BOLLI Course Schedule Spring 2018 Spring 2018 courses will begin the week of March 5 and run through the week of May 14, with a break the week of April 2. There will be no courses on Patriot's Day, Monday, April 16. 5b courses will begin the week of April 17, except Monday courses which will begin April 23. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY March 5 March 6 March 7 March 8 March 12 March 13 March 14 March 15 March 19 March 20 March 21 March 22 March 26 March 27 March 28 March 29 Spring Break April 2 - 5 April 9 April 10 April 11 April 12 No courses April 16 (Patriot’s Day- April 17 April 18 April 19 Make up May 21) April 23 April 24 April 25 April 26 April 30 May 1 May 2 May 3 May 7 May 8 May 9 May 10 May 14 May 15 May 16 May 17 Make Up Dates: May 21, 22, 23, 24 1 Monday BOLLI Study Groups Spring 2018 Period 1 MUS1-10-Mon1 LIT4-10-Mon1 LIT5-5b-Mon1 SOC5-10-Mon1 9:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m. Beyond Hava Nagila: Whodunit? Murder in Existentialism at the Manipulation: How What is Jewish Ethnic Communities Café Hidden Influences Music? Affect Our Choice of Marilyn Brooks Jennifer Eastman Products, Politicians Sandy Bornstein and Priorities 5 Week Course – April 23 – May 21 Sandy Sherizen Period 2 MUS3-10-Mon2 LIT8-10-Mon2 SOC2-5a-Mon2 WRI1-10-Mon2 11:10 a.m. - 12:35 Why Sing Plays? An Historical Fiction: Childhood In the Writing to Discover: A p.m. Exploration into the Traveling in Space Middle Ages Memoir Writing Course Craft of American and Time with Musical Theater Geraldine Brooks Enid Gamer Marjorie Roemer Art Finstein Sophie Freud 5 Week Course – March 5 – April 9 Lunch 12:35-12:55 p.m. Lunchtime Presentations 1:00-2:00 p.m. Period 3 H&G4-10-Mon3 SCI5-10-Mon3 H&G10-5a-Mon3 LIT10-5b-Mon3 2:10 p.m. - 3:35 p.m. The Lachrymose Wilderness Gas From Somerset to Mothers, Madeleines, History of Health Station: An Shelby: Five Legal Music, and Memory: Care Reform in the Environmental Cases That Framed Reading Swann’s Way United States History of Alaska Race Relations in the in Search of Marcel United States for the Proust Jeff Kichen Phil Wight Last 350 Years Hollie Harder Saul Schapiro 5 Week Course – 5 Week Course – April 23 – May 21 March 5 – April 9 H&G7-5b-Mon3 The Forgotten War: Korea in History and Memory Matt Linton 5 Week Course – April 23 – May 21 2 Tuesday BOLLI Study Groups Spring 2018 Period 1 LIT3-10-Tue1 FILM2-5a-Tue1 LIT9-10-Tue1 SOC3-10-Tue1 9:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m. Another Country: Steven Spielberg and His Introduction to What’s Justice Got to Do The Literature of Films Science Fiction: with It? Justice and the the American What is Sci-Fi and Right Thing to Do South Irwin Silver Why Should We Read It? William Grogan Kathryn Bloom Five Week Course – March 6 – April 10 Dennis Greene NOTE: This class will run during course periods 1&2. SCI3-5b-Tue1 Our Energy Future Carl Lazarus Five Week Course – April 17 – May 15 Period 2 LIT1-10-Tue2 SCI2-5b-Tue2 ART3-10-Tue2 LIT2-5a-Tue2 11:10 a.m. - 12:35 Hamlet: Prequels Five Episodes in the Nevertheless, She Crime and Punishment and p.m. and Re- History of Science Persisted : Moral Turmoil in the 21st imaginings Remarkable Century Fara Faramarzpour Women in Barbara Apstein Western Art Avi Bernstein Five Week Course – April 17 – May 15 Suzanne Art Five Week Course – March 6 – April 10 SCI4-5b-Tue2 Problem Solved: Finally, Mathematics Problems That Everyone Understands Bill Thedford Five Week Course – April 17 – May 15 Lunch 12:35-12:55 p.m. Lunchtime Presentations 1:00-2:00 p.m. Period 3 LIT13-10-Tues3 H&G9-10-Tue3 H&G8-10-Tue3 2:10 p.m. - 3:35 p.m. Revolution and The European Lost and Reconstruction: America Resistance in Found: Displaced Persons Attempts to Rebuild Itself Twentieth- after World War II and Its Relationship with Century Poetry African Americans David Nevard Jan Schreiber Steve Messinger 3 Wednesday BOLLI Study Groups Spring 2018 Period 1 GYM1-10-Wed1 ART4-5b-Wed1 SCI1-5a-Wed1 LIT12-10-Wed1 9:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m. Muscles and Hidden Gems: Ins and Outs Get a Move On: How Reel Literature Movement of Four Small Art Museums and Why Things Move #3: The Genius of the Way They Do Sir Alfred 9:45 am – 10:30 am Elaine Dohan Hitchcock, Jerry Baum Master of Location: Gossman Five Week Course – April Suspense Sports and 18 – May 16 Five Week Course – Convocation Center March 7 – April 18 David Moskowitz NOTE: This class will run during course periods 1&2. NOTE: This class will This course will not meet March 28. run during Period 2 CE1-10-Wed2 ART1-5a-Wed2 LIT15-10-Wed2 Periods 1 & 2 on 11:10 a.m. - 12:35 Current Events Up Close and Personal: The Advent of weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, p.m. Edward Hopper American Theater: The and 10. Weeks 1, Lois Sockol Dean and His Disciples 3, 5, 7, and 9 will Nancy Alimansky be Period 2 only. Lois Ziegelman Five Week Course – March 7 – April 11 SOC1-5b-Wed2 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Jessica Bethoney Five Week Course – April 18 – May 16 Lunch 12:35-12:55 p.m. Lunchtime Presentations 1:00-2:00 p.m. Period 3 ART7-5a-Wed3 MUS2-5a-Wed3 H&G2-10-Wed3 DRA1-10-Wed3 2:10 p.m. - 3:35 p.m. Architecture: Bob Dylan Revisited: "All Power to the Yet Another Learning to Look Profile of a Nobel Laureate Soviets!" Russian Scene-iors History Between the Adventure Caroline and Larry John Clark 1905 and 1989 Schwirian Revolutions Becky Meyers Five Week Course – Five Week Course – March 7 – April 11 Kelsey Davis-Felder March 7 – April 11 H&G3-5b-Wed3 The Reluctant Ally: America’s Entry into World War II Fran Feldman Five Week Course – April 18 – May 16 4 Thursday BOLLI Study Groups Spring 2018 Period 1 H&G6-10-Thurs1 H&G11-5a-Thur1 ART5-5a-Thur1 FILM1-10-Thur1 9:30 a.m.- Old Settlers and New An Introduction to Boston Skyline: Boom The Golden Years of 10:55 a.m. Immigrants: The Byzantium: the Art, History or Bust Foreign Films: The Hispanic Presence in the and Controversies of the 50's and 60's United States Late Eastern Roman Mitch Fischman Empire Naomi and Peter Gene Kupferschmid Five Week Course – Schmidt March 8 – April 12 Michael St. Clair H&G1-5b-Thur1 NOTE: This class will Reflections on the Five Week Course – run during course Meaning of World War March 8 – April 12 periods 1&2. II Walter Carter Five Week Course – April 19 – May 17 Period 2 SCI6-5a-Thur2 WRI2-5a-Thur2 LIT14-5b-Thur2 11:10 a.m. - What Drives Attraction? “You Can’t Make This Great American Short 12:35 p.m. Neurobiology of Stuff Up!” Crafting Stories of the 20th Sexuality Dynamic Creative Century Nonfiction Brad Stone & Edward Selig Alyssa Calman-Fasset Sue Wurster Five Week Course – Five Week Course – Five Week Course – April 19 – May 24 March 8 – April 12 March 8 – April 12 ART2-5b-Thur2 LIT6-5b-Thur2 NOTE: This course will not Up Close and Personal: A Life of Purpose in 20th- meet on May 10. Edward Hopper Century Russia Nancy Alimansky Fran Feldman Five Week Course – Five Week Course – April 19 – May 17 April 19 – May 17 Lunch 12:35-12:55 p.m. Lunchtime Presentations 1:00-2:00 p.m. Period 3 ART6-5a-Thur3 WRI3-5b-Thur3 SOC4-10-Thur3 LIT11-10-Thur3 2:10 p.m. - Framing an Image: Art “You Can’t Make This Sex and Gender: The Moral Imagination: A 3:35 p.m. in the American Stuff Up!” Crafting Liberation Movements Guide to the Complex Colonies Dynamic Creative of the Late 20th and Nonfiction Early 21st Centuries Michael Kaufman Miriam Goldman Sue Wurster Sarah Pearlman Five Week Course March 8 – April 12 Five Week Course – April 19 – May 17 5 OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT BRANDEIS BOLLI: Spring Term 2018 • Preparation times are estimated per week. • If handouts are listed as readings, your Study Group Leader may request reimbursement from class members; arrangements for this will be made in class. • SGL contact info can be found on the BOLLI member website. • If you expect to be absent for two or more weeks during the semester, please read the course descriptions carefully. Courses where the SGL has indicated the importance of regular attendance are not appropriate for you. Please select an alternative. LIT4-10-Mon1 Whodunit? Murder in Ethnic Communities Leader – Marilyn Brooks Monday – Course Period 1 – 9:30 am to 10:55 am Description Why do we read murder mysteries? What about them satisfies us? Is it the plot, the characters, the setting? Do we want to be frightened by one that’s hard-boiled or do we want a cozy that we hope will end well for all concerned (well, except for the victim and the murderer, naturally)? I am defining ethnic communities as groups sharing a common language, religion, and/or culture. We will read novels about such communities and the detectives in them who are African-American, Amish, Chinese- American, Hispanic, Mormon, Native American, and Orthodox Jews.