OLLI at PITT A learning community of adults age 50 and better FALL 2018 COURSE CATALOG Registration opens Tuesday, July 24, 2018 Phone registration opens Friday, July 27, 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 Fall 2018 Term of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Table of Contents SCHEDULE-AT-A-GLANCE ...................................3 SPECIAL EVENTS are conducted throughout the OLLI COURSES cover a wide variety of topics and term and include special lectures, tours, and day trips are taught by current and retired faculty and community (additional fees may apply). Some events are open experts. Courses usually meet once a week. to nonmembers. Listing by Subject .....................................................4 Events and Tours ....................................................22 Session 1 ..................................................................6 Day Trips .................................................................23 Session 2 ................................................................14 Travel with OLLI ......................................................23 UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE AUDIT COURSES INSTRUCTORS’ BIOGRAPHIES ..........................24 Audit Information and Procedures .........................21 MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS AND POLICIES .........30 REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND POLICIES ......................................................31 INSTRUCTIONS TO REGISTER FOR MEMBERSHIP AND COURSES USING ONLINE REGISTRATION ......................................32 REGISTRATION FORM ................................... 33-34 Fall Term 2018 Dates and Deadlines Important dates for OLLI (see audit section for additional dates): August 8 ............................... Fall Open House, September 19 ....................... Yom Kippur 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. (No OLLI Classes) August 27 ............................. Session 1 OLLI Classes September 30-October 13 ��� OLLI Break Weeks Begin October 15 ............................ Session 2 OLLI Classes September 3 ......................... Labor Day Begin (University Closed) October 16 ............................ Fall Break September 7 ......................... Audit Add/Drop Period (No OLLI Classes) Ends November 22-23 ������������������� Thanksgiving Recess September 10 ����������������������� Rosh Hashanah (University Closed) (No OLLI Classes) December 24-January 1 ....... Winter Recess (University Closed) Have questions? Go to our Web site ....www.olli.pitt.edu E-mail [email protected] Call ............................412-624-7308 2 www.olli.pitt.edu Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Fall Term 2018, OLLI Courses by Session SESSION 1: August 27—September 29 Instructor names listed in parentheses MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 10–11:50 a.m. 10–10:50 a.m. 10–11 a.m. 10–11:30 a.m. 10–11:50 a.m. A History of Reform Get Strong, Get Fit, Chakra Yoga Flow (All Levels) American Patriot# (Hiller and Fake News or Real News? Movements in the United Get Moving! (Dyjak) (Clary) Symons) How to Tell Good Journalism States (L. Mayo) from Bad (Swanson) 10–11:50 a.m. 10–11:50 a.m. 10–11:50 a.m. Irish Traditional Society A Visit to Istanbul: Past and Chilling Visions of a Dark Intermediate Conversational Beginning French: French: Speaking in the (Hughes) Communication Strategies Present (Guzman) Future: Seminal Work of Dystopic Fiction (Mendelson) Present Tense (Sendek-Sapp) Italian 1 Beginner (Sendek-Sapp) Experiencing Aging through Motivation and Aging: Social Conversation (Hertz) Dreaming Back and Forth: Literature and Art (Rubin) Erik Erikson: Transforming Views and Concepts of Life- Psychological Perspectives Oscar Wilde – An Irish Satirist Transnational Identities Gravitational Waves (Kosowsky) (Frieze) (Stanford) Between Mexico and the USA Long Human Development (Abreu Cornelio) 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. (VanderVen) Sex, Law, and Marriage Poetry as Mindfulness, (DeFazio) Memory, and Reflectiveness Introductory Interpretations Ageless Yoga™ Introduction to Acrylic (Satyavolu Rau) of Nature Using Watercolor# (Adv. Beginners) (Reifer) Painting# (Stoeckle) Who is Ayn Rand? (Givvin) (Stoeckle) 12–1:50 p.m. 1–2:50 p.m. 12–12:50 p.m. 12:30–3:20 p.m. Italian 3 and 4 Adv. The Operas of Giacomo Adv. Conversational Spanish: T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 1 (Swartz) Five Excellent Films about Conversation (Hertz) Puccini (Croan) Historias de Mexico (Franco de Senior Citizens (Blank) William Faulkner: American Gomez) 12:30–2:20 p.m. 1–2:50 p.m. Author (Johnson) Innovative Nonfiction: 1–2:50 p.m. Fiction Writing – Revision and Readings and Explorations Adv. Beginner Spanish (Farber) Marketing Your Work (Lipton) America’s Wars in the Middle 11–11:50 a.m. (Bain) East (Peterson) FUNdamentals of Drawing 2 Get Strong, Get Fit, Improv Comedy (Gilbert) Performance# (Nolen) 1–1:50 p.m. Beyond the Notes: Music Get Aerobicized! (Dyjak) in the Twentieth Century Fundamentals of T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 2 (Swartz) 12–12:50 p.m. Med-Mal 101: Observations of (Tisherman) Neuroscience (Davis) an Expert Witness (Daffner) T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 3 (Swartz) 1–2:50 p.m. The Philosophy of Technology Investigating the O.J. Simpson The Beatles: From Rubber Beginner Spanish# (Farber) (Wauzzinski) Murder Case (Gremba & Vrabel) 1–2:30 p.m. Soul to Magical Mystery Tour# Healthy Eating Update— Muslims in the Neighborhood Behind the Headlines (Schultz) Issues and Trends (Dodd) (Sitwat) SATURDAY Having Fun Singing in a 1:15–3 p.m. Minerals of the Carnegie Symphony Orchestras: Chorus# (Rapp) Museum# (Clare) 10–10:50 a.m. Deep Mining Opera Music and ® Behind the Scenes (Moir) Plots# (Michalka Egan) Zumba Gold (Sobek) 1–2:50 p.m. 1:35–3:15 p.m. Adv. Intermediate Current and Future Sources of 10–11:50 a.m. Conversational French: Simply Energy in the U.S. (Baird) Walking Allegheny County Conversation (Sendek-Sapp) Suburbs 2.0 Section 1# (Steele) Introduction to Philosophy 12:30–2:20 p.m. (Hatleback) Walking Allegheny County Poem Making 2: Writing Suburbs 2.0 Section 2# (Steele) Mindfully Without Judgement (Kelly) SESSION 2: October 15—November 17 Instructor names listed in parentheses MONDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY Continued THURSDAY FRIDAY 10–11:50 a.m. 10–10:50 a.m. 1–2:50 p.m. 10–11:50 a.m. 10–11:50 a.m. Bible in Art 2 (Brumble) Get Strong, Get Fit, Environment and Society: Advanced Conversational Intermediate Conversational Get Moving!* Voluntary Simplicity and Spanish# (Faber) French: Speaking in the Italian 1 Beginner Applied Sociology (Epitropoulos) Present Tense* Conversation* 10–11:50 a.m. Best American Short Stories Beginning French: Grief and Loss: In Life and 2018 (Reger) The End of Architecture Pagans, Jews, and Christians Literature (V. Mayo) (Schlueb) in the Roman Empire: How Communication Strategies* Introduction to Acrylic and Why Did Christianity Global and Local Perspectives 1:30–3:20 p.m. Painting#* The Killing of President Triumph? (Denova) on Human Rights (Shepherd) Island Wines# (Gonze) With a Song in My Art (Hunt) Kennedy: 1963-2017 (Hoover) Story of Pittsburgh’s Forests# Introductory Interpretations of Travel Writing (Thomas) (Cornell) 12–12:50 p.m. Nature Using Watercolor#* WEDNESDAY T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 1* 11–11:50 a.m. 12–1:50 p.m. Rachel Carson Revisit: Ballet 101# (Pittsburgh Ballet Italian 3 and 4 Adv. Who Speaks for US Now? 10–11 a.m. 12:30–1:50 p.m. Theatre) Conversation* (Greenberg) Chakra Yoga Flow (All Levels)* How to be Smart with Your iPhone (Fitzgibbon) 12:30–3:20 p.m. 1–2:50 p.m. Squirrel Hill: Then and Now, 10–11:50 a.m. Great Portrayals of “Brexit” – What, Why, When, When and How (Wilson) An Ever Changing Party: An 12:30–2:20 p.m. Conscience in Films (Blank) (and Whether)? (Campbell) TED Talks (Callahan) Institutional History of the Talking Politics Across American Democratic Party Generations (Kanthak) 1–2:50 p.m. Adv. Beginner Spanish* 11–11:50 a.m. (Richards) Film and Politics of the 2000s 1–1:50 p.m. FUNdamentals of Drawing 2* Get Strong, Get Fit, Fundamentals of Art and (Peterson) Get Aerobicized!* T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 2* Journey Toward Wholeness Design: A Hands-On Guide# Great Conductors of the (Rosenthal) – Discovering Your Authentic 12–12:50 p.m. 1–2:50 p.m. 20th Century V.2.0 (Swoger) Self (Rodenz) T’ai Chi Ch’uan Level 3* Islam: Myths and Facts (Khan) Beginner Spanish*# Pen and Ink plus Emily Dickinson in the 19th 1–2:20 p.m. The Secrets to Human Scratchboard# (Rosenthal) Evolution and Expansion Century Tradition (Walton) Music and the Rise of (Estop) Nationalism in Modern Europe The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (Cantor) 11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Studio Sampler: Wearable Arts# (Leibering) 1–2:30 p.m. Ageless Yoga™ (Adv. Beginners)* 1:15–3:05 p.m. Having Fun Singing in a Chorus#* 1–2:50 p.m. Amadeus: Myth and Reality# (Hammer) 1–2:50 p.m. Imagining America: Immigrant Fiction (Boas) 1:35–3:15 p.m. Adv. Intermediate Conversational French: Symphonies of Gustav Civil Rights Movements, Then Simply Conversation* Mahler# (Schultz) and Now (Hawkins) The Basics of Using Your Android Phone (Matta) *Continued from Session 1 #Course held off-campus; see course description for location www.olli.pitt.edu 3 COURSE LISTING BY SUBJECT Fitness, Health, and Self-Interest Literature and Creative Writing Ageless Yoga™—Vinyasa Flow Asanas to Music Best American Short Stories 2018 ................................. 18 (Advanced Beginners) ................................................ 10 Chilling Visions of