Shanghailanders: Heroes, T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 2 (Swartz) Demystifying Common 11–11:50 a.m. Villains, and in Between Medical Conditions: A (Greenspan) 12:30–2:45 p.m. Get Strong, Get Fit, Layperson’s Guide (Gonthier) (Dyjak) Italian 3 and 4 Conversation Get Aerobicized! The Cinema of George A. (Hertz) (Ogrodnik) 1–2:50 p.m. Romero SATURDAY 1–2:50 p.m. Adv. Intermediate (Farber) 10–10:50 a.m. Conversational French: Beginner Spanish Zumba Gold® (Sobek) Simply Conversation Genetic Genealogy (Jones) (Sendek-Sapp) 10–11:50 a.m. How Did Jesus Become The Rise of Netflix (Kappel) a God? (Denova) Photo Explore Walk and Shoot# (Watkins) Venezuela: from Democracy to Dictatorship (Vazquez-D’Elia) Walking Downtown— Section 2# (Steele) 1:30–3:20 p.m. Wines of Argentina and Chile# (Gonze) 2–4 p.m. Introduction to Lawn Bowls —A Sport for Life# (FPLBC) SESSION 2: June 25—July 28 instructor names listed in parentheses MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 10–11:50 a.m. 10–10:50 a.m. 10–11 a.m. 9:30–11:50 a.m. 10–11:50 a.m. Stalin (Guillory) Get Strong, Get Fit, Chakra Yoga Flow (All Levels)* Vegetarian Cooking for Forward to the Past: 70s Get Moving!* (Dyjak) (Clary) 1 or 2# (Dona Albert) Popular Music in a Radically The Cold War and American Changing Era (Crippen) Domestic Politics (Richards) 10–11:50 a.m. 10–11:50 a.m. 10–11:50 a.m. Intermediate Conversational The Craft of the Book Review Beginning French: Speaking Life of the Civil War Soldier Advanced Conversational (Hoover) in Present Tense* (Sendek-Sapp) (David Albert) Spanish (Chaparro) French: Hypothetically Speaking* (Sendek-Sapp) Classical Myth in Art (Brumble) Nationality Rooms: Ethnic Emerging Legal Issues The Social Gospel and The Politics of the the Postmodern World History and Cultures (Bruhns) (DeFazio) (A. McCarville/J. McCarville) Hinduism: A Fascinating View Contemporary Middle East of the Self and World (Mlecko) The Revolution and Evolution Law and Justice in Literature (Peterson) of Modern Hebrew (Waks) and Film (Kelleher) 1–2:50 p.m. How to Be Smart with Your Walking Oakland/Shadyside— Adv. Beginner Spanish* (Farber) iPhone (Fitzgibbon) 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Wagner’s The Ring of the Section 1# (Steele) Nibelung (Croan) Introduction to Basic Ageless Yoga™ What’s the Buzz? (Stoeckle) (Reifer) YOUR CHOICE MONDAYS Structure Drawing* (Adv. Beginners)* 10 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Hummingbirds and Native Sign up for as many as you want. 11–11:50 a.m. 1–2:50 p.m. Italian for Travelers 2* (Hertz) Bees in Your Backyard# All must register to attend. (G. Hughes/Swan) Get Strong, Get Fit, Edith Wharton and the Love 12:30–2:45 p.m. See page 21 for additional details. (Dyjak) (Sterling) 12:30–3:20 p.m. Get Aerobicized!* Story Unraveled Italian 3 and 4 Conversation* 1–2:50 p.m. “I am the Greatest,” So He (Hertz) Exceptional Movie Dialogue (Frankovich) (Blank) Adv. Intermediate Said 1–2:50 p.m. Conversational French: Storytelling: The Art of Oral A Survey of Postwar British Simply Conversation* Presentation (M. Perry/Sonntag) SATURDAY (Sendek-Sapp) Cinema through Shorts, “B” Movies, and Television Films 10–11:50 a.m. Beer, Pubs, and More Beer (Flanagan) (Baker) WEDNESDAY AT Walking Oakland/Shadyside— Beginner Spanish* (Farber) Section 2# (Steele) Democracy: History of a MT. LEBANON LIBRARY (Vazquez-D’Elia) see page 19 for descriptions Lights, Camera, Love, Hate: Moving Target Hollywood in Fiction (Mendelson) The Basics of Using Your 10–11:50 a.m. (Matta) The Long Goodbye: Music of Android Phone Doomed Explorers# (Mendelson) Richard Strauss (Swoger) Writing Your Story in Poetry (Reese) 7–8:50 p.m. Great Conductors of the Twentieth Century# (Swoger) *Continued from Session 1 #Course held off-campus; see course description for location cgs.pitt.edu/osher 3 COURSE LISTING BY SUBJECT Fitness, Health, and Self-Interest Spanish Ageless Yoga™—Vinyasa Flow Asanas to Music Advanced Beginner Spanish ........................................6 (Advanced Beginners) ..................................................9 Advanced Conversational Spanish (Farber) ............... 10 Beer, Pubs, and More Beer ............................................ 15 Advanced Conversational Spanish (Chaparro) .......... 17 Chakra Yoga Flow (All Levels) ..........................................8 Beginner Spanish ........................................................ 10 Get Strong, Get Fit, Get Aerobicized! ..............................7 Get Strong, Get Fit, Get Moving! .................................... 6 Literature and Creative Writing Introduction to Lawn Bowls—A Sport for Life .................8 Bury My Heart on the Great Plains and Beyond: T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Level 1: Native American Experience ...................................... 11 The Eight Methods of T’ai Chi .....................................9 Doomed Explorers ......................................................... 19 T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Level 2: Edith Wharton
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